Paistellantous.
Two offices left vacant by the death of the Earl of Lonsdale occasion some embarrassing competition. The Lonsdale estates are situate in both the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland ; and the late Earl, whose Parliamentary services to successive Tory Ministries were con- siderable, held the post of Lord-Lieutenant in both counties. It is un- derstood, however, that the two offices will no longer be united in the same person, and that only one will be conferred upon the present Earl. Sir James Graham is a candidate for the Lord-Lieutenancy of Cumber- land, in which his estete lies. Lord Brougham aims at Westmoreland; and it is singular that the cost of providing opposition to Mr. Henry Brougham as a candidate for the representation of that county was conspicuous among the services of the Lonsdale family. The present Earl is said to have a preference for Cumberland ; which appears to cut off the Home Secretary's chance, and to favour Lord Brougham's aspiration.
Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen had appointed George Benvenuto Mathew, Esquire, to be Governor of the Bahama Islands.
It is said that an extensive retirement among the Commandants, Field.officers, and Captains of the Royal Marines, has been determined upon ; which will give about thirty steps to the junior branches of that distinguished service. Morning Chronicle.
A proposal has been submitted to, and we believe that we may ail approved by, the Court of Directors, for increasing the strength of the officers in the Indian Army by the addition of one Captain to each regiment in that service.—Times.
We understand that Sir J. Douglas, whose name has been toe frequently before the public to need introduction, as the captain of a merchantman, knighted by her Majesty, at the recommendation of the late Government, for nobly devoting his life, his ship, and his whole fortune, at the commencement of the war with China, in rescuing the name of his country from the temporary disgrace into which it had been suffered to lapse, is about to have the rank of Commander of the Royal Navy conferred upon him, and to be appointed to the situation of Master- Attendant at Deptford Dockyard.—Standard.
By the death of the King of Sweden, Marshal Soult has become the sole survivor of all the eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon in 1804, at the camp of Boulogne.
A conference of delegates from the working miners of Great Britain and Ireland assembled at Glasgow on Monday, and was still sitting on Wednesday. Among the questions discussed was that of a general strike. A committee had examined the reports of the numbers for and against the strike, and reported the gross totals as follows—For a strike, 23,357; against it, 28,042 ; for a partial strike, 1,528; showing a dent majority of 3,157 against any strike. Subsequently, a cessation of work in Northumberland and Durham was sanctioned, to begin after the 5th April.
Very violent snow-storms have occurred in Cumberland during the last fortnight. The drifts were " tremendous" among the mountains between Crossbank and Kirkby Stephen, where the snow lay six or eight feet thick. A man was lost in these drifts on Friday ; and many sheep were buried. On Monday week, on Lonsdale Fells, one of party who went to rescue sheep, was borne away on an " avalanche" over a precipice; but he escaped with comparatively slight injury.
On Monday forenoon, the body of Mr. Kemp, well known as the architect of the Scott Monument, was found in the Canal. He had beefs missing for twelve days previously ; and was last seen at the house of Mr. Lind, contractor for the Monument, on whom he had called 'to arrange about the progress of the works. It is supposed that, on his return home to Morningside, he had taken the way by the banks of tbe Canal, and that the night being dark he had stumbled into the water, at the place where he was found, an open and dangerous point beside Lochrin distillery.—Edinburgh Witness.
The Times says—" There is no troth in the report of the death Of the lad who mounted the horse belonging to the late Lord William Hill after the death of that lamented nobleman. The lad was thrown, and considerably bruised ; but be sustained no injuries of any consequence."
A hoaxing rumour was set afloat at Dublin On Sunday, that a min would make a flight with a pair of newly-invented wings from the toil of Nelson's pillar to the top of St. Patrick's steeple ; and vast- numbers of people were imposed upon by the tale : a great multitude assembled at the time and place mentioned—only, of course, to be disappointed.
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