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The Marchioness of Breadalbane succeeds the Countess of Durham as Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen.
Baron BoBand is still "very seriously indisposed." Justice Little. dale, it is said, is about to retire from the Bench.
Captain Napier is appointed to the command of the Powerful, an 84 gun ship, now fitting out at Portsmouth, and destined for the Mediter- ranean.
Mr. Bathurst, son of Captain Bathurst, who fell at Navarino, has re- ceived his appointment as Lieutenant in the Navy. He was strongly recommended for promotion by Sir Edward Codrington.
Mr. Spearman, the Secretary to the Treasury, is labouring under se- vere indisposition, at his house in Grosvenor Street, brought on by in- cessant labour in his office ; Mr. Spearman being, in the literal sense of the words, "the working man" of the Treasury.—Morning
Sir William Gossett, a few days ago, broke his collar-bone, by a fall down a staircase at the Marquis of Anglesea's country residence, Beau Desert, where he was spending the Christmas holydays.
The Earl of Derby is recovering his health very slowly. He can now use his right hand, and franks letters.
It is probable that the Coloneley of the Third Dragoon Guards, which has become vacant by the death of General Sir Samuel Hawker, will be filled either by Sir Charles Dalbiac or General Goldie ; rumour inclines to the latter officer, from the circumstance of Sir Charles having so recently obtained an appointment.—United Service Gacette.
The Standard publishes the following note from a correspondent, with expressions of regret that a feeling of jealousy should prevent Cambridge from joining in the Oxford memorial- " We uoderstand that it is proposed to erect It memorial of Crammer, Ridley, and Latimer in Cambridge, to which University the three martyrs belonged, as well as in that in which they suffered. In this case, it may be advisable fiur such Cambridge Melt as wish t to contribute to the -design, to withhold their sub- scriptions till the matter is determined."
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