Lord John Russell, while in attendance on the Queen at
Holyrood on Thursday last, intimated by letter to Professor 'Wilson her Majesty's in- tention to bestow a pension of 300/. a year upon him, in consideration of his eminent literary serviees. This act towards so distinguished and con- sistent an opposer of the Whig Government comes with a peculiar grace from Lord John Russell.—Perth Courier.
The Duke of Cambridge has presented the Committee of the Cam- bridge Military Asylum, to be erected in memory of his Royal Highness the late Duke, with an eligible site for the proposed asylum, a building for the reception and maintenance of forty widows of noncommissioned officers and privates of her Majesty's land forces. The public subscrip- tions already received arc sufficient to induce the Committee to commence forthwith the erection of the asylum.—Globe.
Colonel W. D. Jones, of the Royal Artillery, Inspector at the Royal Military Academy on Woolwich Common since March 1840, has resigned that office, after eleven years' incumbency ; and is succeeded by Lieute- nant-Colonel Portlock, Royal Engineers.
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