... nomination to tbe office of Judge of tbe Supreme Court of Appeal in , tbe lonian Islands. farewell dinner was given to the 1 learned gentleman Saturday. Sergeant Sbee presided, > and among those present were Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. I Baron Bramwell, Dr. Baron Channel!, Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., tbe Hon. ' Mr. Denmac, and many members of various learned ...

... Cbureh, Dover, to tbe rectory of St. Mary Aldertnary, in the city of London, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. T. Bennett, M.A., Sub Dean of St. Paul's. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have left London on a visit the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. Tuesday's Qazette announces that the Queen has appointed Admiral Hamilton, Captain Ryder ...

... committee has been organised to raise some' permanent monument to tbe late Robert Owen. We understand that Mr. Baily, of whom Bristol is justly proud, has been commissioned to execute a marble bust of the Commander-in-Chief. Bristol Mirror, j Mr. Walker, C.E. to the Admiralty, has arrived Bristol to make the necessary surveys for the improve-1 ment of the port, &c.— Bristol Mirror. We hear ...

... ( Concluded from last Week's Intelligencer.) Among those who wrote for the newspapers of the last century were many men distinguished in literature :— Swift, Addison, and Steele were of the number ; so were , Johnson, Fielding, Smollett, Chatterton, and, probably, Burke. Smollett was fined and imprisoned for libel on Admiral Knowles, published in the Critical Review, which he had set up in ...