supreme authority. All peculiars were to be abolished, and the surrogates to be subject to the ordinary jurisdiction (of the archbishops, bishops, or archdeacons) within which they were situated. The bishop's court was to have jurisdiction throughout the whole of his diocese. The only courts retained would be those of the Faculties, and the Vicar General of each province, and the diocesan courts (including separate courts for Bangor, and for St. Asaph, and for Bristol, and for Gloucester). The whole number would be under 30 (there are now more than 400); all officers would be paid by fixed salaries, and all fees carried to a fee-fund, by which arrangement a great saving would be effected. With the exception of certain cases (the jurisdiction as to tithes being abolished), of which the bishop might, with the assent of parties, refer the decision to a barrister, whose decision should be final, all offences would be transferred (if of a mixed, or temporal character,) to the London court; from which all probates of wills and administrations were to issue, and whose authority was to extend throughout England and Wales. But as, in cases of small amount, parties might deem it desirable to resort to local courts, it was proposed that, in cases under the value of 3001., the diocesan courts might act as branch registries. With a view to uniformity of practice and central control, proctors in the country were, on certain conditions, to be admissible to practise in the London courts. Further, it was proposed that copies of all wills proved in the metropolis under 300l. were to be sent to the country, and vice versa, the originals being preserved at the respective registries; provision being, however, made to secure careful and secure custody under the superintendence of Government. Now as to the process of the new court :formerly it was known that writs ran de excommunicato, and, since 1812. de contumace capiendo, a change merely in form, and preserving all the ancient inconveniences, which were now to be removed, and the same powers given to the process of the court as in the Court of Chancery. Leave was given to bring in the Bill.-Mr. Vernon Smith moved for a copy of any dispatch from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Directors, containing a Proclamation_addressed to the chiefs and princes of India, respecting the recovery of the GATES OF THE TEMPLE OF SOMNAUTH, and any answer of the Court of Directors to the GovernorGeneral of India. If he found that the Court of Directors of the Hon. East India Company had not censured the con.

duct of the Governor-General on account of that Proclamation, he would consider it his duty to propose a vote of censure upon the noble lord after the proclamation was laid upon the Table.-Mr. B. Baring replied. He said the Mussulmen subjects of Great Britain could have no sympathy with the noble chieftains of Affghanistan, who five times during the last century had laid waste the plains of India. Sir R. H. Inglis severely censured the terms of the Proclamation as an encouragement of Hindoo idolatry.-Sir Robert Peel could not go all lengths in its defence; but apologised for it as being an appeal to the national feelings of the natives of India, irrespective of their religion, and boasted of the success of Lord Ellenborough's general policy.-It appears from the accounts of recent travellers, particularly Mrs. Postans, that the temple of Somnauth has never been restored, as Lord Ellenborough supposed, and that therefore his proposed triumphant return of the gates was as vain as indis. creet.

Feb. 10. Mr. Liddell obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of preventing the fraudulent PERSONATION OF VOTERS at Contested Elections.

Feb. 13. In a Committee on Forged Exchequer Bills it was resolved, that her Majesty be enabled to direct Exchequer Bills to an amount not exceeding 262,000l. to be issued, under certain regulations, for the relief of the holders of certain Forged Exchequer Bills. This amount will relieve three out of the four classes into which the holders have been divided, but not the fourth, which holds the further amount of 115,000l.-Viscount Howick moved for a Committee of the whole House to consider so much of the Lords Commissioners' Speech as refers to" that depression of the Manufacturing Industry of the Country which has so long prevailed, and which her Majesty has so deeply lamented."-Mr. Ferrand moved an amendment to add the words, "and also to inquire into the effects of machinery upon the moral and physical condition of the industrious classes; and also to inquire into the origin of the late outbreaks."

The debate was continued during four nights, when Mr. Ferrand's amendment was withdrawn, and, on a division, there appeared for Lord Howick's motion 191, against it, 306.

Feb. 14. The Duke of Wellington in the HOUSE OF LORDS, and Lord Stanley in the COMMONS, moved the Thanks of Parliament to the officers and men em. ployed in the naval and military operations in CHINA: 1. to Lieut. Gen. Sir Hugh

Gough, G.C. B., Vice-Adm. Sir W. Parker, G.C.B., and Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, K. C.B.; 2. to MajorGen. Lord Saltoun, K.C.B., to MajorGen. George Burrell, C.B., Major-Gen. Sir Robert Bartley, K. C.B., Major-Gen. Sir J. H. Séhoedde, K.C.B., and the other officers of the Navy, Army, and Royal Marines, including those of the East India Company; 3. to the Petty Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men.

Feb. 20. The Duke of Wellington in

PORTUGAL.

the HOUSE OF LORDS, and Sir Robert Peel in the HOUSE OF COMMONS, moved the Thanks of Parliament for the military operations in AFFGHANISTAN: 1. to Lord Ellenborough, Governor-General; 2. to Major-Gen. Sir G. Pollock, G.C.B., Major-Gen. Sir W. Nott, G.C.B., Ma jor-Gen. Sir J. M'Caskill, K.C.B., Major-Gen. Sir R. H. Sale, G.C.B., Major-Gen. R. England, and the other officers of the Army; 3. to the NonCommissioned Officers and Private Soldiers.

Disturbances have lately broken out at Oporto, which lasted several days, in consequence of an attempt to collect the income-tax. Some collisions took place with the troops, and the proclamations were torn down.

THE EAST.

Some bad feeling has arisen between Turkey and Austria, on the subject of steam navigation in the Black Sea. After covertly conceding the point, the Turkish government privately took measures to prevent its subjects from embarking in the Austrian steamers. M. Kletzel, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, indignant at this conduct, suspended his relations with the Porte, refusing to hold any communication on this or any other affair till he received further instructions from his government.

INDIA.

Tranquillity has been thoroughly esta blished in our Eastern possessions. The different corps of the army under Gen. Pollock having crossed the Sutledge, the Governor-General, with the Commanderin-Chief, and a portion of the army of reserve, was present at Ferozepore, on their arrival in India, to welcome them. The batta promised and the medals were about to be distributed, and general rejoicings were about to take place, Several officers had died on the march. The proclamation by Lord Ellenborough, relative to the bringing back of the gates of Somnauth from Affghanistan, has met with no favour in India. The young son of Schah Soojah, Schah Poore, still maintained himself at Cabool, as did his brother, Sufter Jung, at Candahar. The adherents of Akhbar Khan asserted that he would soon be at the head of a large force, and would take the Government from the feeble Sovereign of

Cabul. Dost Mahommed had an interview with Lord Ellenborough at Loodianah in the beginning of December, and was to proceed with an escort to Peshawhere he was to reside for some time, wur, under the protection of the Sikh Government. The intention of the GovernorGeneral to observe neutrality on the subject of the Cabul Government was avowed explicitly.

CHINA.

The last division of the British fleet, having left the Yang-tze-Kiang river, on the 17th of October reached Chusan, where a portion of the troops was to be stationed for a time; other portions were stationed at Amoy and Hong Kong. This latter colony is governed by Lord Saltoun, and is thriving. Captain Balfour, of the Madras Artillery, who has gained a considerable knowledge of the Chinese language and character, has been named British Consul-General, to reside at Shanghae. There were various decrees published by the Emperor, in which the national dislike of the Tartars to all foreigners was in some measure concealed, and a wish to maintain the "everlasting peace" exhibited. English merchants and their families," are to be permitted, according to those decrees, to reside at Canton, at Fowchowfoo, at Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghae; and their ships are to have places for repairs. Hong Kong is ceded in perpetuity as a colony to Great Britain, and the Hong, or monopoly merchants, are to be abolished. The Chinese are, however, repairing all their fortifications.

SHERIFFS FOR 1843.

Beds.-W. Sutcliffe, of Gr. Bramingham, esq.
Berkshire.-Sir Robert G. Throckmorton, of
Buckland House, Bart.

Buckinghamshire.-James Trevor Senior, of
Broughton House, Aylesbury, esq.
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.-Edw.
Humphrys Green, of Hinxton, esq.
Cumb.-Robt. Hodgson, of Salkeld-hall, esq.
Cheshire.-John Dixon, of Astle, esq.
Cornwall.-Wm. Marshall, of Treworgey, esq.
Derbysh.-Wm. Mundy, of Markeaton, esq.
Devon.-W. J. Clarke, of Buckland, esq.
Dorsetshire.-James Charles Dale, of Glan-
ville's Wootton, esq.

Durham.-E. Shipperdson, of Durham, esq.
Essex.-H. J. Conyers, of Copped Hall, esq.
Glouc.-R. S. Holford, of Weston Birt, esq.
Hants.-W. Hughes Hughes, of Ryde, esq.
Heref.-Sir E. F. S. Stanhope, of Holme Lacy,
Bart.

Herts.-C. J. Dimsdale, of Essendon-pl., esq.
Kent.-Fred. Perkins, of Chipstead-place, esq.
Lanc.-Wm. Garnett, of Larkhill, esq.
Leic.-Sir W. W. Dixie, of Bosworth Park, Bt.
Linc.-Geo. H. Packe, of Caythorpe, esq.
Monmouth.-Sir Digby Mackworth, of Glen
Usk, Bart.

Norf.-W. G. T. D. Tyssen, of Foulden, esq. Northamptonsh.-Sir Arthur de Capell Broke, of Oakley, Bart.

Northumberland.-Thomas Anderson, of Little Harle-Tower, esq.

Notts.-T. Dickinson Hall, of Whatton, esq.
Oxfordsh.-W. H. Vanderstegen, of Cane-end
House, esq.

Rutl.-George Fluyder, of Ayston, esq.
Salop,-Sir A. V. Corbet, of Acton Reynald, Bt.
Som.-Hon. P. P. Bouverie, of Brymere.
Staff.-Jolin S. Manley, of Manley Hall, esq.
Suffolk.-Wm. Long, of Saxmundham, esq.
Surrey.-R. Sumner, of Puttenham Priory, esq.
Sussex.-Musgrave Briscoe, of Coghurst, esq.
Warw.-A. F. Gregory, of Stivichall, esq.
Wilts. Henry S. Olivier, of Potterne, esq.
Worc.-William Robins, of Hagley, esq.
York. Sir J. W. Copley, of Sprotborough, Bt.

WALES.

Anglesey.-Owen Roberts, of Tynewydd, esq. Brecon.-Walter Mayberry, of Brecknock, esq. Carnarv.-David Jones, of Bodian, esq. Carmarthenshire.-(Postponed).

Cardigan.-F. T. Gibb, of Hendrefelen, esq. Denb.-John Townshend, of Trevallyn, esq. Flint.-Sir Pyers Mostyn, of Talacre, Bart. Glam.-John Homfray, of Llandaff House, esq. Montg. Sir John Conroy, of Plasypennant, Bt. Merionethshire.-Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, of Cefnddeuddwr, esq.

Pemb.-G. L. Phillips, of Dumpledale, esq. Radnorsh.-E. D. Thomas, of Wellfield House,

esq.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Dec. 31. Berks Militia, Charles Bacon, esq. to be Lieut.-Colonel.

Jan. 17. In commemoration of their distinguished services and gallantry displayed on the coasts and in the rivers of China, the 18th, 26th, 49th, 55th, and 98th Regiments of Foot, to bear on their colours and appointments the word "China," and the device of "the Dragon."

Jan. 26. James Tyler, esq. to be one of Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.

Jan. 31. George Marton, of Capernwrayhall, co. Lancaster, esq. M.P., and John Neeld, of Red-lodge, co. Wilts, esq. M.P. to be Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary.— David Pollock, esq. Barrister at Law, to be one of the Commissioners for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.-The Hon. Edward-Mainwaring Onslow, of Woodbridge House, near Guildford, late Lieut.-Col. 3rd Foot Guards, third and youngest son of Thomas second Earí of Onslow, by Arabella, sister and coheir of Roger Mainwaring Ellerker, of Risby, co. York, esq. (in compliance with certain indentures made by his maternal aunts, Elizabeth Mainwaring Ellerker and Harriet Mainwaring Ellerker, both of Richmond, co. Surrey, spinsters, deceased,) to take the surnames of Mainwaring Ellerker, and be called EdwardMainwaring Mainwaring-Ellerker-Onslow, and bear the arms of Mainwaring and Ellerker quarterly with Onslow.

Feb. 2. John Earl of Westmorland, K.C.B. &c. to accept the Order of Henry the Lion, of the first class, conferred by the reigning Duke of Brunswick, in approbation of the active military services rendered by his Lordship while serving in the field with the German armies in the campaigns of 1813, 1814, and 1815.-Capt. Hubert Garbett, Bengal Horse Art. to accept the insignia of the third class of the Order of the Dooranee empire.

Feb. 3. 1st Dragoons, Major F. H. Stephens to be Major.-14th Dragoons, Major C. P. Ainslie to be Major.

Feb. 4. Joseph Skipp Lloyd, esq. to be one of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.-3d Lancashire Militia, Capts. J. F. Hindle and D. Hornby, to be Majors.

Feb. 8. G. P. F. Gregory, esq. to be Prothonotary and Registrar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Feb. 10. 26th Foot, brevet Major H. F. Strange to be Major.-30th Foot, Lt.-Col. M. J. Slade to be Lieut.-Col.-53d Foot, Capt. W. G. Gold to be Major.-Brevet, Col. Sir Francis Cockburn, Governor of the Bahamas, to have the local rank of Major-General in those IslandsCapt. C. W. Nash, Canadian Rifles, to be Major in the Army.

Feb. 17. Lieut.-Gen. Lord Seaton, G.C.B. to be Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.-3d West India Regiment, Lieut.-Gen. C. W. Maxwell to be Colonel.-Henry-Wickham Hird, of Low-moor-house, in the parish of. Bradford, co. York, esq. and Lamplugh-Wickham Hird, of Lightcliffe, in the parish of Halifax, esq. only surviving sons of the late Rev. Lamplugh Hird, (formerly Lamplugh Wickham), by Sarah-Elizabeth his first wife, eldest dau. and coheir of Richard Hird, sometime of Bradford, and afterwards of Rawden, esq., to use henceforth their paternal surname of Wickham, in lieu of Hird.

Earl O'Neil elected a Representative Peer of Ireland.

Members returned to serve in Parliament.
Bodmin.-Sir Samuel Thomas Spry.
Carmarthenshire. - David Arthur Saunders
Davies, of Pentre, co. Pembroke, esq.
Cavan Co.-Hon. James Pierce Maxwell.
Coleraine.-John Boyd, esq.

Dublin Univ.-Geo. Álex. Hamilton, esq.
Monaghan Co.-Charles Powell Leslie, esq.
Shropshire (North).-Lord Viscount Clive.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. W. Athill, jun. to be Sub-Dean, Surrogate, Official, and a Canon of Middleham Collegiate Church.

Rev. T. Dale, Rev. J. T. Round, and Rev. H. Soames, to be Hon. Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Rev. T. Eaton, to be Canon of Chester.

Rev. R. Stainforth, to be Canon of Middleham.
Rev. R. Allnutt, Wicken P.C. Camb.
Rev. A. Austin, Alderton P.C. Wilts.
Rev. R. Bell, Eye P.C. Northamptonshire.
Rev. A. H. Bellman, Aldeby P.C. Norfolk.
Rev. W. Birley, Chorlton with Hardy P.C.
Manchester.

Rev. F. Biscoe, Coombe Bissett V. Wilts.
Rev. F. H. M. Blaydes, Harringworth V. N'p'n.
Rev. F. Brandt, Aldford R. Cheshire.
Rev. H. J. Buckall, Potterspury V. N'p'nsh.
Rev. R. S. Bunbury, Eccleston P.C. Lanc.
Rev. T. Calvert, St. James's P.C. Norwich.
Rev. H. Cottingham, Weston on Trent V. Staf.
Rev. J. Dallas, Chorlton on Medlock P. C.
Lancashire.

Rev. R. Ekins, N. Wootton P.C. Dorset,
Rev. H. Eley, Bloomfield V. Essex.
Rev. S. I. Fell, Drigg P.C. Cumberland.
Rev. C. Ford, Postwick R. Norfolk.
Rev. John Gooch, Stanningley P.C. Leeds.
Rev. W. Gray, Glasson P.Č. Lanc.
Rev. John Groom, Padiham P.C. Lanc.
Rev. Hayne, Pilton P.C. Devon.

Rev. A. Hepworth, Ingoldsthorpe R. Norfolk.
Rev. A. Hibbit, Blakesley V. Northamptonsh.
Rev. F. Johnson, Gr. Gidding V. Huntingdon.
Rev. J. S. Jones, Paul with Thorngumbald V.
Yorkshire.

Rev. T. W. Joyce, Burford 3d port. Salop.
Rev. A. Kemp, Worth Matravers V. Dorset.
Rev. W. Kingdon, Whitstone R. Cornwall.
Rev. W. J. Kirkness, Minster and Forrabury
RR. Cornwall.

Rev. H. Langford, Marksbury R. Som.
Rev. R. Luney, Kingsbridge V. Devon.
Ven. Archd. Magee, St. Thomas R. Dublin.
Rev. J. Maingys, St. Mary de Castro R.
Guernsey.

Rev. B. W. Molineux, Whitby P.C. Yorkshire.
Rev. J. Mossop, Beckermet P.C. Cambridge.
Rev. J. Otter, Ludford Magna V. Lincolnsh.
Rev. J. C. Platten, N. Barsham R. Norfolk.
Rev. E. A. Powell, Toft R. Camb.
Rev. G. A. Poole, Welford V. N'p'nsh.
Rev. W. Price, Llangelynin R. Carnarvonsh.
Rev. R. Roche, Littleham with Exmouth V.
Devon.

Rev. J. Saunders, St. Mary Magdalene R. and
St. Gregory P.C. near St. Paul's, London.
Rev J. L. Short, Ballyphilp R. Down.
Rev. C. S. Stanford, St. John V. Dublin.
Rev. H. Stockdale, Misterton P.C. Notts.
Rev. W. St. John Smith, Ballymoney R. Antr.
Rev. W. P. Thomas, Wellington V. Som.
Rev. G. T. Ward, Heddington R. Wilts.
Rev. W. Webb, St. Clement's Danes R. Strand.
Rev. W. Wenman, Sarnesfield R. Herefordsh.
Rev. G. W. White, Darlaston R. Staffordshire.
Rev. H. W. Wilberforce, East Farleigh V. Kent.

CHAPLAIN.

Rev. J. N. Heard, to the Earl of Winterton.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS. William Stephenson, esq. to be Private Secretary to Sir Robert Peel, and George Arbuthnot, esq. Second Secretary.

Sir W. C. Ross, elected a Royal Academician; Mr. J. Willmore, an Associate Engraver. Rev. G. A. Jacob to be Principal of the Sheffield Collegiate School.

James Taylor, to be Head Master of Kimbolton Grammar School.

Mr. John Cole, B.A. to be Second Master of Huntingdon Grammar School.

Mr. Wm. H. Parr, B.A. to be Second Master of Heath School, Halifax.

J. B. Grant, esq. B. A. to be Vice-Principal of the Chester Diocesan College for Training Masters.

Adolphus Venua, esq. B.A. to be Classical and Mathematical Assistant of Lucton School, Herefordshire.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 10. In Dover-st. the Hon. Mrs. Arundell, a dau.-14. In Belgrave-square, the Marchioness Camden, a son.- -16. At Kingweston, the wife of W. Miles, esq. M.P. a son. -18. At the British Museum, Lady Madden, a son.- -19. At Warkworth vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Henry Perry, a son.-20. At Culham House, Oxfordshire, the wife of John Shawe Phillips, esq. a son and heir.-21. In Gordon-sq., the wife of Michael Smith, esq. a son. At Portman-sq., Lady Bellingham, a dau. who survived a day. At Goodrington Sands, the wife of J. W. C. Whitbread, esq. of Loudham Park, Suffolk, a son.-23. At Kensington, the wife of Major George Willock, a son.-24. At Goodnest Lodge, near Reading, the wife of Bulkeley J. M. Praed, a dau.Ặt Wear Gifford, the wife of the Hon. Captain Trefusis, a son.-25 At Kensington, the wife of Major George Willock, K.L.S., a son.-At Budleigh Salterton, the wife of Stephen L. Gower, esq. a son.-28. At Coton House, Warwicksh., the Lady Jane Johnstone, a dau.

-At Hull-house, Kent, the wife of William Jones Armstrong, esq. of Kippurepark, county of Wicklow, a son and heir. -30. At Greenwich hospital Lady Isabella Hope, a son. At Eltham, Kent, the wife of Isaac Guillemard, esq. M.D. a son.

Lately. In Dublin, Lady Louisa Knox, a son.- At Malta, Lady Selina Henry, dau. of the late Marquess of Hastings, a dau.-In the Morea, the wife of Col. Douglas, a dau.

-In

-At Brighton, the Hon. Mrs. Boyle, a dau. -At Malta, the lady of Sir Bruce Chichestor, Bart. of Arlington Court, Devon, a son and heir.-In Guildford-st., the wife of Thomas Messiter, esq. barrister, a dau.-At Haslewood, co. Sligo, Lady Anne Wynne, a son and heir. At Twickenham, Lady Ann Baird, a son. In Ireland, Lady Louth, a son.St. James's-pl. the wife of W. Gibson Craig, esq. M.P. a son.-The wife of N. Alexander, esq. M.P. a son and heir.- -At Newtownlimavady, Ireland, the Hon. Mrs. Andrew Stuart, a son. In Portman-sq. the wife of John Barneby, esq. M. P. a son. At Brighton, the Hon. Mrs. Boyle, a dau.- In Upper Harley-st., the Lady Lady Agneta Bevan, a dau.-At Bath, the wife of Samuel Jay, esq., barrister, a dau. --In Keppell-st., Russell-sq., the wife of Gillery Piggott, esq. barrister, a son.-At Down-place, the wife of Frederick Mangles, esq. a son.

Feb 1. At Fowey, Cornwall, the wife of Lient. C. S. Haswell, R.N. a son.-At Upper Bedford-pl. the wife Major Usborne, a son.—— At Bishopsgate, near Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, a son.-2. In Portman-square, the wife of John Barneby, esq. M.P. a son.

4. At Eastleigh lodge, Warminster, the lady of Sir F. D. Astley, Bart. a son.--5. At Woolwich, the wife of Capt. Washington, R.N. a son.-7. At Great George-st. the wife of the Hon. H. Manners Sutton, M.P., a son. At Shabden Park, Surrey, Lady Buchan Hepburn, a dau.- -In Eaton-pl. the Hon. Mrs. Clinton, a dau.- -At Elsfield-house, Mrs. R. F. Wykeham Martin, a dau.-9. At Downes, the wife of James Wentworth Buller, esq. &