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POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. 



The King has appointed the Right Hon. G. Can- 

 ning to the offices of Chancellor and Under Trea- 

 surer of His Majesty's Exchequer. 



The King has also appointed the Right Hon. 

 G. Canning, Earl of Mount Charles, Lord Francis 

 Leveson Gower, Lord Eliot, and Edmund Alex- 

 ander Macnaghton, Commissioners for executing 

 the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great 

 Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. 



The King has granted the dignity of a Viscount 

 to the Right Hon. Frederick John Robinson, by 

 the title of Viscount Goderich, of Nocton, in the 

 county of Lincoln ; likewise the dignity of Baron 

 unto James Earl" of Fife, by the title of Baron 

 Fife, of the county of Fife ; also to the Right 

 Hon. Sir Charles Abbot the dignity of Baron, by 

 the title of Baron Tenterden, of Hendon, in the 

 county of Middlesex ; and to the Right Hon. W. 

 C. Plunkett the dignity of Baron, by the tittle of 

 Baron Plunkett, of Newtown, in the county of 

 Cork. 



The King has appointed the Right Hon. Lord 

 Forbes High Commissioner to the General Assem- 

 bly of the Church of Scotland. 



The King has appointed the Dukes of Devon- 

 shire, Portland, and Leeds ; the Marquis of Angle- 

 sey ; Viscount Dudley and Ward ; Lord Plunkett ; 

 the Right Hons. Sir A. Hart, W. Lamb, Sir S. 



Htilse, and Sir G. Cockburn, to be Privy Council- 

 lors ; the Lord Lyndhurst, to be Lord High Chan- 

 cellor ; and the Duke of Portland, Keeper of the 

 Privy Seal. His Majesty has likewise appointed 

 Lord Dudley and Ward, Lord Goderich, and W. 

 Sturges Bourne, Esq., to be the three principal 

 Secretaries of State ; the Marquis of Anglesey, to 

 be Master of the Ordnance ; and Sir John Leech 

 to be Master of the Rolls. 



The King has appointed the Duke of Devon- 

 shire Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's House* 

 hold, and Sir S. Hulse, Vice-chamberlain ; the 

 Earl of Stamford, Chamberlain of the County 

 Palatine of Chester; the Hon. J. Abercromby, 

 Advocate-general ; Earl of Carlisle, W. D. Adams, 

 and H. Dawkins, Esqrs., Commissioners of His 

 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues; 

 Right Hon. G. Tierney, Master and Worker of the 

 Mint ; Right Hon, C. W. W. Wynne, Viscount 

 Dudley and Ward, Viscount Goderich, Right Hon. 

 W. S. Bourne, Right Hon. G. Canning, Baron 

 Teignmouth, Right Hon. J. Sullivan, Sir G. War- 

 render, Dr. Phillimore, and Sir J. Mac.donald, 

 His Majesty's Commissioners for the Affairs of 

 India. Sir James Scarlet is appointed Attorney- 

 general, and Sir Nicholas Tindal, Solicitor- 

 general. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON, ETC. 



April 29. His Majesty presented Lord Eldon 

 with a magnificent silver cup and cover, with this 

 inscription," The gift of His Majesty King George 

 the Fourth to his highly valued friend, John Earl 

 of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of England, upon 

 his retiring from his official duties, in the year 

 1827." 



30. The foundation stone of the London Uni- 

 versity was laid by His Royal Highness the Duke 

 of Sussex, attended by the committee and stewards, 

 who afterwards dined together with the patrons 

 at Freemasons'-tavern, H. R. H. in the chair, sup- 

 ported by the Dukes of Norfolk and Leinster, 

 Lords Lansdowne, Auckland, Carnarvon, and Nu- 

 gent, Messrs. Brougham, Hume, Hobhhouse, &c. 

 The mallet used on this occasion was the identical 

 mallet used in laying the foundation f St. Paul's, 

 and was presented by Sir C. Wren to the Masonic 

 Lodge of Antiquity. 



May 1. The tirst foundation brick for St. Ca- 

 therine's Docks was laid. 



4. His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence 

 held his first levee as Lord High Admiral of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



8. Thanks of the House of Commons were 

 voted to Lord Combermere, and to the officers and 

 men under his command, for their services and 

 conduct in the Burmese war. 



9. Letters received at the Admiralty from Cap- 

 tain Beechey, of the Blossom frigate, detailing the 

 particulars of the voyage of that ship into Bahring's 

 Straits. Officers and men all well ; but could not 

 obtain any intelligence of Captain Franklin ; ship 

 suffered some damage from the ice. 



10. The anniversary festival of the Sons of the 

 Clergy at St. Paul's Cathedral. The collections 



at church, and at the dinner, at which the Lord 

 Mayor presided, and the Duke of Sussex attended, 

 amounted to .1,0/0. 



His Majesty held at St. James's a chapter 

 of the Order of the Garter, when the Dukes of 

 Leeds and Devonshire, and the Marquis of Exeter 

 were invested with the insignia of the order, in 

 consequence of the deaths of the Earl of Win- 

 chelsea, and the Marquisses of Hastings and Cbol- 

 mondeley. Same day the Earl of Warwick and 

 Lord Aboyne were invested members of the Order 

 of the Thistle. 



14. The House of Lords passed a similar vote 

 to the House of Commons, thanking the army of 

 India relative to the termination of the Burmese 

 war. 



A meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster 

 took place, when an address was voted to the 

 King, congratulating His Majesty on his firmness 

 in choosing his prime minister, but regretting that 

 His Majesty's choice should have fallen on one 

 who has already declared his hostility to Parlia- 

 mentary Reform. The address to be delivered to 

 the King by Messrs. Hunt, Cobbett, Pitt, and Dr. 

 Tucker. 



15. A general meeting of the operatives of the 

 metropolis was held at the Mechanics' Institute, 

 J. Hume, Esq., M.P., in the chair, when a con- 

 gratulatory address was voted to His Majesty, 

 for calling to his councils such persons as appeared 

 best qualified to advance the interest of the nation. 

 The address is to be delivered to the King by Mr. 

 Hume. 



I/. The foundation stone of a new school and 

 other buildings, for the use of the Caledonian 

 Asylum, was laid by H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, 

 attended by a number of Scottish gentlemen clad 



