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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. 
Rev. J. M. Turner, to be Bishop of Calcutta.— 
Rey. R. Twopeny, to the Vicarage of North 
Stoke, Oxon.—Rev. J. Dymoke, to the United 
Rectories of Scrivelsby, with Dalderby, Lincoln. 
—Rey. R. Lee, to the Vicarage of Aslackhy, 
alias Asleby, Lincoln.—Rev. R. Wood, to the 
Consolidated Vicarages of Woolaston and Ir- 
chester, Northampton.—Rey. J. D. Parham, to 
the Vicarage of Holme, Devon.—Rev. W. H. 
Marriott, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Pacot’s 
Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh.—Rey. W. Cooke, 
to the Rectory of Ullingswick, or Helenswick, 
Hereford.—Reyv. A. Fitzclarence, to the Vicarage 
of Mapledereham, alias Maple Durham, Oxon.— 
Rey. Dr. J. H. Monk, to the Rectory of Peakirk, 
with Glinton, Northampton.—Rev. S. Tillbrook, 
to the Rectory and Vicarage of Freckenham, 
Suffolk—Rev. W. Tiptaft, to the Vicarage of 
Sutton Courtney, Berks.—Rev. Speidell, to the 
Rectory of Creeke, Northampton.—Rer. C. Thorp, 
to a Prebendal Stall in Durham Cathedral—Rev. 
G. A. Biedermann, to the Rectory of Dauntsey, 
Wilts.—Rev. W. Hall, to the Rectory of Sudden- 
ham, Suffolk.—Rev. T. S. Escott, to the Rectory 
of Foston, York.—Rey. Dr. E, Tatham, to the 
Rectory. of Whitchureh, Salop.—Rey. S, Slocock, 
to the Chapel of St. Paul, Southsea.—Rev. Dr. 
Hurlock, to the Rectory of Langham, Essex.— 
Rev. W. Gordon, to be Minister of the New 
Church at West Bromwich.—Rev. C. G. Boyles, 
to the Rectory of Buriton, Hants.—Rev. S. 
Smith, to the Rectory of Dry. Drayton, Cam- 
bridge.—Rev. R. E. Landor, to the Rectory of 
Bistingham, Worcester.—Rev. G. Dayys, to the 
Rectory of All-Hallows, London.—Rey. J. Spence, 
to the United Rectory and Vicarage of Culworth, 
Northampton.—Rev. E. Dewing, to the Rectory 
of Barningham Parva, Norfolk.—Rev. T. Gais- 
ford, to the Golden Stall in Durham Cathedral.— 
Rev. C. Harbin, to the Office of Chaplain Priest 
in Hindon Chapel, Wilts.—Rey. C. Hall, to bea 
Priest in Ordinary of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal. 
—Rey. J. B. Whittenoom, to be Principal Chap- 
lain of the Swan River Settlement, Australia.— 
Rev. H. L. Bamford, to be Chaplain of Price’s 
Hospital, Hereford.—Rey. J. Daubuz, to the 
Rectory of St. Creed, Cornwall.—Rey. E. C. 
Kemp, to be one of the Duke of Cumberland’s 
Domestic Chaplains. 
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POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. 
——— 
Lieutenant-General Sir H. Fane, to be Master 
Surveyor and Surveyor-General of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.—Right 
Hon. Robert Gordon to be His Majesty’s Am- 
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to 
the Sublime Ottoman Porte. 
CHRONOLOGY, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, ETC. 
CHRONOLOGY. 
April 2.—Cardinal Castiglioni, 68, elected Pope, 
and assumed the name of Pius VIII. 
3.—The port of Picton, Nova Scotia, declared, 
by His Majesty’s order, a free warehousing port. 
4.—The Roman Catholic Relief Bill carried in 
the House of Peers by a majority of 105!—Con- 
tents 217, Non-Contents 112—103 proxies !!! 
9.—The Lord Mayor presented Mr. Secretary 
Peel with the freedom of the city of London, at 
the Guildhall, in a gold box of the value of 100 
guineas. His lordship presented it in a com. 
plimentary speech, which was answered by the 
Right Hon. Secretary, who said, ‘‘ It is a matter 
of trifling concern to be assailed by vulgar and 
malignant calumpiators ; it could do no injury ; 
it could inflict no pain!’ A grand dinner was 
afterwards given by the Lord Mayor at the Man- 
sion House onthe occasion, to upwards of 300 
persons, many of the first distinction, and all the 
members of the Common Council who voted for 
the breaking up of the Constitution of 1688. 
— Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey. 
10.—Lord Farnham presented a petition to the 
House of Lords from the Proprietors, Editors, 
Printers, &c., of the Monthly Magazine against 
the subversion and destruction of the Constitu- 
tion of 1688, the only petition in a literary shape 
presented against the measure!!! A similar pe-~ 
tition from the same persons had been presented 
in the Commons by Lord Tullamore.* © 
* Its insertion in our next. 
11.—The Irish disfranchising forty-shillings © 
freeholder’s bill, passed the third time in the 
House of Lords without even a division. On the 
previous reading it hadpassed withthe very great ~ 
majority of 139 against 171!! : 
12.—Court mourning for the late Landgray 
of Hesse Homburg. 
13.—The Royal Assent was given by commissio 
to the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, and the Dis- . 
franchisement Freeholder’s Bill. ; 
— Esther Hibner, 61, executed at the Ol 
Bailey for the murder, by starvation, of Frances” 
Colpits, her apprentice, aged nine years ; the mob 
saluted her with yells and execrations. 
— Several hundreds of the Spitalfields 
weavers assembled jn front of the houses of Par- — 
liament, and conducted themselves with the ute 
most regularity and order. They displayed seve- 
ral banners bearing inscriptions, among which 
were these—‘ We desire only to live by our la- 
bour.”—* Suffer us to work for our livelihood.”— 
“ Victims of Free Trade/’—* British Artisans 
reduced to starvation.’ 
16.—The Gazette announces the capture, on the 
coast of Africa, of the Almirante, a Spanish slave 
vessel, having 466 slaves on board, by the Black 
Joke tender, Lieut. H. Downes, after a gallant 
action. The Black Joke carried 2 guns and 55 
men ; and the Almirante 14 guns and 80 men. 
The Spanish vessel had 15 killed, including he 
captain and Ist and 2d mates, and 14 wounded 
the loss of the Black Joke, including the mate 
was 6 wounded, 2 of whom, seamen, afterwards 
died. 
