the intelligence of the ship's loss being sent to England. Those in the pinnace suffered intensely. They were exposed in the boat for thirteen days; many became delirious, and all were in a shocking condition. On the 14th of that month the boat gained the main land, forty miles west of Rangoon, where the natives acted with friendship and hospitality. The Orpheus, 382 tons, engaged in the East India trade, was lost on the 18th of October, outside the harbour of Cochin; crew saved. The Hanover, 700 tons, ran upon the rocks at the entrance of the harbour of Bath, United States, on the night of the 9th of November. She went to pieces within ten minutes after she struck, and twenty-six men-the entire crew, excepting the chief mateperished. The Shepherdess, from Moulmein, encountered fearful gales in the Channel, by which she was reduced to a complete wreck, and went on shore to the westward of Plymouth, on the night of the 6th December. Two of the crew jumped overboard, and were drowned; the rest of the crew scrambled on to the rocks, and were saved. 31. CLOSING OF THE PALACE COURT.-This ancient Court, whose iniquities have been so long forced upon public notice, having been abolished by Act of Parliament, was this day finally closed. At 11 o'clock Mr. Brent took his seat on the bench for the last time, and the Court was opened by the crier (Mr. Eley) in the usual manner. The attorneys attended, as well as the officers of the Court, but the barristers did not appear. The Deputy Prothonotary (Mr. Hewlett) inquired whether any person present had any business to transact in the Marshalsea or Palace Courts? No answer was given to the interrogatory. The Prothonotary told the crier to adjourn the Courts. Mr. Eley went through the usual form of adjournment for the last time, the Court rose never to resume its sittings; and the doors of the Court were finally closed to the administration of justice, or, as it was more generally considered, of injustice. The MINISTRY, as it stood at the Opening of the Second Session of the Fifteenth Parliament, appointed to meet 21st of September, 1847, and from thence continued till the 1st of February, 1849. IN THE CABINET. First Lord of the Admiralty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster President of the Board of Trade Commander-in-Chief Right Hon. Lord John Russell. Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bt. Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Right Hon. Lord Campbell. Most Hon. Marquis of Clanricarde. NOT IN THE CABINET. Master-General of the Ordnance Secretary at War Chief Secretary for Ireland Attorney General Solicitor-General Lord Advocate of Scotland Duke of Wellington. Most Hon. Marquis of Anglesey. Right Hon. Earl Granville. Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil. Right Hon. Fox Maule. Right Hon. Sir W. M. Somerville, bt. Sir John Jervis, knt. Sir John Romilly, knt. No changes took place in the above List during the Session. James Whiting Yorke, of Walmsgate, esq. Mid Donald Nicoll, esq. Lincolnshire London and dlesex. Monmouthshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Shropshire. Somersetshire. Staffordshire. . John Arthur Herbert, of Llanarth Court, esq. Henry Nevile, of Walcot, esq. John Hodgson Hinde, of Stellinghall, esq. George William Blathwayt, of Porlock, esq. Southampton, County of William Garnier, of Rookesbury Wickham, esq. { .{ Robert Gardner, of Plas y Court, esq. Robert Davies Jones, of Aberllafenny, esq. Seymour Phillips Allen, of Cresselley, esq. IRELAND. James Stewart Moore, of Ballydivitty, Dervock, esq. Stephen Richard Rice, Carrickfergus, esq. Henry Theophilus Clements, of Ashfield, Coote Hill, esq. The Viscount Kilworth, of Moore Park, Kilworth. James Hamilton, of St. Ernans, Donegal, esq. William Keon, of Ballydergan House, Downpatrick, esq. John Ennis, of Merrion Square, esq. William Digges La Touche, of Stephen's Green, esq. Paul Dane, of Killyhevlin, Enniskillen, esq. John Martin, of Tullira Castle, Gort, esq. Slane, esq. Colonel Henry Edward Porter, of Carrickmacross. Charles Will. Cooper of Cooper Hill, Riverstown, esq. {Robert William Lowry, jun., of Pomeroy House, Dun gannon, esq. The Hon. S. Carew, of Woodstown, Waterford. Robert Thomas Carew, of Ballinamona, Waterford, esq. James Power, of Edermine, Enniscorthy, esq. Robert A. Gun Cunningham, of Mount Kennedy, Newtown, Mount Kennedy, esq. BIRTHS. lady of John Henry Ley, jun., esq., a son. 18. At Inwood Lodge, Henstridge, the lady of John Wood, esq., a son. 20. The lady of William Bosworth, esq., of Charley Hall, Leicester, a daughter. 21. At Beeston Hall, Norfolk, lady Preston, of twins, a boy and a girl. At Coston Rectory, near Melton Mowbray, the lady of the hon. and rev. John Sandilands, a son. 22. The lady of Hay Winthrop, esq., comm. R.N., a son and heir. 23. At Avondale, Somerset, the lady of John Neeld, esq., M.P., a son. At Balbernie, N.B., the lady Georgiana Balfour, a son. 24. In Peru, the lady of William Pitt Adams, esq., chargé d'affaires, a daughter. 25. At Ankerwycke House, Bucks, Mrs. Harcourt, a son. At Hertingfordbury Rectory, Herts, the lady of the hon. and rev. Godolphin Hastings, a daughter. 27. At Walton, the lady of sir Thomas R. T. Thompson, bart., a daughter. 28. In Whitehall-yard, the hon. Mrs. Vereker, a son and heir. In Upper Lansdowne-terrace, the lady Caroline Garnier, a son. 29. In Chapel-street, Grosvenorsquare, the lady Margaret Milbank, a daughter. At Vicar's Cross, the lady of George Folliott, esq., a son and heir. At Malta, the hon. Mrs. Lambert Baynes, a daughter. |