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Lord MorFetli is now a member of the Cabinet. Ilk' first summons to attend a Cal,inet Connell tin S.Iturday.
Mr. Menlo has at length been appointed :t Baron of the Exchequer, in the place of Baron Bolland.
Mr. Cross has resigned his Mastership in Chancery : to be succeeded, it is said, by Mr. Duckworth.
It is rumoured that Mr. Sergeant Talfourd will be made.a Queen's Sergeant.
A rumour that Ministers intend to establish a new Court of Chancery is contradicted by the Globe.
The Reverend John Lonsdale succeeds the late Reverend Hugh James Rose, as Principal of King's College.
Lord John Russell's Saturday Parliamentary dinners will not take place until after the Easter recess. owing to the severe domestic calamity which his Lordship has sustained. The christening of the noble Secretary's infant daughter, who is to bear the name of Victoria, and to whom her Majesty is to stand sponsor, will, it is understood, not take place till the advance of spring.—,Iforning Hcrubl.
The Speaker will give his first Parliamentary dinner for the session on Saturday the 23d instant, and hold his levees on the 9th and 16th of March.
The Duke of Buckingham, with a deputation of landowners and far- mers, waited on Lord Melbourne on Thursday, to ascertain his Lord- ship's intention with regard to the Corn-laws. According to the Morning Herald, Lord Melbourne stated, that "lee was decidedly op- posed to any changes unless their benefit should be satisfactorily proved ; and that he had not seen any thing to cause him to change the opinion on the subject of the present Corn-laws, which he had expressed in his place in Parliament in last July." The Mai:Mester Guardian says that the Marquis of Westminster has become an advocate for the entire repeal of the Corn-laws.
Colonel Sir Henry George Macleod his been appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Trinidad.
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