THE LONDON NEWSPAPERS AND POLITICS OF THE WEEK.

The leading articles of the Daily Papers present rather more variety this week than the last. Ministerial changes end election prospects have been discussed, as well as mutters personally uffectinK the Queen and her mother. As in courtesy bound, we give the latter the prece- dence in our extracts.

The Times on Thuredey published a letter from a Dublin correspon- dent, too highly vouched for, which contained abominable insinuations against the Dutchess of Kent, and slander, we have no doubt, on the Protestants of Dublin. The letter-writer asserted, that when the same of the Queen was read instead of the lute King's in the largest Protestant church in Dublin, the ladies in "audible subs" expressed their grief at a change so fatal to Protestantism! This Dublin corre- spondent added- " As to what I have heard, 1 cannot, of course, be so confident. But this I will tell you, as I am informed, that there was not to be seen this day a ;Jerson hi IS10111ning in any Roman Catholic chapel in Dublin ; that there were no prayers offered up Mr the late King as, acenr.ling to their creed their always are ; that the priests have forbidden mourning, and that not only prayers but thanks. gib ings are offered up fiom the Popish altars, that our young Queen is inclined to embrace the old teligion of her forefathers. and immediately, the leligion of her uncle Leopold, and her own mother the Dutchess if Kent, who has long been a secret but a busty believer —viituess her iepeated largesseis to the wee- lion of Reiman Catholic chapels in Ireland, and her having Mr. Shell so often at her table, and who has repaid the banquet by millugizing her in the Rouge of Commons. It might even astonish ytm, who know what Popery is in Ireland so Well, arid who as yet have resisted it with so much strength, to know what they ir to now. They /mint upon it forsooth I that the young Queen must marry a Papist."

The Times seconded its correspondent in an elaborate leading article- " What the wild dreams of Irish Papist conspirator% are and have been since the demise of his gracioue Majesty. the Reforming, Poitestatit King William, the public may be taught to .entertain some notion finm a letter transmitted to us by • An Irish Ptotestant ' in Dublin. which we puldieli litemlly, as we have received it. The writer is a man of unimpeachable humour and eh:outer, and any fact. stated on his own authority are emit Ird to implicit credit. " It will be obselved, indeed, that the antieipatiens of certain Irish Roman Catholics respecting the success of their woe fair against the Pi otestant Church aril State, under the alispMes of those not untried Ministers, Mtn whose hands the oil but infant and helpless Queen has been compelled by her unhappy con. dition to deliver up herself and her indignant people are to betaken lot nothing, and as worth nothing, but the eliimeras of a band of visionary traitors. When they bcast that her Majesty will in the end turn Papist. or that slue will marry ii Papist, or in any manner follow the footsteps Id the Coburg family, whom these incendiaries describe as Papists, it is clear enough that the circus

'atone of such ineane slanders have carefully concealed hr the dupes who lieten to them, that the legal consequence of any such lapse into Popery would be an immediate fiofeiture of the British Crown."

Why did the Times give currency to the " insane slareTers" and in- simiete their truth ? The Post again was too happy to fall foul of its indiscreet ally- " There is desperate anti abominable wickedness in the attempt to instil into the minds of the people of England a suspicion that religiems principles are entertained by the Dutchexs of Kent, and have been instilled into the mind of her daughter, the avowal of which principles are, by the law of England, in. compatible with the possession of the Crown. We do nut stop to point out the t . maand eircumscances of universal notoriety which give an effectual contra -11 to the insinuated slander ; for any attempt seriously to iefute it would .tle less absurd than the slander itself. It in difficult to conjecture to what of readers the trash we have quoted is addiessed. To the lowest, the atioet ignol ant, and the most credulmin we are hound to presume. But we have yet to learn that there is in Great thitain any class so low, so ignorant, or 1111 credulous as to he prepated for its reception."

Humours of new Ministerial arrangements were embodied in an article in the Peat of Wednesday. id Hold proverbs be true, it must have been an ill wind that blew his Excellency the Earl of Durham here at the present moment. H is presence does nobody good that we are aware of, and we are pretty sure that in this sentiment, if ia no other, our present Ministers perfectly agtee with us. His Lordship is aa unpleasant person to deal with. Lord Melbourne has no Empress at hand, whose condescending recognition may soothe the rather hasty temper of a bile. tormented statestuan. Mr. Spring Rice, though 11 great peace•maker, is not quite so clever in managing an Earl Durham as the wily props of the Govern- ment at St. Petersburg. Cabinet :Ministers. we have no doubt, pray that the Loud would deliver them from the Eall of Durham ; but that amiable personage- is not to be thus got rid of. • • • • The right honoureble gentleman (Mr. Abercromby) has found that his exemplary and most sedentary attention- to his duties in the House of Commune has not agreed with his health so well aa his friends could wish oil himself desire. Ica convenient successor could be found, It is not probable that he would solicit futon the Alembers of another Pediment the honour of being placed in the Speaker's chair, but as his talents are by much too valuable to be lost altogether, they would naturally Is, transferred from the exclusive service of the public to that of the Crown and the public,

as a Minister." * • • •

" The Chancellor of the Exchequer is understood to be of opinion that he would have been studying sedateness and uthanity, for some years past, to very little purpose indeed, if he were not now quite tit to fulfil the duties which de- volve upon the chair of the House of C11111111111100 HIV colleagues are said to be of opinion that he is quite as fit to be Speaker as to be Chancellor ut the Ex-

chequer. • * S •

" We do not know who is to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the event of a vacancy in that office. Neither dues Mr. Poulett Thumsun know it ; but he thinks he naught ; and a suety angry man will he be if he dues not, in due time,

both know it and feel it. • • • •

I. The report was yesterday revived of a probable change in the command of the Army. Not only, it is said, is Lord Hill to lose the command, but it is to he given to an officer, who, however brave and well connected, has contrived to do something grossly imprudent in every situation of responsibility in which he has been placed."

Lord William Hentinck is the " imprudent" person alluded to by the Post : we fear that the rumour is too good to be true.

The probable rei, tilt of the elections has only been generally alluded to in the _Ministerial papers ; and we have noticed elsewhere the gain professedly anticipated by both parties.

The speech of the Duke of Wellington on Thursday night, wherein his Grace professed himself desirous of settling tbe Irish question next session on " reasonable" terms, though capoble of almost any interpre- tation and amounting to nothing, has beets laid hold of by the Minis- terial journals as tantamount to a desertion of Toryism and Tories! The Chronicle lauds its " conciliatory character," and says it intist " in- spire the Irish with hopes," &c. If' so, there will be the less to fear from Tory government hereafter. The Courier goes further- " His Grace gives up the alum' d opinion contended for by his partisans, that Murtieipal Reform must be denied to Ireland, lest that political iniquity the Irish Church Amulet be endangered. • * • His high character and COM. mending talents have never le-en questioned ; and now that his Grace gives up those erroneoue political opinions which, and casts off those mischievous poli- tical associates who, have damaged him in the public estimation, he will be re- stored to all that popularity his long and never to besappreciatrd military ser- vices deserve. Ilis indirect sanction to the policy of the Ministers is a con- fessilin tff error, and will recoinmend both hien and them to the increased confi- dence of the public. The DOCit1,1 of maintaining a system of Government or a law in opposition to a majority of a minim, he gives up. Such it miwchievous• and even vulgar mode of carting on the Governmeut of a great country, he resigns, as a pretty theme of discussion, to the columns of the Tory journals; and avows his readiness to mettle, em reasonable teams, those inipottant subjects the Tithes and the :Municipalities, to which the people, or the popular party, rather than the Government, first gave importance by their detuande."

As we have only given the substaiwe of the Duke's speech in our Pailitimentary report, we here quote his ipsissima oerba, by way. of showing 1111011 how very slender a foundation these magnificent antici- pations rest-

" It was his anxious wish to put an end to the discussion of all those bills by bringing them to an amicable termination. He earnestly wished to put an end to the Tithe question, which was introduced tweet' yearn ago. It Was also his- wish that some art angement should be made fur a provisiun for the Noe in Ire. land. It wae his wish to see the Carpus ation quention nettled, when art:Inge- nients could be made for vetoing out the other question'. connected su ith it* He was must anxious that the Pal liamentaty discussion that now occurted on those questions from year to yeat should he brought to a close; and he could assure the milde viscount, that if in the next Parhanuent they should meet in the same relative pusitiutis, he (the Duke of Wellingtun ) would be prepared to COD. CIO With hill* Oil all tdese subjects in any reuse • ble measures he might intro's duet for their fimal and eatisfeettoy settlement."

Now, thew is nut a sy liable here which Lord Roden himself might not have uttered. Everybody professes to be " reasonable ;" and the Duke does no more. Every body says be wishes to see " vexed ques- tions" settled ; so says the Duke. Voila tout.

One of the best things of the week is Colonel Thompson's letter to the Hull constituency, published in the True Sun. The bit that we extract reletvs to King Ernest of Ihinover- " The anti popular party in England who put Mtwara] the King of Hanover, in his chrysalis state ad' Duke of Cundietland, as tbeit sign and banner upon all occasions-. w liu involved his name, however imuch ag dust his own consent, in tampering with the Ili itish army, with the inanifist view to employing it against the liberties of the country in the event of his st.cceeding to the reigtinig K mug— are mum to postpone their wishes to the time when lie may return to theni, flushed, as their imagination will paint him, with the practical exel rise of despotic power ; so mainfl,d, it may be, with the entachnieut of u foreign army, of whose milital y qualities the Tittles vie at this moment chanting the praise, and backed by all the further counexions cc hiele luture camps of Kalisch may give an oppoitunity to organise. In short, thete is to be a foreigo power esta- blished, under the sceptre of the chief and idol of the anti- populal party here, with the express purpose of enabling them all to colder together nith the van- tage which attends on ati established government, in furtherance of the projected transfet of the whiskered despotism at no tlistant period to our shores. Would our aneestors, WII0 saw peril in wafers and in wafered lips, and knew here to look fiir eubstantial power to preserve thetheelves flom either, have looked Impiorly on in such II OIthe as this, and fancied the virtue was gone from them? Who k s what Irons and dorfs may he kinking for the broad lands of Whig- gish noblemen ? We are at the day of' the Sixth Edward agaio, and similar events might bring about rare cunfiscations. A death, a dreaded successor, an unsuccessful attempt at tipposition, and England, and still mine Ireland, might be thrown into a state 01 which all om histuiy associates with eanganuary Inf- amy might be but taint and feeble image."