THE MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.

IT is said that the Duke of WELLINGTON was disappointed at the result of Monday, Mr. HOLMES'S list having exhibited a majority of 17. There was a meeting of some of the Tory gentlemen at Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL'S on Monday forenoon, where it was agreed to oppose Mr. GOULBURN'S motion ; and this resolution_turned the scale. Still, it is added, that the Duke was determined to go out, unless on not only the motion of Monday, but that of Tuesday, he hadia large majority. Had he stood a division on Monday, it is said he would have been in a minority of 100. The real truth we believe to be, that the King was thoroughly displeased with the Ministry for the bungled management of the visit to the City, by which his popularity had been brought into question, in consequence of their unpopularity ; and that they were given to understand, that if they could not work the Parliament better than they had -worked the plot, they were quite free to retire.

The following list was very generally handed about in both Houses of Parliament last night. We have doubts of its accuracy, or, indeed, whether the arrangements be yet so far completed as to admit of an accurate list being framed.

First Lord of the Treasury—Earl GREY.

Lord Chancellor—Mr. BROUGHAM.

Chancellor of the Exchequer—Lord ALTHORPE. Home Secretary—Viscount MELBOURNE. Foreign Secretary—Lord PALMERSTON. Colonial Secretary—Viscount GODERICH. First Lord of the Admiralty—Sir JAMES GRAHAM.

President of the Council—Marquis of LANSDOWNE. Lord Privy Seal—Lord DURHAM. Master-General of the Ordnance—Duke of RICHMOND. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland—The Marquess of ANGLESEA. Chief Secretary for Ireland—Mr. STANLEY. Attorney-General—Mr. DENMAN.

Solicitor-General—Mr. R. GRANT.

Commander-in-Chief—Lord HILL.

To this list the Chronicle of this morning, which seems to speak as "clothed with authority," adds the following— President of the Board of Trade—Mr. C. GRANT.

President of the Board of Control—Mr. W. WYNNE.

Duchy of Lancaster—Lord HOLLAND.

Master of the Mint—Sir H. PARNELL.

Lord Chamberlain—Duke of DEVONSHIRE.

Lord Chancellor of Ireland—Lord PLUNKETT.

Attorney-General of Ireland—Mr. PENNEFATHER.

Mr. ROBERT GRANT, in the Chronicle's list, is put down as Judge-Advocate, and Mr. BICKERSTETH, Solicitor-General. The solicitor-generalship seems to have gone a-begging. Lord Due- Baia is said to take office only ad interim; his ultimate destination being India, for which his princely style and fortune admirably fit him. Sir JOHN LEACH was offered the seals, and refused them : Sir JOERN prefers a rubber at whist to rubs in the House of Lords. Whit becomes of Sir ANTHONY HART, does not appear settled. tord- PixivrrEm., in receiving the Irish. seals, 0117 receives What. he is fairly entitled to, if Ministerial promise gives a title. Ile became a peer in Mr.-CANNING.% administration, on the pro- - that he should be Chancellor,though he was afterwards rele- gated to the Common Law Bench. The Chronicle, -speaking or the new Ministry-, says- " The principles on which the new Administration have consented to take office, are liberal. It is understood that economy and retrenchment, not in name merely, but in substance, are to be enforced througholt It various establishments of the Empire. With regard also to another point—namely, Parliamentary Reform—it is intended to meet the wishes of the country. We can undertake to say that Ministers have agreed to propose a real and substantial Parliamentary Reform, and not a reform merely in name. The country may also calculate on the adherence of the new Administration to the principle of free trade."

We understood that Mr. BROUGHAM refused the Seals (for the second time), because he was afraid they would interfere with his political reform's, and with his pledgcs to the abolitionists. These fears removed, he will have larger powers to carry his liberal mea- sures into effect, by being one of the Ministers, than he possibly could have were he not. We named him Chancellor three months ago ; and shall be happy if our anticipations prdve correct. Some of the selections on the above list tally but indifferently with the public estimate of the parties. The only claim to office possessed by Lord GODERICH is, that, as Premier, he was the most ridiculed and imbecile Minister the country ever possessed. What proofs of fitness for a Finance Minister has Lord LTHORPE given ? The office ought to have been filled by Sir HENRY PARNELL.