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Ministers have prevailed on the King to make three new Lords, and to give three who are already in the House of Incurables a step in the
Beale of promotion. The three new creations are these—Mr. Edward Berkeley Portman, to be Baron Portman ; Mr. William Hanbury, Baron Bateman of Shobden, in Herefordshire ; Mr. Thomas Alexan- der Fraser of Lovat, Baron Levet. ( Is this last gentleman a lineal descendant of Simon—the "aittIce et decorum " old Jacobite, whose fate was "indifferently viewed " by Johnson ?) The promoted Peers are—Lord Howard of Effingham, to be Earl of Effingham ; Lord Thiele, to be Eat] of Ducie and Baron Moreton; and Lord Yarborough, to be Earl of Yarborough, and Baron Worsley.
It is generally understood that a Brevet will he announced in the Indian Army, similar in extent to that which has just taken place in the King's service.
Sir Thomas Cartwright, Minister to the Diet at Frankfort, arrived in Dover Street on Saturday, from Brighton. [This gentleman was knighted a few days ago, by the King at Brighton; as a reward, we presume, for his father's Toryism at home, (he is son of the Member for Northamptonshire,) and his own affection for the Absolutists on the Continent. Mr. Cartwright was Minister at Brussels when the Belgian Revolution broke out ; and his conduct on that occasion gave great dissatisfaction to all but King Wiliam of Holland and his partisans. He was then promoted to the Frankfort embassy ; and at Frankfurt he is as disagreeable a person to all Englishmen who do not think fit to toady bite, and who have no Tory introductions, as can well be imagined. Yet this man, a Tory to the backbone, is in especial favour at the Foreign Office, and at Coutt :]
It is said that Mr. Vaughan is to succeed Lord Ponconby at Con- stantinople. Can this be true? Cartwright has been knighted ; and Vaughan, as thorough a Tory, is to have a first-rate embassy. The latter gentleman is brother of Sir Henry Halloo!, the Court physi- cian, and uncle of the gentleman who, as Member for South Leices- tershire, regularly votes against Alia I nsters.
A paragraph is going the round of the newspapers, stating that Lord Durham's mission to St. Petersburg is drawing to a close, and that his Lordship will shortly return to this country. We know not what authority the Tyne Mercury, in which the statement originally appeared, had for making it ; but we find, upon inquiry, that na ex- pectation of such an event is entertained in those quarters where the must correct information of his Lordship's movements is likely to be obtained.—Durham Chronicle.
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