Several of our contemporaries have busied themselves this week with
speculations on the amount of confidence with which the King may be presumed at present to homer the Duke of WELLINGTON. Thu Morning Chronicle has brought forward the fact. of the Duke having had an interview of three hours on Tuesday, as a proof of increased cordiality between the parties, and an assurance of the stability of the present Government. The Standard, again, pro- fesses to have consulted the Court Calendar on the subject ; and to have discovered, there that the three hours on which the Chronicle lays stress, when added to the amount in time of the inter- views of the last twelve months, yield a sum total of twenty-seven hours devoted to confidential communication between the King and the Prime Minister. The Globe, without entering into these minute calculations, thinks that the King may, like other masters, be well pleased to be as little as possible intruded upon by his servants ; and that it is no slight merit in the Duke to get through his work with- out fuss or agitation,—without finding it necessary to unbosom his griefs day by day to the King on the one hand, or to exhibit himself in Parliament Street, " dressed in black, with broad weepers on his sleeves, shedding- tears as-large as Fist 01 bullets over the fate df the Sultan, or the obstinacy of Don Miguel."
For our own parts, we believe that the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Administration stands at this moment as firmly as any which England has ever known.
