27 MAY 1865, Page 2

The rumour of Sir Charles Wood's elevation to the peerage

is again gaining ground, as it was quite sure to do before a general election. The ever new buoyancy which seems to press Sir Charles Wood upwards to " another place " is, we conclude, in part due to his unpopularity as a speaker in the House of Commons, and to the known need of the Government for help in that direction. If he ascends, the Government should seize the opportunity to get a better Indian Minister,—the only point in which the Conservative Government clearly and greatly surpassed them. If he were to carry his Ministerial attributes with him, Lord Dufferin must of course resign the Under Secretaryship, and probably Mr. Stansfeld might have another opening in the Lower House.