An address from four hundred gentlemen of the bar was
presented on Monday to Sir Robert Peel, by Sir Charles Wetherell. There is nothing remarkable either in the address itself, Sir Charles's accompa- nying note, or Sir Robert's reply—except, perhaps, the smirking self- complacency of the last.
The Reverend Mr. G. Stanley Faber has been writing some exces- sively prosy and bigoted letters to the Standard; which the editor of that paper, to the no small mortification, we apprehend, of his readers and admirers, palms off as leading articles and puffs, more suo, in high- flown strains. But a question has been asked, and not answered—. whether Mr. Faber is not a clerical sinecurist himself? If he is, then his zeal for clerical abuses is easily accounted for. He is said to hold the sinecure Mastership of Sherborne Hospital, in the diocese of Durham.
A correspondent of the Courier complains of Lord de Grey's job- bing in the Admiralty. He says— "Most of the ships commissioned will not be ready to receive men for months to come, and consequently must cause a great additional expense ; one of the ships is not vet launched. But there is much more of this than meets the cye the Dockyards have been crowded with Tory voters, many of whom have been put over the beads of deserving men who have no votes, or who have voted ac- cording to their conscience. Even the Dockyard advertisements have been directed to be published in Tory papers only, many of which have little circula- tion. The Board have committed every sort of irregularity. Officers, and even Chaplains, have been put in quite contrary to the rules of the Naval Ser- vice; and there is no doubt that the Admiralty of Lord de Grey has done more injury to the public, and perpetrated more jobs, than Lord Aucklaud will be able to correct in a year.'
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