2 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 8

Tine Earl of Durham is labouring under indisposition ; and,

in accordance with the advice of his medical attendants, is expected to lease this country very shortly for a more genial climate. The South of France is spoken of, in the event of Italy not proving more salu- brious.—Morniny Post.

It is very generally reported in the diplomatic circles, that the Mar- quis of Clunricarde will be Earl Durham's successor as British Am- bassador at St. Petersburg.—Post.

Lord Durham is the present object of the spite of the hornets' nest ; but lie stands, in the confidence and affections of the people, far above the reach of the insects' stings..—Examiner. L" Hornets" was too

homely : the witty man of metaphors should have said "pismires,. and then he would have been as fine as Sir Francis. It is to be hope,' that Lord Durham has no sting which the honey of the Examinee' flattery will not cure. Of that specific he has a plentiful supply. "Far above reach" in the "confidence and affections of the People," is well enough ; but a few pages further in the same Examiner, we find I report of the Durham dinner to Mr. Lambton—a merepiece of ordi- nary provincial intelligence—paraded in the most striking manner of the journal, and headed with its largest capitals, "DINNER TO LORD DURHAM'S BROTHER;" and in the very next page again, i4 the same fashion, " LORD DURHAM AT THE DURHAM COUNTY MEETING." This is plastering on the bony.]