31 OCTOBER 1868, Page 3

The Conservative Whip, Colonel Taylor, is promoted to the Chancellorship

of the Duchy of Lancaster, and, we conclude, to the Cabinet, as the last Chancellor of the Duchy, Colonel Wilson- Patten, was in the Cabinet. The great symbol of "the tribes of Nemea," as Mr. Disraeli termed it, is to be wielded by the Hon. Gerard Noel, second sou of the Earl of Gaiusborough.