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Sir James Graham, and other Members of the House of Commons, had a conference on Tuesday with Lord Stanley, at his Lordship's mansion in Carlton Gardens.—Courier. [ Who were the other Members ? Now Sir Mathew Ridley is gone, and Mr. Lechmere Charlton is afraid to stir an inch from Fendall's Hotel, we had thought that the Dilly was quite empty, leaving driver and cad without a fare.] Contrary to usual custom on such occasions, the Members for the City of London were not included in the invitations to Lord John Russell's Parliamentary dinner on Monday.—Standard. [Unhappily, not one of the four Members for London is a Mere Whig.]
Mr. Ellice returned from Paris on Saturday. There will probably be plenty of scope this spring for the exercise of his peculiar talents.
Mr. Bailey, Mr. Walker of Bury, Mr. Winston Barron, and Colonel Dawson Darner, are among the Members of Parliament laid up by the influenza. Mr. Henry Bulwer is also ill at Brussels.
Mr. Vernon Smith broke his collar-bone on Tuesday week by a fall from hii horse while hunting. He lies at Lilford Hall in a fair way of recovery.—Northampton Mercury.
Mr. Dennistoun, M. P. for Dumbartonshire, who left Glasgow on Friday to be present at the opening of Parliament on the 31st, was taken so ill on the road that he was obliged to return.—Glasgow Post.
Mr. Sheil has paired off with Mr. Anthony Lafroy.
Captain Howard, having got an appointment abroad, has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; and Lord Leveson, son of Earl Granville, is to be the new Member for that very independent borough—Morpeth.
His Majesty has been graciously pleased to present Captain Ryder Burton, R.N., with the insignia of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order for his services and the severe wounds he received during the late wan—Standard. [Captain Burton is no doubt a gallant officer ; but he is better known at present as the unsuccessful Tory candidate for the Tower Hamlets, and the would-be Tory candidate for 3Iaryle- bone. He gets the Guelphic order, we suppose, as a consolation for the scurvy treatment he receives from the Tories. They dislike, as a politician, an impracticable fellow who says to the electors, "My co- lours is nailed to the mast."]
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