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SATURDAY.
Master of the Mint Mr. Shell.
Secretary of the Board of Admiralty Mr. H. G. Ward. Attorney-General Sir Thomas Wilde. A Lord of the Treasury Viscount Ebrington. Under Secretary for the Home Depart- ment Sir William Somerville.
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mr. E. J. Stanley. Lord Advocate of Scotland Mr. Rutherftud.
There are more appointments, that have still attained no surer shape than rumour. The Morning Czronicle names Mr. Charles Buller or Mr. Hawes as Under Secretary for the Colonies.
Other reports, less distinctly authenticated, are, that the Duke of Bed- ford and the Duke of Devonshire, though giving the Ministry their full support, have declined appointments in the Household; and that the Duke of Norfolk has been offered the Mastership of the Horse. The Dutchess of Sutherland is Mistress of the Robes.
Lord John Russell's address to the electors of London, which appears among our advertisements, is naturally looked to for some indication of the new Premier's policy. The following passage constitutes so much as be has issued of programme: it is pregnant with indications of what should be great measures-
" Great social improvements are required: public education is lamentably im perfbet; the treatment of criminals is a problem yet undecided; the sanitary con- dition of our towns and villages has been grossly neglected; the administration of our Colonies demands the most earnest and deliberate attention. Our recent dis- cussions have laid bare the misery, the discontent, and outrages of Ireland: they are too clearly authenticated to be denied—too extensive to be treated by any but the most comprehensive measures."
The important passage about Colonial reform does not appear in some of the published versions of the address: it is a striking addition, full of good omen. The few words about correctional discipline seem to signify that Lord John Russell stops at no Pentonville finality, but looks beyond.
Both Houses met for a short time yesterday. In the Commons, the business was mostly confined to the ordering of new writs for the election of Members in the room of those who have accepted office in the new Go- vernment—
Lord John Russell, for .London City. Lord Palmerston, Tiverton Borough. Sir George Grey, Devonport Borough. Mr. Charles Woad, .Halifax Borough. Lord Morpeth, Yorkshire, West Riding. Mr. Labouchere, Taunton Borough. Sir John Cam Hothouse, .Nottingham Borough. Mr. Macaulay, Edinburgh City. Sir Thomas 'Wilde, Worcester City. Mr. Steil, arson Borough. Mr. Fox Moak .P City. Viscount Ebrington Mr. Rutherfurd, Plymouth Boraut. Leith District o Boroughs. ' Mr. Thomas Maitland, Kirkcudbrights ire.
In the House of Lords, the Royal assent was given by commission to the Sugar-duties Continuation Bill, the Railway Dissolution Bill, and some Others.
Lord Stanley's protest against the new Corn-law has been signed by the following Peers, eighty-eight besides himself— Richmond, Exeter, Hardwicke, Warwick, Malmesbury, Lucan Stanhope, G. Rochester, Feveraham, Bolton, Hastings, Doneraile, Southampton;Saltotin,-Pens- -karst, Skelmeradale, Kenyon, Boston, Hay, Newcastle, Marlborough, Sandwich,
Redesdale, Rutland, Carleton, St. Vincent, Oxford and Mortimer, Munster, Beaufort, Berwick, Eldon, Ashburton, Gage, Cadogan, Northwick, H. Exeter, Buckingham and Chandos, Delawarr, Canterbury, Cleveland, C. Bangor, Manvers, Beresford, Somers, Tankerville, Mansfield, Abner, Beaumont, Oxford, Lovell surd Holland, Sheffield, Airlie, Beverley, Colchester, Pomfret, Sherborne, Graham, Digby, Combermere, Colville of Culross, Sondes, Chesterfield, Ardrossan, Ran- furly, Gascoyne Salisbury, Orkney, Grantley, Loftus, H. Gloucester and Bristol, Selkirk, Templemore, Charleville, Dartmouth, Nelson, Stradbrooke, Polwarth, Lake, Willoughby d'Eresby, Bradford, Vaux of Harrowden, Carnarvon, Brodricke, Crofton, De Freyne, Cawdca, Clancarty, Lorton.
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