5 AUGUST 1837, Page 12

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The number of the Ladies in Waiting is now completed by the ap- pointment of the Countess of Durham. We hear that this honour has been conferred in a manner peculiarly gracious and gratifying.—Morn- ing Chronicle.

The Post remarks, that this is very fine, but not exactly the sort of thing which the Chronicle anticipated for Lord Durham, when, a month ago, it "sincerely trusted, that it should soon have to announce that Lord Durham has joined the Queen's Government." " The leaving him out," said the Chronicle, "might lead to inferences—whether just/y or not is beside the question—unfavourable to the attachment of Minis- ters to those principles with which the very name of Lord Durham is associated." "Well," adds the Post, "notwithstanding this eloquence, and this urgency, Lord Durham was not made Prime Minister, nor any Minister at all, but only a Knight of the Bath; and now his lady is, it seems, made, or to be made, a Lady in Waiting ! We should think the Chronicle must regard her lord as a Lord in Waiting' also—in waiting for a place, which, notwithstanding our contemporary's potent certificate of character, he has not yet been fortunate enough to obtain. The Chronicle should have more tact than to announce in so prominent a way, that, after a month's dangling attendance at Court, the mighty Earl of Durham was rewarded by having his Countess' made a Lady in Waiting." [Lord Durham's chances of something better than a Lordship in Waiting, are probably raised somewhat, by the turn the elections are taking.]

It is rumoured at the military clubs, that the Duke of Cambridge will, on his arrival from Germany, be appointed Commander.in- Chief. The Duke's military appointments at present are, Colonel of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards, and Colonel-in-Chief of the Sixtieth Rifle Corps.—Courier.

We have heard a rumour that the Tories intend to propose Sir Ed- ward Sugden as Speaker, in opposition to Mr. Abercromby, and that upon this question their whole strength is to be mustered—True Sun.

A report has been circulated that Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt will be made a Peer, and that Mr. Hume will he elected in his place for Lambeth. Another rumour is, that if O'Connell is returned for Dublin, he will put Mr. flume in for Kilkenny ; which convenient place has also been spoken of for Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Ewart.

The following not very bad election epigram is written on a pane of glass in an inn-window at Huddersfield.

" The Queen is with us,' Whigs exulting say,

For, when she found us in, she let us stay. It may be so; but give me leave to doubt How long she'll keep you whets she finds you out'?"

A circumstance was remarked as rather extraordinary at the Hert- ford election, on Friday last. About one hundred persons, all of whom were distinguished as supporters of Lord Mahon, and many for having broken their promises to Mr. Currie, were placed in authority ty the Under-Sheriff, and each furnished with a wand of office ; hut what the nature of the office was, we could not learn, except that it appeared to be to perform the Tory cheering, and interrupt the Whig speakers, under the very nose of the High Sheriff, who is well known to be of Liberal principles, and w ho, we think, must have felt surprised that his Under-Sheriff should have used his patronage for the sole purpose of rewarding Tory voters. But we have often observed that the Tories are more anxious than the Whigs to reward their friends,—

.7•••••■ Hertford Rtformer. [It often happens that the High Shersj state of pecuniary dependence on his Under-Sheriff, who is gene41 his agent and attorney. We do not mean that this is the case in 1h; ford. It is all very well to tell a Whig nobleman or gentleman ra miss his Tory agent ; the chances are that he cannot do it. The us may be a trustee, receiver, or mortgagee, for half the property.]