5 FEBRUARY 1842, Page 11

Last night's Gazette notifies the appointments made at the last

Privy Council.

It is confidently reported that the Duke of Buckingham, feeling the peculiar delicacy of his position, and being anxious to give his most strenuous opposition to Sir Robert Peel's proposed alteration of the Corn-laws, has refused to accept the Garter ; and that it will be offered to the noble mover of the Address, the Marquis of Abercorn.—Morning Chronicle.