5 JULY 1845, Page 9

Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly received his

ap- pointment as Solicitor-General. Had Sir Robert Peel been able to make up his mind at once, he would have exemplified the proverb " bis dat qui cito dat ": as it is, Mr. Kelly must scour the country for a seat, after having been obliged to decline the invitation of the people of Exeter. This act of tardy justice pays but a poor compliment to the learned gentleman; for he must be convinced that he owes his appointment more to a dread of outraging the feelings of the bar by a piece of favouritism, than to any pre- dilection in the head of the Government for him-self—Times.