Her Majesty is to hold a drawingroom at St. James's
Palace on Tuesday the 9th instant.
Mr. Tufnell has retired from his posts as Financial and Patronage Secre- tary of the Treasury and Whipper-m. Mr. Hayter, M.P., succeeds him at the Treasury, ; and Mr. Cornewall Lewis, M.P. succeeds Mr. Hayter. The Honourable E. F. Ilonverie M.P., son of Lord Radnor, becomes Under-Secre- tary of the Home Department, in place of Mr. 1sewis.
The Ripon District Protection Association having addressed Lord Stanley, calling on him and the Protectionist leaders in Parliament to assist in pro- curing Protectionist reaction by pushing out the application of free trade to Labour employed in other than agricultural pursuits, Lord Stanley has replied by letter, that he cannot adopt a policy resting on the principle of a conflict between different classes : he adds—" With regard to that great interest the cotton-trade, whence proceeded the main agitation for the repeal of the Corn- laws, the existing duties upon foreign articles entering into competition with them are so trifling, that I do not apprehend that any material effect would be produced by their entire removal.'
Mr. John Bright has replied to a constituent who arraigns his vote against Lord Palmerston's foreign policy of interference. He considers that policy as necessarily leading to irritation and quarrels, threatening war, and re- quiring extraordinary armaments; as violating all the principles on which Mr. Bright was elected. AS to his motives, he voted with his honest colleague for Manchester ; with Mr. Cobden, whose political sagacity and regard for the true interests of liberty few will suspect ; and with Mr. Hume : he voted too "with that statesman, since then so suddenly taken from amongst us, whose good disposition towards the etieting Government none could doubt, and whose sacrifices for his country and whose services in recent years have been such as to snake his name sacred among his countrymen, and, if on this point there be any distinction among them, most of all to be revered by the inhabitants of your city." To represent Manchester independently, says Mr. Bright, "is an honour which I can fully appreciate; but to sit in Par- . Bement as the inereinstrument of party, is no object of hope or ambition with me." -
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