NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LORD ANGLESEY did not resign the government of Ireland ; it was taken from him. His frank intercourse with the Irish appears to have wrought, at a very early period of his vice- royalty, a conversion to the opinion that the Catholics must be conciliated, and their claims granted ; and as he made no secret of his sentiments, his position with the Government in London was evidently so awkward, that the rumour, sometimes of his resignation, sometimes of his recall, has been kept up with little intermission during almost the whole period of his service. After writing the letter to Dr. Curtis—a proceeding so little conform- able to official etiquette, however creditable to his Lordship as a man—it was impossible that he could continue to hold an appoint- ment under a Ministry, with whose policy he was so little pleased, and more especially with the head of which he so de- cidedly differed. The Brunswick journals consider the letter as not much else than treasonable ; and even their opponents admit that it was" indiscreet," in reference to his Lordship's continu- ance in power.
The views of Ministers with regard to the future govern- ment of Ireland remain unknown. The papers have given the post of Viceroy to the Dukes of Buckingham and Northum- berland, and to • Lords Powis and Verulam, and again to Lords Melville and Sidnunith. Others say, that the Go- vernment will be exercised by Lords Justices, composed of the heads of the Law, the Church, and the Army in Ireland, till the meeting of Parliament.
