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Dr. Musgrave, Dean of Blistol, succeeds the late Dr- Grey in the Bishopric of Hereford.
The Earl of Carlisle is said to be dangerously ill. His death just now would be excessively inconvenient ; removing Lord Morpeth front the West Riding, and, we presume, also from the Irish Secretaryship, which should be held by a Member of the House of Commons.
A rumour that Lord Glerielg is to make way for Lord Durham has been revived this week in the Times. The utter inefficiency of Lord Glenelg, who seems to be effete, and is feigned to be ever " asleep," gives rise to constant reports of his retirement. The English elections, thus prosperous and thus promising to the Conservative cause, have already, we rejoice to say, decided the fate of the Administration, even in the judgment of Lord Melbourne himself. A rumour was yesterday circulated in the Club-houses, which rumour we have traced to very good Whig authority—to the effect that the Premier has formally announced his intention to resign office at the close of the contests. As Lord Melbourne's imputed reasons for the threatened step are honourable to him, we can have no difficulty = giving them circulation. "I will not," his Lordship is understood to say, "prejudice the chances of my party by abandoning the post in which that party has placed me during the elections; but no considera- tion shall tempt me to hold office against the declared sense of the People of England, solely by the aid of a doubtful majority, supplied, for the most part, by Mr. O'Connell's nominees. My position in the last Parliament was wholly different : the late House of Commens was not mine—it was called by Sir Robert Peel. It placed me in office by a considerable majority, British and Irish; and I had no right, under
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t drtances, to analyze with jealousy the composition of that ma- ?gem To hold office now, however, in defiance of a majority of Representatives, solely by force of such a majority of Irish British Afernbers as Mr. 0, Connell will send to Parliament with the aid of Government, which cannot be withheld from him, would be really to the British empire in subjection to the dangerous Irish Roman party with which I have ever felt an inconvenience, PC'sateholic and a submission to which I never will endure. I will, therefore, r ir office." This declaration, which we firmly believe to have been se-e5pested by the Premier more than a dozen times, proves that if Lord atelhourne does not feel as he ought to do, he knows how an English eentleman ought to feel.—Standard. LI'Ve need hardly add, that this ingenious latt of" exclusive" intelligence is "not confirmed in official quarters."]
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