New Ministerial choppings and changes are freely talked of in
pos. tical circles. There is no doubt that Mr. SPRING RICE will be pitch. forked to the Peers as soon as the preparations for electing his successor at Cambridge are completed. Mr. GIBSON has been invited by the Cambridge Liberals, desirous of testifying respect for his independence and spirit : indeed, we learn that his election is all but certain.
But will Mr. RicE take a Peerage and nothing else? There is non. tiring pension vacant at present ; and it is understood that the sly Nil. cier has an eye upon a certain snug and lucrative appointment, not ntani. nally, though really a sinecure. There is, however, a hitch here; ail as it is universally believed that the Marquis of NORMANBV cannot re. main at the Colonial Office, on did that Mr. Rion will "take the Colo. nits l" Another story is, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL will go to the Co. lonial Office. Thus it appears that all is at "sixes and sevens" in Downing Street and Whitehall. Ministers are uneasy—feeling that something should be done, but knowing not what.
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