The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace
on Wednesday next; when the Royal Speech on the opening of Parliament will be finally " settled."
It is expected that Mr. Gladstone will be a candidate for the representation of 'Ripon, vacant by the promotion of the Irish Attorney-General to the Mastership of the Rolls.—Morning Herald.
The Gazette of yesterday evening contains an order in Council creating the port of Newcastle, in New South Wales, a free warehousing port; also a declaration 'that a treaty is now subsisting between the Queen and the Republic of Peru.
The same Gazette notifies several Colonial appointments—Ker Baillie Hamil- ton, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of- Grenada; John Shiell, Esq., Chief Justice for the Islands of Antigua and Montserrat; Sir Robert Horsford, Knight, Attorney-General for the Island of Antigua; Thomas Brown Wylly, Esq., Pnisne Judge, and George Knox, Esq., Solicitor-General, for the Island of Trinidad; R. R. Craig, Esq., Solicitor-General for British Guiana.
. Writing yesterday, a Birmingham correspondent of the Morning Herald says- " Within the last few hours the Reverend John Brande Morris, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Under-Professor of Hebrew, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church in this town."
A Hamburg paper of the 13th instant represents the King of Hanover's health at declining rapidly: he is reduced to a state of extreme weakness by loss of appe- tite, frequent vomiting, and other distressing symptoms. Nevertheless, King Ernest still attends to the affairs of government. The Times contradicts a report in the papers, that Lord Metcalfe's disorder was making daily progress, and that not the slightest hope remained of his re- ' covery; although he still possessed a surprising flow of spirits. " The last of these several assertions is, we believe, the only true one. The most confident hopes are entertained that the progress of the cruel malady under which his Lord- ship has so long suffered will be speedily arrested; and, although its ravages can- not be repaired, there is every reason to hope that Lord Idelcalfe's valuable life will be for many years prolonged."
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