It is stated with much confidence in the political circles
at the West end of the town, that the gallant Lord Combermere will succeed Lord Bentinck as Governor-General of India.—Standard.
Of the many rumours now afloat relative to Ministerial changes, one goes the length of stating the probability of Earl Grey being invited again to take uffice.—Herald. [What will come next?]
Part of the domestic establishment of the Duke of Cumberland ar- rived on Monday at St. James's Palace. His Royal Highness is ex- pected to arrive in this country much earlier than was anticipated.— Chronicle. [Great joy to the Anti-Reformers and Orangemen ! Surely his Royal Highness's claims to power and pay will not be again over- looked by his party. The Duke of Cambridge is Viceroy of Hanover ; why should not the " whiskered hussar" be Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- land ? He would be the right man to deal with the " bloody Papists.") The Duke of R'cbmond and Sir James Graham have been on a tisk to the Earl of Lichfield, at Shugborough, Staffordshire. His Grace and Sir James were expected to arrive at Knowsley Hall in the begin- ning of the week, on a visit of a fortn;ght to Lord Stanley ; who has a few friends assembled at the family-seat, to enjoy the diversion of shooting.
The visiters at Apsley House are exclusively members of the Anti- Reforming party; such as, Mr. Alexander Baring, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Charles Manners Sutton, Mr. Arbuthnot, Lord Combermere, Lord Maryhorough, Mr. Herries, Mr. Planta, Lord Stuart de Ruthsay, Sir James Scarlett, and Mr. George Dawson.
A report is current in the moneyed circles to the following effect. The Duke of Wellington had scarcely received his new appointment from his Royal Master, than he was waited upon by the leviathan of the Stock Exchange ; who, without ceremony, required his Grace to inform him whether any and what changes were likely to take place in the foreign policy of the country ? on which the Duke is said to have assumed an air of reserve, and to have replied that he could Five no answer to such an inquiry. The questioner, nothing daunted, is repre- wilted as having immediately said, that he should take his Grace's refusal as a tacit acknowledgment that some important changes were contemplated, and should take his own measures accordingly. The Duke, the report goes on to state, feeling somewhat alarmed at this intelligible threat from so influential a quarter, became more placable, assuring his visiter that he was by no means entitled to draw any such inference from the answer which he had given ; that, in fact, till the Cabinet was formed, no notice of its general policy could be known or ascertained ; but that, as far as he could at present perceive, no mate- rial change in the present foreign policy was likely to take place.— Morning Herald. The Earl of Hardwicke, who died on Tuesday, was a Knight of the Garter, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, and High Steward of Cambridge University. The Duke of Northumberland is a candidate or the latter office. The Blue Riband which became vacant by the death of Earl Spencer has been conferred on the Duke of Grafton.—Courier.
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