POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
A week has passed without any apparent progress in appointing a suc- cessor to Lord Palmerston in the Home Office. At the close of last week it was anticipated that Lord John Russell might undertake the office : but, independently of considerations in regard to his health, Lord John is understood to have objected, that his accepting that particular office might be misconstrued. Next, Sir George Grey is said to have de- clined it, on the score of health, and also on the ground of "personal considerations"—as Member for one of the boroughs doomed to disfran- chisement. Sir James Graham went down to Osborne on Tuesday, pro- bably with papers for the Queen's signature; but it was of course ru- moured that he was to go to the Home Office, and to be succeeded at the Admiralty by Lord Panmure. Attention was next fixed on the Cabinet Council on Thursday : it sat long enough, but no announcement follows ; and rumours were floating about, down to yesterday evening, that Lord Palmerston might return. Today tells nothing.
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