The Ear'. of Darlington appears to have been much :nettled
at the refusal of Lord John Russell, and of the House of Commons, to place him upon the .Agricultural Committee. It will be remembered that Lord Chandos proposed to add the names of Sir C. Burrell, Mr. Wodehouse, and Lord Darlington, to the list proposed by Lord John; and afterwards divided the house upon the question of putting Lord Darlington on the Committee. The House of Commons decided against his Lordship; and therefore Lord John Russell, though he subsequently named Sir C. Burrell and Mr. Wodehouse as members, could not with propriety propose Lord Darlington. The mortified young gentleman had not the sense to see that this reason for his ex- clusion was sufficient, but foolishly sent something very like a chal- lenge to Lord John Russell ; who, however, made it clear even to Lord Darlington, that no personal offence could have been intended. These facts we gather from a published correspondence on the subject.
We observe that advantage has been taken by some miserable sogb- bler in the ...Vorthampion Hertz/r1 of the circumstance of Mr. Matthew Hill having been bh:ckballed along with tour other candidates for ad- mission into the Atiomamm, to make that gentleman the subject of a most unfounded personal attack, and that the paragraph has been care- fully copied into the Morning Post. The best answer to the para- graph is a reference to the respectable names by whom Mr. Hill was supported : Sir William Follett, Mr. Justice Matteson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Knight of the Chancery Bar, Mr. Greenhough, Sir E. E. Wilmot, M.P., &c. &c.—gentlemen whose political opinions aft fat from being in accordance with those of Mr. Hill, but who urns conceived that the introduction into the Club should be deter- mined by any other consideration than respectability of character.— /forming Chronicle. [ This was a mere piece of Tory spite ; but blackballing is a game which two can play at ; and it is said to be the determination of the Liberal members of the Athenaeum to black-ball every Tory candidate. This system bids fair to knock up the Clubs. As for Mr. Hill, he can well afford to despise this paltry exhibition of Opposition malice : he must consider it a compliment to be the object of Tory dislike.]
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