The Courier positively contradicts a report mentioned in the Morn.
ing Herald, that the King had avowed his determination to dismiss Lord Melbourne from his office of Prime Minister in case the action commenced. by Mr. Norton should be brought into court. The Courier asserts on the contrary, that the King's sentiments are known to be those of " umniegled disgust" at the dastardly conduct of Lord Melbourne's hypocritical slanderers. We doubt not that the latter version of the story is the true one. In fact, there is but one opinion on the subject among all but the base and bribed renegades who swell the Tory ranks. Even Lord Lyndhurst pronounces it " all a pack of lies;" adding, by way of clincher, that " they" had as bad stories about himself last year !— Had they indeed ! Not, we hope, while he was " Keeper of the King's conscience" and gland distributor of prefer- ments in the Church ?
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