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The Earl of Gosford will, it is said, be sent to Canada as Chief Commissioner, instead of Lord Amherst.
Colonel Fox has been appointed Secretary to the Master- General of the Ordnance. He gave up, a few weeks ago, the Surveyor-General. ship of the Ordnance, which Sir Rufane Donkin now holds: so that the idea of his having received his present appointment for resigning Stroud to Lord John Russell, is sufficiently absurd.—courier.
Lord Morpeth has appointed Mr. Macdonald, the son of the Adju- tant-General, to be his Private Secretary. [Of course Lord Morpeth has ascertained that Mr. Macdonald entirely disapproves of his father's politics, and may be relied on as a stanch Reformer ; otherwise we must think this a most imprudent appointment by the Irish Secretary.1 Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, who was Military Secretary to the Ear/. of Mulgrave while that nobleman was Governor of Jamaica, is ap- pointed Private Secretary to the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. Frank Sheridan, brother to the Honourable Mrs. Norton, is gone to join the suite of the Earl of Mulgrave in Dublin.—Morning Herald. [These Messrs. Sheridan are in the way of prefetment. It is a fine thing to have had a clever grandsire, and a pretty us well as clever sister.] The Morning Post states, that Sir Charles Begot, who was ap- pointed by the Duke of Wellington Ambassador to Russia, with in- structions to call on his road at Vienna and congratulate the new Em- peror on his accession, is on his return to England. He had reached Vienna, when the change of Ministry took place ; and not receiving any instructions how to proceed from Lord Palmerston, has thought proper to throw up his Russian embassy, without leave or authority, and come back to England. These are the facts we gather from the account in the Post. Whether they will turn out to be true or false, remains to be seen.
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