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Sir W. Atherton has resigned his office as Attorney-General, partly

in consequence of ill-health ; partly, we fear, because he was asked rather too often to accept the post of Judge Ordinary, now bestowed on Mr. Pigott. He has been suc- ceeded by Sir Bounden Palmer, and Mr. Collier, Q.C. who, by the way, won his first election against Sir R. Palmer, becomes Solicitor-General. Mr. Collier is a strong Liberal, and as counsel to the Admiralty advised Government to seize the Alexandra, and stop the steam.rams in the Mersey. Sir R. Palmer was a man of singular distinction at Oxford, Mr. Collier graduated at Cambridge without taking honours.

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