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SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Mr. Sidney Herbert has resigned the representation of South Wilts, as he is about to be raised to the Peerage. In an address to his con- stituents he says-
" The incessant attendance and late hours unavoidable to a Member of Parliament seeking thoroughly to discharge his duty, and aggravated in my case by the labour of representing a heavy department, have proved too much for my strength, and I have at last most reluctantly arrived at the conclusion, that I must not risk the result of another year of so much fatigue." The Globe of last night contains the following statement arising out of Mr. Herbert's retirement from the House of Commons- " Mr. Sidney Herbert is about to be elevated to the Peerage, by one of the subsidiary titles of the Earldom of Pembroke, to which he is the heir presumptive. The Right Honourable Gentleman does not resign his office of Secretary for War, but, in consequence of the necessity of having a re- presentative of the Department in the House of Commons, we are sorry to say that the public will lose the benefit of Earl de Grey's services as Under- Secretary for War."
We can only add our regret to that of our contemporary, and trust that Lord Palmerston will obtain an Under-Secretary for War as con- scientious and as able as Lord de Grey and Ripon.
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