IRELAND.
Gossip is busy in Ireland with the probabilities of new Ministerial ar- rangements, involving an exchange of Earl Granville for the Earl of Car- lisle as Lord-Lieutenant, and the posting of Lord Carlisle in Downing Street. [Where ?] The Northern Whig puts in a veto on the change alleged to be in contemplation—
"We sincerely hope that imbecility is not so universal among Whig Peers as to render Lord Carlisle indispensable to the House of Lords. It might be an excellent thing to get rid of the Viceregal sham us Ireland ; but, while we are to have a Lord-Lieutenant, it would be well to have Lord Carlisle. Men might easily be found to serve the Whig party better that Lord Carlisle has served it. We know, however, of no other man who, in the same office, has served Ireland so well ; and the fact of his popularity here ought to have some weight in Lord Palmerston's arrangements to provide a head for those illustrious noblemen who are the British Government in the House of Lords. Certainly, we object to Lord Carlisle leaving Dublin, even though a sensible and quiet Peer like Lord Granville were to be his successor. Lord Palmerston thinks that, as there is nothing for a Lord-Lieutenant to do in Ireland, one man will answer the purpose as well as another : but Lord Car- lisle has a graceful way of doing nothing and saying nothing, in which he excels all mankind. At all events, the Irish public cannot be expected to feel flattered at the Downing Street idea that Dublin Castle is to be regarded as a hospital for invalid Whig Peers—as a sinecure to which a sick states- man is to go for a cure. There are better places for Lord.Granville's health ; the Embassy to Lisbon, or the Governorship of the Ionian Isles, for instance. Let us keep Lord Carlisle."
The Dublin Committee of the Crimean Banquet find that they have a surplus in hand of 12001. A meeting of the subscribers will be called to decide on the appropriation of this.
It has now been ascertained that the money carried of by the assassin of Mr. Little was within 3601. No other new fact of much importance has been made public with respect to this extraordinarymurder. Another mad- man, a fitter on the railway, is in safe keeping in consequence of his utter- ing suspicious words about the crime. It is said the police are less sanguine as to tracing the criminal than they were.
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