Mr. J. A. Murray's Election Committee in Leith have preferred
an especial request to their Representative, to be in his place in Parliament on the 19th instant, at the election of Speaker. Mr. Murray immedi- ately proimsed to attend the House of Commons on that day.
The rumour has been for some days current, that the Queen is in that state which affords the promise that her Majesty will present to the Sovereign and the nation an heir apparent to the British Crown. We have hitherto abstained from any allusion to this rumour, feeling that we could not without impropriety advert to it, unless we were enabled to give it an express contradiction or confirmation. It now becomes our duty to say that we believe the report to be well-founded. — Morning Post.[The motive mentioned by our contemporary induced us also to abstain from any allusion to a report of a matter of this im- portance, not officially announced. The report has been current more than a week, and is certainly believed in the higher circles.— Times.] [But this is not the only rumour respecting her Majesty that "has been current more than a week," as our contemporaries well know. Why did they not condescend to enlighten their readers as to the other equally interesting and important story that is afloat, in the "higher circles?" This is delicate ground, and it would be better to let the "rumours" alone, and wait for "official announcements." The Tories are in hopes of a Shiloh ; but they may be disappointed in more ways than one.] The Lying-in Hospitals have been hitherto indebted to the bounty of Queen Adelaide for an annual subscription of ten guineas. This year, however, her Majesty has increased her subscription to twenty guineas. The situation in which her Majesty is understood to be, has no doubt added to her sympathy for the objects of these most praise- worthy charities.—Morning Chronicle.
Sir Robert Peel has persuaded the unfortunate Sir George Murray
to appoint Sir F. Trench his Secretary. Sir George is in no condi- tion, since his punishment in Perthshire, to contest the point with tie Representative for Tamworth. It has been usual, we apprehend, for a Master- General of the Ordnance to appoint his own Seeret.,ry; bat the Mannerses must be kept in good humour ; and Sir Fredmiek Trench is the protégé of the Duke of Rutland.
The mdmbers of the Grand Cabinet (composed of the Cabinet Mi- nisters and the Great Officers of State) assembled on Monday evening, at the residence of the Lord President of the Council, in Grosvenoc Place, to settle the roll of Sheriffs for the present year. —Court Cir- cular. [A list of the Cabinet Ministers present is then given; big the name of Sir George Murray is not among them.] A Cabinet Council washeld on Thursday afternoon, at the Foreiga Office ; which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel. the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Wharneliffe, Mr. Secretary Goulbuni, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ellenborough, Earl de Grey, the Right Honourable J. Herries, C. W. Wynn, and A. Baring. The Ministers remained two hours in deliberation.-00sere Circular. [The name of Sir George -111urrray does not appear in tic list. The King holds a Cabinet Council to-day at Brighton—will Sir George be there?]
At a Court of East India Directors, held on Wednesday, Genera/ Sir Henry Farm was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces in India. He had already been appointed to the chief command of the King's troops. Sir Robert Wilson is preparing to take his departure for Corfu, where be is about to be appointed Lord High Conunissioner and Com- mander-in-Chief. It was rumoured that Sir Robert was about to be despatched on a mission to Spain ; it having been contemplated to recall Colonel 1Vylde, the present Commissioner at the head-quarters of General Mina at Pampeluna; but the destination of the gallant officer has been changed.
At a Tory dinner last week in Durham, the Marquis of Londonderry, who was the great man of the party, expressly stated that he had been appointed Ambassador to Russia. We give his reported speech on this point— The fact was, that a very few days after the accession to office of Sir Robert Peel, the right honourable Baronet did him the honour to send to him a King's messenger, soliciting his confidence in and support of the new Government. Accompanied with that letter of the Premier, was a letter from the Duke of Wellington—that great commander, whom he bad followed, and whom he looked up to during so manv years of his early life—to state that the important embassy to St. Petersburg was one that the Duke of Wellington, as Foreign Secretary, was very anxious should he confided to his care. The noble Marquis said, that he might be called upon to leave this country in a few weeks; and, after advert- ing to several ether topics of a more general nature, declared that the testimony of respect that day paid him would live in his memory- when far away front the shores of England ; and might God be his judge if ever he was ungrateful for it. The Earl of Harrowhy visited the Duke of Wellington on There- day.—Court Circular. [What office is his Lordship going to be crammed into ?—or are his frequent visits of late to high quarters only grumbling ones at not being remembered ?)—Globe.
Lord Brougham arrived at his house in Berkeley Square on Thurs- day evening.
Sir T. Fremantle has made a son of Mr. T. Peregrine Courteiray his Private Secretary ; and Mr. Herries has done a similar favour for a relative of his own, a Mr. Henries Creed.
John Barrow, Esq., Second Secretary of the Admiralty, is about to he created a Baronet.—Globe.
A singular report is afloat of the Whigs having actually employed a modern Circe to undermine the virtue of one of their most powerfal er opponents. —Herald. *Or Government has applied to the Westminster Magistrates for the use as of the Guildhall for Election Committees.
We understand that the Lord Chancellor is engaged in completing tie his bill for the establishment of Local Courts. We believe that the extension of the powers and the remodelling of the existing Courts, in • preference to the establishing of a wholly new system, will be the groundwork of the plum—Herald. Jr is said that Sir Robert Peel will not fill up the late Dr. Sutton's Prebendal stall in Westminster Abbey, but has placed it at the dis- posal of the new Church Commission.
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