13 FEBRUARY 1836, Page 10

The Courier mentions the rumoured appointments of Mr. Le Mar-

chant, Lord Brougham's Secretary, to the Secretaryship of the Board of Trade ; and of Captain Maitland to the command of a flag-ship. We join in the disapproval of both these appointments. Mr. Le Merchant's line is the law: why should he be thrust, unfitted and unnecessarily, into that of commerce ? Captain Maitland ought to be held disqualified, by reason of his very rank Toryism, for promotion by the present Go- vernment. Ministers will gain no credit in any quarter by this kind of proceeding: surely they might have been satisfied with the promotion of Admiral Durham; their friends were disgusted sufficiently with that appointment. j