Lord GLENELG'S successor at the Colonial Office has not, up
to this time, been officially announced ; though the Ministerial papers have authoritatively stated that the Marquis of NORMANRY is the man. Sir GEonoE GREY, Lord GLENELG'S Parliamentary Under Secretary, goes out with him; but Sir GEORGE gets " in" again as Judge-Advocate-Ge- neral,—an appointment, by the way, which seems to have been kept open purposely for him. Mr. VERNON S.MITIY, Mr. MACA LAY, and others, have been talked of as likely to succeed Sir °wio,. GORY ; but at pre- sent there is neither Chid' nor limier Secretary of the Colonial Depart- ment in Parliament ."There is also a difficulty in procuring a Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. It is said that the offer of the appointment has been refused by Lords RADNOR, TAVISTOCK, and ALBEMARLE ; and that it waits the acceptance of the Earl of CLAOENDON, Ambassador at Madrid.
Lord GLENELG'S own statement of the circumstances attending his resignation was not controverted by any newspaper except the Globe. That journal, on Monday, very coolly imputed his retirement to his "state of health," and the " effect produced on his tone of feeling" by his brother's death ; adding, that his Lordship "only yielded to impera- tive necessity in attending to the routine of office," and "declined an office involving less official duty, " in order that he might remain in the "seclusion which his present state of health and feelings induces him to desire." The Morning Post contrasted this account of the causes of Lord GLENELG'S resignation, with that nobleman's own sufficiently explicit statement. The Globe persisted that Lord GusNisizes retire- ment was in accordance with his own " repeated desire ;' and that, had he been present when the new arrangements were completed, "he would not only have known, but in all probability have concurred in them." The Morning Post then printed Lord GLEN EMI'S str ten. ent and the Globe's in parallel columns. Last night the Ministerial journal put forth the following leader—evidently the result of an in.stsnetion from some quarter. It amounts to a retractation of the former statement.
" We believe that milling has yet been settled as to sillier of the vacant Ministerial appointments
"As the Post returns to the subject of Lord Glenelg's resignation, we have simply to say, that we have had no pretension whatever to substitute another version of that occurrence for Lord Glenelg's. his Lordship's state- ment is conclusive, as to the facts. In may hare erred in mfcrri;:g to precious circumstances affecting his Lordship. "An interpretation has been put upon our remarks on the roignation of Lord Glendg, which we feel it our duty to remove. "It was far from our intention to cast the slightest doitlit upon the state- ment made by Lord Glenelg in respect to the eircunistatits of his resignation, in the presence of his late colleagues, and acquic,cvd in by them at the time."
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