Bets to a considerable amount have been laid at Tattersall's
within the last few days, that the present Ministers are not in office on the last day of March.—Correspondent of the Standard. I The Standard pru- dently prophesies under cover of a correspondent. On the 22d of January 1836, our contemporary was sanguine and incautious, and with- out doubt or qualification made the memorable declaration—" In about a month Sir Robert Peel will be Prime Minister." Here we are on the 17th of December 1836, and Lord Melbourne is still Premier, and l'eel in Opposition.
Sir Henry Parnell has sent the following letter to Lord John Rug.- sell, with a correct report of what he really said on the subject of the Corn-laws and the Agricultural Committee at Dundee.
" 19,Chester Street, 29th November.
" My dear Lord John—I have received your note and a copy of your letter to Mr. Denison. In say ing to him that you think there ilAS heen some mistake in the report of what I said at Dundee on the Corn-laws, you are fully borne out by the fact ; as I did not say that Government proposed the Agricultural Committee fur the purpose of repealing or modifying the Corn-lass. " Yours, faithfully. H. PARNELL.
" To the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, &c."
We subjoin Sir Henry's revised report of the disputed passage in his speech— There was one subject he had omitted to notice,—namely, the appointment of the Agricultural Committee. lie said he was surprised to tient that the Curn•laws were not mentioned in their address. There was no subject on which they were more in- terested. Although the Committee made no report, there was much evidence that showed that these laws ought to be altered. As the appointing of the Committee ne- cessarily implied an inquiry into the Cortelaws, the Government showed no indispo- sition to have the grounds examined on which the policy of modifying, or even of repealing these laws could be defended."
Lieutenants Low, Henry, Hodden, Shuttleworth, Lynch, Forest,. and Hemans, all in the Navy, have been appointed Emigration agents, to be stationed respectively at Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and Greenock. Mr. J. D. Pinnock is the London agent.
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