The Master-Generalship of the Ordnance has been offered to Gene-
ral Sir Ronald Ferguson ; but declined by that gentleman. The offer shows the spirit of the new Government, the General being one of the most decided Liberals in the House of Commons: but he is also one of the most truly independent, and has resolved never to accept of an ap- pointment which might be supposed to compromise his freedom of ac- tion as a Representative.
It is generally understood that Sir Charles Cockerell will be in- cluded in the first creation of Peers by the new Whig Administration,
under the title of Baron Sesincote. Sir Charles's name has been found in the majority against Sir Robert Peel's Ministry in almost all the late important divisions.— Worcester Herald.
It was the Whig Ministry who conferred pensions on Ivory and Dalton • it was they, too who showed a proper sense of the claims of elegant literature in awarding a moderate provision to the daughter of Sir Walter Scott, and to the latter years and broken health of John Gait; whilst the patronage they extended to Croly may form a parallel with that now awarded to Milman.—Manehester Guardian.
Various reports have prevailed respecting the occupation of Buck- ingham Palace by their Majesties next month. They are without
foundation ; for not one article of state furniture has yet been placed in any of the apartments, and the workmen are still engaged in some parts of the interior. Her Majesty takes great interest in its comple- tion, and is desirous to occupy it as soon as possible ; but it is said that the King is not equally anxious about the change of residence.—Morn- ing Post.
The Legislative Council of Lower Canada has not sanctioned the bill adopted by the Assembly appointing Mr. Roebuck, M. P, as Colonial Agent in England. It is rumoured that Lord Palmerston is about to be married to Miss Thwaites, a rich heiress.
Lord John Russell, accompanied by his Lady, left town,. on Thurs- day, for Devonshire. Mr. Young is still Lord Melbourne's Private Secretary, and Mr. Charles Gore Lord John Russell's.
Lord Durham arrived at his house in Cleveland Row on Wednesday night. It is said, we hope truly, that his health is much improved. A ridiculous paragraph has lately been going the round of the Tory papers, in which Lord Brougham is described as appearing et church in fantastic habiliments. The noble and learned lord may not be remarkable for his attention to dress, but the assertion that he ever appeared in public in the way stated is altogether without foundation. —Morning Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell left town on Thursday for Ireland. Most of the Irish Members have returned to that country for the recess.
Lord Stanley has taken the management of the extensive stud of his father, the Earl of Derby. His Lordship returns to-morrow from
Newmarket. Lord Stanley and family are at Brighton.—Standard. [Nero fiddled when Rome was burning : Lord Stanley is playing the horse-jockey at Newmarket, while O'Connell is riding rough-shod over Protestant England! What a pity!]
Sir Robert Peel's butler has been appointed a Treasury messenger, in the place of the man Mitchell, who, it will be seen from our Police
report, has been sent to prison on a charge of pilfering stationery. The salary is 150/. a year. It thus appears that the highminded statesman, whose acts of private generosity are so pompously paraded before the world, and who is represented as but too ready to squander his enormous fortune in the public service, is not above the meanness of pensioning his domestics on the public. What makes this job more contemptible, is that the persons who perpetratediit were virtually, though not actually, out of office, and merely held their places until the formal appoint- ment of their successors had been made. The various addresses to Sir Robert Peel are, it is said, to be placed in the family muniment-room at Drayton Manor; the addresses and signatures being first copied into volumes, which are to be splendidly bound and placed in his library. The present "lions" in society are two Turkish gentlemen, who have come over here, not attached to diplomatic affairs, but as mere tra- vellers, to see and judge for themselves respecting European manners and customs. One is a Colonel in the Turkish army, a son of the Grand Vizier, and wears a decoration equivalent to our Grand Cross
of the Bath ; he is about thirty years of age. The other is consider- ably younger, but equals in unperturbed gravity his senior companion. They mix a great deal in society, but appear as if they rather endured than enjoyed it: although among these passive-mannered and taciturn
people it would be difficult to ascertain what would afford them either interest or amusements—Pests
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