The post of Storekeeper in the Stationery Office, to which
the •Kat- job gave such notoriety, is now filled up, by the appointment of a compe- tent person, totally unconnected with the stationery business ; and re- commended only by his respectability, assiduity, and business habits. The individual is. Mr. HUN'TLEY GORDON, who was privately employed at the Treasury under three successive Secretaries and four Adminis- trations; and has recently had the superintendenee of the Newspaper department at the Stamp Office. He received the appointment without any Solicitation of- his own, or the influence of friends, and solely on the ground of his efficiency and merits. Mr. GORDON will be remembered by some of our readers as the private, secre- tary of Sir WALTEa SCOTT, by wham he was esteemed, and treated with much kindness and confidence : in fact, he was the princi- pal depository of the secret of " the Great Unknown." Mr. Goanost, we believe, was educated for the Church; but a deafness with which he is afflicted, and which obliges him to use an ear-trumpet, prevented his being ordained. This infirmity, however, will not affect the proper performance of his duties at the Stationery Office; which (in addition to responsibility and trustworthiness) require only a clear sight and a nicety of touch,—senses which, in Mr. GORDON, have been rather sharpened than otherwise by the dulness of his hearing faculty. He will be as keenly alive to the qualities of stationery as he is deaf to con- tractors.
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