NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LORD Palmerston has been installed as the one hundred and nineteenth Warden of the Cinque Ports. His speech on the occasion was stately, calm, and not wanting in his usual buoyancy of manner. He told the mayors, barons, and other officials of the Cinque Ports, very frankly, that he had entertained grave doubts as to the desirability of keeping up this distinguished, but not very useful, office, but the historical associations connected with it, and —he might have added—a strong wish at the present moment to strengthen in every way the sentiment of our national pride, bad prevailed. After the banquet given to him in the building in which, as it is said, King John delivered up his kingdom to the Papal Legate and paid the first annual tribute, but now dedicated to a very different ceremonial, the representatives of the army, the navy, and the volunteers vied with each other in claiming the noble Lord as a virtual member and potential ornament of each of those distinguished services. Dr. Phillimore, however, in proposing "The Clergy," failed to claim him for the one service for which the well-known predilec- tions of the noble V,remier would appear to have destined him.
