A Cabinet Council was held today, at the Foreign Office;
all the members of the Cabinet, except Lord Minto, Lord Duncanson, and Sir John Hobhouse, being in attendance before the appointed time. A cor- respondent of the Standard say s that they were sent for to join in the deliberation. The Council sat for three hours. Lord Melbourne had an audience of the Queen before the Council, and whenever it broke up he repaired to Buckingham Palace. Each party accuses the other of extraordinary and unbecoming exer- tions to secure votes for the division of last night : the Standard says that Lord Douglas Hallyburton, the Member for Forfarshire, who has long been in a state that renders his appearance on such an occasion a positive indecency, was carried into the private room of the Speaker's Secretary, and thence wheeled into the House in an easy chair to vote for Ministers, seemingly unconscious of .what was going forward. The Globe remarks that the Tories compelled the attendance of Mr. Duffield, the Member for Abingdon, although he has within these ten days lost a daughter who was on the point of marriage ; and that Mr. Dawson Darner has forgotten the recent death of his brother.
The Post declares that Sir Robert Peel was cheered by "the multi- tude " when he left the House this morning : the Standard says that he was followed and cheered by several hundred gentlemen, and that people threw up their windows to witness the " animated scene." The Globe avows that Sir Robert's applauders consisted of about a dozen stragglers, "of the class usually found in the streets between three and four in the morning."
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