A report is in circulation that Major-General ELLICE will be
promoted, over the heads of several of his experienced seniors in the ser. vice, to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Portsmouth, in the room of Sir Coutc CAMPBELL. In allusion to this report, the Times of this morning remarks " The well-known delicacy and honour of Lord Grey would revolt at the suspicion insinuated by the slanderous Tory prints, that General Ellice was hoisted over the shoulders of so many of his older and far more distinguished brethren from no other motive for the partiality than his being a connexion of a connexion of the noble Earl. It would therefore be unjust and offensive to deal with such party falsehoods otherwise than as calumnies ; and, in fact, the one which we now mention, for the sake merely of illustrating its folly or malignity, deserves not, we are sure, the slightest credit."
" The well-known delicacy and honour of Earl GREY" would be much improved if he could be brought to understand that all merit, all fitness for office, is not confined to the circle of his own family connexions.
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