The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-10 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY.

Yesterday it was definitively announced that Mt.
Sidney Herbert was to be appointed Colonial Secre-
tary, and Sir G. Grey to undertake the Home
Department. The resulting changes in the Ailmi•
nistration will consequently he as follows, all the
other Ministers retaining the posts they previously
occupied :
Lord Palmerston Premier.
Lord Panmure Secretary of War.
Lord Granville President of the Council.
Sir G. Grey Home Secretary.
Mr. Sidney Herbert Colonial Secretary.

The office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lanni:ter,
vacated by Lord Granville, is not yet filled up. No
new election will be required in the case of Sir G.
Grey, whose appointment only amounts to a transfer
from one Secretaryship of State to another. Mr. C.
Cavendish Clifford, who was Lord Palmerston's pri-
vate secretary at the Horne-office, continnes his
lordship's private secretary. Lord Hobart also accom-
panies Sir G. Grey from the Colonial to the Home
Office in the same capacity. Lord Panmure has ap-
pointed as his private secretary Mr. George Dalhousie
Ramsay, of the War-office, who has been acting as
private secretary to Mr. Sidney Herbert.
Lord Elcho, it is expected, will succeed Sir John
Young as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Mr. Edward Francis Maitland, Sheriff of Argyll,
will be the new Solicitor-General for Scotland, in
succession to Mr. Mackenzie, appointed one of the
Lords of Session.

The new writs for Tiverton and South Wilts were
moved on Wednesday in the House of Common 4.
No opposition is expected in either case. Mr. Sidney
Herbert, in his address to the electors, says :

Lord Palmerston has been called upon by her Majesty is a
great public emergency to form an Administration. I have felt
it my duty to accede to a proposal he has made to me to become
a member of his Government. I believe that the Government
which ho has constructed is determined to use every effort for
the active prosecution of the war in which we are engaged, and
for the attainment of that durable and honourable peace which it
is the object of the war to secure.

The elections will take place on Monday next.
The navy estimates for 1855 50 will, it is stated,
not exceed 14,000,0001. sterling.

PORTIMOtTIf, FEB. B.—The screw-ship Crtuit
embarked about 900 officers and men for the Crimea
this morning. She sails tomorrow, calling at Ply-
mouth for drafts of regiments waiting there. ,

Much sensation was occasioned in Berlin by the
depeoure, on the 4th inst., of Count Esterhazy, the
Austrian ambassador, from that capital. On the tith,
however, in pursuance of instructions received from
Vienna, the Count returned to his post.
Accounts from Bucharest assert that the Russians,
in attempting to cross a river in the Dobrudschs, had
met with a serious repulse from the Turks, after a
contliot of some hours.

The French police at Bayonne arrested on the
17th inst. fourteen Carlists, upon suspicion of being
concerned in an attempt to invade Navarro.

A private despatch, received in Paris front Turin,
announces the adoption of the treaty of alliance by
the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday morning.

The London and North-Western Railway dividend
for the past half-year will be at the rate of five per
cent. per annum, with a considerable surplus to be
ri cared to the credit of next June account. The
dividend on the Great-Western Stock will be the
same as for some time past.

There is to be a ball in aid of the funds of the
French Benevolent Society, in the Hanover square
Rooms, on the evening of Monday next.
The New Philharmonic Society has announced
that its first concert will take place in Exeter-hall on
Wednesday next, the 14th of February, under the
patronage of her Majesty. The proceeds are to be
given in aid of the funds of the Asylum for Idiots.

'n3RuAßiy 10, 1855.

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