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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2.

THERE are two or three considerations connected
with the recent change in the Cabinet that deserve
a serious notice, for they affect the character and
stability of the Cabinet, and the situation of the
country.
First ot all, no congratulations are addressed to
Lend Peumarcin on having secured the services of
the Marquis of CLANRICA EDE in the political govern-
nsent of the empire. Lord PAtmr.arroN's most
devoted organs in the peen are silent as the grave ;
they have not one word to utter on the occasion ;
they shun the subject; not even the reproaches of
their opponents can extort a word of excuse, apology,
explanation, much less praise. There la, then, it
seems, a point beyond which the political sub-
serviency of the Government journals will not
descend, and that point has been reached by Lord
PALMERSTON.

In the second place, no public man, no politician
of eminence or sagacity, so person with any position
in life, no one possessing a particle of seriousness,
earnestness, or regard for the public welfare, but
expresses astonishment at this act of Lord PALMER.

sxox. At clubs, in private society, in all public
places, the feeling is the same. Everywhere the
inquiries ar•—" What can hare been the motive?
" what does it man? is Lord Pacurarros intoxi-
" cated with success? or has he been subjected to
" influences he could not control ? " Neither the
warmest admirer, nor the most indifferent Liberal;
neither the bitterest Tory nor the most lukewarm Con-
servative, can suggest a reason or conjure up an ex-
planation. "It looks like insanity," says one see.
" It is another instance of PALMNR.STON'S levity," re-
marks a second. "It is the prelude of soma approaching
" catastrophe," exclaims a third. But with all alike,
the hardy caprice of Lord Patig ninon in passing over
respectability, character, and talent, in order to light
on—Lord ClANnicaanz, is perfectly inexplicable.
In the third place, it is to be remarked that the
choice is Lord PAI.MERSTON'S own act. In such
appointments there is no common ministerial re-
sponeibility in Cabinets. The Prime Minister
selects his own colleagues ; and on this occasion
Lord PALMERSTON made no exception to the general
rale. It has been made a complaint against Lord
Jome Rt-saru. that while Prime Minister he once
or twins kept his Cabinet in ignorance of his
intentions, and took the public into his confidence
before them. If so, Lord Room no longer stands alone
in this respect ; for it is apparent that the appoint-
ment of the new Lord Privy Seal came with as much
surprise on several members of the PALmearrox

Cabinet as it did on the public. Loyalty to their
chief may forbid any vain attempt to undo an accom-
plshed fact, and may keep together a Cabinet which
the accomplishment of that fact has mortally
wounded, but the mortification of the country is
not greater than that of some of Lord PALM ERSTON'S
colleagues.
And lastly, it is to be observed that on that
section of Liberal politicians which has hitherto
felt itself bound, by what it deemed to be oon-
eiderations of public duty, to give the present Go-
vernment more support than it really deserved,
the effect of this appointment has been
seriously to diminish, if not entirely to destroy,
all active and earnest interest in the Cabinet
over which Lord PALMERSTON presides. On this
point we speak with a knowledge of opinions most
reluctantly but seriously expressed. Interest has
been converted into indifference ; and though sup-
port may be continued, its character will be com-
pletely changed. That which was earnest will
become perfunctory; and the maintenance of Lord
PALMEIPATON in power will no longer be regarded as
• primary duty or a political obligation.

Men of high honour, of elevated sentiments, of
public morality, and of deep interest in the country,
cannot do otherwise than accept this act of Lord
PALMERSTON as indicative of a personal recklessiwis
and a disregard of enlightened public °pinks,
wholly unsuited to the position to which the
generous feelings of the country have raised him.
They did not see without pain the recent abuses of
minor patronage which the Pm:wen and Mr. Wu.-
I.IA M Cos PER have been guilty of in the appointments
of the Honourable Mr. HOWARD, Lord MnLGRATI,
and Mr. TOLLEMACHE ; but for them some excuses

and some apologies, however miserable and inade-
quate, could be suggested. But in this last set
they find an occurrence brwhich no motive tea

supply a solution, and to yid& no explimation caa
reconcile.

Tne POST-OMM AND MI OVERLAND MAILS.
—lt is much to be regretted that arrangements are
not made to avoid the repeated detentions to which
the Indian mails ars subjected at Marseilles. The
delay of the Calcutta and China mails for twelve
hours on Wednesday last is inexcusable. It matters
not at what hoar the packets write, the mile
are invariably forwarded only by one of two
trains, which start respectively at 10 a.m.
and 10 p.m. The exertions of the Post-office
authorities to accelerate the transmission appears to
be extended calf to Paris ; but the anxiety of the
public to obtain their correspondence as early as
possible, and to learn the details of the interesting
intelligence contained In these mails,would certainly
warrant the extra expense of sending them by
special trains from Marseilles to Faris, as well as
from Paris to Bailors*.

!k Court.

WINDSOR, JAL L

Mee Majesty's dinner party yesterday included
the Diethsee of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Pekoe
of Wales, the Prince= Royal, Princess Mary of Cambridge,
sad the Dike of Cambridge, the Prince of Ufologen, Lady
Mae Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel the
Sae. C. B. Phipps, Major Rome Purses, Colonel Tyrwhitt,
Mr. Gibbs, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., who arrived
ow a visit in the afternoon.

The band of the Royal Horse Oneida attended in the Castle
sad played during dinner the

Owls% " Nano Spado"
" Fiore" K Aaessrt.
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Vse. umme
Woh"lidess" Bohmdi

The fteiertarp had the honour of being invited after dinner.
Ma Wenn Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Mims
Van d* Weyer, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wriothsaley Russell,
Mr. and labs Rummell, Vicoantass Stratford de Radcliffe and
two Mar Canning, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington,
Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord and Lady Rokeby, the Dean of
Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Cebu' the Hon.
H., Lady Mary end Mies Hood, the Hon. Kn. Grey, Ma
Grey, the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, Mims H. Plains, Mrs. Brehnlet,
Mims Sayer, Mime Knollys, 8U Charm Lady, end Mkt Con•
par, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. I.
Strange Jocelyn (Scots Ftwilier Guards), and Mr. Clover.
Her Majesty's private bend was in attendance.
. _

This being new year's day, the band of the Soots Foalher
Guards assembled on the East terrace at 7 o'clock this
morning, and played a selection of f►vourite airs.
Her Majesty's annual distribution of food and clothing to
upwards of 600 poor pawns of the Windsor and Clewer
perishes took place this morning in the Riding-house of the
Castle. At about 10 o'clock the Queen and Prince Consort,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princes' Royal,
Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess
Alice, Prince Helena, and Princess Louise ; the Duchess
of Cambridge and Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge,
and the Prince of Lemingen, attended by the ladies and gen-
tlemen in waiting, proceeded to the Riding-house, to witness
the distribution, which wee under the direction of the Hon.
and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the olergy of Windsor
and Clewer, and the district visitors for the relief of the poor.
The members of the Clothing Club, established under bee
Majesty's patronage, received at the same time Gracia of
clothing, according to the amount of their contributions (a
on former occasions), with the addition provided by her
Majesty.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred afterwards went
out hunting.

The Hon. Caroline Cavendish end the Hon. Fleas Mao-
donald have succeeded the Hon. Lacy Herr sad the Hoe.
Mazy Baited as Maids of Honour In Waiting.
Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutasaat-Coked Pesinaby have

succeeded Major-General the Hoe. C. Grey sad Captaia
du Plat as Equerries in Wafting to the Quota and Priam
Comet.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-ofltos to
the Governors of the North American Provision and the
Governors of the West India Islands.

His Excellency Fernkh Khan paid a visit yes-
terday to the Earl of Shelburne, et Lansdowne House. His
sznallenci dined lent evening with the members of hie snits,
at Claridge's Hotel.

The buchess of Inverness entertained a select
circle to dinner last evening, at her apatiments in Ken-
sington Palace.

The Duke of Leeds hu arrived at the Clarendon,
from Hornby Castle, neer CAaterick, Yorkehue.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breada!bane are
expected in town in a few days, from Lengton Howe,
Berwickshire.

The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
Stanley are expected I. town from Knowsley Perk, on or
about the 18th histant, In order to be preset& at the nepradis
of the Princess Royal sad hie Royal Risbaree Prime
Frederick William of Prussia

The Countess of L+.!^.7.31 is passing the season
at Consume, Ireland, aurroundid by a awnerna circle ti
Ilissis.

Viscountess Jocelyn and family are staying on •
Tisk to Viscount and Viazountess P.lmerston, at Brand-
i/sada, neer Romney, where her ladyship will remain until
the 12th Instant, when the viscountess goes in waiting on
ht Majesty.
Viscount Curzon has taken a house in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square. The viscountass has quits re-
nowned from her late indisposition.
_ .

Lord Ashburton has returned to the Grange,
Moto, from a tour of visits.

Lady Brougham arrived in town a few days since
from a tour ci Twits.

Lady Wenlock and her infant son are both pro-
graming favourably.
The Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss
Elphinetcoe de Flabault will leave Bowood in a few days,
where they have been staying on a visit to the Marquis of
Lanatowte, for Torquay, Devon.
The Count d'Alton Shea has arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel, St. James's, from the Continent.

Intelligence ha, been received at the residence of
the Bavarian Legation, in Htll stray announcing the
death, at Munich, ca the 28th ult., of Madame In UMW
de Cetto, ads Banana de Den:posits, stepmother to his
Excellency the Bactrian Minister, Berm de Cute*.

Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily
Peel have arrived at Florence, and purpose to make n visit to
Roma before their return to this country.

The Right Hon. Lord Raeensworth is at present
Seta tabling a largo and brilliant circle of distinguished
guests at hie beautiful castle, In the county of Derhan, the
grounds and conservatory of which have during the unman
been considerably beautified and enlarged. On Tuesday his
lordahip gave a large dinner prey, the following, who are
temporary vain,. at Bannewortle, being of the party :
The Marchkeses of Losieraisery, the Bari and Counted.
Vane, Sir Minhew White Riney, Bart. ; the Hew Lady
Wilfiresen, the Rem. Medway& Williamson, end the Hon.
Vince Williennoa, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, Yr. Beteees.
the Hos. Mrs. and Mho Langley ; Lady Boyne, Mr. Dundee,
M.P., sod the Rev. R. W. Goodenough. On the following
evening the Castle was the some of a (read bell, the invita-
tion book earitalaing the manse of almost every badly of Ws-
tinetion in the eeatln of Northumbniand end Durham.

Mr. A. I. B. Bamford Hope, M.P., gave a
lecture at the National Bclsoolrocca, at Hawkhuree, on
Monday evesdne, on " India." 81r John Herschel was
priment, sad moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Hope.

Joseph Hine, the blind b-y who recently made so
aneseemial a &OW at the Fi•oorergsare Rooms as •
violinist sad perforator on the tibia, bed the honour of
Trarlemlng Wit swots( at Windsor Cud. to her Majesty
mad the Nett.

At her Majesty's Theatre, to-night, Lucia di
laameramer will be performed, and on Tuesday next the
newaers win be repeated. The performances will be con-
tinued during the whole of next week. The speeniatica is
aid to be eminently successful.

An English dancer, Miss Lydia Thompson, who
his boss this NUMMI making s tour of the Faisal* Manse
sod wansiag-plsow la Germany, is now ea the R.*
Mamas at alsciihohn.

Eduard Devriest, the actor, and director of the
Carbrabe Theatre. bee jut received the Cram of the Order
of the Zekrtager Lisa from the Doke of Baden.
The director of the Carl Theatre in Vienna hu
sepia Itadrais Riatort Or a mime of twelve ripe-
aateekas.

We read in • letter from Paris :—" The composer
Flotow has errived hers, and to superintending the rehearse'
of hie sew opus, Marta*, which is to be magnidoently re-
preeseted it the Italian by Mario, Gresteal, Madman&
de ss. ke. The Francais is member the sew
curdy of Rage Angier—be is shout to be amid to the
At:self:6e ; smiths Grannie is getting reedy, fee the Wilk
of January, Le Mk Nature!, by the younger Donee, end
Les Limeys Poems of Edward Fournier, with Rose Cheri,
Mdlie. Dnieper* Dupuis, Choffroy, fr.c."
At Warsaw, Madame Viardot has excited mach
=theism by her appearsaae fa Nero*.

Rossini has addressed a letter to the president
mid ...bete et the &okay of Meekel Comports and
Publishers at Parts, expreedag lY reediame a swept the
poet of meetber et the society, to which he lied ►ei aimed
Marine hi. absence In Indy. Tho migrated emareme ex-
peewee the ntracet esti/action at the object of the affeeis-
lion, and declares that all the dose scorning to lilts shall he
paid into the fund which hes bees formed to gist' amiatance
to dletreeeed occupants sad ranking.

mariaurioN or W mAisarro NEIV
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WINDSOR, FRIDAY.

HER MAJESTY'S NEW Yzai's GIFT TO THE ET-
ROYAL Fataux or FILARCL—Tbs Queen annual gift of
English mast beef to the ex-royal family of France was this
morning forwarded, by royal command, to Claremont, by
Messrs. Banister and Bedborough, the royal butchers. The
present consisted of two epleadid sirloins, cut from a choice
Scot, fed by A. Roberts, Esq., St. Leonard's.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the
Prinoe of Wales, and the Princess Royal, with the junior
members of the royal family, visited the Riding School at
half-put nine o'clock title morning for the purpose of wit-
nessing, u usual, the distribution of her Majesty.' annual
gilts to the deserving poor of the parishes of Windsor, the
Holy Trinity, and Ckrwer. Many of the royal visitors and
suite were also present. Her Majesty having taken her sta-
tion in the mare of the gallery, at the eaat end of the
bantling, from which all could command a view of the pro-
ceedings is the sus below, the distribution commenced. The
order of the .cording wee similar to that adopted in former
yews, the emagetuate tale eendsilit by a oommittee of

t contdating of the Dean of Windaor, the Vicar
f olaat= Colonel Biddulph, Colonel Phipps, the Mayor of
Window, T. A. Moore, Eau. ; and the clergy and parochial
caws of Windsor, the Holy Trinity, and Clever. Upwsrds
al meow particitated in the gifts, the money value
of which yea batmen live and six hundred pounds. The
reeipients were divided into the classes, in portions according
to their necenitits and drcusuetanota. Class 1 consisted of
71b. of meat and 3 own of coals to each pinion ; claw 2,
61b. of meat and 24 cwt. of coals; clam 3, bib. of meat and
2 met. of coals; claw 4,41 b. of meat and II cwt. of coals ;
class 5,31 b. of meat and I cwt. of coals. In addition to these
gifts 400 of the member of the clothing club established
under the patronage of her Majesty received articles of
clothing in proportion to their contributions. First class to
the value of 24a. ed.; second. 19a. ed. • third, 12a. • the
system being to receive instalments iroca those admitted
lambent of the society, her Idsjesty adding • munificent per
mintage to their contributions. This has • better effect in
stimulating and encotwaging habits of self-reliance than if
the clothing had bean given gratuitously.
andDrthe distribution the belle of Bt. Geoirges Chapel
lohn's Church enlivened the proceedings with their
merry peals.

NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The
royal baron of bool supplied by Herm Banister end Bed-
borough was cut from • cholas Scot fed by A. Roberta, Esq.,
of St. Leonard's, end weighed 3201 b.; the proper of roasting
occupied 13 hours. The noble joint will be placed cold on
the side table in the dining-room, with the boar's heed,
woodcock pis, end Christmas IMO.
HER MAJESTY'S PRIVATE BAND.—The members
of her idejesWe pirate band gave a dinner at the White
Hart Hotel, Wintstroa W•derdsy lust, to their respected
Leder, Mr. Animus, sod is the course of the evening pre-
emie tint gnaw' with a beadsome diamond pin, u •
auk et must kV le 'swim mil kindness to them during
the keg past is hr prosikd ow them.

It fa confidently stated that Mr. fierjeant Byles is
to be the new judge, in the piece of Mr. Justice Cromwell.

A rumour is in circulation (says the Herald),
to the effect that Lord John Russell has received a commu-
sicatket with reference to the new India Secretaryship.
The Poet Laureate is, it is said, (Illustrated Lon-
don Novi) prnaing his poetic wings for a flight—an epitha-
Lunitun—on the approaching manage of the Princess Royal.

Lord Macaulay has replied to Mr. Hepworth
Dixon on the subject of William Penn and the Pardon-
brokerage et Taunton. An elaborate note to the second
volume of the new edition of his History of England sets
Oath the argument. "Ult be said (his lordship concludes)
that it is iseredible that so good a man would have been
moaned in so bed en affair, I can only answer that this
affair wee my fat indeed from being the worst is which he
was onnerned. For theme reasons I leave the text, and
shall Isms it, exactly as it originally stood."

Mr. Walter Savage Landor hen the following de-
&Wks In a new work with a quaint title, which he has just
publhhed :—"W. 8. Landor to L. Kossuth, President of
Hungary—AC your gale Hay my fagot of Dry Sticks,' and
getaway. I offeded you by attempting to bring fortune
thither, whom I never solicited to favour me personally.
My mei was ineonaldwate, bat, perhaps, it ought to have
offeaded lass that lofty pride to which alone I war ever
obsequious. Permit me to offer the only amends I can—
permit me to show my respect and reverence toward the man
who has worthily occupied a higher station than any one in
this country mn attain. The eloquence of Milton end
DONOWNSSI failed in the support of their cause—the same
emu& and the ems eloquence se yours. Supply me with
your EDO* sad I may be able at last to a:pram my
tea of your virtues."

It appears, from information received by the
A thatieum, that, after great difficulty, Madams Pfeiffer
reneesd the see-mast, at 3f daemon, and embarked again
for Mauritius. She bad caught the terrible Madagaecar fever
and was seriously ill after her snivel at Port Louis. Thanks
to the climate of that island, and to the kindness of her
frienda at Views, she was quite convalescent at the departure
of the overland man on the 14th of November. Madame
Pfeiffer was then meditating a voyage to Australia.

Thep collection of twenty-three portraits already
formed towards the National Pretend Gallery, by purchase,
donation end bequest, occupies the drat dear of • handsome
louse, 29, Great George-street, fonewly Dr. L•ahingtoe'a,
in the immediate neighbourhood of It. Jannis Perk.
It is stated from Paris, that an excellent modern
collection, comprising works by Landow, Maiready,
Eastlake, Leslie, and some other of our noted painters of
the day, the property of an English gentleman of wealth, is
shout to be sold in that city. The sale, if it takes place, says
the Literary O•utte, will excite great interest, as English
pictures scarcely ever figure in the numerous auctions that
take place in Paris.
The meetings of the Scientific Societies for the
ansuing week will be ea follows :—Monday—Entotuological,
8 p.m. reeediry—Royal Institution, J p.m.—(Proteeeor
Faraday, Italic BJectricity.)—Pathological, 8 p.m.—(Anni-
votary.) —Photographic, 8 p.m. Wednesday— Marais-
conical, 8 p.m—R. 8. Literature, 8i p.m.—Geolegiud—
(Prof. Huxley, F.R.8., F. 0.8.-1. On Pteraepia, a genus of
Fossil Fishes. 2. On • new Species of Plesiosaurus.)
Thiereday —Royal Institudon, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Faraday,
Italic Electricity.)—Royal Society Club, 6 p.m.—Philologi-
cal, 8 p.m.—Royal—(Mr. Cayley, On certain Formulae Dif-
ferentiation ; Mr. Buckton, On the Isolation of the Radical
Mercuric Ethyl ; General Sabine, Remarks on the Mag-
netic Obeervationa treamoitted from York Fort, Hudiron'a
Bey, its August, 1867.) Ridgy—Astronoadoil, 8 p.m.

Saturday—Royal Institution, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Far►dsy, St--
tie Electricity.)—Medical, 8 pan.

The conning fixtures for next week are ticorton
(open), on Tuesday and Wednesday; Howell Park, on
Wednesday; Highlander (Northumberland), on Wednes-
day; Southport, on Wednesday, &c.; Amicable Club
(Hampton), on Thursday and Friday; and Deptford Inn
Club, on Thursday, Friday, end Saturday.
At Paris the weather has become somewhat
colder. ♦ tether sharp frost took place on Wednesday
night, the ice I. the basins or the Tuileries gardens being
on Thursday morning half an inch thick. In London the
sir is almost se mild as in the April month.

It has been annontoed that Mr. David Barclay
Cbaceian, so long connected with the firm of Mews.
°varied, Gurney, and Co, has retired. The event dates
from this day. His sone, we (Economist) understand, re-
main in the home.

It is rumoured in Bristol, and we (Herapath),
have beard the rumour repeated in London, that Mr. Brunel
contracted with the company to launch tlae Leviathan for
the sum of 00,0001.

The whole of the troops encamped at Alderabott
will be reviewed on the 26th inst., in hamar al the marriage
et the Printer RoyaL

A company in shares for the construction of a
lame theatre in Alexandria, has just been formed, and the
sum necessary for commencing operations has already been
needy paid up.
THE WINDSOR AND ETON SAVINGS BANK.—
The annual general meeting of the Maitre' and managers of
the above bank, which is honoured by his wild highness the
Priam Conine as Ito president. was held on Wednesday
lest; the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean of Windsor in the chair.
The report ens of the most omisfactory character, showing
that the agricultural end cottage labourers, the reelpients of
the rewards from the Royal Associatiou, established at Wind-
ier, by the Prises Cosier% in which his royal highness takes
su much interest, had very generally availed themselves of
the advantages afforded by the institution. The report also
showed that there wee a large Mama of oshors, mad a
putt as of capital over that of the providing yew.

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LIT G. T.ll-1311-lIOAD.-011 New Yeses-
ow
the emenbem and Mende of this excellent tnetltaUcti were
reelled by Inewiew Mee Limy Stuart deliver her musical
entertainment wadded " A peep at Scotland through their
imp." The amlial reception which it has inwsriably met
with in the roviumn was fully equalled on this wawa, end
its lutroductmo at the St. Bartholomew's Icatituto was m-
anly roscastal.

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