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THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

" I remain, Sir, yours very truly,
" NEWCASTLE.
" Mr. Hicklin, Journal Office, Nottingham."

" I wish to take this opportunity of again mention-
ing the subject of two names upon which upon a former
occaiion I had the honour of communicating with your
Grace. They are the names of Major Warrand and
Mr. Paget.

I Dave received since my former communication
with your Grace, in addition to other testimony as to
Major Warrand's eligibility, a strong recommendation
of him, signed by five acting Magistrates of the county
of Nottingham (two of whom are for the district of
Southwell) ; I have, therefore, thought it right to add
Major Warren(' to the commission ; and I write to ob-
serve to your Grace, that his appointment will have the
very desirable effect of relieving from the cares and
duties of the Magistracy those Reverend Gentlemen
connected with South well, whose 'names I introduced
into the commission upon your Grace's representation
of the peculiar necessity then existing of calling for their
services, contrary to the rule which your Grace, in con-
currence with the opinion which I also entertain, is
desirous of observing respecting Clerical Magistrates.
" With respect to Mr. Paget, whom your Grace had
understood to be a gentleman of violent politics, as well
as a Dissenter, I have since received information, found-
ed upon inquiry, satisfying me that he is a gentlemen
who has never distinguished himself by any display of
violence of party feeling, either in the county of Nott-
ingham, where he has resided for several years, or else-
where. I cannot admit the force of the other objection
mentioned by your Grace, that of his being a Dissenter ;
and the character which I have received of Mr. Paget
is such, that if your Grace has no other objection to
make to his appointment, I shall think it right to include
him in the commission.

" I have the honour to be,
" Nly Lord Duke,_
" Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,
" COTTENHANI.
" To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle."

" C:umber, April 2G, 1839.
"My Lord,—l have received your Lordship's let-
ter, informing me that you have given directions for the
insertion of the names of the gentlemen recommended
by me in the commission of the peace.
" You also inform me that you intend to insert the
names of other gentlemen, not recommended by me, in
the commission ; as you have the power to do so, if you
think fit, I cannot prevent you. The responsibility
rests with your Lordship ; I have done my duty ; you
may enjoy the unenviable satisfaction of doing what you
ought not to do. Most certainly I will not condescend
to renew my objections to the appointment in question,
or to have any confidential communication whatever
with an official who has proved his unfitness for the high
dignity which has been imposed upon him.
" With the very sincere hope that for the good of the
country your Lordship and colleagues may be speedily
eased of the burden of office, I have the honour to re-
main, my Lord. your Lordship's very obedient servant,
" The Lord Chancellor." " NEWCASTLE."

" The Lord Chancellor thinking it probable that the
Duke of Newcastle's letter of the 20th instant, of
which a copy is inclosed, may have been written in
haste, and his Grace may, upon consideration, be de-
sirous of withdrawing it, begs to be informed what arc
now his Grace's intentions in that respect.
Bruton-street, 27th April, 1839."

" In reply to the Lord Chancellor's note, received
last night, the Duke of Newcastle begs to assure Lis
Lordship that he will readily withdraw his letter when
his Lordship withdraw his appointments.
" Portman-square, April 28, 1839."

" Whitehall, April 30, 1839.
" My Lord,—Having laid before the Queen your
Grace's recent correspondence with the Lord Chan-
cellor, I have received her Majesty's command to ac-
quaint your Grace that her Maj,Hty has no further oc-
casion for your Grace's services as Lord Lieutenant
and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Nottingham.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Grace's most obedient, humble servant,
"J. RUSSELL.
" His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G."

" Portman-square, May 2d, 1839.
"My Lord—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 30th April, com-
municating to me that you had receired the Queen's
commands, to acquaint me that her Majesty has no
further occasion for my services as Lord Lieutenant and
Custos Rotulorum of the county of Nottingham. My
successor, I am informed, is already appointed, and I
may now admit what antecedently I was not disposed to
acknowledge.

" Distrustful of my own judgment, I have thought it
to be incumbent upon me to lay the correspondence and
the whole case before my friend:, previously to replying
to your Lordship's letter, Their calmer judgment and
regulated opinion have convinced me that my zeal may
have outstepped my discretion, and that it would have
been much better if I had abstained from the use of
some expressions contained in my letter of the :20th.
To their opinion I yield my assent, and I now express to
your Lordship my regret that, under feelings of irritation,
expressions should have escaped from me, which I will
not attempt to vindicate.

" Having thus admitted the error, I must, at the
same time, be permitted to guard myself against being
supposed to acquiesce in the justice of your Lordship's
recommendation to the Queen to dismiss from her ser-
vice, on the mere ground of his having indulged in in-
temperate expressions—one who, for somewhere about
thirty years, has loyally, faithfully, and, I hope I may
add, beneficially discharged his duty to her Majesty and
her Royal predecessors, with a zeal which might com-
mand consideration, and a devotion which friends and
enemies will equally attest.
" During the period that I have held the appoint-
ment, I have scrupulously endeavoured to fulfil my
duty to my Sovereigns, to their Ministers, and to my
country. I have lived under many changes ; with some
Administrations I have agreed, with others I have differed
—but under all alike I have been uninfluenced by party
considerations—l have bad but one motive, but one line
of action—the single determination to execute my duty
honestly, and without favour or affection.
" On receiving from your Lordship the intimation
of my having incurred this mark of her Majesty's dis-
pleasure, accompanied by my dismissatfrom the honour_
able office which I have occupied for so many years, I
could not refrain from thus briefly calling your Lord-
ship's attention to the past.
" I have the honour to remain, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's very obedient servant,
" NEWCASTLE.
" The Lord John Russell," &c.

COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.—A
depu-
tation from the Commercial Bank of London is now in
Dublin, for the purpose of procuring I. ish business for that
greatest of the joint-stock banks of England. The shares
being 1.0001. each prevents an admixture of small capital.
ists with large ones.—Dublin Paper.
FALL OF RAIN.—We believe it has been as-
certained,
by observations continued during a long series
of years, that a greater quantity of rain falls at Manches-
ter in July than in any other month of the year; and the
month which has just concluded does not appear to have
been au exception to the general rule. The week end-
ing on Wednesday, the 31st, was marked by a fall of rain
amounting to no less than 2.90 inches ; of which 1.20 fell
during the tremendous shower of Sunday. The fall,
during the week, is larger than that in any single week
since the year 1834, when there fall the enormous quan-
tity of 3.60 inches; and, what is worthy of remark, that
also occurred in the last wee k of July.—Manchester,Paper.
Among the curiosities which are shown to travel-
lers at Cologne, is the first animal that drew blood, and
thus broke the general peace, namely, the veritable flea that
bit Eve the night after her fail. This antediluvian flea is
nearly as large as a full grown prawn.

(From the Nottingham Journal.)
[Through the kinduets of the Duke of Newcastle,
we are now enabled to submit to our readers the fol-
lowing correspondence, relative to the recent dismissal
of his Grace from the Lard-Lieutenancy of Notting-
hamshire] :

" London, July 20, 1839.
" Sir,—At the time of my dismissal from the Lieu-
tenancy of the county of Notingham, I sought to allay
ail angry feelings, not only in my own breast, but also
in the minds of all those who might have been induced
to espouse my cause. I abstained, therefore, from ad-
dressing one word to the inhabitants of the county over
which I had presided for so many years, although it
might have been expected ; nor will I even now ad.
dress them, lest my motive should be misconstrued.
Bat as so-much misrepresentation was resorted to, and
parts of the transaction partially divulged, so as to
create an idea that there remained concealed a great
deal which ought not to be brought to light, I have
determined to place the correspondence in your hands
that, through the medium of your excellent Journal,
my fellow-countrymen may be made acquainted with
the fact, and thus be enabled to judge for themselves.
" I make no appeal, but I think that those amongst
whom I live, and whose respect and esteem I value,
ought to know the simple truth, whetherit be for or
against me. The diste.issal of a Lieutenant of a county
is an event of no ordinary occurrence—the cause ought
not to be buried in mystery ; and in my case it appears
to me that I ought not to suffer under a more severe
imputation than I deserve.
" It seems to me that the fit time has arrived far
disclosing particulars, and I now commit the corres-
pondence to you. Dispose of it as you think pro-
per. You once requested to have it ;if it still appears
to you desirable that it should be published, you have
my consent to the publication.

" Bruton-streit, 18th April, 1839.
"My Lord Duke--I have the honour to inform
your Grace that I have given the necessary directions
for the insertion of the names of the gentlemen residing,
in Derbyshire, on the borders of Nottinghamshire, re-
commended to the for the commission of the peace, in
your Grace's letter of the 14th instant.

TO the ELECTORS of the BOROUGH of
SOUTHWARK.

- -
I BROTHER ELECTORS,
I observe a movement on the part of some of the Electors of
your Borough, in anticipation of the retirement of one of your
present Members from Parliament, and it is right, therefore,
that I announce to ycu my unchanged intention of becoming a
Candidate for the honourable distinction of your Representative,
whenever a vacancy shall have taken place.
You are acquainted, I believe, with my opinions, for I have
explained them opon former occasions, and 1 have lived always
amongst you. lam a Reformer upon principle—that principle
being founded upon thought and conviction—not the result of
• disappointment, or the adoption of expsdieney. I recognize o
party but the party that does rightly ; and I will support the
enactment of good laws, as I would oppose them that are mis-
chievous, from whatever source they proceed, or with whomet er
they may originate : but to ensure the one and protect i s
from the other, it seems to me that three great principles inu t
be kept in view by Reformers, as the test of all our opinions
and he who equivocates upon this subject, or shrinks from et
bracing these principles as a rule of his political conduct, i'
real friend of the people's rights, and is unworthy of the suppoi
of any true Reformer, either in Southwark or elsewhere. tJpe
these, which I take to be leading principles, I declare mysel
explicitly—first, that to carry out and establish your liberties;
it is indispensable that you should have a largely Extended Suf-
frage, not at all short of Household Suffrage ; secondly, that
you are equally entitled to perfect indemnity from all possible
consequences of your voting, by the veil of the Ballot ; and
t ,irdly, that you must obtain that power ever the conduct of
those that represent you, which would be the inevitable result
of the adoption of Triennial Parliaments—beyond which term
for the duration of Parliament, as we have seen in past times,
responsibilits, is forgotten, and accountability ceases. The
Reform Bill, however great in itself as a pivot, wherein every-
thing which is desirable for us may be made to revolve, is
but the means to an end. It is defective mainly from its eh,
cumscribcd action, and has done but part of its work. You
must n do the remainder, by requiring of those who seek to
represent you, a perfect and unflinching conformity to your
sentiments upon this subject. Obtain such enactments as those I
have pointed out, and other good laws will arise, almost without
effort, and certainly without disturbance. The People's wants
must then be attended to, for the remedy will be in their own
hands. Do you think, if thus represented, of our own free and
unbiassed will, and our Representatives were clothed with real
responsibility, that our present Corn-laws would exist fur an-
, other Sess,on—that incubus imposed upon U 3 by the extrava-
ganeies of the landed interest to prop up their overgrown mort-
gages, and which by degrees is sapping the subsistence of the
whole People ? Would not the evils of many of the present
Poor-law details be immediately redressed? Would you re-
tain for an instant your rate-paying clauses—that unholy war--
fare carried en against the poorer classes—as if the payment of
a man's taxes assisted his judgment in the choice of hi. Repre-
sentative in Parliament ? or would you rather say in such a
case, as is now said for you, that the doctrine of finality is best
fitted to your condition—that the laws of our country want no
amendment, and that your intellectual, your moral, and your so-
cial capabilities shall advance no further ?
You will gather from these remarks my general opinions,
upon every thing you can desire to know at this moment, but
as a conclusion, I may add, that I am a friend to the most un-
bounded liberty of conscience, being determined nevertheless
to protect the rights of all, both Churchman and Dissenter ;
that I wish to see established good and equal laws and privi-
leges for all our fellow-subjects, of whatever colour, or creed,
or condition ;—that I advocate the diffusion of knowledge and
education upon the broadest principles • and that I aim mr,re
especially to improve the temporal welfare of the working
part of the community, not only as a bulwark against the ag-
gressions of the idle and the thoughtless, but also as the surest
means of promoting the good order, as well as of consolidating
the freedom and happiness of society at large.
Depend upon me at the right time, that I will solicit your
suffrages in the usual form. There is yet, however, no vacancy,
or the certainty of vacancy, but my feelings and interests are
with you, and my best abilities are at your command. I shall
be proud to become your Representative, and if honoured by
your choice, it will be my study to attend to your smallest
wi,hes, and my ambition to serve you faithfully.
I have the honour to be, Brother Electors,
Your devoted servant,
BENJAMIN WOOD
Borough, sth August, 1809.

TURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court
of Chancery, made in a Cause of BAYS against
BLETSOE, the Creditors of JOHN BLETSOE, for-
merly cf Ramsey, in the county of Huntingdon, but.
latterly of Waisoken, in the county of Norfolk,
farmer, who died in the month of August, 1828, are forthwith
to come in and prove their debts belore Sir GRIFFIN WIL-
SON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers
in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; or in de-
fault thereof, they will be excluded the benat of the said
Decree.

Dated the 2d day of August, 1839.
CHAS. HUNT, Plaintiffs' Solicitor, 2, Barnard's Inn.

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