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'present age. The grit object ot that isa *as the applst-
tuent of an efEcientfremier ; and having satisfied hitbselt
and the country in this respect, his next impulse seems
to have been, that of testifying to the public his satie.
r faction—and it is wias this view that he has placed lilt'
Royal brother at the head of the Naval D.spartniteat,
taking tare, with his usual tact and delicacy, that it
should have the precedence of every other appointment.
By this means the dullest could at once see the lively
interest which his MAJESTY took in the formation of the
newCabi net ; whilst enlightened men beheld in it a pledge
of the principles upon which it was based. The next no.,
urination is that of the Master of the Rolls to the high and
important office of Lord Chancellor, for which we are in.
clined to give the chief credit to Mr. CANNING, to shew
the church interest that he was not inimical to it, and to
quiet the apprehensions of a certain class of our fellow
subjects in Ireland, whose loyalty cannot be disputed,
though it is unfortunately disfigured hy an excessive
overflow of teal. As it will be a master-stroke of wise
and conciliatory policy to secure the support of that
class, and correct, at the same time, the intemperate
;ardour by which it has been hitherto distinguished, we
consider the appointment of Sir J. Conte, as next in im-
portance to that of the Duke of CLAIIENeta. These two ar e
the only nominations,which are as yet positively known;
but the following, though not published, may, we
believe, be regarded as cm tain. Mr. Botts:3oe, as we
stated yesterday, is to preside over the War and Colonial
department ; and, besides the frankness of his character,
and the liberality of his views, which have made him a
great favourite with the country, he is distinguished, like
all the disciples of Mr.Cise MING, by a manly consistency,
great disinterestedness, and the most intense habits
of application. Mr. Fl (reenact.* is to have the Home De-
partment, for which he is eminently calculated, from his
profound knowledge of all our great interests,and his me-
rits are so well known,that commendation is superfluous.
Lord GRANYILLS, who succeeds Mr. CANNING in the
direction of our foreign relations, is the long•tried friend
of the Right Hon. Genteman, which is saying, perhaps,
enough in his femur. He has, however, been employed
in the highest diplomatic functions for upwards of 20
years; and has, in every instance, discharged them with
credit to himself and advantage to the country. Twenty
years ago lie was British Ambassador at the Court of
Russia, and has latterly represented our KING at the
Court of his Mose CHRISTIAN MAJESTY, whet e we be.
Neve he has given universal satisfactios. We have now
to come to another appointment, that of the Marquis of
ANoLESIA, 'successor to the Duke of WELLINGTON,
at the Board of Ordnance, upon which, as some di.
versity of opinion may, perhaps, exist, we shall
also offer a remark or two. His competency on the
score of military experience will not, we presume, be
called in question by the most fastidious critic ; and
when it is considered, in addition, that he is the very
soul of military h tnour, and that he unites all the frank,
open-hearted, and chivalrous qual.ties of the true soldier,
it must be allowed that his qu slifications are of no ordi-
nary character. But he.is the personal friend of the KING,
which is another strong ie ommendation, because it
a new proof of his M AJESTY'S determination to support
the present Cabinet. The last nomination is that of the
Duke of CAMBRIDOZ, who has been invited to take the
command of the Army—an invitation, which we hope
he will not decline ; and should he give the same satis-
faction in the direction of the Army, as his Royal
Highness has given in the government of Hanover, the
Country, as well as the Army, would have ample cause
to rejoice at the appnintmei t.

It is repotted that the following resignations have
taken place: namely—Sir CHARLES 'Watoritam., his
Majesty's Attorney-General; the flight Ilon, arable'
J. BIiCKETT, Judge Advocate General ; the Earl r f
SHAFTILSBUIIY, Chaitman of the Committee of the
House of Lords; and the Right Honourable Criam.sa
A astrrit No r, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Fortst

We received this morning mhurgh Papers to the
14th, and Frankfort to the 10:h. The former contain
advices f‘om St. Peersburgh to the 2d inst. according
to which Count A RAICTSCIMIFW. who had superintended
the organization.aad chief direction of the military colo-
nies from their commencement until the demise of the
late Emperor, and had during the whole of that time

enjoyed the unlimited confi fence of that Sovereign,
restored again to favour, and is to be soon invested with
one of the highest offices in the State. A change is go-
ing on in the administration of the Post Office, and two
Russian functionaries, connected with it, one to sit out
immediately for Berlin and L-ndon, in order to make
themselves acquainted with the manner in which the
business of the Post Office is conducted in these two capi-
tals. A society has been formed atMoscow,for the promo-
tion of national manufactures,commerce and agriculture.
Several Agricultural and other Societies, already esta-
blished in that City, have been united with this new
Institution.

An article, under the head of Berlin, April 11, says,
that at Leipsick trade continues in a state of great de-
pression. That City, it is said, loses one branch of its
former 11-urishing trade slier another, and that the
commerce in English yarn is transferred to Zutaw. The
snow in the Saxon mountains was still from three to
six feet on the 31st March, and as the cold continued,
whilst snow occasionally fell, it rather increased
than diminished.
An article under the head of Blinn says, that the
Prussian Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs has given a
fresh proof of the liberal protection afforded by that
Government to the Sciences in general, and to the
branches of Philosophy and History in particular, by
the support just given to a great literary enterprise now
in progress in that City, viz. a new edition of the col.
lection of the Scriptoret Historis Dysantints.

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