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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

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MONDAY MORNING

LORD ABERDEEN'S task of allotting expectants to the
various offices in his administration, is now well nigh
complete. Indeed I believe that with one exception all

ancies which are dependent upon a change of Go-
vernment have been filled up. This last remaining piece
of patronage (worth about £2,000 a-year, in hard cash,
and two superbly-furnished establishments, the one in
Dublin Castle, and the other in the Phoenix Park, within
a stone's throw of the celebrated Strawberry-beds), is
neither more nor less than the Irish Under Secretaryship.
Strange and almost incredible as it may seem, the Cabinet
has found a terrible stumbling-block in the selection of
an Under Secretary whose appointment will give universal
satisfaction to her MAJESTY'S coalitionist advisers. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL is working with wonderful vigour for one
" faithful servant of the crown" in days when the
Whig Family Clique ruled triumphant. The Peelites, who
have taken up the cudgels for an Irish veteran member—
ANTHONY O'FLAHERTY—stoutly resisted Lord JoaN's
nomination ; and so warmly was the matter debated at
three separate ministerial consultations in Argyle-house,
that the formation of a Coalition Cabinet was for some
hours considered impracticable by men who are now
themselves leading members of the Administration. The
ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland, with his eye on the
bench, has stepped in between the conflicting elements of
the Cabinet, and recommended that the Under-Secretary-
ship should be conferred on a near relative of an Irish
judge, who is now over eighty years of age ; and if this
" disinterested" piece of advice be acted upon, it is con-
sidered in political circles rather probable that the
venerable ermined administrator will forthwith retire
into private life, and make secure for Mr.
Attorney-General BREWSTER a berth at once perma-

the vac

nent, lucrative, and by no means onerous. In my hum-
ble judgment, the office of Under-Secretary for Ireland
should be held by a non-political man, totallOndependent
of any administrative change; and until that reform he
made in this branch of the Irish Executive, I consider
that the duties can never be adequately or satisfactorily
discharged. We have standing Under-Secretaries of State
in the Home, Foreign, and Colonial departments,—why
not in Dublin Castle ?

Poor Lord ELDON declared of unsound mind ! I won-
der what his grandfather, the ever-doubting JOHN SCOTT,
first Earl of ELDON, would say, were he alive ? The
state that it is thought over-study produced the
calamity. Stuff! Collecting materials, too, for a life of his
ancestor, the LORD CHANCELLOR. Stuff again ! So
well pleased was the present noble Earl with HORACE
Twiss's life of the noble and learned Lord, that on the
publication of the work he presented HORACE (Twlss)
with a bank note for one thousand pounds sterling. The

present Earl appeared to me to be always sofeish ; cer-
tainly so, as compared with the Chancellor. Their voices

I remember