THE RUSSELL MINISTRY.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 81, 19 December 1846, Page 3

THE RUSSELL MINISTRY.

The following is a complete list of all the Ministerial appointments :—: — The Cabinet consists of eight Peers and eight Members of the House of Commons, viz. : — Premier, and First Lord of the Treasury— Lord John Russell. President of the Council— Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Chancellor — Lord Cottenham. Lord Privy Seal— Earl of Minto. Secretary of State for the Home Departments' George Grey. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs — Viscount Palmerston. Secietary of State for Colonial Affairs — Earl Grey. Chancellor of the Exchequer — Mr. Chailes Wood. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster — Lord Campbell. Paymaster General—Mr. Macaulay. Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests — Lord Morpeth. Postmaster-General — Marquis of Clanricarde. President of the | Board of Trade — Earl of Clarendon. President of the Board of Control— Sir John Hobhouse. Chief Secretary for Ireland— Mr. Labouchere. First Lord of the Admiralty— Earl of Auckland.

The following are members of the GoveVnmenf, lit without seats in the Cabinet .•— . Lord Lieutenant of Ireland — Eail of Besborough . Coramander-in-Chief— Duke of Wellington. Master-General of the Ordnance— Marquis of Anglesey. Master of the Mint— Right Hon. R. L. Sheil. Secretary of the Admiralty — H. G. Ward, Esq, Vice-president of the Board of Trade — Mr. Milner Gibson. Judge Advocate— Mr. Charles Buller. Lords of the Admiralty — Admiral D. Dnndas, Captain Hon. F. Berkeley, Hon. W. Cowper. Joint Secretaries of theTreasury — Mr. J. Parker, and Mr. H. Tuffnell. Secretaries of the Board of Control—Right Hon. G. S. Byng, Mr. Thomas Wyse. Secretary at War — Right Hon. Fox Maule. Under Secretaries of State :— Foreign Affairs— Hon. E. J. Stanley, Home— Sir William Somerville, Colonies— Mr. B. Hawes. Under Secretary for Ireland—Mr. Redington. Board of Ordnance : — Clerk — Hon. Colonel Anson ; Surveyor — Colonel C. Fox j Secretary, Lord Clarence Paget. Attorney-General — Mr. J. Jervis. Solicitor-General — Lord Advocate of Scotland — Mr Rutherford. Solicitor-General for Scotland— Mi*. Maitland. In the household the following appointments are announced :—: — Master of the Horse— The Duke of Norfolk. Lord Chamberlain— Earl Spencer. Lord High Steward— Earl Fortescue. Mistress of the Robes — Duchess of Sutherland.

(Fiom the " Adelaide Observer.") We notice the following appointments. Dr. Phillimore, to be Judge of the Consistory Court of Gloucester vice Dr. Maddy, resigned. Mr. David Pollock (brother of the Lord Chief Baron) to be Chief Justice of Bombay, his post as Chief Insolvent Commissioner to be filled by Mr.Charles Phillips the Bankruptcy Commissioner, who is succeeded by Mr. H. J, Perry. j Lord Francis Egerton was to be created Baron Ellesmere, and Sir James Graham, Baron Preston. Lord Bute was to be the High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Lord Eldon has sanctified the birth of a son and heir by the donation of £1000 each to three societies for the building of churches, and the employment of additional curates. For a college at Hong Kong and the general promotion of Christianity in China, nearly £20,000 has been collected j £10,000 from a brother and sister, £6,000 by voluntary contribution, in answer to a pasloial letter from the Bishop of London, and £2000 by a grant from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. . The celebrated Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta, preached in the University pulpit at Oxford, during the convocation of June. His health had been wholly broken by his labours in India, | whither it was his determination to return that his bones might rest with those of his sainted predecessor Heber, and the other Bishops who have died theie before him. The eloquent preacher's voice and strength had much failed him, but sufficient remained to enable him to deliver a fervent denunciation of Puseyism, and waunly to exhoit the collegians to hold fast by the Protestant faith. " i In connection with this subject we may mention - the meeting of the ProtestantJAssociation, on the 13th May, at which it was warmly urged that unless the University of Oxford proceeded as it had begun, to root out heresy from among its brothers, it would lose the confidence of Piotestant England. Dr. Pusey and his followers were distinctly charged with dishonesty for not openly going over as their compeer Mr* Newman had done to the church of Rome. The new Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rev. Samuel Groat*. was_shortly-expectpd~in-to w n-for*his consecration by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Floating churches have been launched on the Clyde j one is of iron, and will accommodate 700 persons. It is in connexion with the Free Church of Scotland. On the 21st of June, Dr. Ullathorne was consecrated at Coventry as an additional Catholic Bishop. Another Life Assurance Company has commenced operations under high patronage, chiefly for the accommodation »f officers and civilians in India of unsound health. Many wool-combers and mill hands are leaving Yorkshire under engagement for the United States. ( The fortifications at Dover Castle were being increased and improved. The line of coast in that direction was to be placed in a perfect state of defence. The militia question having been mooted, has led to the discovery that the Clergymen of the Free Church of Scotland, ordained since its separation from the establishment, are not exempt, they not having taken, as' Dissenters are wont to do, the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Men may now be enlisted in the army under engagement to serve for short periods. Apprehensions were entertained that the Asiatic cholera- was again about to visit England. It had already entered Russia, and the extreme heat of the season was considered favourable to its propagation. The thermometer during June had risen to a higher degree than it was remembered to have reached — standing at 126 in the sun, and 90 in the shade. Sun strokes had been frequent, and the bodies of ttie sufferers were in a state of putridity within an hour. A board of health had been appointed at Liverpool, in which town a case or two of supposed cholera had occurred. Two bojs, aged respectively 17 and 14, were committed at Manchester on the 22nd June, on suspicion of having deliberately murdered another boy aged 13. A dreadful thunder-storm had done much mischief in the north of Scotland, having torn asunder the hill opposite Cabracb, called the Tap o'Nalh, for some hundred feet, and killed many. The rain fell in such .torrents as to have placed much of the country under, water. Postage stamps had been forged in London to a gi eat extent. A woman named Pimlett, has been committed at Runcorn, for the wilful murder of two of her children, and an attempt on the life of a thud,

between the 6th March and (he 27th April. Sh<3K* had procured their names lo be entered on tbe books of a burial society, and is supposed to have been tempted to crime by the hope of receiving the suras to which their deaths would entitle her. Her husband is suspected of having been her accomplice, but no sufficient evidence could be obtained against him. The child, yet living, was saved by the care of the medical attendant, who discovered the presence of arsenic in its stomach. The other two were disinterred, and their stomachs were found to contain the same poison. The merchants -of London, Manchester, and Glasgow, have petitioned the Earl of Aberdeen, to establish a British naval station at the Island of Labuan, which has been freely ceded to England by the Sultan of Borneo. Labuan is in a very central situation, being almost equi-distant from Hongkong 1 , Singapore, Siam, and Manilla j and in the direct route of our ' Chinese shipping. It is said to abound in wood of various kinds, coal, and in the ores of gold, iron, tin, and antimony. The last London mail had reached Calcutta in 42 days. The li arracks of the 50th Regiment atLoodiana were blown down by a storm on the 20th May. Two hundred and thirty -nine persons were buried in the ruins of whom ninety were killed. Many of the survivors were much injured. This regiment had alteady so severely suffered on the Sutledge that scarcely three-tenths of its men are now living and whole. The barracks are* said to have been very insufficiently built. In the Mauritius exertions were being made for steam communication with London. The mines of South Australia are also engaging great attention, and the colony spoken of in flat-* tering terms.

(From the " Sydney Morning Herald," November 19th.) The news brought by the Sir 'George Seymout is important, as it contains the assurance that the new ministry intend to follow in the course oE the old one with regard to freetrade. The resolution for assimilating the duty on slave grown sugar with that from the British colonies, was carried by the large majority of two hundred and sixty-live to one hundred and thirty-five. The new Lord Chancellor for Ireland had' announced his intention of revising the decision of his predecessor with respect to the magistrates dismissed from the commission for being repealers Her Majesty the Queen was well. The King and Queen of the Belgians were on a visit toHer Majesty. The infant princess was christened! by the name of Helena Augusta Victoria. In the obituary we notice the names of Sic George Murray, Louis Napoleon, (formerly king of Holland), JDwarkanauth Tagore, the Earl of Kilkenny, and Lord William Russell. There had been another attempt to assassinate the King of the French, which providentially, failed. Mr. Archibald Boyd and Mr. Cunninghams had had several interviews with Earl Grey oa colonial matters. Mr. J. M. ' Higginson has been appointed' Governor of Antigua, &c, in succession to ' Sic, Charles Fitz Roy.