is
colleagues, in regard to foreign affairs. The encouragement which the
Foreign Secretary gave to KOSSUTH is mentioned among the grounds of
difference: but the _Times_, which is likely to be well-informed, asserts,
that the subject of distinct and decisive difference was the French
usurpation. It says that Lord Palmerston approved decidedly of the step
taken by LOUIS NAPOLEON; whereas, the rest of the Cabinet were inclined to
censure it. The same authority says that several of the European
governments have warmly remonstrated with England, for allowing political
refugees to make that country the scene of plots against the peace of the
countries they had left. It adds, however, that this was not among the
causes of dissension,--Lord GRANVILLE is thirty-seven years old, and has
been attached to the English legation in Paris. It will be remembered that
he was Chairman of the Council of the Great Exhibition last year. He is a
man of considerable ability and diplomatic skill. It is not supposed,
however, that he will make his predecessor's place good as a debater in
the House of Commons.

Of other news from Great Britain, there is not much. A large company of
London merchants waited upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL on the 9th, to complain of
gross mismanagement and inefficiency, on the part of the Commissioners of
Customs, and asking the appointment of a Select Committee of
Investigation. The Minister replied to many of the complaints, declaring
them to be unjust, and declined to say that he would move for a Committee.
The whole matter, however, should receive his attention.

A public dinner was given at Manchester, on the 9th, to Mr. R. J. WALKER,
formerly American Secretary of the Treasury. In his speech on the
occasion, Mr. W. elaborately argued the question of Free Trade, saying
that he was in favor of a still farther reduction of the American duties,
and calling upon the English to aid them by reducing the duties on tobacco
and other imports of American growth. Referring to recent events in
France, he avowed his apprehension that a man who had proved himself a
traitor, an insurgent, and a military usurper, would not rest content at
home, but that England herself was in danger from the progress of
despotism upon the Continent. Whenever such a struggle for freedom should
be waged in England, he promised them the support of the United States.

In IRELAND a good deal of interest has been excited by the return of
emigrants from Ame