EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN THE HOME OFFICE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 89, 12 April 1854, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN THE HOME OFFICE.

We learn with tonic surprixe, that on t tic ru«tomnry npplicmi <n beilii; recently made to the n >hl< lord ilic Seeretiiry of State for the Hnrao Department, fur thr Unuil Queen's Letter, nr<leiing <oi» lectiom to be mi>di f ,r the Soc.e y for Prolog itini, tin; Gopcl in F irci^n Pur s, tii» iurnnhip nplier' that he Imd heard so many complntnix ol 'ho working of llwt toctoty, and of ihu High Cbu eh 'e,iv, n which had got into it, tbiil he could not advi.e bet Maj'.n'y to gi ant uny mich letter.

Antoundcd m this rebuff, the offiren of the Society laid the mutter b, fore a ri-ln reve.mil prelate, who nt once snn^ht an iii'cmcw with two leading members of the Cabinet, — a noble duke, iind the rq reaenia'.ive of one of llie Uiuv r»illi'«, The lenult wan tlmt thmi 1 three eiulueiH persona at owe pr<ieeedcil to call on tin; Home Secretary fur ihe purpos*. of expostulation with him on the decision U> nhch he b'i<) en mi 1 , but they found, to then wniziMiicul atiil mnrnftcition, that li is lordship was wholly inoxoruhlu. 'J bey were politely reminded, thai the matter in qnestum lay in ins dcpnrtnn'iit, not in that of oilier of his two oull<nKUcn in the Cabinet who were present j und thut he felt no necessity foi then ndvicc or interference in any way in the nint'ci.

Wo lontn llint bin lordship nl«<> plainly nintort, tlmt thin was not the wily Chinch hocicly wlncl) would, in future, be excluded fnm ilu 1 privilege of v Quern's Idler. Wi- neii! si-ancly sny (hat the cons ernnlion in High Cnurcli qunr tcr* ni this unexpected ncciirrci.ee ixmeils liny tiling ever bcfoie known. It is even benivul tluii, »ficr (lit exir^'irdiiiary circumntunrcß wlmli h .vt oreuirril, it will bo lmpnnsiblc lor tlio Duke of Newcastle and Mr Gladstone, »nil onr 01 i tv<> orhcrs, to remain in the Cabinet vviih Lonl I'almertlon Aasurcdly, Trnrtmaiiiim nevir before rerciveil «o heavy a blow and grent di-coura^c-meiil, since it fifst emo^i'd into existence, as it hn<» donr nl the h nih of the B lilo fee eVtiry fur ilie [Ii me D tiar.meni.— Morning Advertise 1 !.