It fits very well, and he is very proud of having a coat shaped _like that of a man_....
[Pageheading: IRELAND AND O'CONNELL] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _25th October 1838._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty....
Mr Stanley of the Treasury[26] arrived in London yesterday, and acquaints me that Lord Normanby makes no secret of his willingness, and indeed his desire, to undertake the government of Canada.

It would have been better if Lord Normanby had acquainted Lord Melbourne quietly of this, and not made it at once public to all the world.

It is not necessary to do anything at present.

If Lord Durham remains, which Lord Melbourne does not, however, think likely, there will be no successor to be appointed, and if he returns, the authority of Governor of Lower Canada will devolve upon Sir John Colborne,[27] in whose hands it may be very safely left for the present.
If Ireland should be vacant, there is a strong feeling amongst many that it would be nice to name the Duke of Sussex.

It is said that it would be popular in Ireland, that the name of one of the Royal Family would do good there, and that it would afford to O'Connell a pretext and opportunity for giving up his new scheme of agitation.