11 MAY 1867, Page 2

Mr. Gathorne Hardy will, it is reported, be the new

Home Secretary, and the Earl of Devon the new President of the Poor Law Board. Mr. Hardy has risen fast, but he site for a Univer- sity, is immensely rich, and speaks well—all high qualifications in a Tory Cabinet. The public will, we think, not disapprove. The one thing Mr. Hardy has had to do he has done well, with a good deal of tact, and no special fear of Vestrymen. If he will only reorganize the municipal institutions of London as he has proposed to reorganize its Poor Law arrangements, he will do the metropolis a great service and earn himself a reputation. The report of the Committee, published this week, gives him an opportunity, and if he can only conciliate the City, and make it the peculiurn of the Federal Council or Metropolitan Board, we may yet have a visi- ble government for London. Of the Earl of Devon there is little to be said, except that he will do as well as another, and not better.