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We learned on Saturday with deep regret that Sir Michael

Hicks-Beach, though not quitting the Cabinet, had resigned the office of Secretary for Ireland. He is threatened, his physicians report, with cataract in both eyes, and must recruit his constitu- tion inquiet before the necessary operation can be performed,—the labour of his post, and the savage badgering of the Parnellites, having already seriously injured his health. He has been succeeded by Mr. Arthur Balfour, Secretary for Scotland, and nephew of the Premier,—an able man, but, one would have thought, scarcely strong enough in health for such a post. The Marquis of. Lothian replaces Mr. Balfour, with the approval, it would seem, of most Scotchmen.

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