The most important official appointments made since our last issue
are those of Lord Aberdeen to be Viceroy of Ireland, and of Mr. Broadhurst to be Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office. We believe that Lord Aberdeen is both shrewd enough and genial enough to co-operate heartily with Mr. Morley, and that he will make a Viceroy quite as popular as Lord Carnarvon, if Lord Carnarvon were ever really popular at all. Further, the identification of one of the ablest organising members of one of the most important Trades Unions with the legal and judicial authority of the Home Office, is a most important advance in the development of democratic institutions. We may add that Mr. Bryce, of whom we spoke last week, with many of our contem- poraries, as designated for the Under-Secretaryship for India, is to be Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a post in which he will be still more at home, and in which he will make an excellent lieutenant to Lord Rosebery.
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