Mr. Herbert Gardner, M.P. for the Saffron Walden Divi- sion
of Essex, becomes the new Minister of Agriculture; but as he does not obtain a seat in the Cabinet, he will hardly All the same place in the new Government which Mr. Chaplin 'filled in the old. Lord Ribblesdale,—the rather celebrated interviewer of Mr. Parnell in 1887, who would not let the poor man go to sleep in the Irish express so long as Lord Ribblesdak wanted him to talk,—is to be Master of the Buckhounds, an office which might well have been left vacant, and then sup- pressed. No one admires the chase of tame deer, which too -often ends in the poor creatures staking themselves at the end of a weary run, and it is an amusement which would be much better suppressed altogether. It is well known that the Queen herself would gladly see it suppressed; and perhaps Lord Ribblesdale may distinguish himself by putting an end to the office which he at present holds.
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