On Wednesday the names of the most important members of
the Cabinet were given to the world. Lord Salisbury becomes President of the Council and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords—a double post which we are certain he will fill to the' satisfaction of the public, his colleagues, and his Party. He has not his father's intellectual grasp and vision, but he is a sensible man of the highest character, with great experience of public affairs, a wide knowledge of all sorts of public questions, and essentially an open mind. To talk of him and the other peers in the new Cabinet as representing nothing but Belgravia and the West-end Clubs is the merest moonshine, and we wonder that Mr. Lloyd George should have had the hardihood to talk such nonsense. We venture to say of Lord Salisbury, the Duke of Devon- shire and Lord Derby—the three English peers not in the old Cabinet—that there is not one of them who would not be far quicker than Mr. Lloyd George to establish the sympathy of comprehension between himself and a group of Labour Members.
