NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DROVIKoNCE seems to have decreed that this Cabinet,
always victorious, shall always be in process of reconstruc- tion. Mr. Bright is recovering strength in Wales ; Mr. Childers is on a sick bed, though we are happy to hear improving ; and Lord Clarendon has been finally removed. He had been slightly ailing for some days, but no danger wee suspected till midnight on Sunday last, when he suddenly sank, and at 6 a.m. on Monday expired. Lord Clarendon's wholelife had been passed in the public service ; he represented England during the Spanish war of succession in 1834; he negotiated the Treaty of Paris after the Crimean war ; he governed Ireland during the crisis of 1848; he was a member of five administrations ; and though neither loved nor understood by the public, he was of the men whose aid is eagerly sought by Premiers. A consistent Whig of the old and exclusive type, he was a faithful adherent of the Liberal party, and formed one of the links, now growing few, between modern Radicalism and English traditionary modes. The gap he leaves is not a wide one, but it is perceptible ; he was not a great man, but he was a cool, long-headed aristocrat, who could work as hard as a commoner ; and the Empire has not too many of his type.
