Mr. Shortt, as his reward for a brief exile in
Ireland, has been appointed Home Secretary. The new Chief Secretary, under Lord French as Viceroy, is Mr. Ian Macpherson, who has worked hard as Under-Secretary for War, and 'whose chief qualification for administering Ireland is said to be that he knows more Gaelic than most Sinn Feiners. Sir T. W. Russell has been removed from the Department of .Agriculture. Mr. Montagu, having failed to attain the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, re. Mina at the India Office, with Sir S. P. Saba, the Indian advo- cate, as his Under-Secretary. Mr. Fisher has fortunately been allowed to stay at the Board of Education, and Mr. Prothero, who is to be raised to the Peerage, still presides over the Board of Agriculture. Dr. Addison has gone to the Local Government Board, leaving the Ministry of Reconstruction with its mysterious functions to be absorbed in the Ministry of National Service, under Sir A. Geddes. The Ministry of Munitions, which is to become a Ministry of Supply, has been entrusted to Mr. Andrew Weir, a Scottish manufacturer, who has received a peerage.
Mr. G. IL Roberta has succeeded his Labour colleague, Mr. Clynes, as Food Controller. But at the Ministry of Pensions Mr. Hodge has been followed by Sir L. Worthington Evans, and at the Ministry of Labour Mr. Roberts's place is taken by Sir R. S. Horne, a young Scottish barrister wbo has just entered Parliament., but who has been employed by the Admiralty during the war. Mr. Walsh, the miners' leader, was announced in the official list as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government board, but he had in feet declined the poet.
