Who will succeed Lord Cadogan as Viceroy has not yet
been determined. Possibly Mr. Balfour will prefer the plan which obtained in his own case, and the new Viceroy will not be in the Cabinet,—Ireland being represented there by the Chief Secretary. We should doubt also if the Irish Lord Chancellor will be found in the new Cabinet. It would be wise to reduce the numbers of the Cabinet, and it cannot be said that the presence of the Irish Lord Chancellor is in any way a necessity. Among the younger men who, it is confidently asserted, will find places in the Cabinet are Mr. George Wyndham and Mr. Austen Chamberlain. Mr. George Wyndham, in spite of the dead set made against him by both sides in Ireland, has shown very considerable ability, and especially in debate. Mr. Austen Chamberlain has also proved both an able administrator and a rising "House-of- Commons man." He is always well listened to by the House, and apparently realises the right way in which to humour and manage a deliberative Assembly. As to reconstruction generally, we must express the hope that Mr. Balfour will reduce the size of the Cabinet in numbers, and reduce also its aggregate of years by introducing young men,—and by young men we do not mean, as so many politicians Seem to mean, men under sixty, but men under fifty.
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