We give elsewhere the latest rumours as to the Tory
Cabinet, most of which appear to us to' be almost certainly correct. The only great office left' unfilled is the Home Secretaryship, about which there may have been recent difficulty, and is 'certainly some obscurity. We suppose the fittest man, Bishop Magee, is not to have it; and if it is filled by a Commoner, as it is almost sure to be, the Lower House will have no complaint to make of having been neglected. The Premiership, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Home Office, the Local Government Board, now a most import- ant office, in fact, every spending department except India, which does not spend English money, will be within the direct control of the Commons, who, moreover, must have the Under-Secretary- ship of the Colonies, India, Foreign Affairs, and the Vice-Presi- it is said in the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. W. H. Smith. is not to fill. We hope this decision will be recon- sidered, as a Secretary to the Treasury can be found without a candle, and a Minister of Education cannot. If there is the least trace of fanaticism in the member ultimately selected, the Government will have a hot time of it, and what is much more important, the success of the Act will be seriously endangered. The very first work to be done will be to repress the zeal of the Irreconcilables on the clerical side, who are capa- ble of doing quite as much mischief to the Tories as our own Irreconcilables have ever done to the Liberal party.
