A PRIME-OF-LIFE CABINET.
[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—What the whole Unionist party desires to see in office is a Cabinet " true to the spirit of the age," abreast of national progress, in touch with the aspirations and the just expecta- tions of the country. The desired Administration must per- force be a prime-of-life Cabinet, not an unhappy, makeshift combination of veterans, ineffectual fires, prime-of-life states- men, and very promising young men. This kind of Ministry Mr. Balfour has not as yet seen his way to form, and possibly he has been hampered by some fatally stop-the-coach tradi- tions. When, however, the right honourable gentleman gets into his stride, he will naturally quicken the pace, the wolves of promotion and honourable shelving will receive the veterans, and the ineffectual fires will burn where their burning can at least do no harm. Then—say in February, 1903—we shall see a prime-of-life Cabinet, one worthy of the first statesman in Great Britain and Ireland, one throwing a glamour over the country and impressing the electorate, one worthy of the century, the King, the nation, and the party.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Docklow Court, _Leominster. R. ST. J. CORBET.
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