We have commented elsewhere on the Members selected to fill
places outside the Cabinet, and on the principle which seems to have governed Mr. Disraeli's choice. He has obviously tried to appoint administrators instead of debaters, and has in the main succeeded, though we do not expect much from Sir C. Adderley at the Board of Trade, or Lord H. Lennox at the office of Public Works. We must add here that three omitted names are all of the same type. Mr. Algernon Egerton, the new Secretary to the Admiralty, has for years, we believe, been the principal manager of the Bridgewater Canals, in which he has displayed great busi- ness capacity ; Mr. James Lowther, 'Under-Secretary for the Colonies, equally unknown, is a solid; reasonable person, with a habit of application ; and the Chancellor of the Duchy is for the moment Colonel Taylor, the most efficient Whip the Tories ever had. We say for the moment, because his seat for Dublin County is to be contested, and if his opponent, Mr. Crostbwaite, is a strong advocate of Tenant-right, will probably be lost. Dr. Ball accepts the Attorney-Generalship for Ireland, leaving the Chancellorship still vacant ; and the "person of ability and splendour," the Duke of Abercorn, has been induced to accept once more the thankless and costly office of Viceroy of Ireland. He will do as well as another, and his appointment will deepen the impression that for the next year or two Ireland will be let alone.
