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Mr. Bridgeman, a man of promise, becomes Secretary of State

for Home Affairs ; Lord Curzon remains at the Foreign Office, where he will no longer be worried by the unnecessary and irresponsible interference of the Prime Minister and his Secretariat. An excellent new appoint- ment is that of the Duke of Devonshire, worthy successor as head of the house of Cavendish to his great predecessor. The Duke made no mistakes in Canada, and the experi- ence there gained will help him to do what is the only thing wanted in the Colonial Secretary, so far as the Dominions are concerned—that is, to regard and treat those Dominions not as dependent States to be petted or coaxed, but as equal partners with Great Britain in an Institution which does not belong to these Islands alone.

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