The Earl will be buried to-day, and it is not
etiquette to fill his post until the funeral is over. The public, however, which, while respecting and regretting Lord Clarendon, entertained for him no depth of affection, cannot be kept from speculating, and all kinds of rumours have been flying about all through the week. The ,fgre which was circulated earliest gave the Foreign Office to Lord Granville, the Colonies to Mr. Cardwell, and the War Office to Lord Northbrook ; but ti‘tivue which looks most authentic makes Lord Granville Foreign Secretary—an inevitable appointment ; Lord Kimberley Secretary for the Colonies—a safe selection from our point of view ; Earl de Grey Lord Privy Seal—an unobjec- tionable choice ; and Mr. Forster President of the Council—a pro- motion which, though rare, is not unprecedented, and would greatly increase both the strength and the popularity of a Cabinet -which, as it ages, loses a certain roughness of Radical flavour the public dislike to miss. The tools to the workman,—and it is on the representative ot the- Council in the Commons that the burden of the Education scheme must fall, and has fallen.
