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Mr. Disraeli, on his interview with the Queen in which

he resigned office, took the natural, manly, and straightforward course of advising her to send for Mr. Gladstone, who is, of course, primarily and exclusively responsible for the special policy on which the Government have been defeated. Mr. Gladstone, who was at Hawarden when Mr. Disraeli resigned, was summoned by telegraph to Windsor, and was with the Queen on Thursday afternoon, and by her commissioned to form a Government, on the composition of which nothing had last night officially transpired. Of any mere speculative estimates of the elements which might be desirable in it, our readers will find enough elsewhere.

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