Lord Salisbury has accepted the Foreign Office, Mr. Hardy takes
the India Office and a Peerage before the end of the Ses- sion, and Mr. F. Stanley accepts the Secretaryship for War. There is, therefore, only one new member of the Cabinet, and he the heir of the family whose head has just seceded, a combination most creditable to Lord Beaconsfield's social strategy. Sir C. Adderley at the same time accepts a peerage, Lord Sandon takes the Board of Trade, and Lord G. Hamilton is promoted to the Vice-Presidency of the Council. We have commented on these changes—most of which are well conceived—elsewhere, but may mention here that Mr. E. Stanhope will probably be the Under- Secretary for India. Mr. Stanhope is not very young, and has lately slipped out of public notice, but he made one remarkable speech in Parliament on the employment of women and children in agriculture, and may have been of more use at the Board of Trade than the public knows. The objection to putting two new men into the India Office is unreal, as the Council is a permanent institution.
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