Mr. Layard Is To Be The Commissioner Of Public Works
and Buildings, without a seat in the Cabinet. If we do not mistake Mr. Layard's leanings, it seems fated that the Liberal Govern- ment should be identified with the Italian......
Mr. Gladstone Has Evidently Aimed At Making A Very Strong
department of the Treasury. He has subdivided the duties of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, —most onerous and responsi- ble duties which no one man could possibly discharge......
The Householder Parliament Met For The First Time On...
the 10th inst. The attendance was considerable, but the members of the new Cabinet were of course absent ; and Mr. Disraeli, who had been severely hissed by the mob outside, did......
The Difficulty Of Difficulties For Mr. Gladstone Will Be To
satisfy the scruples which Mr. Disraeli hopes to stir up in weak-kneed Liberals when the details of disendowment come to be discussed, a difficulty much increased by the......
News Of The Week.
T HE Cabinet is complete, with the exception of the Duchy of Lancaster, which is supposed to be reserved for Mr. Brand, and contains fifteen members, of whom six are peers, one......
Of The Sub-cabinet Appointments, The Most Weighty Is The...
Presidency of the Council of Education, which has, with singular moderation, been accepted by Mr. W. E. Forster, without, strange to say, a seat in the Cabinet. This is a bitter......
It Is, On The Whole, A Young Cabinet ; Average
age only fifty years and four months ; greatest age (Lord Clarendon's), 68 ; smallest age (the Marquis of Hartington's), only 35, almost political babyhood, though the noble......
