The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

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Honey, ,owper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parselle• Mesdames Foot e , Weathersby, Rign old . At 9.30, LUCRETIA BO RGIA ; ess Drew, G. Honey, &c.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny Joseph • THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. TIM EVENING, at 7, SL ASHER &CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H. Ne-ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield noTALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Toss EVENING, at 7.:10, ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT OLD. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF 'ITC•HARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar, tlr. Danvers: Miss Collinson. and Miss M. Oliver. To eon :lade with THE ULOCKMAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Tetias Mario Wilton THIS EVENING, WHO SPEAKS FIRST! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss Addison. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL FIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Rand of 60. Begin at S. Is. Box-office open from II to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. reit tin t • LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1868. It was the cynical remark of one of the shrewdest of the world's social philosophers that until a man's death one should refrain from attempting to estimate at its just value either his career or his character ! That the critic should remain dumb until the play was played out and the curtain had descended! The remark is equally judicious when applied to the career or character of a First Minister of the Crown with re ference to the actual close of his Government. An 3 seeing that Mr. DISRAELI'S tenure of office may be even now regarded at this present writing as virtually, or it might rather lie said absolutely brought already to its conclusion, we may be per mitted at length to weigh quite dispassionately in the balance of our judgment, his career as the head of an Administration, and his character as First Lord of the Treasury. Whatever may be thought of him by his own party, but more especially with reference to his latest and crowning act as Leader of the Government, meaning, of course, his precipitate, unprecedented, and almost, one might say unconstitutional resignation before the meeting of the Parliament he himself had summoned into existence—whatever may be thought of him or of that last act of his in his capacity as Prime Minister by the members of his own party, the fact, we take it, must still remain undeniable even by them that to him they owe the possession of office (by them as a party) for nearly three years, and of all that is iivolved or implied by the duration so long of a Conservative, or Tory, or Constitutional Govern ment. That fact, at any rate, is patent to the ap prehension of us all. Viewed from whatever side it may be, from the side of the Liberals or from the side of the Conservatives, there it still remains—that to Mr. DISRAELI indivividuaily the latter owe, that is the Conservatives, or Tories, or Constitutionalists, or however else you may call them, ewe the now historical circumstance, that forso long, for a period of from two to three years, they have continued in existence as a Government. During the third and last Premiership of Lord DERBY, Mr. DISRAELI, as Leader of the House of Commons, bore the heat and burlen of the fight quite as much as he has done more recently, and, in an official sense only, more conspicuously during the lifetime of h 7 s own Cabinet. He has done more for his own party, however, than simply secure to them the possession of office for three years. He has afforded them during that interval a very signal and, as it has happened, a perfectly suffi cient oiporttmity for demonstrating their ca pacity as able and patriotic administrators. Besides this be has secured to them as a party the prestige, he has secured to himself personally the dis tinction—and it is a distinction that can never be THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1868, denied to him, and one with which his name must always henceforth be associated—of solving at last, for good and all, and of thenceforth sweeping out of view altogether as an obstruction in the broad on ward path of good and wise legislation, the hitherto destructive and forlong seemingly insoluble problem of Parliamentaryßeform. Simply regarding him its aParty Leader, these are incontestably among Mr. DISRAELI'S achievements. But it is not as a Party Leader merely that we are here desirous of estimating at its just value the worth of his career as a Minister of the Crown—now that his career as such, for the time being, has closed, but more especially during these last nine months as the First Minister of the Crown, as Prime Minister of England. Comparatively brief though the interval has been, it has been in many rupees very momentous. It is not in every Premiership that a Primate has to be appointed. It is not in every Premiership that a Viceroy of ilindostan has to be entrusted with that vast and awful responsibility. It is not in every Premiership that an integral part of the United Kingdom has to be pacified after the imminent threatenings of an insurrectionary movement. Yet these and other kindred anxieties have been concen trated within the space of these nine months last past, during which Mr. DISRAELI has been at the head of affairs as First Lord of the Treasury. Having at tained that lofty pre-eminence, without any adventi tious aid whatever, by the sheer force of his own genius and of his own indomitable determination, ho has,within these last few months during which he has been installed in office as Prime Minister, tasted to the full of the intoxicating draughts of power as head of the Government. Starting in life as a man of letters and the son of a man of letters, he has won his way to supreme power, and has during his possession of it, during the best part of a twelvemonth, had abundant opportunity of exercising it. He has created a Duke. He has created a Chancellor. He has created an Archbishop, and more than simply an Archbishop—he has created a Primate. He has created a Governor-General of India, ruler, vice regally, of from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 Asiatics. And invested with all the responsibilities of a First Minister of the Crown upon whom devolves the trrst of disposing wisely of such enormous pa tronage, we believe that men of all parties will allow that Mr. DISRAELI has throughout made his selections with temperate discretion in the distribu tion of honours and offices as high and august as any that are in the gift of the SOVEREIGN. And even now in his very manner of withdrawing from office, in his abrupt and unprecedented resignation of power by himself and his colleagues into the hands of the QUEEN, whatever may be thought of it, just possibly (as a needless and pre cipitate and almost insensate begging of the ques tion) by the members of his own party— his antago nists, at least, have no cause for complaint against him. lie has thereby demonstrated, in the most signal manner possible, his determination, conk qui coute, to abide by his word. Appealing to the country upon the question of the Irish Church, he recognizes before the meeting of Parliament that in his anticipations he has been altogether disap pointed, that the decision of the country has been given against him overwhelmingly. immediately thereupon—directly the General Elections are draw ing so nearly to a close that those who run can read in the signs of the times the glaring fact that the Leader of the Opposition has at his back a clear majority over him of upwards of one hundred—he shrinks from the delay of one unnecessary day, and upon the instant and unhesitat ingly places in the hands of her MAJESTY his resigna tion. The interpretation put upon his so doing by the Times is characteristically enough that he has thrown up the cards. According to the humorous in terpretation of the Saturday Review, the act is nothing more than the Coining down of the Coon. According to the same cynical mode of viewing it by one or another, Bell's Life might just as sagaciously and as appropriately compare the resignation of office by Mr. DISRAELI to the throwing up of the spolge before what was felt must be the last round, the round that would accord to him, as the vanquished champion, the coup de grace, could even be commenced. A contemporary journalist has even somewhere taken occasion to remark with a snigger of self-sufficient depreciation—and speaking in the language of, the police courts —" That's his ' male game !" when commenting upon a resignation that is nevertheless at one and the same time so very sig nally for the convenience of the country, of the Liberal party, of the Crown, and of the Parliament. Now that he has actually resigned office, let us at least have the satisfaction of saying, as we are happily enabled to say as truthfully as dispassionately, that this man of letters turned politician, winning his way first of all to the position of a Parliamentary notability, and afterwards to that of Leader of a great constitutional party, and eventually to the supreme post of all, that of Prime Minister of England, has in that last mentioned capacity acquitted himself with dignity of his high personal responsi bilities, and has now with lrawn with no derogation from that dignity, but rather with an enhancement of it, to the only less eminent position of Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Tm new Ministry is in one respect very like the new House of Commons ; it resembles its prede cessors. A Cabinet in which five of the principal seats have been assigned to peers, in addition to those ornamental places which are always assigned to members of the Upper House, does not look very much like the progress of democracy. Mr. GLADSTONE does not, indeed, summon around him a bodyguard of dukes, as Mr. DISRAELI did; but he has distributed sufficient posts among titled politicians to prevent any revolt on the part of the ruling families. Nor will a House of Commons so eminently respect able and moderate as the present find fault with the new Cabinet on that account. Englishmen like to be governed by lords, and it must always be remembered that, their abilities being equal, a lord is likely to make a better administrator than a commoner, simply because the first has more time for administration than the second. The one danger to be guarded against on the part of the peer is the want of popular sympathy. But no one will condemn Lord GRAN VILLE or the Duke of ARGYLL on that account. Few noblemen have kept themselves so well abreast of the age, or have so completely acquired the confi dence of the most liberal of politicians. There are other Whig noblemen of whom the same could not be said. But Mr. GLADSTONE has had the wisdom not to include them in his Administration. Taking the new Ministers seriatim, there is much to nspire confidence. Nevertheless ) there are one or two appointments which do not satisfy us. That Mr. GLADSTONE should be Premier was a matter of course. He has directed the policy of the country for the past three years, whether in office or out of office, and the vigour with which his oppo nents created difficulties out of their fertile imagina tion only shews how secure he was of the leadership, and how jealous they were of his influence. The new LORD CHANCELLOR is an able, upright, high-minded man, but, unfortunately he is no debater, and will make a very inadequate opponent to the eloquent Lord CAIRNS. Possibly Mr. GLADSTONE remembered a former occupant of the woolsack, and his melancholy downfall thirty months ago, and came to the conclu sion that character was, after all, worth more than brilliancy. At all events, in Sir WILLIAM PAGE WOOD the new PREMIER has a Chancellor who should quiet the fears of zealous Churchmen. The institu ticn v Bich a Picsbyt€rian Chancellor_ su ported, and which a High Ch4irch Chancellor attacks, can scarcely remain valuable in the eyes of one section of the Church. The appointment of Lord CLARENDON to the Foreign Office we cannot view with entire satisfaction. Doubtless his lordship is one of the most accomplished diplomatists of modern times. But then he is also, without doubt, decidedly inclined to autocracy in foreign politics. His great blunder with regard to the Belgian journals, which he proposed to gag at the instigation of NAPOLEON, chews that his sympathies are not so Liberal in the Continental sense of the word as we could wish them to be. He had too short a tenure of his office in 1866 to have committed himself in any undesirable manner so -far as the American claims are concerned, and it is to be hoped that he will be able to carry through the negotiations which Lord STANLEY, has so happily commenced. Unfortunately, even before the latter nobleman has surrendered the seal to his successor, an unforeseen difficulty has arisen, which seems likely to impede the settlement of the vexed ques tions, if not to throw them back into the unsatisfactory position which they occupied before the present negotiations were undertaken. Nor is it only in American politics that Lord CLARENDON will encounter difficulties. With Spain apparently on the eve of a revolutionary outbreak against its Provisional Government ; with France in a state of deep-seated and yearly increasing discontent, certain o lead to great changes should the present by no means robust EMPEROR die; with threatening quarrels in China and Japan ; above all, with the ever-present Eastern difficulty more for midable than ever, there is enough work cut out for the new Minister. We only hope that he may be able to secure the assistance of such a man as Sir HENRY BULWER, to whom more than any other English statesman living the clue of the Eastern labyrinth is known. It is not surprising that both Lord GRANVILLE and the Duke of ARGYLL should have desired something better than the ornamental posts which they occupied formerly ; that they should have looked for depart ments in which they could exercise their great abilities. The Colonies mighty_ perhaps, have been better assigned to Mr. LOWE, but for the reason which is given for his not taking the War Office—that he is deficient in the art of conciliation. The India Office was offered to Mr. BRIGHT, who knows every road on the map of India as perfectly as a country squire knows the roads on his own estate ; but the great orator has such an aversion to war that he could not bring himself to take charge of a department which, among other duties, would impose upon him those of maintaining a large standing army, and, possibly, of directing a campaign. At the Board of -Trade he will be able to carry out fully his free-trade prin ciples. Our only fear is that he will prove, like his friend Mr. MILNER GIBSON, - too much afraid of Government intervention, and that his depart ment will for that reason fall behind the public requirements. Failing Mr. BRIGHT, the Duke of ARGYLL is by far the best man that could have been appointed to the India Board. He has for some time past made India his special study, and it is satisfactory to know that he has recently abandoned the annexionist policy which he once favoured. The appointments of Mr. CHILDERS and Mr. CARDWELL to the Admiralty and the War Office are unexceptionable. Both departments require able economists and heads determined not to spare themselves. Mr. CumuEns has lately made the study of Admiralty accounts a specialty. Mr. CARDWELL is a glutton for work, and Mr. GLADSTONE has found a much better use for him than that to which Lord PALMERSTON put him when he gave him the Duchy of Lancaster. That Mr. FORTESCUE would return to Ireland was as certain as that Mr. GLADSTONE would be Premier, and the two appointments will receive equal approval. Mr. FORSTER deserves . a place in the m Cabinet, which he will have ; and any persons will regret that Mr. STANSFELD is not there. Mr. BRUCE will be consoled for his disappointment at Merthyr by the offer of the nomination seat at Richmond which will be vacated by Sir ROUNDELL PALMER on becoming Lord Justice, and by the post of Home Secretary, and of course a seat in the Cabinet. The Poor-law Board will be entrusted to • another peer, and it is to be hoped that Lord KIMBERLEY will display the energy of Mr. HARDY, Lord DERBY'S President, rather than the inertia of Lord DEVON, Mr. DISRAELI'S President. Sir GEORGE GREY gets the Duchy, the only post that could well be offered to a statesman whom years have unfitted for the hard work of a department. We have still to speak of one of the most impor tant members of the new Ministry. Everyone has _ during the general election. But the leader of them has been returned without opposition, and to him has been assigned the high post of Chancellor of the Exchequer. For this post Mr. Lowz has special qualifications, which will to a great extent counterbalance the suspicions Ile has no enthu no belief inor great principles ; s w ia h s i m ch , politicalc hi re g ed h m in : p ti ir ves es. he is avowedly a utilitarian, and almost a cynic; but he is also an economist, and nearly drove the country clergy into e rebellion down the salaries of the school ea ruthless thless in his thrift that trs. Heb y is cutting s o he will be able to resist all those schemes of which Mr. GLADSTONE spoke in Lancashire, and which were urged, not always without success, upon Lord PALMERSTON'S Administration. He is clever, saga cious, and unbending. He will throw all his mind into finance, but he will never make it a thing of poetry and of high principle, as his leader did. As for the legal appointments, these, so far as they are known, may be dismissed in a few words. Sir R. COLLIER becomes Attorney-General in the ordinary course of succession. The Times assumed that Mr. COLERIDGE'S refusal to serve in the Government was due to personal jealousy. There was no foundation for the supposition. The brilliant member for Exeter • did, indeed, decline at first the honour offered to him ; yet not by reason of the paltry motive attributed to him. We believe that he was influenced solely by an indisposi tion to take upon him additional work, and that if he accedes to the earnest request of Mr. GLADSTONE he will sacrifice his personal wishes to those of his leader. Mr. O'HAGAN'S promotion to the Irish Chancellorship is an indication that Mr. GLADSTONE is determined to abolish the last relics of religious intolerance in that country whose pacification is his first and most pressing work. It is understood that the selection of Mr. Lowe to be Chancellor of the Exchequer was as much a sur prise to that gentleman as it has been to the public gene rally. Mr. Lowe's own predilections would, it is said, have led him to be the successor of Sir John Pak ington rather than of Mr. Hunt ; and several of our contemporaries have already suggested that an exchange of posts between him and Mr. Cardwell would strengthen the Ministry, It would seem, however, that Mr. Gladstone has for some time been of a different opi nion, and had made up his mind with respect to his War and Finance Ministers oven before the change of Govern ment was imminent.— Echoes f rm . & the Clubs. The use of monograms has become so gene ral pat the greatest taste is now displayed in their execution. Messrs: Jenner and Knewstub, cif St. James's-street, stand prominently forward for the beauty of their designs, and the manner in which they have combined the use of more than two colours in combination with gold, will still further tend to in crease the reputation of their house. A little work has just been published, containing a variety of their choicest and latest spe , intens of the art, which for beauty stand unequalled. The little hook is particularly cheap, as it can be had merely for the asking. During the last three years the amazing number of 1,604 tigers, 2,637 panthers, 1,439 bears, 742 wolves, and 1,295 hyenas have been destroyed in the Central Provinces. In the same period 1,751 lives have been lost by wild beasts, and 1,874 by snake bites.—Delhi Gazette. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, .are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the intadical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Blaufort-b u ildings, Strand, London W.c —[Ad vertioement.) TEE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. .-~- Mr. H. A. Bruce has been made Home Secretary, and Nlr. Coleridge has become Solicitor-General. The former if these appointments was generally anticipated.. Of the :atter the Telegraph remarks that the prevalent impres sion is erroneous. Mr. Coleridge did not decline the office Lt first because he was unwilling to be sub to Sir Robert "It was no disinclination to appear in a secondary position that rendered Mr. Coleridge unwilling o become Solicitor-General. He was deterred by purely ?ersonal reasons, which do him no dishonour ; it is out of regard to the claims of his party that hehas now consented o fulfil a duty for which he is specially qualified." These MO appointments were all that could be effected on Monday. Several more places remain to be filled up. Df these the Presidency of the Poor-law Board is issignecl to Mr. Goschen by the Times, Standard, Telegraph, and Post. The first - named paper ixpects to see Earl de Grey President of the :Jouncil, and so does the Post. Lord Hartington s variously spoken of. The Times believes that se will find a seat, and will be the first member if the House of Commors to hold the office of Post master-General. The Standard, however, concludes n favour of the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland that great stumblingblock to Ministers being riven to the son of the Duke of Devonshire. The Post ;fives Lord Kimberley the Duchy of Lancaster, whilst the Times assigns him the Privy Seal. Of the appointment of Mr. Forster as Vice-President of the Council, and of Mr. stansfeld as Secretary of the Treasury, there seems to be so doubt. The Post gives the Privy Seal to the Duke of - Somerset, and the Times speaks of Lord Halifax as likely :o be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The Post and the Telegraph agree that Mr. Layard will take the Board of Works. Sir George Grey has declined office. The Home secretaryship was offered to him. Of the lesser places, there is much talk of Captain Vivian Becoming Under• Secretary for War, and of Mr. W. 11. Saadstone taking the junior Ministerial post at the Board if Trade. Mr. Otwa.y and Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessenwill find ?laces. For the First Naval Lordship Lord Clarence Paget's name has come into sudden competition with that if Sir Sidney Daere's. Mr. Ayrton may have the Under -secretaryship for India SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times must congratulate Mr. Gladstone on the rapidity with which he has got his men together. It is mit five days since he received her Majesty's commands to form an Administration, and we understand that to morrow (Wednesday) the Council will be held, at which the seals of office will be transferred from the members of ;he outgoing to those of the incoming Government. Parliament, indeed, meets on the following day; and after ;he House has been constituted by the election of a Speaker Ind the swearing in of the members, the writs for the !e-election of the Ministers who have accepted office will be moved. Mr. Gladstone's despatch is probably =paralleled, and it testifies forcibly to the unity of the iew Government. The jealous difficulties upon which Lord Derby descanted seem to have been for the most ?art avoided ; and, indeed, the single instance of a con- Hot of pretensions which has been mentioned was repented A almost as soon as it arose. Mr. Gladstone has had, of :ourse, the considerable advantage of not being obliged to ;o outside his own party. The general election has iivided the House of Commons into two shaiTlY iefined bodies—the one composed of the large majority pledged to support the policy of ecclesiastical equality Ireland, the other containing the minority who ire opposed to it. Mr. Gladstone's allies in the Lower [louse necessarily come from the first body, and the great :ssue before the country has divided the House of Lords with a line of demarcation equally distinct. But if Mr. 3ladstone had no need of an accession of strength, he might well have been embarrassed by the superabundance A his recruits. Some of the most distinguished members A the Liberal party—men who have done excellent work Before now both in and out of office—have to some extent relieved this difficulty by foregoing their claims to employ. scent, and the good feeling of others has done the rest. The Herald holds that the new Ministry is somewhat me-sided and one-handed in the disposition of its strength. [n the House of Commons it has a large majority, which night for some time suffice to cover and conceal any deficiencies in debating vigour ; yet here it has concen :rated its force, and can boast of three out of the four most affective speakers in the House. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Lowe, even without Mr. Forster and Sir Et. Palmer, may be able to hold their own in a contest with Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Mr. Hardy, and Sir S. (`Torthcote. But in the Lords, where their weakness in numbers will make their deficiencies in debate painfully apparent, they are also deplorably weak in debating power. They will have to encounter the watchful sevciity of Lord Grey, the criticisms of Lord Carnarvon, the unsparing opposition of Lord Cairns, the Earl of Derby, and the Marquis of Salisbury. Nor will the assistance )f Sir W. Page Wood acid much to their strength in debate, however valuable his aid may be in arranging the technical details of Mr, Gladstone's scheme of cliscsta blishment. The Daily Icews notice that three out of five Secretaries if State, and four out of eleven Cabinet Ministers are peers. Two of the seats remaining vacant must be filled by members of the same order, while an indefinite number may be so filled. Men like Lord Clarendon, Lord Gran ville, and the Duke of Argyll, of great capacity and energy, naturally prefer important offices of State, such as the Foreign, Colonial, and Indian Departments, to the almost honorary posts of Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, and Chancellor of the Duchy of "-qv" - 'PI— roeseyi :why Choir arnhition shouiu not be gratifieu. Still, in proportion as it. Is gratified, the effect must be to over-crowd the Cabinet with Peers, and to leave the House of Commons with but a slender representation in that body. If the peers are to have their fair share of working offices, without having more than their fair share of seats in the Cabinet, then the monopoly of the honorary posts which we have named ought to cease. Perhaps the Presidency of the Council might be conveniently filled by the Prime Minister, whose position would be more aptly denoted by the title it gives than by the designation of First Lord of the Treasury. The First Lord of the Treasury has no more real relation with the Treasury than with the Foreign Office or the Milne Department. The office of Lord Privy Seal has no better claim to be treated as a political post, and to carry with it a seat in the Cabinet, than the office of Lord Steward or Lord Chamberlain. If, however, it is thought important to retain these places, with all their political privileges, members of both Houses should be indifferently eligible to them. The Standard complains not that Mr. Bright has taken office, but that he has been consigned to a position where his policy will be neutralised and his abilities ignored. Its objection to Mr. Lowe is the same in kind as that which it has brought against Mr. Bright. There can be no doubt that Mr. Lowe is a source of strength to Mr. Glad stone's Cabinet, through his powers in debate and his general intellectual repute. Mr. Lowe, however, has earned almost any place in the Ministry excepting that of chancellor of the Exchequer. He is not known to have a policy of his own in regard to our national finance — he is famous as the author of a scheme of national education, and as one who has peculiar qualifications for the office of Education Minister. For what reason can he have been put into the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, unless it was to muzzle him in the particular line which is his own, just as Mr. Bright is muzzled by being cast into the Board of Trade ? A Cabinet composed of men who are mostly jealous of each other's particular abilities, and in the formation of which the only principle which seems to have been consulted is how to place each man where he shall be " safest," contains within itself the elements of its own dissolution. The Telegraph says that without doubt Mr. Bright's consent to accept office, and his appointment as a Minister of State, form one of the most remarkable events in our annals. It foreshadows all sorts of new things and new times, by no means after the present mind of " country gentlemen." Mr. Bright is not in love with lords, with bishops, with primogeniture, the Game Laws, big estimates for armies and navies, bragging diplomaeies, or breakfast - tables cruelly taxed ; and Mr. Bright is now one of the Queen's chief advisers. But his character is greatly misconceived by those who fancy that, in season and out of season, he will intrude hisspecial ideas into the arena of practical statesmanship. With marked force has his recent career shewn how patiently he can bide his time, and accept what is attainable in pre ference to what he thinks ideally good. No one fancies that he liked Mr. Gladstone's Seven Pounds Franchise Bill ; yet, conceiving it to be the best measure of Reform witain his reach, he was among its most strenuous sup porters. In a similar fashion will he act with respect to the other questions on which he is at issue with his colleagues. The Star thinks that a mistake was made in offering the Chief Justice a peerage instead of the woolsack. In the discharge of its judicial functions the House of Lords will have reason to regret that it does not number among its legal members one so capable of adding breadth and dignity to its decisions as the Chief Justice. But in a legal sense no one denies that Sir William Page Wood's is a strong appointment. It is in political discussion that the Lord Chief Justice will be most missed; and as the matter at present strikes the public, it is a blemish on Mr. Gladstone's Administration that an attempt was made to secure Sir Alexander Coekbitrn's vast debating resource's and power by a retaining fee which he could not con sistently with his self-resvect accept. Politically, Sir William Page Wood is irreproachable, and he many years ago spoke and wrote against the Trish Establishment ; hilt to pit him in the House of Lords against Lord Cairns is really very like thiowin‘,. - f a Christian to the lions, What we say on this subject is not intendcd to embitter exiting jealousies, but to expose the serious nature of the mistake that Las been made. We should hope, there is still time to negotiate en arrangement alike honourable and amicable, by which Sir William Page Wood might enjoy a peerage, of which he is every way worthy, retaining his Lord Justiceship, while the woolsack might be offered to the Lord Chief Justice, as simply his due. The Post observes that things are not now as taey were three years ago, when there was little difference of opinion near the border line which separates parties. Mr. Gladstone is the leader of the Liberal party, and he has identified himself with measures which the country approves. In the presence of able and vigilant opponents his following may require judicious management and have to be held well in hand ; but there is no reason to suppose that his majority in the House of Commons will split up into sections in pursuit of special objects and crotchets, or that it will, as on a former occasion. drift through disintegrationt into anarchy MAGAZINES. Alit; DUBLIN UNIVEW-a 1' V-- . .-finciS entertainment _ . ::lure for its readers in " the suggestive theme of its brilliant opening article. Here, too, in the December number the Dublin is remarkable, for inasmuch as it brings to a close J. S. Le Fanu's long protracted, and at times en thralling serial story of " Haunted Lives." By way of compensation, " Our Absent Friend" puts in an appearance with a first chapter—while there are consecutively two chapters of "My Own Story," and six chapters of " Up and Down the World." With these and four other papers of lesser interest the Dublin completes its issue for the present twelv e month. TII E COENIIILL —though excellent enough in itself, cheers us mainly this month with its announcement in a flyleaf, that in an early number of it will be commenced a New Serial Story by Charles Reade. Pleasant tidings for ail those who can appreciate true originality in imaginative literature, and who hold in grateful remembrance, as we certainly do ourselves, hard Cash, Christie Johnstone, and Never too late to Mend, and Charles Reade's own exclusive portion (and it was the maid part of the whole) of that wonderfully daring out-Dumas-ing of-Dumas—Foul Play. Meanwhile—waiting for Charles Reade's new serial story now promised as forthcoming—we have here "That Boy of North cott's" (who certainly is going it, according to the showing of the illustration) and the pretty, gentle tale (is it not by Miss Thackeray ?) of "Lettice Lisle." " Army Reform" is a solid per tinent argument, having an eye at once to economy and to efficiency. BELGRAVIAL-is still great in narrative. It has its three serial tales now running abreast—" Robert Ainslie," " My Enemy's Daughter," and " Char lotte's Inheritance." The last, Miss Braddon's a tale, that, however, has been already completed in a separate form. The first, Anonymous, under the main title of "Bound to John Company," Robert Ainslie being the hero of it, by right both of his adventures and his misadventures. The second serial in our enu meration, but the first as it happens in the present number, is by J. M'Carthy, already known as the author of "Paul Massie." The illustrations to Belgravia are still profuse; and it is noticeable that we have among the number of the literary contri butors names as well known as those of George Sala, Walter Thorubury, William Sawyer, and John Heraud. MACMILLAN—wiII delight the believers in Gold win Smith, the number of whom, we believe, how ever, to be very restricted, and of which number we certainly are not one—by leading off with one of his oracular utterances upon another great English Statesman—" Peel." Happily Sir Robert Peel's patriotism, genius, eloquence, popularity, and fame in history, have strength enough in them to survive the blame, or (worse still) the praise of Mr. Goldwin Smith, whose self-sufficiency, not to say bumptious ness, may be regarded henceforth as appertaining l e s s to England than to America. The one other in an y way L I. oticeable production in this December num ber of is a new, but it must be added, a very unsatisfactory :tnd diluted version of the Dies lree—a version, at the YerY outset, of which Sir Walter Scott's lines are op.-31)1Y laid under. con tribution. _ COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE —hag SAS usual di versity of professional themes—" Naval Politics," " Military Prisons," an " Adventure [another of them !] in India," and—what the regular reader of the blue-and-red United Service will turn to pro bably with the greatest eagerness, the conclusion of the narrative of " The Secret Despatch, or the Adventures of Captain Balgonie." LONDON SOCIETY—in one or two instances, is still deliciously illustrated. " Pensive Thoughts," for example, as a vignette portraiture, is charming. Here, too, as in the Cornkill, the principal good news for the subscribers will be found in a flyleaf announcement to the effect that a new novel is about immediately to commence. In the instance of the magazine before us, the serial tale thus announced will begin in January, and will be from the hand of Mr. Whyte - Melville. THE ARGOSY-still "laden with golden grain, floats to us across the interval of another month with fresh supplies of " Anne Hereford " and " Buried Alone." The lovers of romance founded nn fact will do well to read " Tasso's Story" as it is here related : and those who prefer romance emanating purely from the imagination of a grace ful writer will turn either to "Mr. North's Dream" as it is recounted at the close of this number of the Argosy by the Editress herself, the author of "East Lynne," or to " Charlotte Morel," a contribution so entitled from the hand of Julia Kavanagh. THE ST. JAMES'S.—Anything worse than the illustrations of this periodical it would be hard to imagine. They are simply execrable. The wood cuts of the cheapest of the inustrateu weeklies, such as the London Journal for example, are gems of art compared to them. As for the literary contents, they include among them no less than four serial stories—" A Life's Assize," " Cut Down like Grass," " Hirell," and " Bisset's Yoath"—of which last mentioned tale there is doled out in the present num ber oue solitary chapter. The engraver of the em bellishments (!) in the St. James's ought, as it pears to us, to be at once cashiered. GOOD WORDS—has this unwelcome peculiarity about it for December, that it closes the charming serial story with which for so many months the readers of this very clever and wonderfully popu lar magazine have been fascinated by the author of "John Halifax"—her last completed fiction, en titled " The Woman's Kingdom." Now that we have done with Edna and her belongings, we can only hope that Miss Dinah Muloch will begin an other new serial tale in Good Words as soon as possible. GOOD WORDS FOR THE YOUNG—in its second number, improves upon us. It is in a fair way al ready to become indispensible to the little people : and will soon rival in popularity, in the nursery and the schoolroom (after school hours) the chil dren's old friend and familiar favourite-- AUNT JUDY.—This merry little brochure, pub lished monthly among the more pretentious maga zine; and the coming of which is always hailed with delight by the young ones, is still industri ously edited and principally written by good, dear Mrs. Gatty. Aunt Judy is not only merry, but wise, and is almost as full of wholesome instruction as of innocent amusement. THE SUNDAT MAGAZINE—Iike its companion Good Words, is lavishly and in a great measure very cleverly illustrated. As for the letterpress it need hardly be described. It is worth mentioning, however, as significative of its character, that among the contributors to the present number are three Doctors of Divinity, - a Rev. Professor, and a Dean, the last mentioned being the Dean of Canterbury. THE MASK--has now reached the close of its first volume, and, for the sparkling charms of its writ ing and for the graceful grotesquery of its em bellishments, is entitled to our heartiest thanks and our sincerest congratulations. Among the miscellaneous periodicals not already particularised mention should here be made also of Le Follet, as still the organ of the " Grand Monde," meaning the little one ; of Science Gossip, as still a marvellously gathering together of curious facts illustrative of the wonders of creation ; and of Ilibberd's Gardener's Magazine, as a repertory of in formation of great value to the horticulturist and floriculturist. * * As we close our notices of the magazines for December our old friend the New Monthly comes lagging in, long after all the others, on this the Bth day of the month : and therefore altogether too late for its contents to be particularized. It is interesting to know, by the way, that its Editor, our popular romancist, Harri,on Ainsworth, has already announced as immediately forthcoming in the other magazine of his editing, to wit Bentley's Miscellany (which latter, magazine for the present month, by the way, we have not received at all), has already announced as immediately forthcom ing in Bentley's Miscellany, another serial story frotu his unflagging pen—that pen of fas cination that, we can never forget, wrote for us, years upon years ago, such 'witching tales of ro mance and adventure as " Rookwood," " Crichtva," HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 7. The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Princes o of Prussia, drove out this morning. The Crown Prince of Prussia went to London, and visited the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. Princess Louise rode in the Iloma Park. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REITTER'S TELEGRAIIS.) TIIE FUNERAL OF M. BERRYER. ANGERVILLE, Dec. 7. The funeral of M. Berryer took place to-day in the presence of numerous deputations from Paris, the departments, and London. The service com menced at 1 p.m., and lasted about two hours. Mgr. Dupanloups presided over the ceremony at the cemetery, but did not make any speech. M 1 de Sacy, Grevy, Marie, Laferte, Deseze, Noailles, de Falloux, Bocher, and the President of the socie ties of typographers and carpenters spoke succes sively at the grave. MM. de Sacy, de FaHoax, Thiers, and Noailles were the pall-bearers. and " Jack Shepherd." It is not the least graceful act marking the close of Mr. Disraeli's Premiership that, as First Minister of the Crown, he has just -warded a pension of 1100 a year upon the Civil :List to a brother novelist and contemporary man of letters as popular as William Harrison Ainsworth. n * L-. • &Int P. _ 4.7 neat AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, Dec. 8. The Allan Company's steamship Austrian, from Quebec, arrived in Lough Foyle at five o'clock this morning. She landed the London mails and pro ceeded for Liverpool. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dec. 8. A royal decree, dated November 8, has been published, simplyfying the organization, forms, and the regulations of the Italian Custom-houses, wit h object of facilitating the expedition and transit ° f merchandise and commercial operations generally. Fuad Pasha has arrived here, and the Grab Duchess Maria of Russia has also arrived at e!‘" tello. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 7 (8 p l33 )' No disturbances have taken place. The Nadal ° Guard are still under arms. A few people, impelled by curiosity, assembled near the Puerta del S ol ' but did not assume any hostile attitude. In fa c all fears of a collision have disappeared. The municipal commission presented therusel/ e5 this afternoon at the palace of the President of th e , Provisional Government, to offer their moral a lid . material support for the maintenance of the Pr y ' ciples consecrated by the revolution. Perfect tranquillity prevails in Andalusia. MALTA. VALLETA, Dec. 8. Her Majesty's Training frigate Bristol, left he re on the Ist Dec., for Auguste, Naples, Blito ree ' Algiers, and Gibraltar. She is to arrive in ljg land at the end of January. On the 3d inst., the Chiltern returned froni Tri poli, after repairing the Alexandria old cable le that locality. The Bishop of Gibraltar left on the sth Pr Tunis in the steamer Lancefield, and reached there yesterday. Her Majesty's despatch boat Pysche arrived fre t° Alexandria on the 21 ; the Cruizer, from Patrast 433 the sth ; the Eudymion, from Alexandria ; and t b° Cockatrice from Sulina on the Gth. The Scrap's arrived from Alexandria on the afternoon of the 1 7th, with the head quarters of the 21st Brigade ° the Royal Artillery and detachments, making to gether 1,160. All well. She left early to-dal fl3r Portsmouth, expecting to arrive there on the 1 7 °' The Crocodile has not arrived. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. S. The Constitationnel of to-day says :—" We bag : reason to know that the mediating Powers obtained from the Turkish Government the pr od's : to suspend the .threatened rupture with Greer© until the 12th inst., even in case of a refusal oa th part of that Power to comply with the demancl's° Turkey." The communications made by the journ al 111 Turgiue of Constantinople in reference to the atti tude of the Porte towards Greece, are cousid'3fea here to be greatly exaggerated. The Moniteur, in its bulletin of to-day, sq . ' ;„a Count Bismarck, on his arrival at Berlin , visit the Ambassadors of France, England, and itilssl and in conversation with these diplomatists e s' pressed his confidence in the maintenance o f go d relations between the Great Powers. MAURITIUS, Nov., 18, via SO 2 ' ors Her Illajesty's ship Urgent left for the Cap e the 15th inst. with the 32d Rogimmt. Fever continues in the island, but the 13 3 ° 143 is not above the ordinary average. the Considerable embarrassment prevails atnonS G 0 planters owing to the short sugar crop. Th e Pr' of sugar has advanced 2s. RANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 7. F Three o'clock.—The 130rl‘el closed as follows :- 4i per Cont. End of month — 3 po'r Cent End of month 7l 35 Credit Mobilier 297 50 End of month 295 Credit Foncier 1.527 End of month — „, 00 Bank Shares ....•• 3100 Ital'an Loan ...... Eud of month... Mexican Loan ..• Do. Bonds ...... .04 Spanish Threes ... Home Debt...... Deferred ......... s. Cash 911} 12 121 ...... 9661 63 3 t 577# RAu.w4x Orleans • Northern Lyons and Mediterraw Southern..... ;17' Western Eastern • 4Bl Sardinian Austrian 4 15 Lombard 68/ North of Spain 83 Saragossa „..,,,,.....• 4 81 Roman CIS 00000000000 Yesterday a detachment of 131 n ou-co i n7; ef mmi officers and men, belonging to the depot sou heed' companies of Royal Engineers, rejoined the quarters at Brompton barracks, Chatham, °ll t the completion of their course of ball practice 'wog Government rifle range, Milton. The f°ll° officers arrived with the detachment—Lie'ill'aref Merriman, Lieut. L. J. Brown, Lieut. J. Lieut. R. J. Moc,re, and Lieut. AV. W. na. rb i la rge ST. BARTHOLOMEWS HOS ITA h. hamper of game, which was forwarded from SO — A el rrioc ham by direction of his Royal Highness the u so o Wales, has been received at this Hospital fort 0 0 0, AO the patients, in whose well-being his Royal llgbileno th President of the Hospital, shows on all occasic)- liveliest interest. t" THE NEW ARCHBISHOP.—At a meeting De na Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, on Friday last, th A Et c , presiding, her Majesty's Gonge d'Elire noniinating.:lolr, cessor to the late Dr. Longley in tha ArehiepiseoP93 of pr. was read and acted upon in the unanimous electi c° th° A. C. Tait, late Bishop of London. The bellS eof t he Cathedral were rung during the day in celebratie° event.