The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-25 00:00:00

CHANGES IN THE CABINET.

The Daily News says: Our readers will learn with
satisfaction that Mr. Trevelyan is to enter the
Cabinet, giving up the office of Chief Secretary for
Ireland for that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, which Mr. Dodson will resign on his elevation
to the peerage. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, who
succeeded Mr. Trevelyan as Secretary to the Admir-
alty, will again succeed him a.s Chief Secretary
for Ireland. Mr. Trevelyan has well earned
an appointment which is at once a political
promotion and a political relief. Irish Secre-
taries at the present time are quickly used up.
An office so anxious and laborious cannot properly be
of long tenure. We are glad to think that the pre-
sent position of affairs in Ireland admits of Mr. Tre-
velyan's retirement from a post in which, if they were
more difficult, change would be risky. Mr. Treve/-
yan's advancement to a seat in the Cabinet is not only
well earned but timely. His name is closely asso-
ciated with the great measure of enfranchisement
which will form the main business of the approaching
session, and with that further reform in the
redistribution of seats which only awaits the
accomplishment of the assimilation of the county and
borough franchise to be submitted to Parliament. He
will carry into the Cabinet the personal and detailed
acquaintance with Irish administration which is
perhaps not sufficiently secured by the occasional visits
of Earl Spencer. Mr. Trevelyan's presence in the
Cabinet gives additional distinction to it. He is, if we
may use the phrase, a double-first in public life, having
gained high honours both in politics and literature.
Mr. Campbell-Bannerman shows courage and
self-denial in accepting the thorny and
perilous seat of Chief Secretary for Ireland.
He has exhibited in the House of Commons and in
the department of which he has been the represen-
tative a quiet and unostentatious efficiency which
affords good augury for his success in the more trying
post to which he is now called. Mr. Campbell-
.Bannerman is a master in the difficult art—more
necessary in an Irish Secretary than any other person
—of reply. His temper is unruffled, and he has
humour as well as good humour. Unnecessary friction
is not likely to be generated in the discharge either of
his administrative or Parliamentary duties.

OPINIONS CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE FIGURE.-iSt
Cabby: Any honest man would have taken it to Scot-
land-yard. 2nd Cabby': But supposing you found,
say a diamond worth five thousand pounds in- your
cab, what would you do in that case?" Ist Cabby:
Do ? I wouldn't do anything. I'd live on my
income.—Moonshine.
THE COUNTRY POST CLOSES AT Six.—Scene—Money
Order Office filled with anxious clerks at 5.55.—
Stammering Youth (to Postmaster)
wi." Crowd of Clerks: Ton look
sharp wi—wi—" Postmaster: ".D.o: you want a
money order ? " Stammering Ydnth
you—" Crowd of clerks: " Lpok sharp with your
wi—wi's." Postmaster begins to fill in piney order,
and Stammering YOuth, after Painfal spasmodic
efforts, says: " Wi—will you tell m—me when the
last post go—goes ?"—MoonshinG