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No. 252.—V0L. VI.

LONDON, • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1858• STAMPED .. -SIXPENCE.
UNSTAMPED ..FIVEPENC E

Vress.

Lord DELAY/ARR Lord Chamberlain.

The interval of some days which
elapsed between the assumption and com-
pletion of his task was distinguished
by the usual amount of political specula-
tion. In the first recklessness of despair the
organs of the late Ministry did. not scruple to
circulate the most incredible canards. It was
gravely asserted that Lord DERBY'S eldest
son had declined to accept office under his
father, and that a distinguished and popular
member of the last Conservative Ca binet had
followed his example. The names of Lord
STANLEY and Sir JOHN PAKINOTON, which ap-
pear in the list of the new Ministry, are
a sufficient rebuke to the random malice which
dictated such assertions, and a warning to
the public against similar fabrications in
future. The only delay which took place in
the completion of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet arose
from the generous desire of the Noble Lord
to heal old wounds, and to reunite the Con-
servate party on its ancient basis. He has
only partially succeeded for the present ; but
he will come before the Legislature with an
able and well-selected Cabinet—full of young
blood and fresh energies, and cemented by
entire unanimity.
We are not surprised at the downfall of Lord
Palmerston. It was only a question of time.
With many fine qualities, and many popular
gifts, he has never been led to a deep study of
the English people. He knew how to work on
one or two prominent characteristics, and in
his own sphere he might probably have con-
tinued popular ; but the whole policy of the
country is beyond his grasp, and his failure is
not so discreditable to himself as to those who
placed him in a position where success was
impossible.

Viscount NEWPORT .. . . Vice Chamberlain.

Duke of BEAUFORT .... Master of the Horse.

Earl of SANDWICH
Treasurer of the House-
Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON • hold.

LONDON,; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1858

Colonel FORRERTER .. . . Comptroller of the House-
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hold.

Earl TALnor }Captain of the
jGentle-
men-at-Arms.

IRELAND.

Earl of EauNTouN Lord Lieutenant.
Lord Nees
Her Grace the Duchess of MA
appointed Mistress of the Robes.

has been

Yesterday afternoon Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Cranworth, Sir George Grey, Sir O. ltailrtri, and other
members of the late Administration, had audiences
of her Majesty to deliver up their seals of office.
Her Majesty then gave audience to the Earl of
Derby, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Lord
Chancellor (Sir F. Thesiger); the Marquis of Salis-
bury, Lord President ; the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord
Privy Seal ; the Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs; the Right Honourable Spencer
Walpole, Secretary for the Home Department ; Lord
Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies ; General Peel,
Secretary at War; the Earl of Ellenborough, Presi•
dent of the India Board ; the Right Hon. J. W.
Henley, President of the Board of Trade ; Lord John
Manaus, President of the Board of Works; and
file 4abst Pakiogton, First Lord of the Admiralty,
*iio severally kissed hands on receiving their seals

The curtain has now fallen on his long offi-
cial career. We shall not attempt to antici-
pate the verdict of posterity, but leave him to
the enjoyment of that repose to which his
years and his long labours in the publie ser-
vice may fairly entitle hian.
THE Liberal press has bet life with objec-
tions to the new Cabinet. , winnowed of
those venial acerbities which are the privilege
of the vanquished, they all resolve themselves
into this,—that Lord DERBY cannot command
a fixed majority in the House of Commons.
Not the most vituperative of the hostile jour-
nals has ventured to assert that the noblemen
and gentlemen who compose the present
Cabinet are less qualified than their prede-
cessors to conduct the

Her Majesty at a quarter to three p.m. held
a Privy Connell, at which the Lord Chancellor (Sir
F. Thesiger), Lord Stanley, anal Peel were
sworn in, and, by command Majesty, took
their seats at the Board.

LORD PALMERSTON'S foreign policy has once
more been condemned by the vote of the
House of Commons, and this time he has not
ventured to appeal to the country. It was
declared by a majority of nineteen that the
honour of this country could no longer
be intrusted to his caro, and, with a
proper appreciation of his position, he at
once placed his resignation in the hands of
her Majesty. Last Saturday evening the
Earl of DERBY was summoned to the Royal
Presence. On the following day the Noble Earl
signified to her Majesty that, in obedience to
her wishes, he was willing to undertake the
responsibility of forming a Cabinet, and had
the honour of kissing hands as Prime Minister
of England.

In personal respectability

fear no comparison ;
of social questions
snperiority. All this

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