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LONDON. 711DIT. 1072 17.

LORD PALNIHSTOX, we are informed, bee so-
complished the duty imposed on hin, by this QUINN
at the beginning of the week, and his Administra-
tion may now be regarded as complete. A second
glance at the list of its members is not needed to show
that it can boast a combination of administrative and
departmental ability, Parliamentary talents, and
statesmanlike character and reputation, rarely to be
found in Cabinets pretending to political homo-
geneity. If the change of Ministry does no more
than guarantee the country against the harassing
surprises and vain alarms which recur in a state
directed by weak and incompetent hands, it will
be worth all the pains that have been taken
to bring it about. Lord JOHN Kt:settee
accession to the Foreign-office is a pledge of a
vigilant attention to the interests of freedom abroad.
Mr. SIDNEY H mintier knows mote about the military
forces of the country than any man in Parliament,
and has given abundant proofs of his zeal for
their improvement and economical administration.
Without at all wishing to underv►lue the im-
portance of the Home-oßoe, we may express our
regret that the ►bilities of a man like Sir O. C.
Lewis are not to be directed to some branch of the
public service more imperatively calling for their
full development. We bad understood that he himself
would have preferred the principal place io the
Council for the Affiin of India. That would Lave
been a sphere worthy of his talents and resources,
and one in which we are willing to believe that he
might have dune no little service to the public. He
has earned for himself the character of being a safe
and successful financier; and Indian finance is pre-
eminently the administrative puzzle of the day.
The Duke of SouranaT, we understand, is to
succeed Sir JOHN PsEINGTott as First Lord of the
Admiralty. It is now seven years since he has occu-
pied a seat in the Cabinet, although if we mistake
not, be bas more than once had the opportunity
of doing so. No one, however, is leas disposed to
political indolence or more keenly alive to the oblige.
tines which men of great wealth and station owe to
society. In the interval which has elapsed since he
was a member of Lord lowa RuseELL's Cabinet is
Isl 2, he has taken a leading part in several of the
moat important and laborious inquiries that have
occupied the business of Parliament. He was
• prominent member of the Committee of the
Commons that investigated and regulated the
supply of water to the metropolis. He was Chair-
man of the Committee to whom the irregularities
of the Admiralty under the Duke of NOWEEIVIIIIIIII.-
LAND and Mr. STA t ORD were referred; and it was
by him that the memorable report was framed
which, for a time at least, put an end, as was hoped,
to bribery and bullying in the dockyards. Some-
what later he was a member of the Sebastopol
Committee. Since his elevation to the Upper
Haase he has taken a less prominent part; het the
Liberal party have not forgotten that it was be who
took charge of the Church Rats Abolition Bill, and
who fought a gallant though unavailing battle for
the principle of that measure against the over-
whelming odds of lay and spiritual prejudice. The
Duke of Son eattET has always had the character of
being a proud and reserved man, indifferent to per-
sonal feelings, and careless about unpopularity. We
are bound to say, however,that we do not recollect any
instance in which he has differed from the eminent
men of his party in which he has not been in the
right. The office of First Lord is one which at the
present moment peculiarly demands energy, teatime-
nese, and impartiality. Of these qualities he cer-
tainly is cot destitute. No man ever messed ►im of
• job ; no man ever tired him out with week; sad so
man ever bullied or cajoled him oat of his opinion by
the threat of losing favour with either Court or City.
We only wish that all the other appointments in the
new Government may be equally calculated to com-
mand confidence.

Among the members of the Administration
not having seats in the Cabinet, we Had
the names of the Earl of RIPON (lately Lard
Gobtmen), and Lord WontHousis, both of them
men fashioned to honour. The appointment of Mr.
Herjeant DLASY, as Solicitor• General for Ireland,
and of Mr. COG is, as an Irish Lord of the Treasury,
may, we hope, be taken as signs of a fairer and more
impartial administratiow of Irish affairs than the last
Liberal Government could claim credit for. All who
hare had experience of the eminent practical abilities
of Mr. .1 ,m • IVit.coN, one of the Secretaries to the
Tressu,) in the last Liberal Government, will regret
that his name it not included in the present Admi-
nist rat ion.

The nee Nlinirees take office with well-defined
responsibilities. Nothing hut the confidence that
they all accept thtsc responsibilities cheerfully and
entirely could reconcile the more active and prop's-
sire portion of the Liberal party to certain anomalies
in the composition of the Cabinet which must strike
every eye. It would be foolish to ignore that which
every one is talking of, and to disguise that con-
siderable dissatisfaction is felt at the meagre repre-
sentation of the Independent Liberals in the new
Government. If in a Cabinet which has been
enlarged to the number of sixteen membere,
only two meats can be afforded fur the more
advanced portion of the Liberal party, then
it is all the more desirable that the two offices so
appropriated should be selected from among thole
whichgive weight and influence to the men who fill
them. Since Mr. MILNER GIBMON was to be invited
to enter the Cabinet, it would Lave been only a decent
recognition of the section of the party to which he
belongs, if a Secretaryship of State bad been offered
to Wm. Without denying the merit, of the noble
Doke t mina the Steretaryskip al the Colonies bee