The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

The oonaervative journals are sanguine in the
expectation that by Thursday the new government will be
completed and the writs hued. The Herald plainly says
that perhaps with one or two exceptions the administra-
tion will be composed of members of the opposition, and
amongst them will necessarily be found many of Lord
Derby's former colleagues. The premier of the two last
conservative administrations will of course be First Lord

of the Treasury, and Mr. Disraeli will retain the position
of Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the
House of Commons. Lord Stanley will go to
the Foreign-office. Lord Cranborne will have the presi-
dency of the Poor-law Board, and Sir S. Northcote will go
to the Board of Trade. Mr. Gatborne Hardy will be in all
probability the Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Adderley is
likely to resume his old position at the Educational
Board, and Mr. Ward Hunt will take office as financial
secretary.

According to the Post, Lord Clarendon was pressed to
join by the " highest authority." The Marquis of Lans-
downe has declined on the plea of health, but at the same
time has made it known to the new government
that they shall have his fair support ; and
this tone is taken generally and frankly by the
whig statesmen to whom Lord Derby has applied.
The woolsack will again be occupied by Lord Chelmsford,
while the posts of Attorney and Solicitor-General will be
respectively filled by Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr. &mill.
The Home Department will be undertaken, as we under-
stand, by Mr. Henley ; the War by General Peel, sad the
Colonial by the Earl of Carnarvon. The Marquis of
Aberoorn is spoken of as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and
Lord John Manners as First Commissioner of Works. It
is said that the Duchess of Wellington, Lord Sydney, and
Lord Alfred Paget will retain their posts at court, and that
Lord Henry Lennox will be appointed Treasurer of the
Household, and Lord Sandwich Master of the Hounds.
Sir Bulwer Lytton and Sir John Pakington will be raised
to the peerage.
According to the Tdegraph," a noble lord of high rank,
whose family was in the last generation associated with
the most consistent liberalism," lent his mansion on Friday
for a special meeting of the Adullamites, and strenuous
efforts were made to secure some of them in the new go-
vernment, but the attempt was altogether a failure, even
Lord Moho refusing. The Standard says, however, that
this refusal of office is not a refusal of support, and their
aid may be counted upon in suppressing all factious at-
tempts to injure the ministers. The Standard does not at
all despair of yet seeing Mr. Lowe in the councils of the
conservatives.

We glean from the Times the nature of the obstacle
which prevented the most prominent of the Adullamites
from entering the newesbinet. The single condition it seems
was that Lord Derby should not be the coalition leader.
For a liberal to join his government would be, it appears,
not to enter into a new alliance which necessity might
demand and patriotism justify, but to pass under the yoke
and surrender at discretion to a great and powerful antago-
nist. In a coalition it is absolutely necessary that the
chief should be one whom both parties can serve under
without exposing themselves to the imputation of having
forfeited their own respect, or sacrificed their honour ►nd
consistency. The Times supposes that other considera-
tions must have overborne this particular one, and hints
at the prejudices of Lord Derby's supporters, and of
those perhaps whom he wished to incorporate with them.
It is remarked in the Daily News that Lord Derby has
done his best to discredit his own government before it has
even come into existenoa. By seeking aid from without,
he has admitted the insufficiency of conservative states-
manship to secure the confidence of the House of Com-
mons and of the country. Overtures which it was an act
of humiliation to make have been met by the further
humiliation of a distinct rejection, on grounds which are
equivalent to an indirect reproof. His proposals have
been declined as dishonouring to the objects of them.
What, in that case, they were to their author we leave it
to esimists to determine.