The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

WIZ 11ZW MINISTRY.

Lord Derby had an interview with her Majesty
yesterday, and submitted a list of names which the Queen
was pleased to approve. On account of the maniage of
the Mimesis Helena, the council will not be held till
Friday, but on that day the present ministers will resign
office and Lord Derby and his colleagues will formally
receive their ►ppointments. Lord Derby's arrangements
as k,:vep by the Tirracs are in the main as stated
by us yesterday. He will be himself First Lord
of the Treasur I and leader of the government
in the House of Lords. Mr. Disraeli returns to his post as
Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Lord Clarendon will be
succeeded by Lord Stanley. The Secretaryship of the
Colonies is to be taken by Lord Carnarvun. Mr. Walpole
will be again Home Secretary, Lord Cranborne probably
goes to the India-office, and General l'eel will be again
Secretary for War. The Great Seal will be held
by Lord Chelmsford. The Duke of Buckingham
will be President of the Council, Sir Stafford
Northoote l'resident of the Board of Trade, and
Mr. Gathorno Hardy, President of the Poor-law Huard.
Sir John Pakington will probably return to the Admiralty.
It is said that Lord Longford a be Under• Secretary for
War. Acconling to the Times Lord John Manners is to
receive a peerage and to bo sent to Ireland as Lord-
Lieutenant, with Lord Naas as Secretary. Lord John
Manners is brother and heir presumptive of a duke, but
the Tams thinks he has no other quality which can
entitle him to respect as tho successor of Lord Kim-
berley.
The Herald, which seems less favoured than the Times
with official intelligence of the movements of its party,
says it is" generally understood" that the Earl of Malmes.
bury will take the Privy Seal or the Dueby of Lancaster,
and that the Marquis of Abercorn will be Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland. Lord Cadogan is mentioned as the probable
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affal-s in the Upper House.
The Daily News regards the personnel of the new
ministry as of slight importance. All that is really of
public concern is the fact that the tory government of 185'2
and 18:0 is to be revived in 1866. Such changes as are
suggested do not recommend themselves to a sober judg-
ment. Lord Stanley and Lord Cranborne are unquestion-
ably two of the ablest men on whom Lord Derby can
count. But Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office will serve
no better purpose than that of keeping Mr. Disraeli or
Lord 31aluresbury out of mischief ; and if any man could
be named less qualified than another to deal with the ap-
portionment of local taxation over different areas and kinds
of property, with the relation of rich and poor, and with
the other social questions which fall within the province
of the Poor-law Board, It is Lord Cranborne. steeped as
he is to the lips iu the bitterest prejudices of caste.
The Daily al-i icy proceeds to remark that the suggestion
that Lord Derby in forming his new administration ought
in common prudence to have left out himself, is as unrea-
sonable as it is indecent. But force of character is distaste.
ful to the new school, who find Lord Derby too honest and
pronounced a tory for them, as Lord Russell was too honest
and pronounced a liberal. A " coalition " in any proper
sense is out of the question. As well might a handful of
deserters claim to have formed a coalition with the army
which they have joined. Lord Derby is willing, as we
judge, to receive the fugitives, and to reward their apes-
tacy ; and, in return, they demand his degradation. The
three or four perverts brought only themselves ; and their
individual importance, it must be plainly said, does not
justify the pretensions on which they appear to have in-
sisted.

The Telegraph says the Adullamites expected that the
new premier would not be Lord Loei by, but, the tones
being true to their old leader, the conspiracy is completely
broken up, and the cave seems to be undecided whether
it shall give the new ministry even general support. The
spectacle is certainly the reverse of flatterin3 t.i dishonesty.