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London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY N.
CONTRARY to general expectation, Lord DERBY
did not make his appearance yesterday in the House
of Lords; but upon the formal announcement by
Lord GRANVILLE that he and his colleagues had re-
signed office, Lord MILSIESBUILT, on behalf of the
new Prime Minister, intimated his wish that an ad-
journment should take place till Friday next, in
order to afford him time to complete the task with
which the QUEEN had entrusted him.
Lord DERBY may well ask three or four days to
*perfect the work of forming an Administration. His
difficulties were great at starting, and already they
have been rendered formidably greater by the re-
foul of several distinguished members of either
House whom be bed invited to join him. We stated
yesterday that overtures had been made to the pro-
minent members of the Peelite section. To-day we
are in a condition to state the general result of such
offers. Mr. GLADSTONE'S reply was, we believe, to
the affect that individually he would not interpose
any obstacle in the way of a re-union with the party
to which he and his friends had originally belonged
but that after so long a secession he did not choose
to return to its ranks alone, and that he would con-
sequently be swayed in his final determination
by the decision of those with whom he generally
acted. On applying to Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and
the Duke of NEWCASTLE, Lord DERBY was met
with refusals, which, though not unfriendly, left
no room for further negotiation at the present
time. Failing in the quarters we have named,
the noble Earl addressed himself to another and
a very different one. Considering the highly
conservative tone adopted for some time peat
by Lord GREY, and the coincidence of his lord-
ship's opinions upon the India Bill with his own,
Lord Denny deemed it not unworthy of a trial
whether he might not be able to persuade the ex-
Secretary for the Colonies to form part of his
administration. But here also he was doomed to dim-
.
appointment, and was met by a refusal as courteous
as it was conclusive. Under these circumstances,
Mr. GLADoTONE, for the third time in the course of
the last few years, resolved to decline office under
Lord Omer. Equally unpromising, we believe,
have been the results of the Tory leader's efforts to
obtain additional strength of other kinds. As we
stated yesterday, the Great Seal was offered, in
terms the most flattering, to Mr. PEMBERTON Lune,
whose professional fitness none could dispute,
and whose political sympathies had always been
understood to be emphatically conservative; but
for some reason unexplained the proposal was at
once and unconditionally declined; and Sir FREDE-
Etc Tar.sir,zu, as will be seen from Lord CAMP-
neLeil announcement in the Court of Queen's Bench
this morning, has succeeded to the post. Ms
lordship will be raised forthwith to the peerage, and
will take his seat upon the woolsack in the course of
a few days. Time was when the elevation of Sir
FREDIFtIC to the first place on the Equity Bench
would hare filled Lincoln's-inn with similar mar-
-1 mars to those which are recorded upon the promo-
. I lion of ERSKINE. But the jurisdiction of the Court
I of Chancery has of late years been so modified that
comparatively nothing remains now for its highest
functionary to do but to arbitrate occasionally
between the conflicting judgments of the
most highly accomplished and competent equity
judges or to sit along with them in appeals from
the courts below. The new Lord Chancellor is
eminently fitted by temper, manner, and long expe-
rience as an advocate and legislator to sustain the
splendid part he is about to be called upon to play.
He will look the character to perfection; and his
soroir faire will no doubt teach him how he may
gracefully conceal beneath his embroidered robe any
want of recondite or technical learning. Be his de-
feet, what they may, they will for a time be forgiven
in the universal gratulation that at length we have
done with Lord CRANWORTR. It is premature, per-
haps, to assert positively what the other arrangements
respecting the principal aloes are to be. Mr. DISRAELI
has long coveted the post of Foreign Affairs, which we
may, without meaning to pay him any compliment,
assume that he would fill with more spirit and
saga-
city than Lord Czt HENDON : his leanings and ideas
in foreign policy are unhappily as anti-liberal, but it
I. certain that they cannot be more so. The refusal
of Mr. GLADSTONE to accept the Chancellorship of
the Exchequer may compel the Right Hon. Member
for Bucks to resume his former position in the
Cabinet. We should think this unlucky for him,
RS well as for his friends. As a financier he
was eminently unfortunate. People still recollect
that it was upon his memorable proposition for a
house tax the Derbyite Government of 1&52
was overthrown. Historians of the period may
be able to show excellent reasons for concluding
that had it not fallen in that field it was sure
to have been annihilated in one not much further
onward in its march. But constituencies, and those
who have the fear of them before their eyes, seldom
look at matters historic II
; and the prevalent notion
of Mr. DISRAELI undoubtedly is that nature never
meant him for a Finance Minister. Whatpossible
alternative in Lord Deanr's hands there may be, or
who else he could venture to entrust with the
framing of a Bidget, and the defending itagai st
some half dozen ex-Chancellors of the Esc*
aer
in the House of Commons, we do not pretend to my.
The only man of his party who is confessedly
qua.liled for the post—ws mean, of err%
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