The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

ago.

BALMORAL, AuG• vefit
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
out this morning.
In the afternoon the Queen drove to the Glassalt stint
accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Prince Or of
Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph had the honour
dining with her Majesty yesterday.

THE CABINET.
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A London correspondent of the Manchester -°1
after referring to Lord Halifax's attendance on the '4 ,1
'. lit
at Balmoral, adds :—" There is no doubt that our c 1156
macy at this crisis is managed by a sub-committee of 0-1
Cabinet, consisting of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Granville,
Lord Halifax—the most influential survivors of .00
who got us into the Crimean war, and, as manY 14
judges think, laid the seeds of this terrible busineo.
their policy in the Danish war."

SIR JOHN PAXINGTON ON THE WO
Sir John Pakington, at the dinner of the Worn°o
shire Agricultural Society, on Thursday, said he rePajv
that the prospect of this country not being involve
ttf'
war grew better daily ; but woe be to that
hjcb
under whatever political name it might be known, "
allowed the defences of England to decay. obi
[lt may be recollected that it was through Sir ,0 of
Pakington's instrumentality that the home soldier at'
our army were furnished with breechloaders (snider r
tern) on the opening of the Austro-Prussian war
1866.]
Id be

As I am in an inquisitive mood just now, I should like
to ask who is to have the vacant garters. There are two
vacant—Lord Clarendon's and Lord Hertford's. Why
the latter nobleman got his it would be difficult to say.
But is not the time come when honours should no longer
be conferred upon peers of indifferent character simply
because they are peers, in preference to commoners
who have really earned the highest distinction that can
be bestowed ? There is some talk of conferring one of
the garters upon the Duke of St. Alban's. Surely but
for the, tradition which holds a duke, whoever he may be,
more worthy of honour than the most illustrious states-
man, this hero of a not very savoury escapade would give
place to Mr. Gladstone, and allow the Prime Minister of
England, though a commoner, to have the first stall in the
chapel of St. George's, at Windsor.
One more question. How about Mr. Bright ? Is he
well, or is he still an invalid ? Politicians of both parties
have shewn him great consideration in his absence. But
in times like these we can scarcely continue to have
Cabinet Ministers incapable of work. Mr. Bright's de-
partment probably does not suffer from his absence, for
he never was much of an administrator. But b,3
ought to be aiding his colleagues just now with
his advice about foreign diplomacy and home armaments.
Perhaps it is as well that he has not been able to do this.
But then, if his advice is likely to be such as they could
not accept, ought he to continue a member of the Cabinet ?
There are Ministers and Ministers, some who work hard
at their bureaux, some who are invaluable at Cabinet
Councils. Mr. Bright is certainly not one of the first,
and if his opinions are not likely to have weight, cui bona
his Ministry ?
The Attorney-general must now be likening himself to
the man who had a donkey and was immortalised by 2Esop.
Sir Robert Collier's acceptance of the Bristol Recordership
did not please his constituents ; his refusal of it does not
please his colleagues. The Govornment, in fact, find DUNVILLE and Co., BelfdaSlt;isahre theisk hiiralesotraohol"ter
themselves in a fix. The Recordership is, next to that of of whisky in the world. heir 01
meaedst3alal,rdocafessseisor in preference to
London, first in honour and dignity, and it has alwaysb Frenych brand' ;tioe
been held by a lawyer of high position. At the same (1n application to MessrsorDlT.7llll;arliaigrropia
time, it is essential, according to precedent, that the person sutlrmarnides.,wse.olf.ast ; or at tivi to4wian ofpceE3 4,
Royal
Beaufort 111.16

.11E MONSTER HOUSES OF LONDON.—It WOU
let
,
.ceresting to know whether, when the Great o
spoke of ns as a nation of shopkeepers, he knew ~,nod,
manner of shops we kept, or what was within, be"-re"
above, and beneath them, or if he knew, did he ever,
flect that we could not drop out of the march of hil„tiol),
thought, but must press onward still ? For the 'roe
has gone onward in this respect, and it may be sal" ilcl3,
the shops of the metropolis stand unrivalled, not so IlsiO
perhaps, for the faultless elegance which marks Pil the
emporiums as for the systematic and solid business 0,.
place. Take some of the leading houses • instance Aeotb)
Swan and Edgar in the West, Messrs. Varn in the 0.,,° ttier
or Messrs. Venables, of Whitechapel, in the East. Pe o'
examples could hardly be quoted of how we carry °n or
business. Take the latter; here there is a place for ey
ept
thing, and everything_ is in its place. One deParttolii
is devoted to furniture of nearly every descriPA
another to carpets exclusively, another to silks and 11),
other matters pertaining to ladies' attire, and so othooo
fact, it is like a number of separate houses cor°ot"
under one roof, and forming one gigantic establis the
But perfection of arrangement is not the only aim°o the,
proprietors. Their system being strictly cash, esverecli'
interest on the enormous capital required for a,2' ~Osr
trade, and avoids the possibility of bad debts, which, tbe
bined with the vast difference in expenses between the,
East and West end of London, enables them to 0%00
advantages of the lowest prices, combined with exeeqs
of quality. Could the shade of Napoleon visit tt er
some of the other establishments, and see to what an
tent commercial matters are transacted, he would a,,A 10
ra
that if we were a " natiou of shopkeepe" we exceliv"
our profession.—Morning Post.

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that the Western
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