The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1868

institution which a Presbyterian Chancellor sup-

ported, and which a High Church Chancellor attacks,
can scarcely remain valuable in the eyes of one
section of the Church. The appointment of Lord
CLARENDON to the Foreign Office we cannot view
with entire satisfaction. Doubtless his lordship is
one of the most accomplished diplomatists of modern
times. But then he is also, without doubt, decidedly
inclined to autocracy in foreign politics. His great
blunder with regard to the Belgian journals, which
he proposed to gag at the instigation of NAPOLEON,
shews that his sympathies are not so Liberal in
the Continental sense of the word as we
could wish them to be. He had too short a
tenure of his office in 1866 to have committed
himself in any undesirable manner so far as the
American claims are concerned, and it is to be hoped
that he will be able to carry through the negotiations
which Lord STANLEY has so happily commenced.
Unfortunately, even before the latter nobleman has
surrendered the seal to his successor, an unforeseen
difficulty has arisen, which seems likely to
impede the settlement of the vexed ques-
tions, if not to throw them back into the
unsatisfactory position which they occupied before
the present negotiations were undertaken. Nor is it
only in American politics that Lord CLARENDON
will encounter difficulties. With Spain apparently
on the eve of a revolutionary outbreak against its
Provisional Government ; with France in a state of
deep-seated and yearly increasing discontent, certain
o lead to great changes should the present by no
means robust EMPEROR die; with threatening
quarrels in China and Japan; above all, with
the ever-present Eastern difficulty more for-
midable than ever, there is enough work
cut out for the new Minister. We only
hope that he may be able to secure the assistance
of such a man as Sir HENRY BULWER, to whom
more than any other English statesman living the
clue of the Eastern labyrinth is known. It is not
surprising that both Lord GRANVILLE and the Duke
of ARGYLL should have desired- something better
than the ornamental posts which they occupied
formerly ; that they should have looked for depait-
ments in which they could exercise their great abilities.
The Colonies might, perhaps, have been better
assigned to Mr. Low; but for the reason which is
given for his not taking the War Office—that he is
deficient in the art of conciliation. The India Office
was offered to Mr. BRIGHT, who knows every road
on the map of India as perfectly as a
country squire knows the roads on his own
estate; but the great orator has such an
aversion to war that he coulet not bring
himself to take charge of a department which,
among other duties, would impose upon him those
of maintaining a large standing army, and, possibly,
of directing a campaign. At the Board of Trade
he will be able to carry out fully his free-trade prin-
ciples. Our only fear is that he will prove; like his
friend Mr. MILNEn GinsoN, too much 'afraid of
Government intervention, and that his depart-
ment will for that reason fall behind the
public requirements. Failing Mr. BRIGHT, the
Duke of ARGYLL is by far the best man that
could have been appointed to the India Board. He
has for some time past made India his special study,
and it is satisfactory to know that he has recently
abandoned the annexionist policy which he once
favoured. The appointments of Mr. CHILDERS and
Mr. CARDWELL to the Admiralty and the War Office
are unexceptionable. Both departments require
able economists and heads determined not to spare
themselves. Mr. CHILDERS has lately made the study
of Admiralty accounts a specialty. Mr. CARDWELL
is a glutton for work, and Mr. GLADSTONE has found
a much better use for him than that to which Lord
PALMERSTON put him when he gave hfin the Duchy
of Lancaster. That Mr. FORTESCUE would return to
Ireland was as certain as that Mr. GLADSTONE would
be Premier, and the two appointments will receive equal
approval. Mr. FORSTER deserves a place in the
Cabinet, which he will have ; and many persons will
regret that Mr. STANSFELD is not there. Mr. BRUCE
Will be consoled for his disalvointment at Merthyr
by the offer of the nomination seat at Richmond
which will be vacated by Sir BOUNDELL PALmEn, on
becoming Lord Justice, and by the post of Home
Secretary, and of course a seat in the Cabinet.
The Poor-law Board will be entrusted to
another peer, and it is to be hoped that
Lord KIMBERLEY will display the energy of Mr.
HARDY, Lord DERBY'S President, rather than the
inertia of Lord DEVON, Mr. DISRAELI'S President.
Sir GEORGE GREY gets the Duchy, the only post
that could well be offered to a statesman whom years
have unfitted for the hard work of a department.
We have still to speak of one of the most impor-
tant members of the new Ministry. Everyone has
noticed how the Adullamites have been scattered
during the general election. But the leader of them
has been returned without opposition, and to him has
been assigned the high post of Chancellor
of the Exchequer. For this post Mr. LOWE
has special qualifications, which will to
a great extent counterbalance the suspicions
high motives motives or great principles ;
inspires, Ile has no enthu-
siasm,inVwhich no pbodiliteifcainl creed
he is avowedly a utilitarian, and almost a cynic; but he
is also an economist, and nearly drove the country
clergy into rebellion by cutting down the salaries of the
school teachers. He is so ruthless in his thrift that
he will be able to resist all those schemes of which
alwaysspoke without success, upon Lord
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PALMERSTON'S Administration. He is clever, saga-
cious, and unbending. He will throw all his mind
into finance, but he will never make it a thing of
poetry and of high principle, as his leader did.
As for the legal appointments, these, so far
as they are known, may be dismissed in a few words.
Sir R. COLLIER becomes Attorney-General in the
ordinary course of succession. The Times assumed
that Mr. COLERIDGE'S refusal to serve in the
Government was due to personal jealousy. There
was no foundation for the supposition. The
brilliant member for Exeter did, indeed,
decline at first the honour offered to him ; yet not
by reason of the paltry motive attributed to him. We
believe that he was influenced solely by an indisposi-
tion to take upon him additional work, and that if he
accedes to the earnest request of Mr. GLADSTONE
he will sacrifice his personal wishes to those of his
leader. Mr. °EAGAN'S promotion to the Irish
Chancellorship is an indication that Mr. GLADSTONE
is determined to abolish the last relics of religious
intolerance in that country whose pacification is his
first and most pressing work.

It is understood that the selection of Mr. Lowe
to be Chancellor of the Exchequer was as much a sur-
prise to that gentleman as it has been to the public gene-
rally. Mr. Lowe's own predilections would, it is said,
have led him to be the successor of Sir John Pak-
ington rather than of Mr. Hunt ; and several of
our contemporaries have already suggested that an
exchange of posts between him and Mr. Cardwell would
strengthen the Ministry, It would seem, however, that
Mr. Gladstone has for some time been of a different opi-
nion, and bad made up his mind with respect to his War
and Finance Ministers oven before the change of Govern-
ment was imminent.—Echoes from the Clubs.
The use of monograms has become so gene-
sal that the greatest taste is now displayed in
their execution. Messrs. 'Milner and Knewstub,
t.f St. James's street, stand prominently forward for
the beauty of their designs, and the manner in which
they have combined the use of more than two colours
in combination with gold, will still further tend to in-
crease the reputation of their house. A little work has
just been published, containing a variety of their choicest
and latest specimens of the art., which for beauty stand
unequalled. The little book is particularly cheap, as it can
be had merely for the abking.

During the last three years the amazing number
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and 1,295 hyenas have been destroyed in the Central
Provinces. In the same period 1,751 lives have been
lost by wild beasts, and 1,874 by snake bites.—Delhi
Gazette.

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