The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The rumour that Lord Halifax was to go to Dublin
could not have arisen without some foundation, since no
one, independently of inspiration, would have dreamt of
Lord Halifax as Lord-Lieutenant ; but the Times deduces
From the fact that the office is still open that Lord Halifax
has rightly deprecated his own promotion to the post. "
Mr. Disraeli, in one of those turns of language which
are remembered, declared that the Lord-Lieutenant
ought to be a person of " ability and splendour," and
the Duke of Abercorn was, to confess the truth, a per-
fect realisation of this idea. Lord Halifax's "ability "
is beyond doubt, and, in fact, he is too able ever to have
cared about " splendour," and probably thinks, with Sir
George Lewis, that life would be very tolerable but for
such pleasures. It is certain that Lord Halifax would
never have been satisfied with the functions of a viceregal
court, and it would now be impossible for him to affect
an interest in them. It is his misfortune also to
have been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the worst
lays of Irish distress, and to have been compelled by
the duties of his office to appear before Irishmen
as a check on the impulse of English benevolence—an
offence which is, we fear, not forgotten in Ireland. It is
not necessary, perhaps, to suggest any one for the post,
but it is a mere matter of patriotism and justice to men-
tion the name of Lord Dufferin, who, while a pattern
Irishman in his sympathies and temperament, has shewn
himself also a pattern landlord, both in his treatment of
his tenants and in the candour with which he has discussed
the questions of land tenure in Ireland.
The Post remarks that it is impossible to foresee with
any approximation to certainty how the political issues
which are arising will be determined. The question of
the Irish Church Establishment stands in the front rank
of a crowd of scarcely less embarrassing questions relating
to education, to the tenure of land and the limitation of
settlements and entails, and to the cost and efficiency
of the army and the navy—an entirely new class
of questions, which are all, as it were, set down for
discussion ; and, what may be the cause of greater
perplexity, a question of foreign policy, with which Lord
Clarendon is familiar, and in respect to which Mr. Bright's
convictions are, it may be assumed, unchanged, will
probably have to be considered in one of the first of
Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet Councils. In short, at present
speculation on the future of the new Ministry must be
simply conjectural ; but in all events it may be affirmed
that the failure of a Ministry so constituted and so sup-
ported—justly proud of its administrative ability, and
flushed with an electoral victory—would mean a great
deal more than the defeat of a party.
The more the Standard considers the composition of the
new Ministry the more it is convinced that it is but a
re-shuffling of the old Whig cards, and not in any modern
sense a "Liberal" Cabinet. The Reform Act is nowhere
reflected in this Cabinet. With the single exception of
Mr. Bright, who has been put in the place where he can
be least active, the householder Parliament, from which
we had been taught to expect so many rare and strange
things, has produced a Ministry exactly of the old Whig
pattern—dominated by the same old Whig principles—
kept together by the• same aristocratic Whig influences.
There is actually less of the pure Radical element
in the present Cabinet, if we take the list of names as it
now stands, than there was in the Ministry of Lord
Russell. The Ministry of Mr. Gladstone is nothing, in
fact, but the Ministry of Lord Russell revived ; the
Ministry which was scared at the prospect of household
suffrage ; which believed that it was necessary for the
national safety to take two steps instead of one to the £lO
franchise; which was violently incensed and alarmed because
the Conservative Government took the leap boldly, over
which they had been hesitating all their life. It is once
more as it has been several times before. The Radicals
have won the victory ; the Whigs have taken the
spoils. The Radicals have had all the work ; the Whigs
have all the enjoyment. Among the foremost of the men
who ride in the triumphal procession are seen the faces of
those who not only took no part in the fighting, but who
studiously kept aloof from the battle, and some who
actually aided the enemy. While poor Odger lies out in
the cold—while Bradlaugh has the "key of the street "

while Beales is an outcast, and Mill is left to console him-
self with his philosophy, it is the Whig lords who ride in
triumph and who share the plunder. The Cabinet is but
a Whig eabinet of the old pattern. Nothing is changed
save that they have captured Mr. Bright and clapt him
where he can be no longer mischievous.
If the Cabinet is completed in the fifteen members who
have now been named, the Daffy News thinks its compo-
sition as a whole cannot be pronounced satisfactory. The
advanced or popular section cf the Liberal party is most
insufficiently represented, as compared with the aristocratic
and purely administrative, or, as we may call it, bureau-
cratic element. Places ;in the Government will be found,
it is rumoured, for Mr. W. E. Forster and Mr. Stansfeld,
but it is hard to say what places worthy of their acceptance
are left. One or other of these gentlemen ought to be in
the Cabinet, and we trust that the office of Vice-President
of the Council, which is the Ministry of Education in germ,
will be assigned to Mr. Forster with this condition.
If the composition of the Cabinet is not altogether sat's-
factory as regards the balance of opinion within it, still in
administrative and debating ability it will bear favourable
contrast with any which has held power in England since
the Coalition Cabinet of Lord Aberdeen. Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. Bright, and Mr. Lowe form a triumvirate against
which no rival strength can make head. The great ques-
tions which divided these three eminent men have either,
thanks to Mr. Disraeli, been settled in the most radical
and even democratic sense, or belong to a future which
men whom only a year or two will make sexagenarians
may perhaps be excused from contemplating. The
diverging paths have united, and though they may once
more part, the point of separation is scarcely visible in the
horizon.

The Herald asks to be allowed to express some satisfac-
tion at the way in which the offices in the Cabinet have
been filled up. It represents, we are told, all the talent
of the Liberal party. This is a poorish compliment to the
350 intelligent gentlemen who are left out of it, but we
are very willing to accept a statement which enables us to
see our way so much more clearly, and to recognise, at a
glance, the antagonists with whom we have to deal in
this, the greatest constitutional struggle of the century.
We rejoice, further, in the fact that, with the excep-
tion of the First Lord of the Treasury, the members
of this Administration of " all the talents " have
been so adroitly disposed as to be scarcely capable
of doing any harm in the employments allotted to
them. If Mr. Bright, for example, had been anything
else than what he is—as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Home Secretary, Secretary of the Colonies, Secretary for
India, or Viceroy of Ireland—what infinite mischief,
what ruin, what undermining of the foundations of the
empire might he not effect in a month. As President of
the Board of Trade, a post generally reserved by Liberal
Prime Ministers for the Radical chieftains whom they are
fain to admit to their councils, a post offered to Mr.
Cobden, and occupied by Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Bright
will be harmless. He will have the pleasure of sitting at
the same table with a statesman whose opinions are more
absolutely at variance with his own than are those of any
member of the so-called " Tory party." Mr. Bright
and Mr. Lowe are scarcely agreed upon anything,
and it is probably hoped that they will neutralise each
other. The author of the "Revised Code" would have
created a turmoil if he had been appointed Minister of
Education. As Chancellor of the Exchequer be will pro-
bably take his cue from Mr. Gladstone. As for the other
appointments, however eminent the statesmen who are to
fill them, they are absolutely colourless and without
significance, because not one of these statesmen repre-
sents a principle—that is, in the department over which
he is called to preside. Mr. Gladstone alone represents a
principle, one to which he has taken late in life, one which
we well understand, and with which we are prepared to do
battle.

The Telegraph is not satisfied with the exclusive Whig
character of the Cabinet. Of Mr. Bright's claims it is li
needless to speak; and there can be no doubt that his
presence is significant. We know that his acceptance
of the Board of Trade, rather than a Secretaryship of
State, is his own choice ; yet many persons will believe
that the post allotted to him is hardly worthy of
his reputation or just influence, and hardly commensu-
rate with his past services and unabated political
power. Still, he is a Cabinet Minister, and the
advanced Liberalism of the time will be ably repre-
sented by him in the councils of our rulers. But.
when we name Mr. Bright, we name the only
man in the new Cabinet who represents the Radical
school. Mr. Cardwell originally belonged to the Conser-
vative side, being distinguished among the immediate fol-
lowers of Peel ; Mr. Childers, Mr. Goschen, and Mr.
Bruce are most intelligent Liberals, but are not known as
belonging to the " advanced" school. Mr. Fortescue has
thoroughly statesmanlike views, and is personally popular
in England as well as in Ireland. Mr. Lowe is an Adul-
lamite ; and the rest are Whigs. We have heard that on
Monday evening Brooks's was in a ferment : it was said
that, for the first time since the Deluge, there was to be a
new Liberal Cabinet without the due admixture of Whigs;
but Brooks's must now be mere than satisfied. The Whig
element so largely dilutes the Cabinet that it is difficult te
detect the Radical flavour. Mr. Bright, of course, is there,
but one Radical among so many is not much. Can so little
leaven leaven the whole lump ?
Speaking of the Lord-Lieutenancy the Star remarks
vnat to be ruled by Lord II alifax might by a merry people
be accounted a new grievance ; but as the Irish are con-
tiguous to a "melancholy nc an" they may find sympa-
thetic qualities in tie official gloom of a Ilalifax regime.
One thing is certain, that such an appointment would
secure, if not tie gaiety Dublin loves, the efficiency
Ireland needs. The government of Ireland is a strangely
anomalous institution. The Cabinet Minister responsible
for it will live in London the best part of the year.
Instructions are constantly applied for, orders have con-
stantly to be given, without a possibility of adequate
reference to London ; and so far has this gone that the
permanent under-secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant has
frequently been called, more in earnest than in jest, "the
Government." The rule of Lord Halifax would be govern-
ment of a very distinct and positive kind, and in harmony
with the spirit of the Irish Office and Downing-street.
Lord Halifax would bring all his sagacity and experience
to bear in doing all for Ireland that hard-headed fidelity
tc), a.SQti a P9l_4:y c4;41 do for it.

(finalCM UI II Cintilat

HER, MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 8.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
went out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Gains-
borough, drove out this morning.

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princesa of
Prussia, Princess Louise, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge went out walling.

S 7 A7E OF MADE.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 8. —The dullness which pre-
vailed in this market at the latter end of last week
has continued to-day, and prices, although scarcely
tested, are again weaker. The market is dull
in all departments, with next to no business
doing. Some offers have been laid before pro-
ducers, but at prices lower than they are yet pre-
pared to accept, and rather than go on taking fresh
orders at prices which have a large loss both
spinners and manufacturers prefer to stop their
machinery. The tone of this market is perhaps not
worse than it was on Friday, when it was depressed
by the announcement and rumours of failures, but
the tendency is still to lower prices, and in order to
do business producers have been compelled to make
further concessions on all the lower and medium
counts of yarns and cloths made from them. At
the present time several circumstances combine
to depress this market. Liverpool is influenced by
increased receipts of cotton at the American ports,
and by the arrival of imports into the Mersey. This
reacts on this market, and a want of confidence
produces a certain amount of stringency in money
matters among bankers, commission agents, and
cotton brokers, all of whom are disposed to act
cautiously. According to present appearances
the prospects for the future are not bright ;
consequently those who require accommodation
find difficulty in obtaining it. Lower prices will,
no doubt, bring about a revival of business and
a more healthy state of affairs, but the down-
ward process is attended with trying circumstances.
For export yarns the demand has been very lan'
guid, and prices have scarcely been testel. Le/
numbers are decidedly weaker than they were on
Friday, and both 20's and 30's water twist, and
also mule yarns, could be bought at a decided de'
cline, at least id. per lb. below the prices of this
day week. Spinners, however, are pretty stiff la
their demands, and have declined some busines°
at only about id. per lb. below what in some
cases they were prepared to accept. All yarns'
both single and twofold, have declined in value up
to about 90's. In the finer numbers above 100 S
and 120's more firmness prevails, but in the lower
numbers up to 60's, both single and doubled, t%
decline of id. per lb. has occurred since last week'
The German buyers make very few offers, their se-
counts from the continent giving them no encour-
agement to enter into new engagements.
The demand for yarns for home consumption bas
been decidedly weak, and it has only been possiblea
to sell by giving way about id per lb. in price, aa,
even then only for insignificant quantities. In thol
retail way a few transactions have occurred in 32 s'
40's, and 50's twist, but in 60's almost nothing b
been done. Weft yarns are also weaker, and the
same is the case with warps, which are not saleable
by id. per lb. within the price of this day week.
The cloth market is dull and depressed in all els:
partments, but the transactions have been so fe',
that no reliable quotations can be given. 39in. 11/1:
36in. shirtings and madapollams are lid. per PIO
lower than they were on Friday, and printing clo
could be bought at a reduction of 3d. per pie
Coarse cloths have also declined in proportion, be"
these concessions have failed to bring out all
business of consequence, and the market closes (=lull
the excessively wet dark weather having added t;
the generally gloomy tone which prevailed.
HUDDERSFIELD, Tuesday.—There has been see'.
siderable attendance of buyers representing import•
ant London and Glasgow houses in our market t°
day, and decidedly more business has been dell;
Black doeskins at all prices sold more freely, a
selections have been made from stocks of We'
goods ou hand. Job lots in the various departme,
have also been much inquired for, as is usual at.ti,,
season. There is still but a very quiet businea-
doing by local houses engaged in the country WI:
The shipping demand for goods of all kinds e°,53
tinues to be very limited. The local wool tracle.".
been moving steadily through the week, with Prweo
very firm for anything good and clean.
LEEDS, Tuesday. —There was very little buslel4
done in the cloth halls to-day, and this quietaeB:er,
likely to last until the Christmas holidays are re
In the coloured hall tweeds in the new stylesrilleed
taken up eagerly, but principally in the shape
sample parcels ; this class of goods is likely to co
mand a favourable degree of attention fora °craa..
er
son or two to come. Heavy goods of the bear
and witney class went incidentally into Consume
tion. tion. In the White Cloth Hall there Was 3 i t
inquiries for hairlists of a moderate quality, It
.rbery
beyond this very little business was done.ll
are only a few buyers in the town, and they ofg
operate by way of meeting immediate reclaim,-
riog
The clothiers are busy preparing for the sP.o.
inquiry, and the mills are generally fully
ployed.
lAA Oil
NOTTINGHAM, Tuesday.—The unfavoure
of the market which was noted last Friday fi.
more apparent to-day. There was a moderettleci
quiry for yarns, but in most instances buyers a''oa
for concessions which spinners would not ace°rcl,
the amount of business was consequently limiten•
oder
best yarns suitable for this market being fairly ujeg,
contract spinners are not anxious to makes ere
and prices are steady. Inferior qualities
Br o
offered cheaper, and at irregular prices. oat
nets remain unaltered. There is scarcely o°o 0
doing in the lace warehouses. The home for
quiet, except in special articles. A few orcler; the
Spain are in course of execution. Some °
continental houses complain of dulness.

THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN AND THE CoNviu rari
FENIANS.—The amnesty committee and 11013-n,O of
secretaries connected with the movement for the 01;
the political prisoners waited on Sir W. Carroll, on
day, requesting his support. The deputation stiae'rial t°
they had come to the conclusion to forward a Wet fipti
her Majesty asking for the release of the politiv'' tea
soners. His lordship promised all his support, an the
that he would be most happy to bring the petitioe
foot of the throne himself. ti°
FOUR ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.—Yestercl3.7 /iosts+
City Coroner, Mr. Hsrford, held the following ii3ciid--00A
in each of which the jury returned a verdict of ace-fear
death:—On the body of a man unknown,'who wanes!° t°l
dKneaodN';sblyeyt-hsetreseidt,e
yofestaerdbariyekmkoirinni,noin a croft °
John Hutchin, a joiner, 37 years of age, an tbO brße°l
R homeob Robson-street,
dn
us turke t,
walkedH u l me.
up
the
e Saturdaystairstairs,
and nightwas
sdaces
rsde ;45,11)51, 4,111
wife to fall down. She went to him, and f°°ll,; 110 i
almyniadnr lying
ye
aaLrt
set.
Lewis,
sHb, bottom tf tdcoi mee
ddoaifrn-t
shtaerbestairs,about
aa hold t(°101
72 years of age. On Sunday morning her 5°11;1,11;
went home from chapel, and found her at the bet.
na.t bleedingllr
Waterloo-road, - re On
fdra: Ecit
t 1 3 e's'd;or;
of
arib
the cellar steps, bleeding from a wound ill
the -
temple. A surgeon was sent for, but lie said $s of
dead
immediately he saw her.—On the body cf,ter
Ellen Abrahams, two years of ago, the daug'tfoet,
Lewis Abrahams, of Mushroom-court, Mushroo,3l-80
Ancoats. The mother of the neceased said that °ft tb°
turday morning she went out for a minute and 04
child by itself. During that time she had fallen into
allt'of cold water, and though witness took her tort ft. oli°
pensary, where every means were tried to recove 10
died.—Alanchester Guardian. (-)C0/
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