The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

the necessity of appealing to their constituents on appoinl

ment to any other offices in the Ministry. Schedule Hin
the Act of last session includes none but offices held by

direct appointment from the Crown. It follows, therefore,
that Clause 52 is not, under the circumstances, so " oppor-
tune " as might be wished, and that as Mr. Hunt was re-
turned to Parliament before the acceptance by him of any

office named in the schedule he must be re-elected for
North Northamptonshire in case of his appointment as
Chancellor of the Exchequer.

TIM NEW PREMIER AND LORD

CHETAISFORD.

" Truth" thus writes to the Herala, under date of the
27th instant :—" From the leading article in the Times of
yesterday, the public would naturally infer that Lord
Chelmsford had voluntarily retired from the high position
of Lord Chancellor. Such, however, is not the fact. His
lordship bad no option but to resign the custody of the
Great Seal when informed by Mr. Disraeli that his name
could not be included in the new Government. It
is stated that Mr. Disraeli's object in removing Lord
Chelmsford and in promoting Lord Cairns was to obtain
additional debating power on the Ministerial side of the
House of Lords ; but, on reading this day's Times, I in-
cline to a different conclusion, and I cannot but attribute
his lordship's remov4l from office to the last act of his
Ministry, which was 'to place on the bench a judge
chosen simply for his fitness to be a judge, in spite of un-
usual pressure upon him to make a less worthy choice.'"
In this letter the editor says : " We publish the fore-
going letter in deference to the desire of one who has a
right to speak as to the facts of the case. Into Mr. Dis-
raeli's motives we cannot, of course, enter. But we may
state, on the best authority, that the terms of Mr. Disraeli's
letter to Lord ChelmSford were courteous and even flatter-
ing ; stating, in effect, that although Mr. Disraeli could
not, from various circumstances, offer the noble lord the
position ho held in the late Administration, yet that it
would afford him the greatest pleasure if the noble lord
would point out any other mode in which he might request
her Majesty to signify her appreciation of his distin-
guished services."
The Advertiser states that Lord Chelmsford was the
only member of Lord Derby's Cabinet who was not
written to by Mr. Disraeli, to join the new Ministry. On
the contrary, an intimation was conveyed to him, immedi-
ately on Mr. Disraeli's receiving the Queen's commands to
form a new Government, that both Mr. Disraeli and Lord
Derby had determined, with the view of strengthening the
new Government, that Lord Cairns should be appointed
to the office of Keeper of her Majesty's Conscience. It
was stated on Thursday that on being shaken by the hand
by the Duke of Richmond, as he left the woolsack, and
on the latter referring to his retirement from official life,
that he expressed his regret that he had not had an oppor-
tunity afforded him by Mr. Disraeli of resigning his seat
in the Cabinet. If report may be believed, the reason
why Lord Chelmsford was thus deprived of his office as
Lord Chancellor was in some way or other connected with
certain appointments he had made without consulting his
colleagues while holding the Great Seal. That of Mr.
Higgins, his son-in-law, some time ago, and that of Mr.
Hannen, ten or twelve days since, to the judgeship in
the Queen's Bench vacant by the death of Mr. .Justie
Shee—are mentioned as among the number of appoint-
ments to which exception was taken by the Derby G overn-
ment.

According to the Post, on Tuesday afternoon Lord
Chelmsford, when he took his seat on the woolsack, had

not been informed that Lord Derby's resignation had been
accepted by the Queen, and Lord Malmesbury, to whose
lot it fell to make the statement of the fact to the House,
expressed his surprise that the Lord Chancellor had
not previously been made acquainted with it by
Mr. Disraeli. Lord Chelmsford the same evening
received a communication from Mr. Disraeli, which,
referring to the announcement made of Lord
Derby's retirement, and -of the writer being en-
trusted with the formation of a new Administration,
proceeded to state that with the view of strengthen-
ing the debating power of the Cabinet in the
House of Lords, which had been much impaired by the
retirement of Lord Derby, he could not include Lord
Chelmsford in the list about to be submitted to her
Majesty for reappointment to the office of Lord Chan-
cellor. It was in this curt, not courteous, manner that
the new Premier marked his sense of the services which
Lord Chelmsford has rendered to the Conservative party,
of which now Mr. Disraeli is the head. The excuse offered
in the communication above referred to—that Lord Derby
had, upon the formation of his Government, suggested
some arrangement of this kind—is simply inexact in point
of fact, and is scarcely worthy of more consideration than
the readiness with which Mr. Disraeli proffered his willing-
ness to submit Lord Chelmsford's name for any other mark
of her Majesty's favour.

Among the peerage claims which will come again
before the House of Lords this session is that of the Duke
of Buckingham to the Scottish barony of Bruce of
Kinloss, supposed to have been created in 1601, and now
enjoyed by the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine under a
more recent patent dated in 1604. His claim, we under-
stand, is opposed by the Marquis of Ailesbury, who is a
Bruce, and who owns Jervaux Abbey in Yorkshire, which
once formed part of the estates of the abbey of the barony
of Kinloss in Scotland.

It may not be generally known in England that
the Scottish judges, or Lords of Session, are called
'• Lords " during their tenure of a seat on the bench,
generally taking their title from the lands held by their
respective families (as Lord President Inglis is styled
" Lord Glencorse "), but that on their resignation they
resume the plain designation of " Mr.;" for example,
the late Lord Meadowbank, after retiring from the judi-
cial bench, was always known in society as :c Mr."
MaCk9lloChie.

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Tanat - trafraT h) .

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 27.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, in a
landau and four, attended by the Duchess of .Athole
and Miss Macgregor.
Prince Leopold went out, attended by Mr. Duck-

worth.
Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied
by Princess Louise.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
drove out, attended by the Countess of Morton.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGM-STREET.

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—John Brown, a
carman in the employ, of Mr. Jessop, a market
gardener, at Chiswick, was charged before Mr.
Knox with being drunk and incapable of taking
care of his horses and van, and also with damaging
a street lamp and the door of the Marlborough
Mews Police-cell.

Police-constable Arthur Cantle, 196 C, said
that yesterday afternoon in consequence of a gentle•
man complaining that the prisoner was drunk and
incapable of taking care of his horses and van, he
went to Mount-street and found the prisoner, who
was very drunk. lle ran against a lamp-post and
greatly damaged it. lie then took the prisoner to
the station.

Mr. Lewis (of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, of
alarsham-street, the contractors for the street lamps
of the parish) said that damage had been done to
the amount of 355.

The prisoner said he had been drinking but was
not drunk.

Police-constable Edward Sharvill, 50 C, said that
after the prisoner had been locked up some time in
the cell he (Sharvill) found in the passage a piece
of wood cut off the cell door, and on asking the
prisoner whether he had a knife he denied it, but a
knife was found upon him.
Mr. 0 wen Lewis, carpenter, of No. 6, Argyle-
street, said that the damage done to the cell door was
about 18s.

Sergeant Smith, acting inspector at the Marl-
borough Mews station, said that the prisoner was
very drunk when brought to the station.
The prisoner was ordered to pay the damage and
fines, altogether amounting to £3, or to be com-
mitted for six weeks in default.