The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-04 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY.

That Mr. Gladstone has been "sent for," that he has
had an interview with the Queen, and that he is now
endeavour ag to form a new Ministry, is all that can really
be annothiced as fact concerning the progress of
political affairs. Everything else is mere probability.
Who will be left in the cold to grumble, and,
maybe, to become " independent," who will be taken
into the Cabinet, who obtain the most important posts—
the coveted prizes—are matters upon which there can be
no certainty. We may safely assume that Mr. Gladstone
will be First Lord of the Treasury. All beyond
is among those things that may or may not be.
Nevertheless, all the London morning papers enter
into speculations as to the new Ministry. The
list from which Mr. Gladstone will have to "pick his
men "is calculated to cause some embarrassment. The
Daily News, on what authority we know not, sends Lord
Russell, Lord Halifax, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and
the Duke of Somerset into a "well-earned retirement."
Then there will remain as material from which to form
the Cabinet, Lord Granville, Lord Clarendon, the Duke
of Argyll, Lord Kimberley, Lord Dufferin, and Lord De
Grey in the Upper House ; of Mr. Bright, Mr. Lowe,
Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Childers, Mr. Stansfeld, the
Marquis of Hartington (whose absence from Parlia-
ment is not likely to be of long duration), Mr. W. E.
Forster, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr.
Goschen, and Mr. Ayrton:in the Lower. To this list, given
by the Daily News, may be added the names put forward by
the Telegraph, of Mr. Bruce (who is by the bye out of Parlia-
ment), and Mr. Brand—the "minority" member for Cam.
bridgeshire. To begin with the Foreign Office—all our
contemporaries agree in putting a peer in that post. Three
are mentioned. There is, first, Lord Kimberley, whose
training in the Foreign Office and well-known energy
make him, to use a sporting phrase, a " great favourite."
But what about Lord Clarendon? He, the devoted fol-
lower of Lord Palmerston's policy, is chosen by the Whigs.
The Times, however, has quite an original guess,
and suggests Lord Granville. By others Lord Granville
is put in his old place of President of the Council, with
the leadership of the Upper House. The Duke of Argyll,
too, is not thought likely to take other than the place of
Lord Privy Seal. For the post of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer there are several competitors. The Daily News
thus discusses their claims:—" Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Goschen,
and Mr. Childers are statesmen any one of whom might
fittingly hold the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Card-
well's services will, however, probably be required
in another important department. Mr. Goschen
understands both the theory of trade and its prac-
tice ; he is a City man who has the confidence of
the City ; but his parliamentary reputation is not up to
the level of so high an office of State as the Exchequer.
He has scarcely sustained the weight of his sudden pro-
motion to the Cabinet ; and he has not yet had the oppor-
tunity of showing administrative capacity. The appoint-
ment would be too much like an experiment to be
ventured. The eminent capacity displayed by Mr.
Childers as Secretary of the Treasury, and the close con-
tact in which that office brought him with Mr. Gladstone
as Chancellor of the Exchequer, marks him out as the
natural Finance Minister in Mr. Gladstone's Government."
Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Lowe are mentioned for the Admi-
ralty. Mr. Lowe's supposed want of what is called
" official temper " makes him give way to Mr. Cardwell,
the hardest of whose work for a few months will be to set
the department straight with as little confusion and noise
as possible. For the Home Office the Daily News mentions
Lord Kimberley, with Mr. Ayrton RS Under Secretary.
The same paper thus sums up the probabilities as to
several appointments :—" Mr. Lowe or the Duke of Argyll
would have an office suited to and taxing their great
abilities in the India Department. The Marquis of Harting-
ton, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, or Mr. Villiers in the
Colonial Department ; Lord Hartington or Mr. For-
tescue in the Irish Office ; Mr. Villiers, Mr. Forster,
er Mr. Goschen at the Board of Trade or the
Poor-law Department; Lord Dufferin or Lord De Grey as
Lord-Lieutenant for Ireland, Lord Privy Seal, or Post-
master-General, would all be good appointments. Lord
Granville will probably resume his old place as Lord
President, with the Ministerial leadership of the Lords.
Of Mr. Bright's disposition with respect to office no one
but himself is authorised to speak. As to the Lord
Chancellorship, for which Sir Roundell Palmer is dis-
qualified by honourable scruples, the choice probably lies
between Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Lord Justice
Wood. Sir Alexander Cockburn would be a powerful
accession to the debating strength of the Government in the
Lords ; Sir William Page Wood's character as an equity
judge, and his sound and earnest churchmanship, would
make him a valuable accession to the Ministry." The legal
appointments are very uncertain. Those who thought
Sir Roundell might, notwithstanding his views on disen-
dowment, occupy the woolsack, now hold their peace. The
more general opinion seems to be that the Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn will take that office, and thus make room
for Sir Robert Collier on the bench. Thus, Messrs: Cole-
ridge and Harcourt may take the Attorney and Solicitor-
Generalships. The Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland is assigned
to Lord De Grey and Ripon. Of Mr. Bright there are
many rumours, but the general opinion is that he will not
take office, though the ground for that opinion is by no
means "safe." It is stated that Mr. Bright has been
"summoned to town " by Mr. Gladstone.
It will, however, be hard work to please all parties.
The Post speaks yet of the want of organisation in the
Liberal party ; should any party think itself slighted
it may rebel. The Liberal party, says the Post, "is at
present rather a horde than a holt ; its views and temper
are utterly unknown to its leaders, and its members, quite
unaccustomed to and ignorant of each other, will be as in-
capable of forming line as the rawest army of recruits that
ever was raised. The spirit and determination, no doubt, are
in them, and it wanted but one thing to make it available
and manageable in the hands of a chief. That one thing
was a battle and a victory, or even a battle without a
victory, rather than none at all. The struggle would
have brought the men together and placed them
under control." Mr. Disraeli, by resignation, has deprived
" the party," therefore, of what it wanted. But
the Post does not think it should be a difficult task for Mr.
Gladstone to form an Administration.

The Ven. Archdeacon Emery has been appointed
to a minor canonry in Ely Cathedral.

An address to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
u.P., is in course of signature by the women of Lancashire.

The death is announced this morning of Lady
Bradford, tho widow of the late General Sir Thomas Brad-
ford, G.C.B.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer
the honour of a baronetcy upon Mr. Thomas Edward Moss,
of Baby lanes, Lancashire.
Mr. Charles Fremantle, private secretary of the
Prime Minister, has been appointed to the office of Deputy
Master and Controller of the Mint.

The title to be conferred on the new peer, Colonel
14I`Clintock, is Lord Rathdonnell, of Rathdonnell, in tho
county of Tyrone, one of the earliest possessions of the
family of the M'Clintocks.
Mr. Henry Haggard, insurance broker, was
yesterday committed for trial by tho Lord Mayor on a
chargo of obtaining money on the security of a diamond
bracelet, falsely represented to belong to his wife.

The following gentlemen were called to the Inner
Bar yesterday by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland:—G.
O'Malley, Charles Leech, 0. 11. Woodroffo, Henry Fitzgib-
bon, Robert Carson, William Forbes Johnson, Francis
Meade, the Hon. David Plunket, Rarotonga Robinson, Jas.
H. Monahan, and Richard W. Gamble.
THE HON. CHAMP LANGDALE.—The death is
announced of a representative man of the religious body
to which he belonged, the Hon. CharlesLangdale. He had
been regarded as the Nestor of the old English Roman
Catholics, and for more than half a century was the patron
and warm supporter of nearly all their charitable associa-
tions. He had attained his 81st year. As a young man he
had appeared on the platform at the meetings held by the
Roman Catholics at the Freemasons' Tavern and at the
Crown and Anchor, and had stood side by side with the
Howards, the Talbots, the Arundells, the Petres, and the
Cliffords of the last generation, to claim on behalf of his
religion the right of political emancipation. After the con-
cession of emancipation, he was one of the first English
Roman Catholics to enter Parliament, and he took his
seat as member for Beverley at the opening of what
used to be called the "first Reform Parliament" of
1833-4. He was not returned to the next Parliament ; but
from 1837 to 1841 he held one of the seats for Knaresbro',
not far from which the property of his family was situ.
ated. As a young man he was intimate with Mrs. Fitz-
herbert, whom he frequently visited at her house on the
Old Steyne, at Brighton, and whose " Memoirs " he gave
to the world some six or seven years ago, in the hopes of
vindicating her name before the world as a lawful wife
and an honest English matron. Mr. Langdale was the
third son of Charles Philip, sixteenth Lord Stourton, by a
daughter of Marmaduke, Lord Langdale, a title which
become extinct late in the last or early in the present
century, and early in life he assumed his mother's maiden
name instead of Stourton, by royal license. He was twice
married, first to a sister of the late Lord Clifford, of
Chudleigh, and secondly to a sister of Lord Herries. He
is succeeded in his Yorkshire property by his son by his
second wife, who is married to a daughter of the late Mr.
Henry Grattan, M.P., and granddaughter of the Right
Hon. Henry Grattan. Mr. Langdale himself was a
magistrate a_l4 dep_Rty-licAcimt f 9; Chest ItiSliPg of
Yorkubize. ,

TIER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice
and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon
in a carriage and four.

ROY AL NA7IONAL LIFEBOAT INS7ITU-

TION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Baring,
Esq., M.P., in the chair. There were also present
Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President,
Sir Edward Pcrrott, Bart., Vice President, Cap-
tain Richards, R.N., F.It.S., Ilydrographer of the
Admiralty, W. 11. Marton, Esq., Captain Da ,

St. Croix, Richard Lewis, Esc f., and Captain
'Ward, R.N.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £l6 17s. was voted to pay the
expenses of the Pelican lifeboat of the institution,
stationed at Withernsea, in going off on the 21st
ult., during hazy weather, and saving the crew of
five men of the smack Mary, of Hull, which had
stranded about a mile and a quarter south of Withern-
sea. The crew of the distressed vessel were very
anxious for the aid of the lifeboat, as they felt they
were in imminent danger, for in attempting to
launch their own boat, with a boy and their clothes
on board, it was immediately swamped ; the boy,
however, was fortunately saved. A sum of £l4
was likewise granted to pay the expenses of the
Palmerston lifeboat of the society, at Cullercoats,
in putting off, in a strong wind and heavy seal
and rescuing the crew of eight men of the brig
Robert and Sarah, of Blyth, which had struck on
the rocks at Cullercoats on the 21st ult. A reward
of £l3 12s. was also voted to pay the expenses of
the institution's lifeboat Grocer, stationed at Man-
desley, in going off, during squally weather, and
rescuing the crew of seven men from the boat
of the brig Rochdale, of London, which had
sunk off Hasborough on the 10th ultimo. A re-
ward of 12s. 9s. 6d. was likewise granted to pay
the expenses of the " William Becket, of Leeds+
lifeboat of the institution, stationed at Youghal+
Ireland, in going off, in a heavy sea, and bringing
ashore the crew of three men of the schooner I\lari
Jane, of Padstow, which had stranded near Clay
Castle on the 22d ult. The vessel had only started
from): oughal that morning, but in consequence °I
stress of weather she had to be anchored. The :111"
chors, however, dragged, and the schooner We'd
aground. £6 13s. was also voted to pay the es'
penses of the Helen Lees lifeboat of the society, Sta-
tioned at Kirkcudbright, in going off on Monday
last during a gale of wind and saving the crew 01
five men of the schooner Wiliam Henry, of Belfast+
which became a total wreck on St. Mary's Die'
near Kirkcudbright. It was reported that tb°
Wexford large lifeboat of the institution, the St'
Patrick, had gone off on the 25th ult. daring a gale
of wind, and, with the assistance of a steam tug'
f
bad brought the capsized barque Mauls, of
Liverpool, into the South Bay, off Wexford. 11130
0,
vessel stranded on the Long Bank, and the cre
had abandoned her before the arrival of the life;
boat. The Willie and Arthur, tubular lifeboat
the institution, stationed at New Brighton, bad °
the 2d ult also launched in reply to distance-signals'
and at the request of the master remained for sod'
hours alongside the ship Grand Bonny, at Liver:
pool, which had gone ashore abreast of Waterloo
coast-guard station, but which, on the risingooef
the tide, floated off the sands in safety.
Tom Egan, Cambridge University Boat Club 1i
boat of the institution, stationed at Tramore, Ift:r
land, bad also gone off on the 29th ult., and of 1/
great difficulty succeeded in saving the crew of
.%,
men of the Austrian barque Mea, which, darl_o i:
a fearful storm, became a total wreck in Trail:lu.
Bay. The Annie lifeboat of the society, at s 0
Andrew's, N. 8., likewise went off twice on the saw
day, and succeeded in bringing the smack Cant°;
of Scarborough, and her crew of four men safelo
into harbour. The Caister lifeboat of the instil
tion saved on Monday last the crew of nine nlell
the barque Anne Scott, of Arbroath. The men h 3
taken to their small boat after their vessel had e3P-
sized, and were in very great danger, when
were happily rescued. The lifeboat afterwards ivess
to the aid of another barque stranded on the C:tia
Sands, and succeeded in taking that vessel ate
her crew to a safe anchorage off Winterton•
lifeboats of the institution at Donna Nook, for
th
cawl, Kirkcudbright, Great Yarmouth, Slll3m,
to
land, Hayle, North Deal, Sutton, and TYnel3l°„ent
had also rendered various services during the re'‘,
stormy weather. The silver medal of the instittioo
was voted to John Trasny, in acknowledgmeee Of
his gallant and persevering service in saving °nt "of
doe,
the crew of the schooner Blue Vein, of Portra_a_v,
which during a strong gale stranded opposite JO 'A
Brack railway station on the 25th September..wr
legacy of £lOO had been received by the ins r,
tion from the executors of the late David f
sin
°e
ite
Esq., who had acted as honorary secretary
Thurso branch for many years ; also £2OO ldg:t;
from the late Wm. Dangar, Esq., of BishePec' of
street ; £lOO from the late R. S. Fydell, of
Morcott Hall, and £5O from the late Mrs. Essef 'do
Humshaugh, Northumberland. The thanks ?alio
institution were ordered to be given to Benlia
Heape, Esq., of Northwood, Manchester'
fof
acknowlegment of his gift of the lifeboat
ii"tbo
Heape, about to be sent to Kimmeridge, gaol
coast of Dorset. A communication was reacl..tea.
the Count Edmund Batthyany, stating his .1,..P0
tion to present a lifeboat to the institutwo
memory of his late daughter, who was hien re'
child. A contribution of £270 had heed of
ceived from the Manchester branch in a,/".
the support of the twelve lifeboats the brativeleti,
at different periods presented to the Efoiself
the last having been sent recently to toe
Isle of Man. The Leicester branch had COo'
forwarded the institution an additional
of it. 4
tribution of £5O in aid of the maintenance Life'
lifeboat at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth' o )10'
boats had been sent during the past monthwarOsli
ford, Farserburgh, and Ramsey, The aie
Government had ordered four lifeboats,
itt esso
plan of the institution, to be built by the fro/
Forrest, of Limehouse. Reports were reilfeboat
the inspector and assistant-inspector of oast'
to the institution on their recent visit to the
orderea to
• ig
Payments amounting to £1,606 were AO
be paid on various lifeboat establishments, 'oe
a total of upwards of £lB,OOO expended by the 11
stitution on its 189 lifeboat stations during dal
months of the present year. It had als° of 696,
the same period contributed to the resca.et_ of
lives from various wrecks. Altogether t_4l°`
boat Society had contributed, from its; frns; ret
ment, to the saving of 17,684 lives from sv_trione
It is hoped that the British public will cot at 01"
strengthen the hands of the committee d dal
stormy period, when its lifeboats are 006'
and night in saving life from wrecks. be
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TIIE ANGLO-BELGIAN PRIZE
• furld t
tg'
prizes offered by the committee of this 00 op
inauguration in Brussels, and for which ne.abriiu
tod to et
lish volunteers competed, will be _
winners on Monday, the 14th instant, Arlesfouiaorciy4
21, Albert-gate, Hyde Park (Mr. Chaerai
c;voi_
ou'o,
studio), when a special meeting of the gland of thetPtijo
will be held. In the absence from Eagia_su,o
president, the Prince of Wales, we pros
acting president, Field Marshal Sir
_.7o_us
of tbe:"00
will preside. A report of the proceed' ;_ted fro 'it 0
mittee since its formation will be pre...nrason• of
executive by the chairman, Colonel opportgolvor,
likely that the meeting may 1,37,- the Pof
inspecting the committee's engraving i.og.ze_ to,
painted by Mr. Charles Mercier _ prl
till of
Belgians. In addition to the Angl°—un
.tcout bf
wards which the king subscribed the 1".. se., • 0"..a,,J
.CoulrsoE, h haVe I-40n 111
to the committee through the Belgloauii„ to Ile
irvNolautnioteneall-si,).ainzt°l3 ir;
nglish
presented, so that the proceedings pr 1103'
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interesting nature. an bugl
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