The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-30 00:00:00

THE NEW MIN.IBTItr.

" Speculation is rife," as the phrase goes, concern-
ing the new Ministry. Amongst the latest stories
there is one that. the Duke of Somerset is likely to
take office again as First Lord of the Admiralty.
But many of these rumours are mere guesses. The •
appointments which cause most gossip are the legal
ones—who is to be Lord Chancellor ? who Attorney-
General ? and who Solicitor-General ? It has been
said that Si William Page Wood would be made Lord
Chancellor; but, though a clever man, he is by no
moans the debater which the Lord Chief Justice of
England is. He would be no match for Lord Cairns.
And so the Lord Chief Justice is:pointed out as the
future occupant of the woolsack. Then what will
become of Sir Roundell Palmer P He is named by
various authorities as Lord Chief Justice of
England if Sir Alexander Cockburn becomes Lord
Chancellor and as Lord Justice of Chancery
Appeal if Sir William Wood is given the woolsack.
It is also said that in any case he will have a peerage.
Another peer whom a London correspondent says
Mr. Gladstone will make on his accession to power is
Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, M.P. for South Northum-
berland. It will be a question, says our authority,
whether he will receive a life patent or not,

ROW VOTES ARE OBTAINED.
Rather a curious illustration of election morality
appears in the Daily News. Mr. J. S. W. S. Erie
Drax, who has been defeated by Mr. Calcraft, at
Wareham, writes concerning an alleged case
of intimidation. The charge was that Mr.
Drax bad turned a man from his holding
because he did not vote for him. Mr. Drax
explains that the notice to quit was given
without his knowledge, and has been withdrawn. He
has written as follows to the tenant in question :
" I did not authorise Mr. Sellers to serve
you with a notice, and have instructed him to
withdraw it ; at the same time I must observe
that at the Wareham election in 1805, you said
you would not vote for me unless I paid you a sum
of money which you stated was owing to you by a
person named Vincent, who had left England
some years before, and who had worked for me.
I paid you, although you had no legal claim, and you
then voted for me. Your conscience on that occasion
must have been very elastic, and I do not see how under
those circumstances you can plead conscientiousness
for your vote at this last election." This letter
is a virtual acknowledgment that Mr. Drax bribed
the elector ; and yet he is not ashamed to own it.
The Rev. Mr. Bucke, who was said to have dis-
charged his verger for voting Liberal, writes that he
was discharged for saying that he would vote Con-
servative and afterwards voting on the other side.
He sent him away for telling a lie.

ARCHDEACONS.
Archdeacon Pollock has been accused of denoun-
cing in violent terms all supporters of Mr. Gladstone,
applying the epithets of unbelievers, atheists, &c.,
and threatening them with the vengeance of the
Great Judge. He gives the most unqualified contra.
diction to this, and announces what he did
say. In a recent sermon ho asked his
hearers : " Would they range themselves ' against
the truth,' or ' for the truth ; ' in the cause of right
against might, or of might against right ;
for the maintenance of the faith of Christ,
or the propagation of the devil's falsehoods ? The
vote, I said, which they gave at the hustings would
meet them at the judgment seat. And let them con-
sider well whether that could be the side of the
truth, on which every professed atheist, every avowed
unbeliever, and every abettor of the Romish super-
stition were notoriously enlisted." The Archdeacon
of Chester did not say that all the supporters
of Mr. Gladstone were atheists and unbelievers,
but he said that all the enemies of the truth
were allied with him. The venerable archdeacon
believes that every prophet and every apostle
we read of in Holy Writ would in his place do as he
does. " Which of them would look on unmoved
when we are called upon to violate a solemn national
compact, to confiscate the Church's patrimony, to bid
our Queen forswear herself, to give a new impetus
and opportunity to a false and tyrannical supersti-
tion, and to cast away, for the first time in our history,
our national covenant with God ? " So, according
to this archdeacon, the apostles would have con-
sidered the disestablishment of the Irish Church
equivalent to the propagation of " devil's false-
hoods." There has been in this question too much
assumption as to the side which is favoured by
Ileaven.

Archdeacon Denison is elated at the result of the
elections. The large Radical majority will lead to a
"disorganised rabble," and " Church and State" will
be the gainer.