The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-03 00:00:00

MR. DISRAELI'S ADMINISTRATIOY,

On the 25th February, 1868, Lord Stanley had the
unusual task of announcing to the House of Commons the
resignation of his father, the Earl of Derby. Lord Stanley
himself had been mentioned as a possible successor in the
Premiership, but on this occasion he informed Parliament
that Lord Derby had recommended her Majesty to
send for Mr. Disraeli. The House was adjourned
till the. Friday, and on the evening of that day
was again adjourned to the sth March. The changes in
the Cabinet were the substitution of Lord Cairns for Lord
Chelmsford, and Mr. Ward Hunt for Mr. Disraeli
as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Sclater-
Booth exchanged the Secretaryship to the Poor-law
Board for that vacant at the Treasury. On the
afternoon of the fifth Mr. Disraeli re-appeared in
the House, and took his place as Prime Minister.
He had not in the meantime undergone the trouble of a
re-election as member for Bucks, a recent statute relieving
him of that necessity, inasmuch as he had been only
transferred from one office to another, and no appeal to his
constituents was required. Mr. Disraeli announced to
the House, amidst some cheering and laughter,
that the Government would adopt a " truly
Liberal policy," and that he would follow in the
footsteps of his predecessor, Lord Derby. On this
occasion Mr. Bouverie made his celebrated speech about
the Liberal "rabble." The new Government were speedily
attacked upon the question of Ireland, and a few nights
after their accession to power Mr. Maguire moved a reso-
lution that the House resolve itself into a committee on the
condition of Ireland. Then Lord Mayo, in a long speech,
set forth the policy of the Government, and made the
statement about " levelling up," which has since been the
subject of such angry controversy.
The Ministerial declaration of policy was shortly fol-
lowed up by Mr. Gladstone's resolutions. During the
debate he declared that " the Irish Church as an esta-
blishment must cease to exist." On the 21st March he
gave notice of the resolutions. On the 28th of that
month Lord Stanley gave notice of a dilatory amend-
ment, and on the 30th the debate on the resolutions
began, and concluded on the early morning of Saturday,
April 4, with a division on which the first was carried by
330 votes to 278, and the Ministry was thus signally defeated
by a majority of CO. The subsequent events, including
the carrying of the resolutions, the introduction and passing
through the Commons of a Suspensory Bill by Mr. Glad-
stone, and its rejection by the Lords, need only to be
mentioned. One practical result was obtained by
the united action of the Liberal party in this matter, and
that was a pledge from the Government that as soon as the
project of Reform was completed an appeal would be made
to the new constituencies. Under these circumstances,
though not wholly without remonstrance, the Ministry
were permitted to carry on the necessary business of the
session. In order to secure the meeting of the new
Parliament before Christmas, a Registration Bill, by means
of which that object would be facilitated, was passed
through the Legislature with unusual speed, and on Friday,
July 31, Parliament was prorogued. The registrations
having been completed, on the 11th of November the Par-
liament of 1865 was dissolved by proclamation, and the
writs issued. After the second defeat upon the Irish
question, Mr. Disraeli tendered his resignation on the 3rd
of May to her Majesty, which her Majesty declined to
accept, and, in pursuance with the alternative advice
given by her Minister, resolved to dissolve Parliament
after the Reform Bills had been completed, and the
new constituency were in a position to be appealed to. Since
then the Government have carried the Scotch and Irish
Reform Bills through alternate defeat and victory, and
the House of Lords has rejected the resolutions upon the
Irish Church by an enormous majority. The Government
declared they believed the feeling of the country was with
them, and th e Lord Chancellor, amidst tremendous applause,
threw down his celebrated challenge as to a fair field and
no favour. The country has emphatically answered the
challenge. The constituency created by the Conservative
Reform Act has returned a majority of more than 100 in
favour of the Liberal party, and Mr. Disraeli has taken
the unusual course of anticipating the verdict of the House
of Commons, and has resigned. Thus ends the short but
eventful career of the " Young England Ministry."
Within the last few clays the Conservatives would have
been in power for two years and a half. Earl Russell's Gover-
nment was beaten on Lord Dunkellin's motion on the 18th of
June, 1866, and the third Government of the Earl of
Derby was formally sworn in on the Gth of July fol-
lowing. Only three members of the Cabinet now
hold the offices which were entrusted to them when
Lord Derby came into power. These are the Earl
of Malmesbury, as Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John
Manners, as First Commissioner of Works ; and Lord
Stanley, as Foreign Secretary. The Premier of July
1866 withdrew from the cares of State early in the present
year ; Mr. Disraeli has exchanged the Chancellorship of
the Exchequer for the post of First Minister; Lord Cairns
has succeeded Lord Chelmsford on the woolsack ; the
Duke of Marlborough has been promoted to the office of
Lord President, leaving the position of Lord Steward;
Mr. Gathorne Hardy has gone from the Poor-law
Board to the Home Office ; the Duke of Bucking.
ham, from the post of Lord President to that of
Colonial Secretary ; Sir John Pakington, from the
Admiralty to the War Office ; Mr. Ward Hunt, from the
Financial Secretaryship of the Treasury to the Exchequer;
Sir Stafford Northcote, from the Board of Trade to the
India Office ; Mr. Corry, from the Education Office to the
Admiralty ; and Colonel Wilson Patten, who had then no
place, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Five members of the Cabinet of 1860 have withdrawn from
the Government : Lord Chelmsford, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, and Mr.
Walpole. The Earl of Mayo left the Cabinet for the
Indian Viceroyalty.

Another new penny publication has been
stated, the Shamrock. As the name suggests, it is to be
the " Irish national " organ.

A priest of the Church of England has presented
Father Ignatius with an old monastic house and fivo acres
of land, near St. Albans.

It is reported that the statement of the Bishop of
Capetown, which the John Bull asserted was suppressed at
the instance of the Prime Minister, will shortly be pub-.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Colonel Henry Lowther, M.P., to the Lieutenancies of the
counties of Cumberland and 'Westmoreland, vacant by the
resignation of the Earl of Lonsdale.

A young man was charged at the Southwark Police
Court on Wednesday with stealing ninepence from the pocket
of a waterman, at the entrance to the Victoria Theatre, last
night. In the course of his evidence the complainant stated
that he bad lost ninepence, when the prisoner called out,
"That's a lie; you didn't lose ninepence, as all I took from
your pocket was fivepenee " Ito was sentenced to a month's
hard labour.

A writer in the Leisure Hour calculates that a
copy of the Times, with its full supplement, contains
about 20,000 lines, or 200,000 words, and is equal to a
printed octavo volume of '5OO pages. The most rapid
writing of a lawyer's clerk, if he wrote for ten hours a
day, would not be able to transcribe it in less than a
fortnight. An ordinary number of the Guardian contains
about 142,000 words.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE DEAN OF EXETER.—The
parishioners of St. James's, Paddington, have presented a
testimonial, worth 500 guineas, to the Very Rev. Br.
Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter, who was for many
years vicar of that parish. It consists of a large orna-
mented piece of plate, with a pair of candelabra of
classical design with emblematical figures of Faith and
Charity.

THE SPEAKER AND LORD E. P. CLINTON.—
Lord E. P. Clinton has issued an address, in which he
refers to his retiring from the contest for the representation
of North Notts, and the part taken in it by Mr. Denison.
His lordship says : "At the time my farewell address
was written I was under the impression, formed upon
what I believed to be sufficient information, that I had
been unfairly treated by my late colleague, and my address
conveys that impression. I have since had occasion to
consider whether that impression was correct or not. I

have seen my late colleague in the presence of my proposer
and agent, and have fully gone into the whole subject ;
and I am satisfied that in all that my late colleague did
no want of faith towards myself or towards the Liberal
party can in any way be imputed." Mr. Denison, in his
address to the electors, says "he regrets very much to find
himself separated from his ate colleague, Lord Edward
Clinton, with whom he has acted during the late Parlia-
ment with perfect cordiality, and for whom he entertains
sincere feelings of esteem and regard,",,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 2.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
The Queen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart, walked in the grounds this morning.
Prince Leopold took a carriage drive.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park.

RESIGNA7 lON OF JILVISTERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Will you oblige Mr. Disraeli by pub-
lishing in your columns the enclosed Statement,
which he has addressed to the supporters of the
Ministry in both Houses of Parliament ?
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
MONTAGU CURRY.

10, Downing-street, Whitehall,
Dec. 2. 1868.

"If Parliament were sitting, I should not hay°
adopted this course.; but as the public acts of a
Ministry should not he misunderstood, and 03
there is no other means of explaining their
motives, I have taken the liberty of thus address.
ing the Conservative members in both Houses of
Parliament.

" When her Majesty's Government, in the spring
of this year, were placed in a minority in the
House of Commons on the question of discstab'•
lishing the Church in Irelard, they had to consider
that the policy proposed had never been submitted
to the country, and they believed that the country
would not sanction it.

" They therefore felt it their duty to advise her
Majesty to dissolve Parliament ; •but to make an
appeal to the obsolete constituency would hay°
been an absurdity, and the candid opinion of th.°
country coincided with that of Parliament, that ll°
course could be satisfactory unless the voices of th°
enlarged electoral body were ascertained. All means
were therefore taken by the Ministry to expedite
that appeal, and a special statute was passed for the
purpose.
" Although the general election has elicited, ill
the decision of numerous and vast constituencies'
an expression of feeling which in a remarkable
degree has justified their anticipations, and which'
in dealing with the question in controversy, 13°
wise statesman woull disregard, it is now clear
that the present Administration cannot expect t°
command the confidence of the newly-elected 110156
of Commons.
" Under these circumstances, her Majesty's
Ministers have felt it due to their own honour'
and to the policy they support, not to retain
bold
it office unnecessarily for a single day. They lac',
it to be more consistent with the attitude the
have assumed, and with the convenience of public
business at this season, as well as more COu;
ducive to the just influence of the ConservaW,
party, at once to tender the resignation of their
offices to her Majesty, rather than to wait Wo
the assembling of Parliament, in which, in
present aspect of affairs, they are sensible that theJ
must be in a minority.
"In thus acting, her Majesty's Government
have seen no cause to modify those opinions 1113°.
which they deemed it their duty to found their
counsel to the Sovereign on the question
.1f
the disestablishment and disendowsnent of the 101
Church. They remain convinced that the pr°l3,°:
sition of Mr. Gladstone is wrong in principle•
,
impracticable in conduct, and, if praett°
able, would be disastrous in its effects.
" While ready at all times to give a fair co°'
sideration and willing aid to any plan for the i!°:
provement of the Church in Ireland—to the pelleJ
which they opposed last session, rife, as the•,
believe it to be, with many calamities to societyr
and the State, they will continue, in whatee
position they occupy, to offer au uncomprowisivg
resis tan ce.

" B. DISRAELI'

"Downing-street, Dec. 2, 1868."

DEATH OF MR. J. CALCRAFT,

--
We have to announce to-day the death of CaPS'
John Hales Montagu Calcraft, R.N., the newili;
elected Parliamentary representative for the born
of Wareham, at his father's residence, RemPot°°°
House, near Corfe Castle, on Tuesday evenll3;
last. Mr. Calcraft had been somewhat unwell No
the past month, and being unable to addre ,
the electors on his nomination at the late e17,.0
tion the duty was discharged for him 11 Pio
brother, Mr. W. M. Calcraft, but at this time 13,1.
fears were entertained of any serious results.
0`
few days after the contest Captain Calcraft tool.i
cold, which brought on bronchitis and congestion ,
the lungs, and for some days past the worst aPPreo
hensions were entertained by his family and friend 0
as to his recovery. The deceased gentleman was b°llo
in 1831, and was consequently in his 37th year.
was the eldest son of Mr. John H. Calcraft (vvh° A
ff,.
presented Wareham from 1820-6, from 1832-411'; ,
from 1857-59) and of Lady Caroline Catherilii:
daughter of the fifth Duke of Manchester. "0
Calcraft entered the navy in 1844 and becanaBo2,
lieutenant in 1854, served through the Crimean ea
paign, but was invalided home in 1861, and inadeo.4
retired commander in 1862. Capt. Calcraft, Who lid
a stanch Liberal and a supporter of Mr. Gladsto66
policy, was first returned for Wareham in 1-81,(;
after a sharp contest with Mr. J. S. IV. Drax, °roe
contested the borough as a Conservative.
polling on that occasion stood :—Calcraft, 12;,
Drax, 109 ; majority, 16. In the late contest
iO,,
Calcraft had two Conservative opponents--*lie,
Mr. J. S. W. S. E. Drax and Mr. T. F. FrernO of
the latter gentleman receiving the suPP°rttbs
the Earl of Eldon, the Rev. N. Bond, lulu, ;66
Bankes estate, which at the election in
was to some extent given in vk-nto.e,
Calcraft's favour. The extension of the suf"of
however, gave him an increased number,
supporters in the town of Wareham and neigio
bourhood, and counterbalanced the supPor.ttoro
lost by the withdrawal of the landed proPrie,oo
above named, who favoured Mr. Fremantle. tot
result of the late election is so well knout' 14
we need not refer farther to it than
stating that the polling stood as follo0Car ',„
Calcraft, 314 ; Drax, 301; Fremantle, 68.
tain Calcraft was a gentleman of very una
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a
ing disposition, and was greatly respeete
all classes in the neighbourhood. His death .
cause a vacancy in the representation of Waboo
r.e to
At the present moment it is only specuiatio of
r
name any person as the candidate for the 11.
os the
seat, but it is generally supposed that one Belk
deceased's brothers will be solicited to offer In°
CoP
for the representation in the Liberal interes-• raft,
tain Calcraft's next brother, Mr. IV.
who addressed the electors at the late notl3lll3isao
is a gentleman in every way qualified. Ther° aio
doubt that Mr. Drax will again come forlfar
the Conservative interest.

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FATAL ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.--011 ;„ tlO
day a policeman, named Thomas Mutch, died ai,lo
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from the effects of jOr tho
received while endeavouring to quell a disturbance ixitrocl4
Grassmarket about a fortnight ago. He bad been °,;,iire•
on the bead with a poker and rendered insensible. 0• ;
1, 8
well-known thieves have been apprehended as
been concerned in the assault. it 8I
ROMFORD CATTLE INIARKET. —A very fa--
of mixed description of stock at market y estora,o -t pas
changed ownership slowly, at the following Pricl",l,,, °
stone and sinking the offal :—Beasts, 4s to 53; swlt)o 4'4
4d to 5s 4d; fat calves, 4s 8d to 5a 4d ; pigs, 38 10- oor°
Bd. Dairying cows, £l5 to £2O each ; ttnd I°l
stock £6 to £9 per head. A
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servant, on his way to Rosedale, on Monday, h,il°,,to,tiee°
ring between the Kirkham and Castle How` r 'lll°
leaned forward to look out of the carriage wieci°vi.ottieg'
door was not fastened, and out he went into tli° %t/44
The guard wont back and found him on 1118 legi,'4atod I
escaped with some injury to his head Bud 00 --
was able to continue his journey.

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