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
endeavourilg to form a new Ministry, is all that can really
be anint-linced 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 whielt 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 Elmfferin, 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 cf 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-
zhequer 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."
Ur. 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 as 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,
tr 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 a-s 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
I for Sir Robert Collier on the bench. Thus, Messrs. Cole-
ridge and Harcourt may tal:e the Attorney and Solicitor-
Generalships. Tlie Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland is assigned
to Lord De Grey and Ripon. Of Mr. Blight 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 host ; 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.

Au address to the Right Hon. W. E. Glad6tone,
M.P., is in course of signature by the women of Lancashire.

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

Her Majesty bas been graciously pleased to confer
the honour of a baronetcy upon Mr. Thomas Edward Moss,
of Raby Honse, Lancashire.

Mr. Charles Fremantle, private secretary of the
Prime Minister, has been appointed to the office of Doputy
Master and Controller of the Mint.

The title to be conferred on the new peer, Colonel
M'Clintock, is Lord Rathdonnell, of Rathdonnell, in the
county of Tyrone, ono of the earliest possessions of 0.0
family of the 31‘Clintocks.

Mr. Henry Haggard, insurance broker, was
yesterday committed for trial by the Lord Mayor on a
charge 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, C. H. Woodroffe, Henry Fitzgib-
bon, Robert Carson, William Forbes Johnson, Francis
Meade, the Hon. David Plunket, Harstongo Robinson, Jas.
H. Monalan, and Richard W. Gamble.
THE HON. CHARLES LANGDALE.—The death i 3
announced of a representative man of the religious body
to which he belonged, the Hon. Charles Langdale. 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-
herhert, whom lie 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 Marmacluke, Lord Langdale, a title which
became 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 and deputy-lieute44ut for the East Riding of
Yorkshire.

lIER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice
and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon
in a carriage and four.

ROYAL
.NA7IONAL LIFEBOAT .INS7ITU-

I'ION.

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 Perrott, Bart., Vice President, Cap-
tain Richards, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the
Admiralty, W. IL Harton, Esq., Captain Da
St. Croix, Richard Lewis, Esq., 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 bad
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 sea,
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 Muu-
desley, in going off, during squally weather, and
rescuing the crew of seven men from the boat
of the brig Rochdale, of London, which bad
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 Dlary
Jane, of Padstow, which had stranded near ciaY
Castle on the 22d ult. The vessel had only started
from oughal that morning, but in consequence of
stress of weather she had to be anchored. The an-
chors, however, dragged, and the schooner went
aground. £6 13s. was also voted to pay the el'
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 °
five men of the schooner Wiliam Henry, of Belfast'
which became a total wreck on St. Mary's Isle'
near Kirkcudbright. It was reported that the
Wexford large lifeboat of the institution, the St'
Patrick, had gone off on the 25th ult. during a g 513
of wind, and, with the assistance of a steam tug'
had brought the capsized barque Mania, 0i
Liverpool, into the South Bay, off Wexford. The
vessel stranded on the Long Bank, and the ere
had abandoned her before the arrival of the life'
boat. The Willie and Arthur, tubular lifeboat of
the institution, stationed at New Brighton, had °:
the 2d tilt also launched in reply to distance-sigeel'
and at the request of the master remained for snel
hours alongside the ship Grand Bonny, at Liver;
pool, which had gone ashore abreast of Waterl°of
coast-guard station, but which, on the risingwo
the tide, floated off the sands in safety.
Tom Egan, Cambridge University Boat Club 10:,
boat of the institution, stationed at Tramore, Tru
land, had also gone off on the 29th ult., and of 11
great difficulty succeeded in saving the crew or
men of the Austrian barque Mea, which, dull r'e
a fearful storm, became a total wreck in Trani°r
C'
Bay. The Annie lifeboat of the society, at S a
Andrew's, N. 8., likewise went off twice on the sallj
day, and succeeded in bringing the smack Canto;
of Scarborough, and her crew of four men safe.„'
into harbour. The Caister lifeboat of the inStittli
tion saved on Monday last the crew of nine men (),i
the barque Anne Scott, of Arbroath. The men
taken to their small boat after their vessel had Or
sized, and were in very great danger, when tle'elt
were happily rescued. The lifeboat afterwards we
to the aid of another barque stranded on the cr oo
Sands, and succeeded in taking that vessel a'
The
her crew to a safe anchorage off Winterton.
lifeboats of the institution at Donna Nook, under,
cawl, Kirkcudbright, Great Yarmouth, S
ats
land, Hayle, North Deal, Sutton, and Tyncill°oot
had also rendered various services during the reld,
stormy weather. The silver medal of the instite 0
of
was voted to John Trasny, in acknowledgrneet' i 0
e of
his gallant and persevering service in saving °lidos,
the crew of the schooner Blue Vein, of Porttna „„
; 130/
which during a strong gale stranded opposite
brack railway station on the 25th September'titir
legacy of £lOO had been received by the hi' or,
tion from the executors of the late David Sice l
Esq., who had acted as honorary secretary el
Thurso branch for many years ; also £2OO legs
fe
,
from the late Wm. Dangar, Esa., of Bishol39g3o of
street; £lOO from the late R. S. Fydell, ~iof
Morcop Hall, and £5O from the late Mrs. Essef'ths
Humshaugh, Northumberland. The thanks °.3o3is
institution were ordered to be given to 83e3 ia
Heape, Esq., of Northwood, Manchcster'iad
acknowlegment of his gift of the lifeboat :00
Heape, about to be sent to Kimmeridge, frogs
coast of Dorset. A communication was read a'
the Count Edmund Batthyany, stating his ,14
tiou to present a lifeboat to the institutiveal
memory of his late daughter, who was hiso ore'
child. A contribution of £270 had bee dof
ceived from the Manchester branch in 51
h had
the support of the twelve lifeboats the bran
at different periods presented to the falself
the last having been sent recently to also
Isle of Man. The Leicester branch hv can'
forwarded the institution an additional
of its
tribution of £5O in aid of the maintenance Dye
lifeboat at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth:, "
boats had been sent during the past month
Tar osh
ford, Farserburgh, and Ramsey. The the
Government had ordered four lifeboats, on rg•
plan of the institution, to be built by the d fro
Forrest, of Limehouse. Reports were read
the inspector and assistant-inspector of Coo
to the institution on their recent visit to the to
ere •
Payments amounting to £1,606 were Ord
ropes
be paid on various lifeboat establishments, twill:
a total of upwards of £lB,OOO expended by the
11
stitution on its 189 lifeboat stations during da riot 4
al
s° of the present year. It had ao° of 6
the same period contributed to the resell Ole;
lives from various wrecks. Altogether the oish
eic3
boat Society had contributed, from its st
ment, to the saving of 17,684 lives from shifiode
It is hoped that the British public will COII t tilt
strengthen the hands of the committee ad
cll/''
stormy period, when its lifeboats are cub'
and night in saving life from wrecks.

D.--- -
THE ANG LO--R
ELGIAN PRIZE Fil", —; 9,t t'h
e
prizes offered by the committee of this filo% piir
inauguration in Brussels, and for which nearly 2',„ tile
wfishinner volunteers competed, will be distributed 'I; , ol
on Monday, the 14th instant, at four Pr'o'ier'4
21, Albert-gate, Hyde Park (Mr. Charles Atettlitteo
stud' when a special meetinc, of the general 0:0 DO'
esi ent, the Prince of Wales, we Presum° ' /jj'i
pwrillidol be held. In the absence from England ef thelit/
that t ,
acting president, Field Marshal Sir John 1311.1:p:00i
will preside. A report of the proceedings of t"'" tli°
mittee since its formation will be prevented trove 0 i!
leixkeeclyutitvheatbtyhethme
meeting may
Colonel Thorusoe.
iti ci
inspecting the committee's engrhaavvinsgainrOra°l39t°bratil;i:rilic':
painted by Mr. Charles Mercier of the lVog, ~ to;
Belgians. In addition to the Anrrlo-Bolgian pr'°: to of
wards which the king subscribed the munific°ut -110 1/14
£l5O, the Tir National p izes of silver plata, N.v,,,,°,011°'
our English volunteers, and which have been falwill /141
to the committee through the Belgian gini,tor,f a vorf
presented, so that the proceedings promise to 1)0 °
Al°'
interesting nature. a
The new edition of the 4. City Dial 11310"'i
vficotal°‘°
neck for 1869" has just boon issued. To the
ness offices of the corporation and the city it i
A
guide.