The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-26
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whe New Ministry.
The London correspondent OF the New York
Tribune writes as follows concerning Mr.. Glad
stones Cabinet:-
His Cabinet is criticized as whole, and criti-
cized in detail. The radical Liberals are out
ragged by the exclusion of Messrs. Forster and
Bright excepted, there Is not a radical in the
concern, and the radical radicals doubt whether
even Mr.. Bright be an exception. Both Mr..
Forster and Mr.. Stansfed have held office
before, and both were expected to receive
that promotion to which their faithful
service, their great abilities, and their high
party entitled them. Mr.. Forster was Under
Secretary tor the Colonies in the Russell
Ministry, from November, 1865, to July, 1866,
when that Ministry resigned. His administra-
tive talents were shown IN marked way, and
his strength as debater in the House, coupled
with his personal loyalty to Mr.. Gladstone and
intimacy with him, were considered to insure
him the Chief Secretaryship of the Colonial
office He is thrown over board to make room
Tor Earl Granville, whose claim to a Cabinet
Office nobody will dispute, but whose claim to
that particular office was clearly inferior to Mr..
Forster's. 1t is supposed to-day that Mr.. Forster
will be made Vice President of the Council,
which makes him junior to Lord De Grey, gives
him no seat in the Cabinet, and is only tolerable
as a step TO the Ministry of Education likely
soon to be established.
The injustice of MIR. Stansfeds exclusion is
not less iiagrant. Unoer Lord Palmerston, Mr..
Stansfeld was junior Lord OF the Admiralty
the Navy-in 1868 and 1864, and In 1865 an
UndeT-Secretary OF India. He developed in
both offices extraordinary capacity, and has
since been known in the House as the most
intelligent critic of Tory extravaganza in the
Admiralty. But he, too, IS q radical, and Mr..
GladstoDe's timidlty has got so much the better
OF his judgment that he sacrifices Mr. Stansfeld
as we'll as Mr.. Forster to the croakipgs of the
Wings. Mr.. Stansteld might resume his old
place as junior Lord OF the Admiralty, but he
considers that he has served his apprenticeship,
and .,nA tnyn hnN,1 fnttr,
He is offered, also, the place OF Financial Secre-
tary TO the Treasury, where there is more work
and less pay than in any corresponding position
in the Government. He has scarcely the
his friends hope he may decline.
If the radicals are thus lett out in the cold,
nobody will say the peers have not been well
provided for. There are six OF them-surelY
sufficient counterbalance even to Mr.. Bright
and two more that sat in the Tory Cabinet OF
Mr.. Dsraeli, l don't know that a peer is to be
objected TO as such, but then 1t IS quite possible
to have too much of moderately good thing.
The governing power of this country is irreyo-
cably transferred to the House of Commons,
and the men who govern ought TO sit there
not all, but certainly the great majority.
There must be strong men 10 lead the debates
In the Lords, and a liberal government needs
strength more than Tory government, since
| the Tory majority in the Lords is large. But
six lords out of fifteen Cabinet Ministers are
! too many. seventh must be added, Sir
William Page Wood takes peerage, aud be-
| Gladstone himself, exactly one-halt the Cabinet
| sits, or will sit, III the Upper House. The
Marquis of Harrington, included in this esti-
| mate, would not go 10 the Lords till his father
| dies, the present Duke of Devonshire. But he
! has DO seat in the Commons, and one must be
! found for him by peTsuading some faithful
| creature TO resign, or he must be raised to the
! Lords during his fathers lifetime under another
| title. Cabinet Minister is of necessity mem
| Der of one Honse or the other.
But worse than being CABINET of Peers, this
! is Cabinet of Wings. MIR. Bright stands alone.
| The rest are not only Wings, but most OF them
ale Wings OF the Wings; and how can one man
| leaven such lump-of dough- / had almost
sad? Before the list came out the Wings were
| in mortal terror. 1t was said Gladstone medi-
tated ministry wherein the Wings should not
| be supreme. 1t they were in terror for a moment
they are in ecstacles OF JOY now-if so decorous
| person as an English Wing permits himself
| Argyll, De Grey, Kimberly, Hertng t0n-all are
| Wings. MIR. Cardwell is a Peelite converted into
{, Pamerston Whig-a quiet, mild sort of man,
the least fit in all the Cabinet tor making
head in the War Office against the
ncessant assaults of the Horse Guaris.
No man knows where the War Office
| ends and the Horse Guards begins. The
limits of their authority are inde6na6le. Certain
duties anG powers are clearly the property of
| each, but between there is a great de0atable
| land where each seizes al it can get and holds
all it seizes. 1t is the struggle OF the army tor
| independence Of civil control, and il needs a
bold, resOlute, clear-headed man OF high polit-
| cal and social position to make any stand at all
against the HoIse Guards. Mr.. Cardwell's chief
merit is that he is an economist, but on matters
OF etiquette aud the chronic disputes between
the two authorities, the Duke will ride rough
shOd over the COmmoDer. Over MIR. Lowe,
commoner and pebelan as heIis, no Duke would
undertake TO ride-would be endorsed in a
twinBllDg If he did.
Mr. Brghps acceptance of the Presidency OF
the Beard OF Trade is compromise between
taking Office and refusing office. He would not
have pure sInecure like the Duchy of Lancas.
ter, por would he take one of the great Secre.
tary ships which involved an amount of admin.
isnatiVe la0ors to which he ielt himself physi
cally unequal. The Board of Trade will not
give him much to do, What little 1t does is OF
a commercial nature, such as his business
training will make easy 10 him. He need moi
even do that, but may give it all, If he likes
into the hands of the Vice President. 1t is
nonsense to talk, as some of the Tory Journals
do, about Mr.. Bright being put of with an
inferior position. They know very well he
might have bad anything he would like, and
he was pressed to take Que Of the. two highest
offices in the Ministry. Apart from matters o.
detail, one place gives him as much opportunity
as another. He is in the Cabinet and OF the
Ministry; and no more is needed. Othel
Ministers may surpass him in official rank, but
in this ease, where McGregor sits Is the head o
the table.
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