Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BEAC0NSFIELD'S SUCCESSOR. 4 Hitch in Forming the
 Ministry. GLADSTONE NOT A FAVORITE, The Queen Opposed to Him for
 Premier. The Republicans of Virgisla Want Grant With Blaine as Second
 Choice.
 THE OLD WORLD.
 Great Britain.
THE OLD WORLD. Great Britain.

1 EeaconsfieId's Esetirement-LOrdE Hart ingtOn Interviews the Queen-NO l Place for Gladstone-Only a Peerage | Offered Hinn-The New NEfnistry. | WINDSOR CASTLE. April 22.-The Queen accepted the resignation of Lord Beaeonsfeld
 as Prime Minister this morning, and sent a special messenger to Lord Harrington desir- | ing his attendance at the castle. He immedi- ately went. His interview with the Queen l this morning at Windsor Castle lasted over I an hour. This fact is very significant. With l the exception of official meetings for the sign | ing of papers for the compilation of some rou- tine business. the gist of which is all arranged | and understood beforehand, the interviews
 bstween the Queen and members of the Gov
 ernment seldom last nearly as long. The du-
 ration of the interview to-day is understood to indicate that the Queen and Lord Harting- l ton could not agree upon the course to be pur- sued respecting the formation of a new
 ministry. In well-informed political circles here the Interpretation is that the Queen in sisted on having her own way, and that Lord Harrington should accept the Premiership and either leave Mir. Gladstone out altogether or of fer him minor office in the Cabinet, that Lord Harrington declined to take this risk, ,and that he pressed upon the Queens attention the necsssi. ty of consulting the expressed opinions and
 wishes of the lending Liberals by placing Gladstone in power. On leaving Windsor Lord Harrington returned at once to London. He at once called upon Mir. Gladsto ne Earl Granville and other leading Liberals and frankly informed them of the result of his long interview with the Queen. He said she utterly refused to submit to the formation of 8 new government with EIr. Glad stone, and that no arguments or Eug- gestions from him availed in the least to alter her determination on that point. He had not failed he said, to set forth all the facts bearing on a.case for her consideration with out the effect of changing her resolution. Lord Harrington added however, that after the hopelessness of persisting in pressing up- on the Queen course she was evidently de- termined not to take became apparent, he had abandoned it. She proposed to solve the problem by raising Gladstone to peerage and thus afording to him recognition of his recent victory His Lcrdship further remarked that by the Queens authority he now repeated her proposition and submitted it for consideration. As one way out of the difficulty the ministry, it is now thought, will be thus constituted First Lord of the Treas ury, the Marquis of Hartington Lord High Chancellor, Lord Selborne; Lord President of the Council, the Duke of Argyle; Chan esllor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Mir. Childers; Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Rob- ert Lowe; Foreign Secretary, Earl Granville Colonial Secretary, Sir Charles Dilke; First Lord of the Admiralty, Rt. Hon. Mir. Cos chen; Secretary of War, Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell Vice President of the Committee of the Council, Rt. Hon. MT. Forster; Post master General, Rt. Hon. Lyon Playfair President of the Board of Trade, MT. Cham Der.
 LONDON, April 23.--Lord Harrington held several long conferences with the Liberal leaders yesterday and last evening, and will return to Windsor to-day to again confer with the Queen. He refuses to form ministry and indicates Gladstone for Premier.