Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
THE GLADSTONE CABINET
On the Whole Pleases as Many as
Any He Might Have Selected.
MEANS OF CHOLERA PREVENTION
Consuming Much Talent and Time Of Spec
ialists Just Now.
MINISTER LINCOLN is OUT In STYLE
rBr CABLE TO THE DISPATCH ]

LONDON, Aug. 2U.-l Copy7ghL line SIX
years rule of Tory Government in the
United Kingdom came to an end and a
Liberal administration succeeded it this
week with less ceremony than attends a
change in the control of an American town
council A few minutes of simple and pri-
Vate formality in a council chamber on the
Isle of Wight sufiiced for the surrender of
the administrative control of the Govern
ment of one of the greatest and proudest
Of nations A cere mony equally brief and
simple an hour later marked the transfer of
that vast authority and power to other
hands
This event, so momentous to the nation,
was so lacking in detail and in dramatic in
terest that the story of it occupied scarcely
half column in yesterdays newspapers.
Contrasted with the pomp and splendor
which will attend the change of administra-
tion at Washington next March, tine inaug-
uration of Gladstones ministry wes appar-
emily an affair of little moment There was
no great assembling of the people, no
monster procession, no solemn taking of
oaths, and no Inauguration ball as giddy
climax of the days grandeurs 1t was not
even permitted that the members of the old
and new Cabinets should meet on their
errands to Osborne. Separate special trains
took them from London to Portsmouth.
Separate boats bore them down the Solent.
how the Transfer Took Place.
The Tory ministry were first admitted to
royal audience. They delivered up their
seals of Office, bowed themselves out, took
lunch in the palace, and departed. The
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Ministers arrived. They psrtook of the
royal bounty first, and visited the Queen
atterward, When they had received the
seals which their predecessors had sur
rendered they kissed the royal fingers and
departed as expeditiously as the. others had
done.
The nearest approach to an opportunity
for an exchange of personal courtesies be-
tween the retiring and the incoming minis
ters was on the water, when the Salisbury
boat was leaving Osborne and the Gladstone
boat was approaching the landing Then
the two Cabinets stood upon the decks of
their respective craft, uncovered themselves
in the rain, and gazed at each other across
their intervening pillows
The Grand OLD Mans task of Cabinet
making is over, and to-day he returned to
Hawarden to rest and think over his home
rule bill which will be drafted in time for
the November session. On the whole, he is
satisfied with the Ministry as finally made
up, though he has been obliged to sacrifice
his personal desires in several instances It
was one Of his difficulties to reconcile each
colleague to the post for which he had cast
him.
Difficulties That Were in the Way.
Lord Rosebery's disinclination to take
Office was not SO much due to desire for
an untrammeled rule as to reluctance to
take the onerous duties of the Foreign Of
fee. He would have preferred a post TO
which less responsibility was attached.
1t will be a surprise to some also to know
that ohm Morley had no yearning desire to
take the Irish Secretaryship. He was
much more inclined to accept India or the
colonies, but on this Mr. Gladstone was
firm, and all the Liberal leaders coincided
with him. There was only one man for Ire
land, and that was John Morley.
Of course. it has been found impossible to
satisfy all aspirants for Office. Mr. Os-
borne Morgan resented an offer of the post
OF Judge Advocate, believing that his work
entitled him to Cabinet post. As he re-
fused what was offered he gets nothing. Sir |
E. j. Reed also took upon himself to refuse
the Junior Lordship of the Admiralty,
holding that the post was not good enough |
for him, and he is also left out in the cold |
Lord Aberdeen might have had Office, but |
he prefers going to Canada when the va
cancy arises, and some feminine quarrels |
have prevented Lord Brassey taking office. |
Labouchere's Abs .nce Most Noted.
The absence of Henry Labouchere from |
the Government excites the most comment. |
No blame can be attached to Gladstone for |
this. He cast Labouchere here in the first |
list, and then his wife, who has been Glad |
stones right hand in these laborious days,
suggested that probably Queen Victoria
would object The old man saw the force |
of the observation. He had no wish to
quarrel with the Queen, who could |
make his task, if she SO minded, |
so much harder. He sounded |
Sir Henry Ponsonby. and that astute official
of the court made small suggestion which
created scene at Osborne.
Her Majesty of England said, in effect,
that Labouchere had perpetually insulted
her and her family in his paper, Truth. He
had opposed the grant of proper ma1nten-
ance for her offspring, and she would never
consent to such a man being in her Cabinet
and counted among her advisers.
There was nothing in it Gladstone had
TO throw over Labouchere or raise such a
question as has not been
created during this generation. The conse-
Juent irritation among the Radicals will
loon wear of. Mr.. Gladstone comes into
power with resolves which his majority
sincerely mean to help the veteran leader
% carry out when parliament reassembles.
Nr. Gladstone will find his majority loyal
o him to a man.
Lord Salisbury's Last Offlcial Act.
Lord Salisbury's last official act, the dis
ribution of rewards to his followers in the
orm of peerages, knighthoods and other
lonors, has been productive of many heart
,urnings and much criticism among his
riends Even the Times describes it as not
very interesting list The Thunderer says
With astonishing candor:
The names chosen for the higher honors
re unimpea cha BILE and extremely correct, |
ut perhaps little dull. The Knights are, |
iome of them, amusing, and some of them, |
must be confessed, obscure. 1t is only |
Then we come to the name of Prof Huxley |
mong the new Privy Councillors that We
eel the same kind of satisfaction that was |
cit on the publication of Mr.. Gladstone's
list when titles OF honor were |
iven TO the chief representatives OF art
The list OF honors shows very clearly how
esirous Lord Salisbury is of keeping the ]
iberal-U nionists tied to the wheels of the
ory chariot They have proper tionately
IT greater honors meted out to them than
ave the thorough-going Tories. This is
early shown in dealing with newspaper ,
en Edward Lawson, of the Daily Tee
rdpb, and John Jatfrav, of the Birmingham
OSt, who receive honors are Liberal
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