7th October.
Oss of the results of the Cabinet crisis at home is that a number politicians who have hitherto Janguished in perhaps undeserved obsecurity suddenly find themselves temporarily famous. As the detec tions continue from day to day, so also Mr. Balfour continues his patching in the rather ludicrous attempt stave off for a few weeks longer the General Election. Simultaneously with the news of the latest re-shuffle comes that of the Duke of Devonshire's resignation. That the Lord President of the Council could remain in the Ministry after his declaration of allegiance to Free Trade and Mr. Balfour's announcement of his own perversion by Mr. Chamberlain was impossible: the Duke's resignation, though tardy, was inevitable, and it takes from the present Government what little of substance it still possessed. As far the new Ministers are concerned their assignment to their particular offices does not seem to be of much consequence. Lord Stanley might as well have gone to the Colonial Office as to the, Post Office, and Mr. Alfred Lyttelton would have been as comfortable, or more so, as the Secretary for Scotland as in either of the departments named. His courage in following Mr. Chamberlain, itenly fora few days is remarkable, for his only qualification apparently is that of being Chairman of the General Committee of the Imperial South African Association. It may be, of course, that the dispatch of another All England team to Australi kes it desirable to have a ColonialiSeeretary who knows something of cricket, and Mr. Lyttelton, in the Cambridge eleven big scores on many id, will be able matches shall be properly engineered, even if naval agreements go_ aw Mr. Lyttelton has been Liberal Unionist member for Warw and Leamington since 1895, and has a rly large majority to risk. Lord Stanle: as Chief Milita Censor during the President of the departmental committee to consider th ptabitity Jof motor for military. pur po: ions for the office of are therefore st Houghton 3,000 election. The ham Murray has sat been successively for Scotland, Lord Advocate, and Keeper of the Great Seal of and, Mr, Arnold-Forster is principally known us an untiring writer on naval matters; he now goes from the Admiralty, where he has been Secretary, to the War Office. Temporarily disappointed of the Indian viceroyalty Mr. Brodrick is rewarded for his muddling in Pall Mall by the Indian Secretaryship. Last, and probably ablest of them all, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who certainly has business capacity, takes up the succession of Harcourt, Hicks-Beach, and Ritchie, not to mention greater names Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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