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sfioirr-rivi’ 1 ' hritish AIIXrSTKRS. I OXDOX. Nov. 7. Mr !; :iivis:i v .M:«< 1»• ill:ilii's (ioverilment. which fell on October Gt]>. had n I if- of inst over eiebt months. tin* Xeweastle “Week I v Chronicle” reminds us. .Air Baldwin's Promell'shm lasted fur about a similar period. ami Air J’.oiiar Law, owing to ill-lionlth. held office as Prime Alinistor for only seven months. I here is only one instance (lurin'; llu* last century of three Ptx-miershios expiring in just ©' el three years. During the period Irani lsfto to lsflst the Ministries of Russell. Derby, and Disraeli succeeded that of Palmerston, whose Alinisirv was in power for six years. I his (government was in turn succeeded by more than five veal's of Glndstnninn Government. The shortest lived Alinisirv of the last eenlnrv was that which the Dulse of AVellineton formed in ls.’ll. It lasted mdv about -i\ weeks. herd Orov s 1.0*31 Mi nistry expired in less tlian six months. Lord Derby's, in 1 So'2 lasted just 10 months: and Air Gladstone held office for only five months in 1880. Lord .Salisbury and Air Gladstone are the oulv Premiers who held r-ffire four times, though the latter used to declare roudly that he “could never hope to beat the record of Lord Derby, “ who was three times Prim© Minister, Afr Asauith. among living statesmen. holds the* nvord for the longest©owtinnatut term of office m Premier—eight years and eight months.