THE CABINET UNDER MR DISRAELI AS PREMIER.

Southland Times, Issue 947, 8 May 1868, Page 3

THE CABINET UNDER MR DISRAELI AS PREMIER.

There is much in the circumstances of the present time to favour the stability, at least for a given season, of any Ministry that may be formed. It has not unfrequently happened that the difficulties •occasioned by the retirement of some ■Pdinent member of a Cabinet have been surmounted; but the Government has received some injuries in the effort that it has soon after Mien to pieces. Fortune however, is kind to Mr Disraeli. A condemned Parliament is sitting, and yet while any House of Commons elected after this year would be chosen, by new and" enlarged constituencies, a general election during the current twelvemonth would be an appeal to the old electors. It may be assumed, therefore, that no general election will be held before next January. The work of the session is not on that account divested of its importance, but it is almost a necessary consequence of the practical obstacles to a general election that the Ministry cannot be effectively challenged on questions involving new schemes of action, Apart, however, from these considerations, the House of Commons will weigh with can-doiir-the conduct and pretentions of Mr Disraeli's Ministry. Mr Disraeli is known and admired by the House, and members willingly entertain the proposals of one who so manifest y defers to its authority. * * The records of the early career of the Chancellor ofihe Exchequer have often been cited as additional evidence of the inconsistency of his opinions with his present position, but the Conservatives have never harshly judged the effervescence of youthful independence, Mr Disraeli's first public acts have more justly inspired distrust among his followers because they indicated an artistic qnickneßs and sensibility especially removed from the Conservative type. But. the Chancellor of the Exchequer has served the Conservative Party for more than twenty years. He slowly reconstructed its Parliamentary organization, and has thrice brought it into power. By the public he has been always regarded as the ruling spirit of the Cabinet, and it has been evident to all -men- that— the BefornrSili of-lasir Session was only carried by his courage, bis readiness, and his unfailing temper in the house of Commons. The time has arrived. for the servant to become the masterj nor could Mr Disraeli have accepted' a lower place without loss of dignity which would have been unworthy of himself and discreditable to his party. "We beleive the members of Lord Derby's Cabinet, with probably only a single notable • exception, will compose Mr Disraeli's Ministry, and the conduct of public business will receive no check. Some changes are, of course, inevitable, and may, perhaps, tend to the increased stability of the Administration. — Times.