Mr. Lingen, who carried through the revolution of the educa-
tion system which resulted from Mr. Lowe's principle of " pay- ment by results," as the permanent head of the department of Education, has been appointed to succeed Mr. G. A. Hamilton as permanent Secretary to the Treasury, on the assumption by the latter of the Irish Church Commissionership, to which he was appointed under the Act of last session. Mr. Lingen has a reputation for the greatest and most prickly ability. Among the many clergymen who have asked for aid for their Church schools from the Department of Education, Mr. Lingen is regarded with feelings very like those which the worms feel for the hedgehog when it rolls over them. The on dit is that Mr. Lowe finds it quite necessary to protect his own tendency to " weakness on the side of official liberality " by a sternly virtuous subordinate, who will act as a tonic to his own public principle. For this purpose, as well as for great mastery of business, Mr. Lingeu will be in the highest degree efficient.
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