On the whole, the Government has disappointed the Tory Party,
and more especially Mr. Henry Howorth, now M.P. for South Salford, who has so often spoken for the Tory Party. In a letter to Thursday's Times, he expresses his dissatisfaction in words that are at least ostentatiously frank. He approves of Lord Randolph Churchill's leadership in the House of Commons, —as the leadership of the " strongest " man,—a judgment which is at least premature. But this appointment is almost the only one he does seem to approve. For the rest, the list of the new Ministry has everywhere, he says, been received with a groan." He appears to point at Lord Iddesleigh when he asks,—" Is it not wanton in the highest degree to impose [? entrust] the burden of duties involving firmness and special knowledge to a palsied will and inexperienced hands, and this, too, at a time when the difficulties on the horizon are more threatening to us than they have ever been before, and our old enemies are again restless?" Sir Richard Cross is, we suppose, indicated when complaint is made that "the intricate interests of vast crowds of very helpless men" are to be entrusted to "one who has won his laurels in a very different field," in which his services might have been again employed, "if they were to be employed at all." Of Lord Londonderry, Mr. Howorth says that his mere name of Castlereagh should have prevented his selection. He marvels, too, at the appointment to the Home Office of the lawyer who has won his reputation. it nisi prius, and whose sympathies will offend the Protestantism of the artisans of our large towns. Finally, as we understand him, he complains that more important posi- tions are not given to Mr. Ritchie, Mr. W. L. Jackson, and Mr. Forwood, as representatives of commerce. The democracy, says Mr. Howorth, cannot be kept faithful to their Tory bias by a Government constituted in this way.
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