On the Friday it named ten places aright, and indicated the law officers, with only one mistake in reference to Ireland; and on the Saturday it gave a list of the Under Secretaries of State, and Secretaries and Vice-Presidents generally, with wonderful correctness as to the individuals, though the offices were a little jumbled.

The Government was at last formed in a manner which everybody had seen to be the only possible way in which a government could be formed.

Nobody was surprised, and the week's work was regarded as though the regular routine of government making had simply been followed.

Mr.Mildmay was Prime Minister; Mr.Gresham was at the Foreign Office; Mr.Monk was at the Board of Trade; the Duke was President of the Council; the Earl of Brentford was Privy Seal; and Mr.Palliser was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Barrington Erle made a step up in the world, and went to the Admiralty as Secretary; Mr.Bonteen was sent again to the Admiralty; and Laurence Fitzgibbon became a junior Lord of the Treasury.