LORD DERBY.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2502, 1 April 1878, Page 2

LORD DERBY.

THE following, with refer™ I rumoured intention of Lord T)*\ to P- 1 in January last, is from "A_y!°«l << World" ot January l as ?._,A* f ft | last week, Lord Carnarvon hl^& I and Lord Derby has S Jj**® J test of character, and Lord Deri!L i* '«__ I as might have been exn_tf _has© it. Lord Carna'vfur^S from the Cabinet is an important-*** Lord Derby's would have been n, hsi lh taut still. < WhatL a nca S hirethMrei% as the Indian Secretary said a W st<4 'England thinks to morrow ■' W shire Conservatism, which • ***_" nucleus of English ConservatfeJ 8 have distrusted and rebell*.. ' *•> _! a Cabinet that did not -£.* .Hfti I head of the house of Stanley *?*'■_« the intimate and life-long alli__» ,"«_ 1 the late Lord Derby and L*rd£^ _ I —an alliance which has _!„_• T"1!! Disraeli throughout hS ZS't *5| ballast of which he can scarcely w*Wi self—may well have induced tOT^'I Lord Derby to reconsider a ste_ «? _*^U_ have meant the disruption of the r>| and the Premier to consent r^P concession on which his _? Ifi Minister could nerve himself to Sf If Lord Deroy had persisted in £ >l to withdraw his resignation 'Lord_'r* would have gone to the Foreign (W^ soon as his successor at the lndiaift* had been appointed; and LordßeaSS himself acting as ad interim Sw___** State for Foreign Affairs-thus3?< very ancient ambition of his—wm3l had the opportunity of pointing in 1, > rechon he wished, the gun which it T have been left for Lord Salisbury to &? was not until immediately beforethe(__J Council on Saturday last that LoSft withdrew his resignation. LadvDetP very keen that he should stand to hS? but the Premier's influence carriedt__? and the latter was able to annooiw*? foreign diplomat who dined with tea evening, that' Lord Derby does notB». M mistry.' However, in spite of tK. diction, we were able toannonnceini_L2 urgent cable mesasge from X^ Saturday evening that Earl Derby W signed, in consequence of the nn! being called out ; and further tele_|S the same subject appear to-day. "