NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Press, Volume XXXV, Issue 4906, 9 May 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

» < LORD BEACONSFIELD'S BUCOESSOB. « A late telegram in a San Francisco paper says • —The prospective demise of Lord Beaconefield ' occasions talk respecting his successor in the ] Conservative leadership. Lord Salisbury is ambitious, but his Toryism is unaccommo- ( dating, and he is not popular personally. His 1 mind is capricious, and he would laok the < hearty support of the rank and file. A vast * majority of the Tories prefer Ldkl Cairns. 3 He is less irreconoilable, has broader views ' and more popular sympathies, but the high ,t and dry aristocrats dislike oue not born in \ their own order. Lord Cairns is a lawyer of j humble origin, and is also for strong even- ' gelioism. The selection of Lord Salisbury is i improbable, and supposing that Lord ' Cairn's health permits, he is the coming > man. If the Tory party cannot agree on 1 him they may choose a wooden figure. I head like the Duke of Biohmond. Lord * Cairns has strengthened his position by his J slashing attack "on the Government in this c Transvaal debate. His was one of the c greatest speeches ever made in the House of I Lords. Another telegram to the same paper > says : —Beaoonsfield is particulary anxious to ' see his old private secretary, Lord Rowton, < for the purpose of giving him instructions re- < garding hie memoirs and private papers. * These are of incalculable value from a histo- 1 rical point of view, and Bowton, who pcssesses the dumbness of an oyster, is the only man in England, except the author, who has l been favored with a view,of this preoious collection. It is understood they will not be published until at least ten years after Beaconsfield's demise. They deal largely, of course, with men now living.