The operator is Mr Whitaker ; the endless revolving saw is his cunning, tortuous policy, the insensate blocks of wood are the men whom he manipulates as he likes into Cabinets ; the spectators, who deaire to test his skill, by suggesting other com bination! are the public; the altera tion of the design of the furaiture from a Hall suite to a Whitaker suite is no more difficult, than it will be to again alter it t« an Atkinson suite. And he sells his Cabinet to the first purchaser, with this difference, that the Exhibition workman has but one price for all ; the Attorney-General's customer is the highest bidder. The clever American artizan at the Ex hibition, further has this in common with the Attorney-General, that he work* entirely for his own gain. In deed the only other slight difference between the two is that while the Exhibition showman waits for an inti« mation from the on-lookers before he alten his design, the political showman readi the signs of the times intuitively, and twists his hand accordingly. There is yet another close similarity between the two — whatever the change of pattern the material is the same. The showman makes his Cabinet-work out of the same kind of wood ; the politician, his Cabinets out of the same class ©f men. No matter of what pattern, a suite of mahogany is mahogany still. No matter what the arrangement, a Whitaker Cabinet is a Whitaker Cabinet still. And who will deny that the so-called "Hall Cabinet" existed under a mis nomer, and was in reality a " Whitaker Cftbiaet" ? Certainly so one who

' been ailing for some timo past, and that he died from natural causes. A verdict was recorded in accordance with the medical testimony. Eegarding the Whitaker M'nistry " Elec tor " in the Morning Herald writes ; — Your readers may not be aware tbat thia Ministry consists of four Northern and only two Southern members. Messrs Wbitaker, Atkinson, Bryoe and Johnston belong to the North, and Messrs Kolleston and Dick to the South Island. This is quite a new order of things, and it is singular that Messrs Eolleston and Dick shonld have been contented to become members of a Ministry so constituted. 