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Show WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE NEW MINISTRY.<br><br> TO rearrange Easter.<br><br> TO revolutionize the spelling of the English language.<br><br> TO regulate and control the passion fo athleticism, and to settle a uniform code of laws for athletic sports.<br><br> TO grapple with the multiform miseries, vexations and difficulties which now beset the relations between master and mistress and domestic servants.<br><br> TO satisfy all the parties concerned in the great question of stores vs. shops.<br><br> TO put down intoxication.<br><br> TO lighten the labors of rural postmen by authorizing the treasury to supply them with bicycles out of the public funds.<br><br> TO reduce the national debt (after a while) to an inconsiderable amount.<br><br> TO abolish the income tax.<br><br> TO bring down the price of butchers' meat, fish, poultry and other articles of daily consumption.<br><br> TO encourage the manufacture of Irish poplin.<br><br> TO reduce the estimates several millions yearly.<br><br> TO subsidize the coffee taverns.<br><br> TO perfect electric lightning [lighting].<br><br> TO throw open Lincoln's Inn Fields.<br><br> TO stay the erection of a certain statue in Westminster Abbey.<br><br> TO prevent trichinosis in pork.<br><br> TO appoint a commission of inquiry into artists' pigments.<br><br> TO free St. Paul's and open the national gallery all the year round.<br><br> BESIDES such simple affairs as extension of the county franchise, redistribution of seats, government of London, local taxation, foreign affairs, finance, ballot laws, bankruptcy laws, burial laws, game laws, liquor laws and the pacification and contentment of Ireland.-London Punch. |