THE NEW ENGLISH MINISTRY

Evening Star, Issue 3445, 7 March 1874, Page 2

THE NEW ENGLISH MINISTRY

' .JjtoConservatives have imqbtaining a majority onoe more in tain, and the sweets <ff E OTfecefor?a , period. Mr h-notayery powerful one. thinking, nor one likely long. Their names ware published; in W telegraphic summary yesterday; a littlefurther information ; respaoting thmxt TdaiT therefore prove - ttceeptable." q x > r q(fA V W ; “to* l toy nothitig ( of Digraph, .whose;wareeras an author and polittciad is mbU } known. He is 69t* ye£r, hamg been born December; 21st, 1805. i T ,He übw* first Padiament as »■. rabmberlw Maidstone in 1836, and since 1847 represented The County of-TmckWhamriti 1 , w Mbi iheiainily VstatS is situated. - Ho wcceeded' !Bentinck as leader of the Consemt&e ' jafter that nobleman’sdeath. ; Lbid.Ualrne,'the Right mont, jaow Lord vffiadcellbr, is the sfebond>om o|a the fS l.ato Mr. VTilliiMn -Gairqs^of. Gultca^' ; 1819, and. called to. the barv Mimitoi I'emplejn 1844! He represented""Belfast^ 0 ! *«. .in 185 ( %> *ad*o»af itiuued to.do ao .until he, was t appbihtod Lptd | Justice of Appeal; ih He v bmd Mjtfw ofiioe of Solicitor-General under the late ■ 4pd; Derby in ldsß, and displayed-extrapir dinary ability, sliadi elomienna. - Held office as Attorney-General under JLord . Derby?a administration ,mr and inMB67 ; was gasetted Baron the County oL Antrim,- Februajas aMT- ,(l The President of the Council, the Duke of Richmond, Charles Henry.' Gordon-Letm K.G., was born Febrciacy 27,1818.! leered; the atmy ih; 1844. and-.;Was, camp to the .Dukb pf Wqllittgton till JBs2*\. and to Viscount Hardinge from 1832 to 1854** , He was President of the Foot Daw Board; and; in 1859 Privy Gbunmffor.' when Lord Derby retired- from bffice. »Ho became President of the Boatxi -of Trade 1 March 8, 1857. He represented West ; 'asset in the Conservatoire interest filito : 1841 until he succeeded his fatherj as Duko of Richmond, in 1860. •;/

: The Earl of Malmesbury,-who .holds the i office ..of Lord, friyy j&Mj. was ; bbrnMafrcS 25, 1807. He is grahdfcon J . & ; Earl of that title, jvho figured aS Ff a r diiiloi oaatiatin the reivn of .George -flL. y 'ln v ls4l ! he was fleeted; to represent’ ) Wiltoa'initl& Conservative interest, but sttc6ee(lei ’eerage on the death of his father ill Sepl' cemberof that year. .He held.the, officer! Secretary ; of State' foe .■ Foreign' ; Al%ip ;n Lwd 7 Derby’s ifirst .iadwinistratife : m- 1852, t and through. fQjeoogbfciiigsfthb. i French Empire under SapoLon HI. *«t«b< 1 1 is bed the entente cordial* between France and England/ • He' tield- the sfiSr office under (he Derby ‘ administratiownf 1853-59, and endeavored, tot prevent the war between France and dtaly and Austria. The firmness,of his~poligy.on that occasion has been highly jiV men of all' parties/. On abcbuhtqf fafli&g, health, he retired from the admimsVratiiimM Foreign Affairs, and became Lord Keeper bf the Privy Seal, - The Foreigh Secretary,'"'’the ,Earl ibf Derby, was born July 21, 1326. He took"* first class in classics in 1848. AfteblOaviUg college, he went to Canada J:o make itself personally acquainted with ColoniSl require? ments, and while in America was elected member for Lynn Kegis un the deathr-pf Lord (George ißehtinck.' He had“ greißottHjf unsuccessfully contested He visited the West Indies durlng'hjs‘membership <for King’s Lynn, mid afterwards India. While there, in March, 1852, nominated Under-Secretary of. State .for Foreign Affairs in his father’s first admmistratiou: On the death of Sir 1 W. Moleswbrkh, Lord PalmerstoU offered him the* seals s!‘tKß Colonial osce, which his lordship declined on party gonsiderutidhs.; He Was Sgoren# of State forlhdiannder the lafe Lord Dferoy in 1858 9, add under his Superintendence the management of. Indian affairs ' Was. transferred from the directors bf the East India Company to the Imperial Government. In 1866, under Lord Derby’s third administration, he held the office of Secretary oEStatefor Foreign Affairs, when he conducted the nogotiations respecting tho : Luxemburg affair so skilfully as tffreuderhinUelfjveEy popular He held the'seals of thgFofeign Office.until Mr Gladstone took office in 1868. His lordship was installed Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1869, arid succeeded to thepee?age on the death of hie fatWr.Getoher 23rd, 1869 His lord ship has been ahielnberof several important commissions connected With'-tW Fnw Cambridge The Marquisef Salisbury, Secretary Tor India, was born iu 1830. He'repreSbntbd the borough of Stamford id the Conservative interest from 1853 to 1868, when he succeeded to the peerage .through the death bf his father. In the Lower House he was known, as Sir Robert Cecil. His lordship takes deep interest in matters connected with the Established Church 1 ©! England. He held the office of Secretary of State for India under Lord Derby in 1800, but re? signed on account of a difference’with hia lordship respecting: the Reform Bill.• Hu - succeeded the late Earlof Derby as Chkhcellbr of the University of‘Oiftord. " ' : The Secretary for the. Colonies is the Eirl of Caernarvon, horn June 24,1831. He sue Pe er »ge during his minhritl. In 1859 Lord-Derby.nominated himJßKfli steward of the Diversity of better known as an author than a politician, although he was appointed Secretary of State for the Cokmes under Lord ; uetby iu Like the Marquis of Salisbury he account of a difference on the Kefofni Dill v. Mr Gathorne Haidy, Secretary for tVar: was born at Bradford in. 18ri'HbVepref!865. when % obhtest fof the University bl Oxford, Under Xtofl • ■> r u 't 7 -

Derby in Under Secretary for-the Home (Department, and in 1866, 1 during that hot l iman’s third administration,v he beoarpe President of-, the Poor Law Board. Oh the death of Mr ‘ Walpole, in 1867, he succeeded him s as Secretary of State for the Home Department, which office he held until December, 1868. -Mr Cross," the Home Secretary, has his name to make. ttir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, horn October 27, 1818, was called tq the bar at the Inner Temple in 1847 He represented, Dudley in the Conservative in 1855, and was rejected in North Devon-in .1857. . He, represented.Stamford frofn ISoS to 1866, when North Davon returned him. He was Private Secretary to, Mr Gladstone when that statesman Was President of the Board of Trade, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury from January to June, : 1859. Under Lord Dfcrby he was Secretary, of .State for India from March, 1867,. to December, 1868. But the name of Sir Stafford Northcote Will ever be associated mpi;e immediately withthe Treaty of Washington of 1871, and the settlement - of thc He takea deep interest in art, science, and literature, and' sresided5 resided over the Social Science Congress eld in, Bristol in 1869.,: ~ .Lord’ John Maqiiers,'second son of the': late Duke of Ru'land, is Postmaster General. His lordship was-born December 23, 1816 In ; lß4lheand ; Mr i Gladstone were i elec ted members- Ibr. NeWark in the Conservative: interest, but he did not seek re-election. He was defeated at Liverpool in, ,1847, and ,in his represent'London in 1849; hot wit He opposed the' repeal of ‘ the Corn Laws' in a maiden speech in ~1841. .His-bias is .in favor.of eeclesiaSticisra, and : bis tendency'towards too close an approximation: with Roman Catholic, politics led. to withdrawal of confidence by his party. He has held subordinate offices;sunder the .late .Earl of D.efby,; and hap rseat, in the Cabinet during- that nobleman’s • administration. His leading ideas, as ’detailed in *t'Men.-of-thniTimare-to • ‘-defend the rights of the Ohurcbj - and to support the agricultural interest’’ It ‘ might , have been added that he is upholder of aristocracy, in support" ol wbicV he puWished a vo'pmp of .ballads in 1850, chiefly remark-, able for their bigotry.-, Mr George Hunt,firat Lord pfthe Ad-' mraUy r lata Mev.LGeo.rge, Hunt of Buckhurst, Berkshire. He' Was railed to the bar in’lßsL - He contested the boijßugh pf Northampton, in .the Conservative intfrest,' in .185$ andjSS?, but was defeated | bht' / on the death of the' Member,' Mr Aughsttfs.Stafford, (he .w>s that' year elected, .fpr.thq, northern division of the Cpfinty'pPNoHhamptoh,’ whichheKatinontinued 56 friire&ntr 1 In Vnh«Ur the Ute Ear)pf Derby, he'Ke'd the office of Financial- Secretary ,to the ’Treasury, •’ and 11 Was from February tC December 1868. , ’ ~