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THE NEW MINISTERS.

THE FIRST LORD OP THE TREASURY.—The Rigbt
Hon. W. E. gladstone was born in iso9, and
first entered political life at the general election of
December 1832, when he was elected member for
Newark in the Conservative interest. In December
1834 Sir Robert Peel appointed him to a Junior Lord-
ship of the Treasury, and in the February following,
to the post of Under-Secretary for the Colonies.
Mr. Gladstone retired from office with his leader in the
following month of April, and remained in Opposition
until 1841. When Sir Robert Peel returned to power, Mr.
Gladstone was sworn a member of the Privy Council,
and accepted office as Vice-President of the Board of
Trade and Master of the Mint. He had to defend the
commercial policy of the Government in the Lower House,
and the revision of the British tariff in 1842 was almost
entirely the result of his energy and industry. This
important work received the sanction of both Houses
with scarcely a single alteration. In May 3843
Mr. Gladstone succeeded the Earl of Ripon as President
of the Board of Trade, but resigned that office in the early
part of 1845. He afterwards became Secretary of State
for the Colonies. In 1846 ho ceased to represent Newark,
and was returned for Oxford University in 1847. This
change was made because the Colonial Minister sup-
ported the Corn Law policy of Sir Robert Peel, and
was therefore unwilling to remain under obligations
to the Duke of Newcastle, who bad influence
at Newark, and who strongly sided with the Opposition.
Mr. Gladstone became more and more estranged from the
Conservatives, and finally separated from his party in
1852, refusing to take office in the Cabinet of Lord Derby.
His brilliant attack upon the Budget of Mr. Disraeli was
the chief cause of the fall of the Cabinet and the acces-
sion to power of the Earl of Aberdeen. On the
formation of the coalition Ministry, headed by
this nobleman, Mr. Gladstone became Chancellor of
the Exchequer. On the reconstruction of the Aber-
deen Ministry, under Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone
withdrew on finding that it was not the intention of the
Ministry collectively to oppose the vote of censure
implied in Mr. Roebuck's motion for the appointment of
a committee to investigate the condition of the British
army before Sebastopol. Mr. Gladstone now re-
mained for sometime an independent supporter of
Lord Palmerston's Government. In the winter of
1858-9 he undertook the mission to the lonian
islands, and in the following Juno he was made
Chancellor of the Exchequer. This post he held in the
Liberal Ministries until his election by the voice of the
country to the highest dignity.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, Sir William Page Wood, born
in 1801, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1827.
He was M.P. for Oxford from 1847 to 1853, Vice-Chan-
cellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 1849 to
18M, and held the office of Solicitor-General from 1851 to
the following year, when he was appointed a Vice-
Chancellor.

FOREIGN SECRETARY.—G. W. F. Villiers, Earl of
Clarendon, was born in 1800. He entered the diplomatic
service at an early age, and was afterwards employed in
the civil service of the Government both in Ireland and
abroad. In 1833 be was appointed British Minister
Plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid, a post
which he held until 1839. In 1840 he was sworn a
member of the Privy Council, and took office as Lord
Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in
Lord Melbourne's Ministry, 1840-1. In 1846 he was
President of the Board of Trade. On the death of Lord
Bessborough, in 1847, he became Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, holding this great office until 1852. He was
appointed Foreign Secretary in 1853, and conducted the
negotiations with France, Austria, Prussia, and Turkey
throughout the Crimean war. When the Earl of Derby
attempted to form a Cabinet, on the fall of the Aberdeen
Ministry, in 1805, he expressed a desire to retain Lord Cla-
rendon as Foreigu Secretary. 'l'heConservative Government,
however, was never constructed, and the Foreign Secretary
retained his seals under Lord Palmerston until 1858. In
the capacity of Foreign Secretary he signed the Treaty.
of Paris in 1856. He rejoined the Liberal Administra-
tion in 1864 as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
THE SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES.--George Granville
Levison-Gower, Earl Granville, entered Parliament as
member for Morpeth, in 1836, being then. just of age.
Early in the year 1840 he accepted the appointment of
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he
held for some months. In 1846 he succeeded to the
peerage, and in 1848 took office as Vice-President
of the Board of Trade. In • 1851 he obtained a
seat in the Cabinet, and in the following December
succeeded Lord Palmerston as Foreign Secretary. This
post lie did not, however, hold for any length of time, as
the Russell Ministry went out of office shortly after-
wards. Earl Granville was appointed President of the
Council in 1853, and in 1855 he undertook the Ministerial
leadership of the House of Lords. In 1859 he was again
chosen President of the Council, and held this post until
the accession of the Conservatives to power. Besides
holding these offices, the Earl of Granville has at different
times acted in the capacity of Master of the Bnckhounds,
Paymaster of the Forces, and Treasurer of the Navy.
The order of the Garter was conferred upon him in 1857.
He is Chancellor of the University of London.
THE SECRETARY FOR INDlA.—George Dundas Camp-
bell, Duke of Argyle, was born in 1823, and succeeded to
the peerage at the age of 24. He had acquired a consider-
able reputation both as a writer and a politician before
he took office. In 1849 he opposed the amendment to the
Address moved by the Earl of Derby, and spoke strongly
in favour of free trade. In 1851 he was elected Chan-
cellor of the University of St. Andiews. He first took
office as Lord Privy Seal in 1852, under Lord Aberdeen,
and retained this post under Lord Palmerston's premier-
ship. In the latter part of 1855 he resigned the Privy
Seal and became Postmaster-General. In the Palmerston
Cabinet of 1859 his Grace again took the Privy Seal, which
he exchanged for the office of Postmaster-General on
Lord Elgin being sent in 1860 on his second special
mission to China. The duke, however, once more
gravitated to the Privy Seal in the same year. He is
Hereditary Master of the Queen's Household in Scotland,
Chancellor of the University of St. Andrew's Rector of
the University of Glasgow, a trustee of the British
Museum, and Hereditary Sheriff and Lord-Lieutenant of
Argyllshire.

THE SECRETARY FOR WAR. The Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, born in 1813, was called to the bar in 1838, and
entered Parliament as member for Clitheroe in 1842. He
supported Sir Robert Peel during the great financial
changes of 1845-6, and was returned for Liverpool
in 1847, but lost his seat in 1852. In the following year
he was returned for Oxford, which he has continued to
represent with but a trifling interval. Mr. Cardwell's
official career commenced very shortly after he entered
Parliament. He was Secretary of the Treasury from 1845
to 1846, and President of the Board of Trade under Lord
Aberdeen's coalition Ministry. His term of office in this
capacity was marked by some very useful reforms. On
Lord Palmerston's return to office in 1859 Mr. Cardwell
accpted the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. From
July 1861 to 1864 he held the Chancellorship of the Duchy
of Lancaster. On the death of the Duke of Newcastle he
succeeded to the Colonial Secretaryship. This office he
held during the reign of the Liberal Government.
THE HOME SECRETARY.—The Right Hon. Henry
Austin Bruce, has risen to a Secretaryship of State after
an unusually short official career. He was born in 1815.
In 1837 he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, but
remained in practice only until 1843. He first entered
Parliament as member for Merthyr Tydvil in December
1852, and commenced his official career as Under-Secretary
for the Home Department in November 1862. This post
he held until April 1864, when he was appointed President
of the Board of Health and Vice-President of the Educa-
tion Board of the Privy Council. He thus takes office
as Home Secretary after considerable experience in that
department.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.--The Right
Hon. Robert Lowe born in 1811, entered Parliament in
1852, as member for Kidderminster. In 1859 he WU
returned for Calne, which he continued to represent up to
the election of the present year. He is now M.P. for the
University of London. For a short time he was one of the
Secretaries of the Board of Control, and in August 1855
was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade and
Paymaster-General. On return of the Liberals to
power in 1859 he became Vice-President of the
Education Board, but after a memorable dispute
resigned in 1864. His great reputation as a debater and
politician has been acquired chiefly since his retirement
from office. Mr. Lowe was called to the bar in 1842. In
the same year he went to Australia, where he practised
with much success as a barrister, and sat in the council of
the colony from 1843 to 1850. He was afterwards elected
member for Sydney, returning to England in 1851. •

THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.—The Eight
Hon. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, born in 1827, spent
the early years of his political life in Australia. He was a
member of the Government of Victoria from 1851 to 1857,
and held a seat in the first Cabinet as a Commissioner of
Trade and Customs. He sat for Portland in the first
Legislative Assembly from 1856-7. In April 1859 he
unsuccessfully contested Pontefract, but his opponent
was unseated on petition, and at another election, in
February 1860, he was returned. He was appointed
a Lord of the Admiralty in 1864. Miring the last term
of his party in Opposition he has shewn great financial
capacity, and was considered a probable candidate for the
Chancellorship of the Exchequer ; but he returns to the
scene of his first official labours.
THE SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.—The Right Hon.
Samuel Parkinson ChichesterFortescue was born in
1823, and entered Parliament as member for Louth in
1847. He has continued to represent the same consti-
tuency. He was a Lord of the Treasury from January
1854 to April 1855. From June 1857 to March 1858 he was
Under-Secretary for the Colonies, which office he held
throughout Lord Palmerston's Administration. In 1866
he became Secretary for Ireland.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. The
statesman who is, with one exception, the most
distin-
guished in the Liberal ranks is also the statesman withthe shortest official history. Mr. John Bright takes office
for the first time. He is, however, identified with the
history of the Liberal party during the last thirty years,
and has materially promoted the most important reforms
of the time. He distinguished himself first in 1839, as one
of the members of the Anti-Corn Law League, and was
returned for Durham in July 1843, after an unsuc-
cessful contest in April. His maiden speech was
made almost immediatley after his return, on August
7, the subject being Mr. Ewart's motion to extend the
principles of free trade. He afterwards appealed unsuccess-
fully for the despatch of a royal commission to investigate
the condition of India, and in 1849 was appointed a
member of the famous select committee on official salaries.
In 1851 he added 1113 vote to the coalition which
attempted to censure Lord Palmerston in the Pacific
affair, and in 1852 he took a prominent part
in the welcome giv'en to Kossuth by the Liberals of
Lancashire. Mr. Bright denounced the Russian war
with great energy, alienating many of his supporters by
his action on this question. A severe illness compelled
him to retire to the Continent ; but he expressed his entire
approval of the course taken by Mr. Cobden and Mr.
Gibson in moving the vote of censure which produced Lord
Palmerston's appeal to the country. lie was elected for
Birmingham in 1857, after representing Manchester since
1847. During the last ten years his great question has
been Parliamentary Reform.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-- This Day.

MARLBORO UGH-S MEET.

A STREET OUTRAGE.—James Hea, pottnn at the
Old King's Head, Cumberland-street, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting M. Gunle
Barrere, correspondent to the Monde lustre, and
residing at No. 1, Everett-street, Russell-square,
and Mr. Donald Mackenzie, of No. 14, Foley .street,
tailor.

Mr. Mackenzie said that on the previous evening
about eight o'clock he was passing through Totten-
ham-street, Fitzroy-square, and while passing
through a crowd of persons assembled there, the
prisoner came up to him and caught bold of his
coat, and wanted to enter into conversation respect-
ing so me of his relatives. lie told the prisoner to
leave go of him, and that he had no wish to have
anything to say to him, and the prisoner then gave
him a blow in the eye.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said
the prisoner did not attempt to get at his packets,
but some persons in the crowd did, and that a
gentleman who kindly came to his assistance was
also assaulted by the prisoner.

M. Emile Barriere said that while passing a
crowd in Tottenham-street he saw the prisoner,
who appeared to be very excited, knocking a
drunken' man about. The prisoner then seized
hold of Mr. Mackenzie as if to tell him his griev
ances, and on Mr. Mackenzie telling him that he
did not wish to have anything to say to him, he
(prisoner) struck him in the eye, and on going to
Mr. Mackenzie's assistance the prisoner also struck
Mr. Barrere in the eye, and in self-defence he
knocked the prisoner down, and afterwards gave
him into custody.

The only answer the prisoner made to the charge
was that he was not sober, and that some one had
pulled him about.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a magistrate's duty to
mark these assaults in the streets. Two persons
walking quietly through the streets are knocked
about without any reason, and for so doing the
prisoner would have to pay £3 or a month.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUE CATTLE SHOW.

--AV-

As the clocks of Islington aimed forth tie hour of nine
on Mondaymorning, a privileged few were admitted to the
Agricultural Hall to view the operations of the judges in
the task of adjudicating upon the merits of the cattle,
sheep, and pigs entered for competition at the 70th
annual show of the Smithfield Club. This process,
involving much rib-digging, flesh-pinching, girth-
measuring, and—for the first time this year—weight-
scaling, conducted by Messrs. G. Bedford, Blake, and
Hole, for Devons, Herefords, Norfolk, or Suffolk polled,
long-horned, Irish, cross, or mixed cattle; Messrs. Ladds,
Robinson, and Thomas, for short-horns, Scotch and Welsh
cattle ; Messrs. Borton, Bennett, Garne, Keeling, Clay.
don, and Woodman for sheep ; and Messrs. Carver,
Sexton, and Inskip for pigs—occupied until two o'clock,
when the opportunity for inspecting the exhibition was
afforded to those of the general public, and they were
many, who cared to pay ss. by way of entrance fee.
At a quarter-past twelve the Crown Prince of Prussia very
quietly entered the Hall, and attended by Viscount Brid-
port, Lord Hardwicke, and Mr. Gibbs, inspected the
various entries. The Princess of Prussia was expected
to accompany his Royal Highness, but, for some reason
which did not transpire, failed to do so.
The entries in the various classes reach 477. Sick-
ness caused by transit, and a growing conviction
on the part of some exhibitors at the Birming-
ham Show that they could :not hope to take a prize at
the Agricultural Hall, have made a small reduction
in the number of animals actually put in competition.
Devonshire, as usual, sends a large and admirable contri-
bution in the shape of 41 of her famous steers and cows.
The Herefords number 33, and the short-horns 59. The
Sussex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Scotch, and mixed breeds are
amply represented ; while the pens of sheep—Leicester,
Cotswolds, Lincolns, Kentish cross-bred long-woolled sheep,
Southdowns, Hampshire, Shropshire, and mountain
breeds—contain specimens which for weight and breed may
be fairly contrasted with those exhibited in previous years.
The most attractive lot of sheep is that belonging to Mr.
William Guerrier. These are Hungarian strangers, and
their splendid wool and curiously-shaped spiral horns
will not fail to elicit the notice of all visitors. The pigs,
white, black, and otherbreeds, are well to the fore, as fat and
as uninteresting as ever. Her Majesty contributes to the
show two Devon steers, two Devon heifers, three Hereford
steers, one Hereford cow, one Hereford heifer, one cross-
bred heifer, two pens of pigs, and a solitary pig, Prince
Albert's Windsor breed, which has the honour of a class
all to himself. The Prince of Wales has in the show a
Devon steer, a short-horned steer, a Norfolk polled steer
and heifer, a cross-bred steer (from a Norfolk polled cow
and a pure Devon bull), a pen of first cross-bred sheep
(from a Southdown ewe and improved Lincoln long-
woolled ram), a single sheep of the same breed, and a pen
of small young white pigs. The first prize of £2O, with
silver medal to the breeder in Class 1 of Devon steers, not
exceeding 2 years and 6 months, was taken by Mr.
William Smith, of Higher Hoopern, Exeter, for a beast
bred by Mr. George Turner, of Bamford Speke,
Devon ; the second prize, of £lO, going to Mr. W. G.
Nixey, of Slough, for a stem bred by Mr. Richard
Mogridge, Molland, Southmolton, Devon. In Class 2,
Devon steers not exceeding 3 years and 3 months, the
first prize of £3O, and silver medal to the breeder, was also
awarded to Mr. William Smith, of Higher Hoopern,
Exeter, for a beast bred by Mr. J. Tupp, of Twitchen,
Southmolton. Mr. W. G. Nixey, of Slough, took the
second prize of £2O for a steer, bred by Mr. William Smith,
the winner of the first prize ; and the third prize of £lO
fell to the lot of Mr. John Overman, of Burnham-market,
Norfolk. The steer exhibited by the Queen in this class
was commended ; that entered by the Earl of Eldon highly
commended. In Class 3, Devon steers or oxen above
3 years and 3 months, the first prize of £3o—silver medal
to the breeder—was awarded to Mr. John Over-
man, of Burnham-market, Norfolk ; the second prize
of £2O to Mr. W. Barrington, of Thorley, Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight ; and the third prize of £lO to Mr. Walter
Farthing, of Bridgewater, Somerset. The first prize of
£25, silver medal to the breeder, in Class 4, for Devon
heifers not exceeding 4 3-ears old, was awarded to Mr.
Charles Gibbs, of Lydeard, Taunton ; the second, of £l5,
to Mr. Nixey, of Slough ; and the third prize of £lO to
her Majesty. Mr. Richard Burton, of Broadclyst, Devon,
succeeded in carrying off the first prize of £25, with silver
medal to the breeder, in Class 5, for Devon cows above 4
years which have at least one live calf ; the second prize
of £l5 going to Mr. Smith, of Higher Hoopern, Exeter ;
the third prize of £lO to Mr. William Farthing,
of Bridgwater, Somerset ; the entry of her Majesty
the Queen being highly commended. It is under-
stood that a protest has been entered against the
award in the case of Mr. Burton, who took
the first prize at the recent show at Birmingham with the
same beast which he now exhibits. In the opinion of
those best acquainted with the subject, the show of Devons
is remarkably fine. In these, as in the classes generally,
shape rather than weight seems to have been made the
standard of merit. In the class for short-horned steers
not exceeding 2 years awl G months old, the first prize
of £2O, with silver medal to the breeder, was secured by
Mr. R. N. Morley, of Grantham ; and the second
prize of £lO by Mr. James Bult, of Taunton, Sir William
de Capel Brooke's entry being highly commended. The
first prize of £3O, with silver medal to the breeder, for
short-horned steers not exceeding 3 3-ears and 3 months,
fell to the lot of Mr. Bult, of Taunton, and the first prize
of £25 for short-horned cows above 4 years old which
have had at least one calf, was awarded to Mr. J. S. Fol-
jambe, of Worksop, Mr. Robert Searson, of Market
Deeping, Lincoln, carrying off the second prize
of the value of £l5. In the class of Here-
ford steers not exceeding 2 years and 6 months, the
first prize of £2O, silver medal to the breeder, was taken
by Mr. Robert Wortley, of Aylsham, Norfolk ; and the
second, of £lO, by Mr. Richard Shirley, of Stretton. The
steer exhibited by her Majesty was con.msuded. The
first prize, of £3o—silver medal to the breeder—for Here-
ford steers not exceeding 3 years and 3 months, was also
awarded to Mr. Wortley, the Earl of Darnley's entry
coming in for high commendation at the hands
of the judges. In the classes of Scotch cattle
Mr. M`Combie, of Tillyfour, Aberdeen, whose
Black Prince last year created so great a sensation, carried
off the second prize of £l5 for a Scotch polled steer (any
age), which steer is a son of the famous beast mentioned
above. The Duke of Sutherland was unsuccessful in
obtaining any award for his contribution to the class of
Scotch horned steers. To Lord Berners, of Keythorpe
Hall, Leicester, was awarded the first prize of £`2o,
with silver medal to the breeder, for fat wether
sheep of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 23 months).
The second prize of £l5 went to Mr. William Brown, of
Ifolme-on-Spalding. Lord Berners also took the first
prize for fat wethers 1 year old (under 23 months), each
11.ee_) not to exceed 2201 b. weight. Mr. Bradshaw, of
Craklrn, Rutland, gained the second prize of £l5, and
Mr. William Brown, of Holme-on-Spalding, the third
prize of £5. In the class of fat wether sheep of the Lincoln
breed, 1 year old (under 23 months), the first prize of
£2O and a silver medal to the breeder was awarded
to Mr. Carswell, of Quadring, Spalding, Lincoln. The
first prize of £l5, with silver medal to the breeder, for fat
wether shep of the Kentish or Romney Marsh breed, was
carried off by Mr. James Newport, of Ashford, Kent. For
fat wether sheep of the Southdown breed, 1 year
old (under 23 months), the first prize of £2O, with
silver medal to the breeder, was taken by Lord
Walsingham, of Merton, Thetford, Norfolk ; the
second prize of £lO by Mr. Hugh Penfold, of Chichester;
and the third by Sir William Throckmorton. The entry
of Lord Sondes, of Elrnham Hall, Thetford, was highly
commended. The class of fat wether sheep of the South-
down breed, 1 year old (under 23 months), each sheep not
exceeding 200 lb. live weight, was generally commended.
The first prize, £l5, silver medal to the breeder, was
awarded to Lord Walsingham, of Merton Hall, Thetford.
The second prize of £5 for pigs of any white breed, not
exceeding 9 months old, was taken by the Queen for pigs
of Prince Albert's Windsor breed. The first prize,
value £lO, with silver medal to the breeder, going to Mr.
Melville Cartwright, of Lady Bank, Fife. The silver cup
of the value of £2O, for the beat pen of pigs in any of the
classes, was awarded to Mr. Thomas Chamberlayne, of
Cranbury Park, Winchester. The silver medal for the
best Southdown wether sheep in extra stock, was given to
Mr. Henry Humphrey, of Ashrington Hurst, Sussex. The
silver medal for the Southdown ewe in extra stock was
awarded to Lord Walsingham. The silver medal for the
best steer or ox in extra stock was awarded to Mr. Heath,
of Ludliam Hall, Norwich ; for the best heifer or cow in
extra stock to Colonel Townley, of Burnley, Lancaster;
to Lord Deniers, for the best Leicester wether sheep in
extra stock ; to Mr. Brown, of Highgate, for the best
Leicester ewe in extra stock ; to Mr. Francis Samleson,
f,a. the best long-woolled sheep (not Leiccsters) in extra
stock ; rota t.) Mr. Thomas James, of Coyle, Bedford, for
the Le ;t short.woolled_ sheep (not Southdowns) in extra
stock.

The Manchester Courier says that the Conserva-
tives of Stockport have decided upon presenting a petition
egainst the return of Mr. J. B. Smith.
THE NATIONAL COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOR CON-
SUMPTION AND DISEASES OF TIIE CIIEST.—Owing to the
prompt and liberal response of the benevolent public to
the appeals made by the general committee on behalf of
this charity, the erection of the first pair of buildings is
,'ready far advanced, at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight.
Upwards of 2,000 valuable shrubs for the grounds of the
hospital have been generously presented by Mr. William
Rogers, of Red Lodge Nursery, Southampton; Mr.
Anthony Waterer, Knap-hill Nursery, Woking ; and Mr.
Maurice Young, Milford Nurseries, near Godahning.