The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

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It is understood that virtually Mr. Disraeli has suc-
ceeded in overcoming the difficulties which beset him in
the formation of a Ministry. On Thursday morning,
before starting for Osborne, he had an interview with Sir
John Pakington, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and General Peel.
From these three gentlemen, whose allegiance had been
somewhat doubtful, he is, according to the Star, believed
to have received promises of support. General Peel will
not be in the Ministry, but will give it his support. The
Post, however, states that the overtures made to Viscount
Cranborne and General Peel to join the Administration,
the one as Secretary of State for India and President of
the Indian Council, the other as Secretary of State for
War, have not been successful.
Mr. Ward Hunt, as previously stated, will be the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Sclater-Booth, now
Secretary to the Poor-law Board, is likely to succeed Mr.
Hunt as Financial Secretary to the Treasury. The Star,
however, mentions Lord Robert Montagu for that post, in
which case Lord Henry Lennox would leave the Secre-
taryship of the Admiralty for the Vice-Presidency of
the Council.

Mr. Walpole, in pursuance of an intention which nothin
but the illness of Lord Derby prevented his executing
sooner, retires from the somewhat anomalous position of
a seat in the Cabinet without portfolio, but will none the
less give his cordial support to Mr". Disraeli's Adminis-
tration.

The Advertiser states that should Lord Derby so tar
recover his health as to take any part in public life, he will,
at the earnest request of Mr. Disraeli, accept a seat in the
Cabinet for some merely nominal office, in order that he
may give the benefit of his counsels to the new Adminis-
tration. It is thought that as Mr. Walpole has resigned
his nominal seat in the Cabinet, Lord Derby will accept
the vacant office.

It is now placed beyond all doubt that the Earl of
Malmesbury will be one of the members of the Disraeli
Administration.

No change is expected to be made in the Chief Secre-
taryship for Ireland. Mr. Disraeli's Government will be
the first in which three Irishmen have had seats in the
Cabinet. The names of the three members of his Adminis-
tration are Lord Mayo, Lord Cairns, and Mr. Corry.
The following may be given as a correct list of the
Ministry, as reconstructed :
First Lord of the Treasury The Right Hon. B. Disraeli.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. George Ward Hunt.
Secretary of State for the
Home Department
Secretary of State for the
Foreign Department
Secretary of State for the
Colonial Department
Secretary of State for War Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington.
Secretary of State for India Sir Stafford Northcote.
First Lord of the Admiralty Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry.
Lord High Chancellor
Lord President of the

Council
Lord Privy Seal

Duke of Marlborough.
Earl of Malmeshury.

Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
President of the Board of
Trade
Postmaster-General

Duke of Richmond.
... Duke of Montrose.

President of the Poor Law
Board Lord Devon.
Chief Secretary for Ireland Earl of Mayo. •
With respect to the re-elections the Times says :—" The
Secretary of the Treasury, the Under-Secretaries of State,
and the Secretary to the Admiralty do not hold office under
the Crown, and therefore, even before the Act of last ses-
sion, their seats in the House of Commons were not vacated
upon appointment. While, however, holders of these
offices thus escape from the Act of Anne, vacating the
seats of members accepting offices of profit from the
Crown, they are not exempted by the Reform Act from
the necessity of appealing to their constituents on appoint-
ment to any other offices in the Ministry. Schedule Hin
the Act of last session includes none but offices held by
direct appointment from the Crown. It follows, therefore,
that Clause 52 is not, under the circumstances, so " oppor-
tune " as might be wished, and that as Mr. Hunt was re-
turned to Parliament before the acceptance by him of any
office named in the schedule he must be re-elected for
North Northamptonshire in case of his appointment as
Chancellor of the Exchequer.

THE NEW PREMIER AND LORD
CHELMSFORD.

" Truth" thus writes to the Herald, under date of the
27th instant :—" From the leading article in the Times of
yesterday, the public would naturally infer that Lord
Chelmsford had Voluntarily retired from the high position
of Lord Chancellor. Such, however, is not the fact. His
lordship had no option but to resign the custody of the
Great Seal when informed by Mr. Disraeli that his name
could not be included in the new Government. It
is stated that Mr. Disraeli's object in removing Lord
Chelmsford and in promoting Lord Cairns was to obtain
additional debating power on the Ministerial side of the
House of Lords ; but, on reading this day's Times, I in-
cline to a different conclusion, and I cannot but attribute
his lordship's removal from office to the last act of his
Ministry, which was 'to place on the bench a judge
chosen simply for his fitness to be a judge, in spite of un-
usual pressure upon him to make a less worthy choice.'"
In this letter the editor says : "We publish the fore-
going letter in deference to the desire of one who has a
right to speak as to the facts of the case. Into Mr. Dis-
raeli's motives we cannot, of course, enter. But we may
state,. on the best authority, that the terms of Mr. Disraeli's
letter to Lord Chelmsford were courteous and even flatter-
ing ; stating, in effect, that although Mr. Disraeli could
not, from various circumstances, offer the noble lord the
position he held in the late Administration, yet that it
would afford him the greatest pleasure if the noble lord
would point out any other mode in which he might request
her Majesty to signify her appreciation of his distin-
guished services."
The Advertiser states that Lord Chelmsford was the
only member of Lord Derby's Cabinet who was not
written to by Mr. Disraeli, to join the new Ministry. On
the contrary, an intimation was conveyed to him, immedi-
ately on Mr. Disraeli's receiving the Queen's commands to
form a new Government, that both Mr. Disraeli and Lord
Derby had determined, with the view of strengthening the
new Government, that Lord Cairns should be appointed
to the office of Keeper of her Majesty's Conscience. It
was stated on Thursday that on being shaken by the hand
by the Duke of Richmond, as he left the woolsack, and
on the latter referring to his retirement from official life,
that he expressed his regret that he had not had an oppor-
tunity afforded him by Mr. Disraeli of resigning his seat
in the Cabinet. If report may be believed, the reason
why Lord Chelmsford was thus deprived of his office as
Lord Chancellor was in some way or other connected with
certain appointments he had made without consulting his
colleagues while holding the Great Seal. That of Mr.
Higgins, his son-in-law, some time ago, and that of Mr.
Hannen, ten or twelve days since, to the judgeship in
the Queen's Bench vacant by the death of Mr. Justic,
Shee—are mentioned as among the number of appoint-
ments to which exception was taken by the Derby Govern-
ment.

According to the Post, on Tuesday afternoon Lord
Chelmsford, when he took his seat on the woolsack, had
not been informed that Lord Derby's resignation had been
accepted by the Queen, and Lord Malmesbury, to whose

lot it fell to make the statement of the fact to the House,
expressed his surprise that the Lord Chancellor had
not previously been made acquainted with it by
Mr. Disraeli. Lord Chelmsford the same evening
received a communication from Mr. Disraeli, which,
referring to the announcement made of Lord
Derby's retirement, and of the writer being en-
trusted with the formation of a new Administrat;on,
proceeded to state that with the view of strengthen-
ing the debating power of the Cabinet in the
House of Lords, which had been much impaired by the
retirement of Lord Derby, he could not include Lord
Chelmsford in the list about to be submitted to her

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Majesty for reappointment to the office of Lord Chan-
cellor. It was in this curt, not courteous, manner that
the new Premier marked his sense of the services which

Lord Chelmsford has rendered to the Conservative party,
of which now Mr. Disraeli is the head. The excuse offered
in the communication above referred to--that Lord Derby
had, upon the formation of his Government, suggested
some arrangement of this kind—is simply inexact in point
of fact, and is scarcely worthy of more consideration than
the readiness with which Mr. Disraeli proffered his willing-
ness to submit Lord Chelmsford's name for any other mark
of her Majesty's favour.

Among the peerage claims which will come again
before the House of Lords this session is that of the Duke
of Buckingham to the Scottish barony of Bruce of
Kinloss, supposed to have been created in 1601, and now
enjoyed by the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine under a
more recent patent dated in 1604.. His claim, we under-
stand, is opposed by the Marquis of Ailesbury, who is a
Bruce, and who owns Jervaux Abbey iri Yorkshire, which
once formed part of the estates of the abbey of the barony
of Kinloss in Scotland.

It may not be generally known in England that
the Scottish judges, or Lords of Session, are called
• Lords " during their tenure of a seat on the bench,
generally taking their title from the lands held by their
respective families (as Lord President Inglis is styled
" Lord Glencorse "), but that on their resignation they
resume the plain designation of " Mr.;" for example,
the late Lord Meadowbank, after retiring from the judi-
cial bench, was always known in society as " Mr."
Macl.sonechie.