The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-12
Lord Derby and his Dukes.

From the World.
The Tory Dukes are coming forward, as
BELTS the derivation of their title, to the van
OF their party in the impending battle with
the great Liberal leader whom Mr.. Beresford
Hope pleasantly describes as "a clustering,
foul-mouthed Quaker from ROchdale.' The
telegraph informs us that in the now COM
pleted reconstruction of the Earl of Derby's
Cabinet, the Duke of Richmond takes the
Presidency of the Board of Trade, the Duke
of Marlborough becomes Lord President of
the Privy Council, and the Duke of Buckng
ham goes into the Colonial Office. The
highest rank in the British peerage has never
been so fully represented in any previous
administration of the present century, nor,
indeed, at any time since the Cabinet disre-
specttully chroniced by history as the "BrOad
Bottom" Government of Henry Pelham in
l744, in which no less than six Dukes-Of
Dorset, Grafton, Bedford, Montagu, Argyll,
and Newcastle-had seats. As the British
peers have commonly had the courage and
good sense to anticipate the advent of mis-
chief to their order, this influx of the ''straw-
berry leaves" by no means prognOsticates
any effort to stem the tide Of parliamentary
reform.
One of the noblemen who have thus taken
office under Lord Derby, indeed, thef Duke Of
Buckingham and Chandos, is both an ADLER
and a more liberal politician than the Earl of
Camarvon, who has made way for him in the
Cabinet As the heir to a magnificent position
and a ruined fortune, the Duke, when Mar
quis of Chandos, proved himself to be a man
both Of character and Of ability. He was
for many years chairman of one of the great
English railways, and, as he has visited both
the United States and the Canadas, he comes
into the Colonial Office at time when his
experience of travel and of business life will
be of particular advantage both to himself
and to the Cabinet which he has Joined.
Like his colleagues the Dukes of Marlborough
and Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham is
| still i'll the prime of life. The Duke of MARI
| borOugh-who made himself famous, as Lord
| Blandtord, in the House of Commons twenty
years ago, by his efforts TO reconstruct the
Church of England-is peer of more weight
in certain sections of the English ecclesiastical
world than in the realms Of politics or finance,
II he cannot greatly help the Derby Govern
ment however, neither can he greatly harm
II, III the essentially honorary Office which he
mas accepted. The Lord President of the
rilvy Council is, in manner, the Turveydrop
ot Sne brush administration, and the Duke
oi MaIl I thorough y91, is probably match for any
Vi 'lo wing peers in the matter of deport
mem, III England, where opinion as well
as acIes are hereditary, and noblemen are
3 born to their political convictions y.
: they are born to their coronets Tn,
| temperance of Duke of Ricbmon6 IN tb,
} held oil pubnc HE, after lanse of EIGHT,
Y years. may perhaps excite attention 9Tb,
J, grandfather of the actual Duke (v1bose stataI,
e figure is familiar to us from its nrominonoe 4
/ the long popular picture Of the 1CDeatb a
Lord Chatham') sat IN the Rockingham ad