The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-03-18
The New british Ministry.

As was expected, the Parliamentary elections
in England have resulted in a triumph for the
conservative party by majority of about fifty in
total Of seven hundred members. When this
result became known Mr.. Gladstone and his cab
met gracefully resigned, and the Queen summoned
Mr.. D,Israeli, though for while it was doubted
whether be or the Earl of Derby would be offered
the premiership. On the Goth of February, the
following Cabinet was announced
Premier. Right Hon. Benjamin Dlsraeli
Foreign Affairs. Earl OF Derby
Secretary for india Marquis of Salisbury
Secretary for War. Right Hon GarthOrne Hardy
Lord President of Council. 49,. Duke of Richmond
First Lord of the Admiralty,
Right Hon George Ward Hunt
For the Home Department. ........H Hon. Mr.. Cross
Chancellor OF Exchequer,
Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote
LOrd frlVy seal. ............ Earl OF Malmes0ury
Postmaster. General. Lord John Manners
For the COLONIES -...............L Lord Carnarvon.
Here is an array of statesmen, of which any
E1glishman ought to be proud. Mr. D'Israe
made premier, as the real leader of the con-
sentative or tory party, which has won the con-
test. Yet be is said to lack the full confidence
of the British people or even of his own party
and will have TO take up and carry out some of
the reforms begun or promised by the late admin
istratien, or else must give place to another
His previous administration in 1868 was termina-
ted in less than year from theftime he assumed
the premiership, and unless he is more shrewd
his present term will be no longer, for he has
small and tickle majority to rely on.
"Of Mr.. Disraell's colleagues in the Ministry,
(says the S. F. BuLetin) Lord Derby, the new
Secretary OF State for Foreign Affairs, now in
his 49th year, is quite at home in Downing
Street, and won the general confidence of both
parties when he was at the head of the Foreign
Office, from 1866 to 1868, under the government
of his fiery headstroDg father, " the Prince Rupert
of Debate" and under the succeeding Premier
ship of Mr.. Dsraeli. To him was due the ar.
rangement for submitting the Alabama claims to
arbitration. His colleague, Sir Stafford North
cote, is known in this country as one of the Com
missOners representing England in the Washing
ton JOINT High Commission. He describes him
self as liberal Conservative, who will resist all
attempts to infringe upon the rights of the
Church of England. He is Lord Derby's senior
by eight years. Lord Cairns who goes to the
wOolsack for the second time, having been made
Lord Chancellor during Mr.. Disraeli's last brief
term OF office, is Chancery lawyer of great abb
lty. As debater, his style is keen, iDcisve,
logical, and as a statesmanlike law-reformer be
gave promise of success, when, as SoIicitor.gen-
eral, he introduced land titles bill for simplify
ing the enormously costly system of conveying
the title TO land. As he generously supported
Lord Selbornes BILL introduced with similar
object last session, he will probably take up the
matter again and endeavor to make the machinery
IF OH IF
He was born in 1879 The Earl of Carnarvon
returns to the Colonial Dcpartment-the post he
held in 1861. He is a man of many words In
1870 he was made Deputy Grand Master of the
Freemasons OF England. lie is in his forty
fourth year. The new Secretary of State for In
dia, OF whom Mr.. Disraeli once satiricay said,
after savage TRADE had been leveed at him by
the noble Lord when in the House of Commons
as FiscOnnt Cranborne, his speech wants finish"
The Marquis of Salisbury also returns to the
post he held 10 the last Conservative adminlstra-
ton. He is, in the fullest sense of the word, q
stern and unbendiDg" Troy a man of keenly-
analitycal mind, aud remarkable for his power Of
caustic, trenchant, satrical criticism, who, had
he been lawyer. would have been leader at the
Bar, but whose impracticable opposition TO all
reform units him to be the leader of his party.
He was born IN 1880. Ca the death of the Earl
Of Derby, in 1869, he was elected Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. The Duke of Rich
mond, the leader of the Conservative party in
the House OF Lords, is chiefly noticeable for his
suavity and his Inequalities at Goodwood, dur
ing the race-week. He is Due d'Aubigny in
France and, for his coat of arms, is entitled to
use the royal arms of Charles H. the Merry
Monarch Of England. In 1868 the Duke was
President of the Board of Trade. His age is Sc.
George Ward Hunt, huge Of stature and burly of
form, the favorite of the farmers, for whom, dur
ing the cattle-plague, he was mainly instrumental
in gaining from The Government compensation for
losses by the death Of slaughtered beasts, was
formerly Mr.. Disraes Chancellor Of the Excbe-
quer, and is now to be his Home Secretary
Like the Majority Of the new Ministry he is
young for statesman, being only in his fftieth
year. At the head of the Navy is to be Mr.
Claiborne Hardy, who is now sixty years of age,
but whose experience Of official life is confined to
the Poor Law Board, of which he was Pres-
dent in 1861, and the Home Department, of
which be was Under Secretary in 1858, and Of
which be became Secretary in 1867, after the
Hyde Park riots, when Mr.. Walpole resigned
the Office. Mr.. Garthorne Hardy has this advan-
tage over his chief-he certainly has the conf
dence Of the great majority of the Conservative
party, and Mr.. Disraeli probably has not"