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Take the Cabinet. OF ~ ~
taries of State there are Earls caS
the eldest son Of Duke; the 9ks1d
the race Of the fifth, Sir William ilsz
court, as he himself recently remind
us, is Lord Vernon. The Lord Chaa-
cellor, the Lord President Of the Com. J
Gil, the Lord Lieutenant Of ireland, ti,as
First Lord Of Admiralty, are all noble
men. Thus, then, out Of the fourteen
places in the Cabinet nine are filed by !;
the Representatives Of 500 peers, while
Eve only are filled by the represents
tives Of the 81, 000, 900 which constitute
the population Of the United King
dom. But we should be asked 70
look somewhat more closely ct the
personnel Of those who are
charged with administrative RESPONSE i
bilities in comparatively subordinate
positions. The political Secretary to the
Treasury, Lord Richard Grosvenor, Is
. Dukes brother. The Under Secretary
Of State for War, Lord Morley, is an
Earl. The Under Secretaries for Foreign
Affair and for Colonial Affairs are res-s
pectively sons Of Marquis and an Earl.
The surveyor of Ordinance is the son Of
Q Viscount; the Secretary Of the Local
Government Board is the nephew of one
Duke and the cousin of ON other. The
Paymaster-G General is Lord Wolverton,
Lord Carington is the Captain OF Tho
Gentlemen at Arms, and Lord Monson
the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard.
Again, of the political officers of whom;
in addition to peeresses and Ladies on
the Bed chamber. the queens household
is composed, the Duke of West
minister, almost, if not quite, the
wealthiest man in England, re.
ceives 92,5OO a year as Mas
ter of the Horse, and the Earl of Cork
FL 500 year as master of the Buck
hounds. Lord Kenmare has $4,000 q
year as Lord Chamberlain; while Lord
Dalhousie, Lord Torrington, Lord
Methuen, Lord Ribblesdale, Lord Sude-
ley, Lord Wrottlesley, Lord Sanhurst,
to soy nothing of hosts of intimate rels-
tions of peers, occupy posts of dignity
and emolument. Finally Lord Bread
albane. an extremely rich man, has q
salary of $500 year. Nor should we
be allowed to confine ourselves to the
domestic government of the empire.
Additional confirmation, we should be
told, will be found of the view here
taken if We look abroad. The Viceroy
of India is Marquis, so is the Cow.
ernor- General of Canada, and SO, till
the other day, was the governor gem
eral of Victoria, now replaced by.
the husband of Lord Clar-
endon's niece. The destinies
Of Ceylon are presided over by the son
ofa peer, and the Queens representa-. 81
tive in the capital of New South Wales
is Lord Augustus Lotus, the brother d 8
Marquis. OF our five chief Ambassa- /
dors, three-Lord Lyons, Lord Amp
thill, and Lord Dufierin-are pears, /;
while of the remaining two one is 1 4
near relation of Marquis and the Y
other son of Lord Scarborough. Ole
the 16 English Ministers below the am-ssl
bassadorial dignity, in foreign capitals, ~
are the sons of peers. When it is nec5a
essary todispatch diplomatist to Cairdl
on special mission the man we seiecesa
for the post is a cousin of Lord Northy:s3
brook. But there is no need to analyzaSs;
the composition of our diplomatic crops;
and colonial service more closely. IN
would he comprehensively, and not in- 4
correctly, asserted that there VIII basi
found in every part of it the same dis.
proportion between the representatives,
of the House of Lords and the peoples
at large.