The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-07-01
England's New Ministry.
SKETCHES OF THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY AND
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHcOTE.


been called to form a new Ministry for
Great Britain. was born in Hatfield, Eng
land. in 1880. He was educated at Elton,
and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated, and was elected Fellow of
All Souls College in 1858. In 1853 he
was elected Member of Parliament for
Stanford, and herepresented that borough
in the Conservative interest until his sue
cession to the maruuisate on the death of
his father, April Il, 1868. While in the
Lower House he was known as Lord
Robert Cecil until the decease of his
elder brother, on June IA, 1865, when he
assumed the courtesy title OF Nlscount
Cranborne In 1857 he married Georgl-
ana Caroline, daughter of Sir Edward
Hall Anderson, Baron Of the Exchequer,
and neice of the celebrated Mrs. Ople.
His lordship took an active part IN all
public measures which affected the inter
ests of the Established Church, and In
the leading Church of England institu-
tions, and he was frequent contributor
to the Quarterly ReUieD and to other per1odl-
Gals. In Lord Derby's third administra-
ton he was in July, 1866, appointed Secre-
tary of State for India, which post he re-
signed on account of difference in opin-
ion respecting the Reform bill March z,
1867, when two other Cabinet Ministers
viz, Gen Peel, War Secretary, and Lord
Carnavon, Colonial Secretary, also gave
in their designations. On November II,
1869, he was elected Chancellor OF the
University of Oxford, IN succession to the
late Earl of Derby. In lS71-72 he and
Lord Cairns, as arbitrator, conducted a
a long investigation into the complicated
affairs of the London Chatham and Dover
Railway Company. His lordship was
again appointed Secretary of State for
India when Mr. Disraei returned TO office
in February, 1874 When, at the close of
the war between Turkey and Servia, diff
ferences arose between the former power
and Russia, the Marquis of Salisbury was
sent as special ambassador to the Sublime
Porte. and he and Sir Henry Elliot as joint
Observation-Disclosures of Great Britain at the
conference of Constantinople. His lord
ship left England November 20, 1876, and
en- route visited Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
Rome. The progress toward agreement
made at the preliminary meetings held
at the Russian Embassy in Constantine
pie were so satisfactory that the formal
conference, at which the jointproposals of
the powers We're pressed upon the Porte,
was opened December 23rd. AT the same
time the new Constitution of the Ottoman
Empire was formally promulgated by its
author, Midhat Pasha. The Marquis of
Salisbury really took the place of leader
at the conference, which held altogether
seven plenary meetings.
On April 2, 1878, he was appointed
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in
the room of the Earl of Derby, resigned
and he at once wrote a memorable dis
patch, in which he clearly enunciated the
policy of the Government with regard to
the Eastern question. He and the Earl
of Beaconsfield soon afterward were the
representatives of Great Britain at the
Congress of Berlin, and on their return
10 London they met with most enthu-
siastic reception at Charing Cross July l6,
1878. The Queen invested the Marquis
of Salisbury with the Order of the Garter
July Beth. On August 3rd he and the
Earl of Beaconsfield received the freedom
of the city of London, and were atterward
entertained at a grand banquet at the
Mansion House He went out of office
with his party after the defeat at the
general election of April, 1880. At a
meeting of the Conservative Peers held
on NAV 9th, 1881, at the residence of the
MARQUIS of Abergavenny, the Marquis of
Salisbury was elected to lead the party
in the House of Lords.
Sir Stafford Northcote, the man named
as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
new Ministry, was born in London DC
tober q, ISIS, was educated at Balliol
College, Oxford, taking a first class in
classics and third in mathematics. He
was called to the bar at the inner temple
in 1S47, was made c. B. (ciyil division)
In 1851, in recognition of his services as
one of the Secretaries for the Industrial
1aibition, and was Captain in the First
Il Won Yeomanry Cavalry, and Deputy
Lieutenant for the county. He was re
turned member for Dudley in the Con
servative interest in March, 1856; was an
unsuccessful candidate for North Devon
in March, 1857; was returned for STAN
ford in July, 1858, and continued one of
the Representatives Of that borough till
Nav 1866. when he was elected for North