The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08


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GLADsTONk's CABINET.
sketches Of tho MumbOFa Called to OtiiOs by
the Premier,
NJ Y Tribune,
This is tue third Cabinet Mr.. Gladstone
has formed; the first having conducted
the Government from December o, 1858,
to February 81, 1874, and the second from
April 20, 1850, to June 90, 1885, Most Of
the members Of the latter enter the new
one, though in several cases occupying
new positions
Sir Farrar HeIschel, selected for Lord
High Chancellor, and hence presiding
officer oi the House OF Lords, is q lawyer,
and was Mr.. Gladstone's last Solicitor
General, holding that office five years.
He sat in Parliament for North Ian.
Cashire, North HOnsdale Division.
Earl Spencer becomes Lord President OF
the Council for the second time, having
served as such from lSS0t 1883. Though
only lity.one years OF age, he is q veteran
in governmental service, having also
been Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland from
1865 to 1874, and again from March 10,
1883, to June %, 1885,
Mr., Ohilders has held several cabinet
offices before. He was one OF the junior
Lords OF the Admiralty in 1915, then
Financial Secretary Of the Treasury, and
from lS6S,to 1874 First Lord OF the Admir-
atty. In the last Liberal Cabinet lie was
at frat Secretary Of State for War, and
later Chancellor Of the ExChequer,
Earl RosebeIy, age thirty'nine, is one OF
the yougest and newer ministers. This
rich Scottish peer, husband Of a Roths.
child, devoted lover ofhoTses, and line
scholar, ID ellinGntly Democratic III his
ideas, and has Of late been regarded ono Of
the most promising OF Liberal statesmen.
His raise to tho office OF Secretary for For.
eign Affairs has hsen rapid. He was
Under Secretary for the Home Depart.
ment from 1881 to 1888, and from Feb.
ruary l. to June 90, 1881, Lord PriVy Seal
and First Commissioner 0f Works.
EarI.Gnnville, next to Mr.. Gladstone,
ia the oldest member OF the new Ministry
in years. His age ia II, or six years IS
than that OF the Premier. As early as
lS5l.'j2 he was Secretary Of Foreign
Affairs, and held the came Office again in
tho first and second Gladstone Cabinets.
lie has also, at various times, been Lord
President Of the Council, Chancellor for
the Colonies, which last office he nov re.
sumeg.
Earl Kimberly, another veteran in
ministerial service, aged 60, Is the only
member OF Mr.. Gladstone's second Cabi.
net who takes up the same portfolio he
laid down last June. Besides his present
office OF Secretary for India, he has twice
held that OF Secretary Of State for tho
Colonies, aud has been Lord Privy Seal,
Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland and he has
been in the diplomatic service.
Henry Campbell Bannermann, age fifty,
has sat in Parliament for Stirling, Scot.
land, ever since 1868; but his experience
in executive Office il comparatively brief.
From 1880 to October 30, 1854, he was an
under secretary in the War Office, OF
which he 10 now Chief Secretary, and in
the next eight months he was Oheit SeCre-
tary for Ireland.
Sir William Vernon HarCourt, who Rt
the last moment has been made ChanCel.
or OF the ExCheQuer instead :of Home
Secretary, held the latter office in the
last Liberal Cabinet. lie had previously
been President OF International Law at
Cambridge, and was Solicitor General in
IS73-14 His age is tltty,nine.
The Marquis Of Ripon, who takes the
Office OF First Lord OF the Admiralty
which Mr.. Chamberlain is reported 10
have declined, has held war and Indian
portfolios and served as Lord Resident Of
the Council in folmer Cabinets. His Ia.
test office was that OF YiCeroy OF India,
which he filed with marked ability from
1880 10 October 1854. He IL a Catholic,
and his age ia tiity-nine.
Joseph Chamberlain, who takes tho
Presidency Of the Local Government
Board which Charles Dixie hNdin the last
Cabinet, was from 1880 to 1885 president
Of the Board Of Trade. He has been
chiefly conspicuous as radical champion
Of land reform, representing the three
acres and o COW" idea. lie was Mayor Of
birmingham from 1874 to 1876, and Is one
Of the members OF Parliament from that
borough. His age is fifty.one.
g. o. Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland,
Is a son Of MaCaulay's nephew and biog.
rapher, was one Of the Under Secretaries
for the Admiralty from 1868 to 1870, and
again from 1850 to 1882. Hc then became
Chief Secretary for Ireland, but surren.
dered that Office 10 become Chancellor Of
the DuChyof Lancaster In October, 1884.
Mr.. Mundella, the new President OF the
Board Of Trade, was vlCe.president OF the
Committee OF tho Council for Education
under the last Cabinet. He has eat for
Sheffield since 1868 almost continuously,
and has leCtured and written extensively
on capital, labor and education.
John Morley, Secretary for Ireland, Is
new to ministerial service. His career has
been literary rather than political, lie
wrote biographies Of Golden, Burke and
Voltaire, and edited the Forini0hty Pail
MdH Gaietie (before Mr.. Steady and Mac.
milan. 10 the columns Of tho GdseiLe he
gave Rochefort and Louise Michel access.
He is q devoted supporter Of Mr.. Cham.
berlain, and, except the Premier, is the
only member OF the new Cabinet openly
committed 10 Home Rule. It Is only two
or three years since he entered Parliament.
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