Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-26

William E Gladstone leader OF the LIB
eral party in Great Britain, visited Queen
Victoria on the Isle of Wight to lay before
her the names of those who would comprise
the Cabinet and to perform the usual cere-
monies attendant upon the taking of
Office bv new Prime Minister
On the following dav Mr.. Gladstone re-
tured to London, and the new Government
was officially announced as follows:
William E. Gladstone, Lord Privy Seal
and First Lord of the Treasury.
Earl Rosebery Foreign Secretary.
Baron Herschell, Lord Chancellor.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Herbert II Asquith, Home Secretary.
The Right Hon. Henry H. Fowler, Pres
ident of the Local Government Board.
The Right Hon. II Campbell Zimmerman,
Secretary of State for War.
Earl Spencer, First Lord Of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland.
The Right Hon. A. j. Mundolla. Presl-
dent of the Board Of Trade.
Sir Charles Russell, Attorney General
John Rigby, Solicitor General.
The Right Hon. Samuel Walker. Lord
Chancellor Of Ireland.
Mr.. MacDermott, Attorney General for
ireland.
The Right Hon. Edward P c. Marjori-
banks, Patronage Secretary to the Treasury.
Alexander Asher, Sohcitor-General for
Scotland.
The Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Ad-
vocate of Scotland.
The Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of
State for India and Vice-President Of the
Council.
The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
Sir George o. Trevelyan, Secretary for
Scotland.
Mr.. Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General.
Mr.. Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, Vice
President of the Council of Education.
Baron Houghton, Viceroy Of Ireland,
without a seat in the Cabinet
James Bryce, Chancellor of the Duchy Of
Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet.
An Associated Press dispatch from Lon
den says that ''the composition of the new
Government is the cause Of intense dlsap-
pointment among the Radicals. Not single
man, except John Morley, prominently
identified with the Radicals has been az
pointed Cabinet Minister, and among the
ex-Cabinet posts few members of the new
set have any but the remotest chance
Of getting place The old set
are masters of the situation. Representa-
tives of old Wing families and mer without
extreme views have been Mr.. GladstOne's eG-
elusive choice. Even Mr.. SStansfeld, who IN
the last Gladstone Cabinet represented demo
cratic opinion, has been shelved. The official
list, when scanned tonight at the National
Liberal Club awoke vehement protests.
The bulk of the members of strong Ra6lcaI
tendencies turned from the announcement
with expressions Of scorn and anger. Was
it for this undiluted list of old men assOcl-
ated with the traditions Of Whiggery, with
some new recruits from the territorial and
aristocratic class, that the Radicals had
given their money and their time? This was
the general question, and the responsive
prediction followed that such Government
could not last three months after Parliament
resumed business.
apart from Radical opinion the Cabinet
is really composed of eminentlY reputable
men. Mr.. Gladstone has preferred collect
ing around him tried colleagues accustomed
to subordination and certain not to
deviate into strange ways. His three
new Cabinet Ministers, Messrs AS
quith, Arnold Morley and Aclandi,
slightly tainted with Radicalism, but be has
legal mind with such strong bias toward
high Office as makes him malieaole on prin-
ciples. Arnold Morley is in everything
Gladstonian. Mr.. Acland has potent old
Wing family connections and is heir to large
estates"
Speaking of Lord Houghton's appoint
ment as Viceroy for Ireland, the Dublin
Freeman's Journal says: ''If there is sub
stance in the modern theory of heredity,
Baron Houghton is likely to be a
justly popular Lord-Lieutenant Of Ireland.
His father was a gentleman and a
scholar, of winning personal courtesy, with
deep sympathy for Ireland's national aspi
rations. The son is said to be active, dis
tinguished and popular in bis own country,
endowed with political ambition and ability
and with wealth and personal accomplish
ments that will enable him to fill the DO
sition with dignity and success. But
unquestionably the chief lesson Of the
appointment of Baron Houghton as
Viceroy without a seat in the Cabinet, is
that John Morley will take the administra
ton OF Ireland completely into his own
hands. We trust and believe that his aG-
ministration will be thorough. Hitherto a
change of Government has but slightly
changed the administration of Ireland. This
the first Government ever elected with a
distinct mandate to do full justice to Irish
opinion, means a revolution IN Castle meth
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