The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-17
LoNDoy, August 1s.-The new govern

ment is composed as follows:
Mr.. Gladstone, lord PRIV seal and
FIRST lord of the treasury.
Earl Rosebery, foreign secretary.
Baron Herschell, lord chancellor.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chan.
cellor Of the exchequer.
Herbert H. Asquith, home secretary.
The Right Hon. Henry Il. FFowler,
president Of thelocal government board.
The Right Hon. II. Campbell Banner
man, secretary of state for war.
Earl Spencer. first lord of the ad-
miralty.
The Right Hon. A. ]. Mundella, pres
ident 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 generation
The Right Hon. P. Q. Maioribanks
patronage secretary to the treasury.
Alexander Asher, solicitor general tor
Scotland.
The Right Hon. J. B. Baliour, lord ad-
yocate Of fscotland.
The Earl of Kimberly, secretary Of
state for India and vice president otthe
council.
The Marquis OF Ripon, secretary OF
state for the colonies.
Sir George o. Trevylan, secretary for
Scotland.
Mr.. Arnold Morley, postmaster gen
Mr.. Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland,
vice president Of the council OF educa-
ton.
Baron Houghton, yiceroy OF Ireland,
without seat in the cabinet.
The announcement OF the appoint-
ment OF Baron Houghton to the position
of yiceroy Of Ireland was so Incredible
that the representative OF the Associated
Press made inquiries about 1t when he
found that the appointment had been
made as announced.
Robert 0fley Ashburton Mines, the
second Baron Houghton, was-born jan
nary12, 1858, andis therefore not thirty
five years Of age. He married, In 1878,
sybil, daughterof Sir Frederick Graham,
and granddaughter Of the Duke OF
Somerset. His wife died in 1887, leny=
ing three daughters. Baron Houghton
has been q lordin. waiting to the queen.
His father, the first baron, who died in
1886, was Monckton Milnes, the poet
politician. ef,5
The competition Of the new gov
ernment is the cause Of intense disap-
pointment among Radicals. Not a sim
gle man except John Morley promi-
nently identified with the Radicals has
been appointed cabinet minister, and
among tho ex.cabinet posts few mem-
bers of the new set have any but the
remotest chance OF getting place.
The old set are masters OF the slt1a-
tion. Representative of the old Wing
families and Liberal .mediocrities hav-
ing aristocratic connections and never
associated with extreme views have
been Mr.. Gladstone's exclusive choics.
Even Mr.. Stansield, who was in the
last Gladstone cabinet representing
Democratic opinion has been shelyed.
Report says that Mr.. Bryce may yet
comein as first commissioner OF works,
with a seat in the cabinet, but this Is
only likely to happen il Mr.. Gladstone
finds the storm Of Radical indignation
SO overpowering as to compel the ap.
pointment OF Mr.. Bryce.
Apart from Radical opinion the cabi-
net is really composed OF eminently
reputable men. Mr. Gladstone has pre-
ferred collecting around him tried coll
leagues accustomed to subordination
and certain not to deyiate into strange
ways. His three new cabinet minis
ters, Messrs. Asquith, Arnold, Morley
and Acland are sound Liberals.
Probably Mr.. Gladstone will try to
strengthen his position by offering mi
nor posts to various Radical leaders, but
nothing he offers will prevent tho Rad
ical leaders Immediately, upon the re-
assembling Of Parliament showing re-
sentiment at their exclusion from office.
Mr.. LaBouchere's friends refuse to
credit this statement that the Queen re.
fused to accept him as q minister and
point to tho omission OF other radicals
as proving the hollowness Of tn ex:
cuse.
Baron Houghton's appointment as
viceroy OF Ireland amazed Mr.. Glad
stones intimate friends.
An Associated Press representative,
in an interview with a person intimate
with Gladstone's family, learned that
Baron Houghton has been from early
life protege OF Mr.. Gladstone, and he
has often been at Hawarden.