Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-17
A Full List of the New Liberal Eng
liSh Officers Chosen by
MR.. GLADSTONE AND APPOINTED
By the Queen-The Appointment
of Baron Houghton, a Man Un-
der Thirty-hve Years Old, as
Viceroy ofIreland, Causes Much
Surprise and Comment-A Brief
Biographical Sketch Of the New
Viceroy.

ment is composed as follows:
MIR. Gladstone, Lord Privy Seal anu
First Lord OF the Treasury.
Earl Roseberry, Foreign Secretary.
Baron Herschell, Lord Chancellor.
Sir VIM. Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
The Right Hon. Henry H. Frowler,
President of the Local Government
Board.
The Right Hon. H. Campbell
man, Secretary Of State for Wer.
Earl Spencer, First Lord Of the Adml-
rally.
The Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Sec
retary for Ireland.
The Right Hon. A J. Mundella, Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade.
Sir Charles Russell, Attorney. General.
John Rjby, Solicitor General.
The Right Hon. Samuel Walker, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland.
Mr.. MacDermott, Attorney General for
ireland.
The Right Hon. Edward p G. Mariori-
banks, Patronage Secretary to the Treas
ury.
Alexander Asher, Solicitor General for
! Scotland.
The Rt Hon ]. B. Balfour, Lord Advo-
| cate Of Scotland
The Earl Of Kimberly, Secretary of
State for India and Vice President of the
Council.
The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary Of
State for the Colonies.
Sir George o, Trevylan, Secretary for
Scotland.
MIR. Arnold Morley, Postmaster General.
Mr.. Arthur Herbert Dyke Ackland, Vice
President of the Council of Education.
Baron Houghton, Viceroy OF ireland,
without a seat in the Cabinet
The announcement of the appointment OF
Baron Houghton to the position OF Vice
roy of ireland was SO incredible that the
representative Of the Associated Press
made inquiries about it, when he found
that the appointment had been made as an
nounce1.
Robert Ofley Ashburton Mines, the
second Baron Houghton, was born January
~, 1858, aud is therefore not yet 80 years
OF age He married in 1873, Sybil, daugh-
ter Of Sir Frederick Graham, and grand
daughter Of the Duke OF Somerset. His
wife died in 1887, leaving three daughters.
Baron Houghton has been a Lord in wait
ing to the Queen. His father, the first
Baron, who died in 1850, was Monckton
Mines, the poet politician.
The composition Of the new government
is the cause of intense disappointment
among the radicals. Not single man,
except ] ohm Morley, prominently identi-
fed with the radicals, has been appointed
a cabinet minister, and among the posts
few members OF the new set have any but
the remotest chance OF getting place.
The old set are masters Of the situation.
Representatives of the old Wing families
and Liberal mediocrities having aristocrat-
ic connections and never associated with
extreme views have been Mr.. Gladstone's
exclusive choice.
Even Mr.. Stansfeld, who was in the
last Gladstone Cabinet representing dem
ocratic opinion, has been shelved. Report
saws that Mr.. Bryce may vet come in as
first Commissioner of Works, with seat
in the Cabinet, but this is only likely TO
happen if Mr.. Gladstone finds the storm
of Radical indignation so Overpowering as
to compel the appointment OF Mr.. Bryce.
Apart from radical opinion the Cabinet
is really composed of eminently reputable
men. Mr.. Gladstone has preferred col
lecting around him tried colleagues accus-
toned TO subordination and certain not to
deviate into strange ways. His three new
Cabinet Ministers, Messrs Asquith, Ar
mold, Morley and Acland are sound liber-
ais.
Probably Mr. Gladstone will try to
strengthen his position by offering minor
posts to Mr. Stuart, the Radical leader OF
London County Council; Mr.. Huater, now
the leader of the Scotch Radicals; Mr..
Burt, Mr.. Penn and others.
MIR. Shaw Lefevre is likely to get the
Ministry of Agriculture, but nothing MIR.
Gladstone offers will prevent the Radical
leaders Immediately upon the reassembling
OF Parliament showing resentment at their
exclusion from Office.
Mr. La BOuchere's friends refuse to
credit this statement that the Queen re-
fused to accept him as a minister and point
10 the omission of other radicals as prov
ing the hollownesS OF the eXcnse The
omen truth is that Mr.. Gladstont detests
MIR. La Bouchere and the latter heartily
reCiprccates.
e Nothing in Mr.. LaBoUchere's pOlitica
life is likely to cause him so much rejoicing
as leading schism destroying the Glad
stone Government He will have ample
opportunity for this in the coming session,
when the irate radicals refuse TO crafty
MIR. Giadstoue's passion for Home Rule
before everything.
Baron Hougbton's appointment as Vice
rov of ireland amazes Mr.. Gladstone's in
innate friends. An Associated Press rep
resentetive in an interview with person
intimate with Glsdstone's family, learned
that Baron Houghton has been from early
life protege Of Mr.. Gladstone and be has
often been al Hawarden.
Mr. Gladstone found time to-day 10 at
tend the wedding of Lady Mary Levensou
Cover, daughter Of his deceased friend
and colleague, Lord Granville