Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-26
THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
Salisbury and the Ministry He Has Formed
Sketches of the Members.

Salisbury and the Ministry He Has Formed
Sketches of the Members.
London, June 25.-It is officially an
nounced that the Marquis of Salisbury
will be Premier and Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs; the Duke of Devon
shire, President of the Council; Mr.. A.
j. Balfour, first Lord of the Treasury;
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Sec
retary of State for the Colonies; Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the
Exchequer; Right Hon. George B. Cos
chen, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The other members OF the govern
ment have not yet been fixed upon.
The new Prime Minister, Robert Ar
thur Talbot Gascoigne-Cecil, third Mar
quis of Salisbury, was born in 1880 and
married the daughter Of the late Baron
Anderson. He was educated at Oxford
and is chancellor of that university.
He has been twice Secretary of State
for India and twice Secretary Of State
for Foreign Affairs. He was Premier
in 1885 and formed his second ministry
in 1892. He proceeded to Constantine
Qle as a special ambassador at the con-
ference there in November, 1876, and
he and Lord Beaconsfeld in 1878 were
the representatives of Great Britain at
the Congress Of Berlin.
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the
new first Lord OF the Treasury, is a
nephew of the Marquis of Salisbury.
He was appointed president of the local
government board in 1885 and was Sec
,.ato FOR Wit in
cabinet, from 1886 to 1887; he became
Chief Secretary for Ireland on the res
ignation of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in
1887 and retained that position until
1891, when upon the death of Mr.. VIM.
II. Smith, he became first Lord of the
! Treasury and leader Of the House Of
| Commons, retaining that position until
1892, when the Salisbury government
resigned. He was elected Lord Rector of
st. Andrews's University in 1887, the
Glasgow University in 1890, and was
elected Lord Chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh in 1891.
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain
the Unionist leader in the House of
Commons, and the newly appointed
Secretary of State for the Colonies, is
| one of the foremost and most daring
in British politics at the present time.
He is credited with having engineered
the downfall OF the Rosebery govern
ment and is undoubtedly a man of great
political ability. He was born in Lon
don in 1886, his present wife being
daughter of Mr.. w. c. EndicoJ-, former
| ly Secretary Of War of the United States.
| He was educated at the University Col
| lege school, London, was formerly a
manufacturer in Birmingham and re-
tired from business in 1874. Mr.. Cham
berlain has been three times success
siyely elected Mayor of Birmingham, in
1S74-5 and 1876 and was appointed
president of the Board Of Trade in 1880
and president ofc the local government
board in 1886, resigning the latter post
shortly afterards. In August, 1887, he
was appointed one of the commission
ers to settle the fisheries dispute with
the United States, and is a Fellow of
the Royal Society. He has sat for Bir-
mingham in the House of Commons
since 1876.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Edward
Hicks Beach, baronet, was born in 1897,
in London. lie married in 1864 to
Caroline Susan, eldest daughter of J.
II. Eldridge, Esq, who died in 1855,
and in 1874 to Lady Lucy Catherine,
third daughter of the third Earl For
tescue
He was chief secretary for Ireland
from February, 1874, to February, 1878,
and secretary of state for the colonies
| from the last date to April, 1889. He
was appointed chancellor of the ex-
chequer in 1885, and again secretary
for Ireland in 1886. He resigned the
latter office March, 1887; but remained
a member of the cabinet without office
till January, 1888. He re-entered the
cabinet in February, 1888, as president
of the Board of Trade. He has been a
member of Parliament since 1864.
Rt. Hon. George Joachim GOschen
calls himself a Liberal-Unionlst,
though he held office in Lord Sails
bury's former Conservative ministry.
He was born in 1881 and was appointed
| an ecclesiastical commissioner October,
1882. and lord rector of Aberdeen Uni
verify in 1887, and lord rector of Edin-
burgh University in 1890. He was vice
president OF the Board Of Trade and
| OdYQdSIGT-Reutld dl lloAAA WV ~A'iD~ ,
! 1865, until January, 1866, and chan
celIor of the Duchy of Lancaster from
| the latter date till July, 1866; president
of the Poor Law Board from December,
1868. to March, 1871, and first lord OF
the admiralty from the last date to
February. 1874; was engaged in spe-
cial mission to Constantinople from
Nav. 1880. to April, 1881. He accepted
the Office Of chancellor Of the excheQuer
in Lord Salisbury's second administra-
ton in January. 1887, and held office
until the resignation of the minister in
1892. He is the author of The Theory
of Foreign Exchange" He has sat in
parliament for different districts since
Nav 1863. with the exception Of a
neriod in 1856 and 1887, when he was
defeated in successive contests for East
Edinburgh and Tub Exchange division
of Liverpool.
VALE COLLEGE ALUMNI.