Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-27
NEW BRITISH CABINET
The Members Remarkable for
Their Youthfulness.
EXIT OF OLDER ONES
DUKE OF MARLBoRoUGH's HOUSE
NEAR COMPLETION.
Growth in Popularity Of Vegetarian
Restaurants in British Metropolis
London News and Gossip.
EXIT OF OLDER ONES

London News and Gossip.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON, October H. 1908.
Not much fault will be found individually
with any of the six new ministerial appoint
ments. while collectively they will be ap-
praised fairly good and welcomed for the
infusion of young as we'll as new blood into
the ministry. So young is 1t that not one OF
the four new ministers Is over forty, and one,
Lord Balcarres. is only thirtytwo. With the
departure Of those grave and reverent
seigneurs. the Duke Of Devonshire, Mr..
Richie, Lord Balfour of Burleigh and
Lord George Hamilton-one cannot call
Mr.. Chamberlain grave or reverend-the
country must be grateful to the Earl of
Halsbury for the Inconvenience he is
causing himself and others by remaining
on the woolsack merely to counterfeit the
tendency of this youthful administration to
g1ddineSs.
Two Of the new ministerial appointments
stand out conspicuously for efticiency-effl-
cheney in the departments of state where
efficiency Is most needed. These are the
appointments of Mr.. Bromley Davenport to
the financial secretaryship to the war office
and Capt A. II. Lee to the civil lordship of
the admiralty. Mr.. BromleyDavenport Is
a son of an old and respected pariamenta-
rian Colonel acknowledgements, and is a
batter, a man of action, Of independent
views, and now that he has his foot on the
ladder, as he is only forty, he should go far.
while his experience in the South African
campaign should show him just where the
shoe pinches in Pail Mall. "e'
Capt. Lees Promotion.
Capt. Arthur Hamilton Lee, the new civil
lord of the admiralty, is a military mana
gunner, like his predecessor Capt Pretty
man, promoted to the secretaryship to the
admiralty. Like Capt. Pretyman also he
Is the son Of a clergyman, but he is a man
of different calibre. OF course you know
him we'll in Washington. where he was mil
itary attache at the British embassy, and
1 understand that he was very popular
with the United States army in Cuba dur
ing the Spanish Although it seems
a prank of Mr.. Balfour to have two mill
tary men at the admiralty. the appoint
ments really excellent, because by
their military knowledge, and especially
Capt. Lees extensive knowledge of the in
| terror of the Office and his great repu
tation as a tactician, the two defensive
| forces of the empire will be more closely
| correlated than they ever We're before. Capt.
Lee is also a good speaker and service re-
! former. He will have to seek reelection,
| as the office of civil lord, to which salary
| Of f1,CG0 a year is attached, is one of profit
| under the crown.
OF Capt. Lee it must be said that he is
thorough, efficient and although soldier is
| devoted to the sister service. Captain Lee
| himself, moreover, on one occasion per-
! formed great feat requiring not only cour-
/ age and skill; but some of the qualities
more generally associated with naval than
| with military men.
/ Adventurous Survey of Vladivostock.
| When a subaltern in the far east he
| determined to obtain information as to
! the defenses of Viadivostock, then, as now.
| closely shut to foreigners. After repeated
| failures he succeeded in obtaining pas
| sage to Viadivostock in a Chinese junk
| carrying a parcel of coolies. Disgusting him
! self as coolie staining his skin. and lv
ing upon the native food, he found himself
/ in due time anchored at the mouth Of the
| hrabor. He managed to get ashore with
sextant compass and other instruments re-
Qufred for haSty and rapid survey, which
! he successfully made More than this, he
| obtained some chunam, or lime. sufficient
| to whiten some of the stones and rocks on
| the shore, giving both ranges of distance
and bearings for ships entering. He
| joined his junk without being discovered
| and returned in due time to Chefoo I'M
| caught His exploit has never been adj
| vertised, and therefore, l have the greater
| pleasure In recalling it now that his pro-
motion is causing him to be talked about.
Capt. Pretyman an Interesting Charac-
Much interest attaches to the person
atty of Capt E. G. Pretymon. the new
secretary to the admiralty He is the in
heritor of the immense fortune left by Col.
Tomline, Mp. who inherited it from his
| kinsman, DR.. George Pretyman, Bishop of
| Lincoln, who afterward took the name of
| Tomline, and was translated to Win
| chester. The Tomline fortune was left to
| the bishop, it is said, through an accidental
| wi ANYHOW
that accident has resulted in giving an
enormous fortune to Capt. Pretyman, in
Guiding large estates in Lincolnshire and
| Suffolk, and the ground on which Felix
| stowe is built. Capt. Pretyman himself is
a frank, manly type of man, not unlike
| in appearance the Duke of Portland. He
| is married to the Earl of Bradford's daugh-
| ter his wife's sisters being the Countess
| of Dalkeith and the Countess of Seton.
| In constitutional theory his new post is
| lower than the post he vacates, as the
civil lord of the admiralty is of the
! lords of the admiralty, while Capt. Pretty
man Is now only secretary. All the lords
of the admiralty in theory equal in
position. the first lord being only primus
inter pares.
| Lord Balcarres' appointment as junior
lord of the treasury has puzzled not a few.
| as in the ministerial crisis junior lord
| has resigned. been promoted translated
| Lord BalcarreS succeeds Mr.. Anstruther
who resigned his post and seat for Mont
| rose Burghs in accepting SueZ Canal
| dlrectorShlp. InlS was before the cabinet
| crisis The appointment will be popular
| Lord BalcarreS is the son of the Earl of
| Crawford and Balcarres. the great Wigan
mineral owner, a nobleman of wide scien-
| tif1c attainments whose fathers body was
''snatched'' from its Scottish mausoleum, it
may be remembered, few years ago Lord
! Balcarres Is only ?2. but 1t was thought
re would have had Office before. He is a
serious young man of the Earl Percy type,
is much in love with art, and succeeded
at the coronation in getting the inf1amrna-
BILE wooden platform removed from the
| National Gallery, which the thoughtless
| officials had erected to view the procession.
He is also a pillar of the Society for Pre-
serving Buildings of Historic Interest and
/ National Gallery which the thoughtless
treasury possibly the state will be less
| niggardly In the expense 1t incurs in the
preservation of national monuments. Lord
| BalcarreS acceptance will entail an appeal
| to his constituents in the Chorley division
| OF Lancashire. He has sat in three parlia-
ments but has never been put to the trouble
of an election
The Marquis Of Hamilton.
The Marquis of Hamilton's appointment