Leader of the House of Commons
Sir Orlando Drought resigns, ostensibly over disagreements with Government policy, but in reality because he believes that the Leader of the House of Commons should be Prime Minister, and his political ambitions have been frustrated. He is replaced as First Lord of the Admiralty by Phineas Finn and as Leader of the House of Commons by Joshua Monk, who retains his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The name of Finn's replacement as Chief Secretary for Ireland is not mentioned.