Ii.—: Not of the New Cabinet.

So distinguished, we suppose, as men who are to act and not to think like their superiors, the Cabinet Ministers. We shall dispatch them with very brief notices.

Haddington, earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland.

Like the office of executioner, the viceroyship does not appear to have been much sought after or coveted. Rumour first gave it to the duke of Buccleuch, a young Scotch nobleman, with twenty-four titles, and an income of £220,000 per annum, but minus all besides, and in the opinion of the Duke not even qualified for a deputy-kingship. Next it was laid at the door of the valiant De Grey; and is finally vested in the present possessor, who formerly was a follower of George Canning, and is best known as lord Binning. And—

Poor Ireland, how sadly her maladies are misunderstood, and how deplorable her situation, when doctors Hardinge and Haddington, aided by sir E. Sugden as chief apothecary, are sent to ‘kill or cure!’

Lowther, viscount, treasurer of the navy and vice-president of the board of trade.

Not amiss as a surveyor of the roads, but we never heard of his acquaintanceship with trade.

Wynne, C. W. W. chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.

Gave up a place in the Whig government from repugnance to the Reform Bill. His sinecure of £4000 a-year, seems a bonus for the Grenvillites. The family history would fill a volume, and we cannot enter into it.

Maryborough, lord, postmaster-general.

Brother of the duke of Wellington; formerly chief secretary of Ireland, and afterwards master of the king’s dogs, or something of that kind.

Somerset, Granville, lord, chief commissioner of woods and forests.

Relative, we suspect, as well as (post) the surveyor of the ordnance, of the duke of Beaufort, the head of an old ultra-Tory family, whose ramifications in Church and State under the Liverpool-Castlereagh domination were almost innumerable.

Peel, right hon. W. Yates, lord of the treasury.

Brother of the premier, first lord of the treasury.

Lincoln, earl of, lord of the treasury.

Son of the duke of Newcastle, who claims ‘the right to do what he will with his own.’

Stormont, viscount, lord of the treasury.

Son of the earl of Mansfield, the enemy of all reform, who inherits a freehold patrimony of £20,000 a-year, and whose mother has a pension of £1000 a-year out of the 41/2 per cent. West India duty, and who is also mother of general George Murray and of Fulke Greville, and mother-in-law of the hon. Finch Hatton, brother of lord Winchelsea. The viscount was M.P. for Norwich, and at the late election dinner there said he always felt a ‘violent dislike to reform.’ He is a noted prig, and on the occasion last-mentioned had the impertinence to hold up lord Durham as ‘the vendor of nostrums.’

Ross, Charles, lord of the treasury.

M.P. for Northampton, son-in-law of the marquis Cornwallis, and West India proprietor. Meant, it is said, to be ministerial whipper-in, though he lacks the good temper of his predecessor Mr. W. Holmes, who, pending the distribution of the loaves and fishes, was locked up with the gout at Berlin.

Gladstone, W. E. lord of the treasury.

Son of the East India and West India Liverpool merchant, who was a great idolater of Mr. Canning, and managed his election interests. The junior treasury lord is reputed to have been clever at Eton, and owes his seat for Newark to his patron, the anti-Catholic, anti-reforming duke of Newcastle.

Such are the five chosen colleagues of sir Robert Peel at the Treasury board. They are the pink of Toryism, and give an anti-reform hue to his ministry which no addresses nor candid explanations can efface. The treasury secretaries, sir G. Clerk and sir T. Fremantle, are of the same dye.

Dawson, G. R. secretary to the admiralty.

Vice John Wilson Croker, whose name we miss in our List, and for whose absence we cannot account, unless he is a disappointed man in not having obtained the first lordship of the admiralty. The junior lords of the navy board are sir George Cockburn, sir John Poer Beresford, sir Charles Rowley, lord Ashley, and Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald. ‘Peel, Dawson, and Co.’ used to be a regular joke with the abandoned cast-off Old Times newspaper.

Praed, W. M. secretary to the board of control.

This honourable gentleman would needs feel embarrassed if some of his present associates were to read to him the lampoons he directed against them seven years ago. The commissioners of the India board, of which Mr. Praed is secretary, are sir A. C. Grant, right hon. John Sullivan, and Joseph Planta, esq. and pensioner of £1500 per annum.

Somerset, lord Edward, surveyor-general of the ordnance.

Owen, sir Edward, clerk of the ordnance.

Bonham, F. R. storekeeper of the ordnance.

Perceval, colonel Alexander, treasurer of the ordnance.

The last, bad as it is, is not out of keeping with the new government, which is a gathering of the extremes of Toryism. The gallant colonel is the “fidus Achates” of the low Orangemen of Ireland; a person of the strongest prejudices, the weakest head, and of the smallest influence of any colonel either of militia or marines in Christendom.

Beckett, sir John, judge-advocate-general.

Brother-in-law of viscount Lowther, and a native of Leeds. Professionally a lawyer, but long an industrious official of punctual habits and moderate abilities. The resignation of Mr. Marshall, and the neck-and-neck run sir John had with Mr. Baines for the representation makes it barely possible he might succeed at a second venture. This, however, would be no proof of the predominance of Toryism in Leeds; it would only prove the influence of the vicar, of a self-elected corporation, and of an old banking family which for two generations has borne itself respectably. Of the whole body of electors in the United Kingdom how few are political characters, and of those who are, how few are at liberty to vote according to their political predilections! For the Leeds Radicals we have much respect, and if they will excuse the liberty, we will vouchsafe a word of advice, roughly given but honestly intended, and which is that they will not play the fool in the event of a contest, but if by union they can keep out the judge-advocate, do so, and thereby, in the existing crisis, render their country a service.

Eliot, lord, under-secretary, home department.

Mahon, viscount, under secretary, foreign department.

Son of earl Stanhope, and Chairman of the West Kent conservative meeting. The bribery used at a former election for Hertford caused his lordship to be ousted from his seat, and the issue of a new writ was suspended several months.

Wortley, hon. J. Stuart, under secretary, colonial department.

Son of lord Wharncliffe, and held some office, we believe, under the late Ministry. Rejected candidate for Forfarshire.