your Majesty in consequence of Mr Cobden's answer.

[Footnote 52: Mr Cobden had been visiting the United States.
On landing at Liverpool he learned that he had been elected
at Rochdale, and at the same time he received an offer of the
Board of Trade.]

THE MINISTRY AS FORMED BY VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
_in the month of June_ 1859.

_First Lord of the Treasury_ VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
_Lord Chancellor_ LORD CAMPBELL.
_President of the Council_ EARL GRANVILLE.
_Lord Privy Seal_ DUKE OF ARGYLL.
_Home Secretary_ SIR G. C. LEWIS.
_Foreign Secretary_ LORD JOHN (afterwards EARL)
RUSSELL.
_Colonial Secretary_ DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
_Secretary for War_ Mr SIDNEY HERBERT (afterwards
LORD HERBERT OF LEA).
_Secretary for India_ Sir CHARLES WOOD (afterwards
VISCOUNT HALIFAX).
_Chancellor of the Exchequer_ Mr GLADSTONE.[53]
_First Lord of the Admiralty_ DUKE OF SOMERSET.
_President of the Board of Trade_ Mr MILNER GIBSON (appointed
in July).
_Postmaster-General_ EARL OF ELGIN.
_Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster_ Sir GEORGE GREY.
_Chief Secretary for Ireland_ Mr (afterwards VISCOUNT) CARDWELL.

[Footnote 53: Lord Aberdeen wrote, in a letter printed in
Parker's _Sir James Graham_, vol. ii. p. 388, that the wish
of Lord Palmerston, expressed in a speech at Tiverton, "to
see the Germans turned out of Italy by the war, has secured
Gladstone ... notwithstanding the three articles of the
_Quarterly_ and the thousand imprecations of late years."]

[Pageheading: MR BRIGHT]

_Viscount Palmerston to Queen Victoria._

94 PICCADILLY, _2nd July 1859_.

Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty....

Viscount Palmerston has heard from several persons that Mr Bright
would be highly flattered by being made a Privy Councillor; would
your Majesty object to his being so made if it should turn out that he
wishes it? There have been instances of persons made Privy Councillors
without office, and if Mr Bright could be led by such an honour to
turn his thoughts and feelings into better channels such a change
could not fa