sacrifice his importance in that home for any subordinate office. The
negotiation ended in Mr. Brougham being made lord-chancellor--a striking
instance of the most important judicial functions in the empire being
entrusted, as the reward of merely political services, to a man who
possessed splendid talents, but who was unprovided with judicial
learning, and, above all, destitute of habits and capacity in judicial
thinking. No man pitied the fate of Sir James Scarlett, but many thought
the Irish chancellor, Sir Anthony Hart, who had stood impartially
between contending parties, harshly treated in being made to resign for
Lord Plunkett--the new premier considering it necessary to have an Irish
chancellor whom he could fully trust and employ in Irish politics. The
Duke of Richmond was the only leading member of the old Tory party who
entered the new cabinet, and he became postmaster-general. The other
members of government were as follows:--Lord Althorp was appointed to
lead the house of commons as chancellor of the exchequer; the offices of
home, foreign, and colonial secretaries were given respectively to Lords
Melbourne, Palmerston, and Goderich; Sir James Graham was made first
lord of the admiralty; Lord Lansdowne became president of the council,
and Lord Durham privy seal; Messrs. Denman and Home were attorney and
solicitors general; Lord Hill was commander-in-chief; Lord Auckland,
president of the board of trade, and Mr. C. Grant, of the board of
control; Lord Holland, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; the Duke
of Devonshire, lord chamberlain; the honourable Agar Ellis, chief
commissioner of the woods and forests; Mr. E. Grant, judge-advocate;
Lord John Eussell, paymaster of the forces; Mr. Poulett Thompson,
vice-president of the board of trade and treasurer of the navy; Sir
Edward Paget and Sir Robert Spencer, master and surveyor-general of the
board of ordnance; Mr. C. W. Wynne, secretary at war; and Messrs. Ellice
and Spring Rice appointed joint secretaries of the treasury. In Scotland
there were no offices liable to change except those of the lord-advocate
and the solicitor-general, the former of which was given to Mr. Jeffrey,
and the latter to Mr. Cockbum, both of them long-tried friends of the
lord-chancellor, and at the head of their profession. Ireland received,
as its chief governor, the Marquis of Anglesea, with Mr. Stanley
as secretary, Lord Plunkett as chancellor, and Mr. Pennefather,
attorney-general