Chancellor of the Exchequer...... Mr. Disraeli.

First Lord of the Admiralty...... Sir J. S. Pakington.

President of the Board of Control Earl of Ellenborough.

President of the Board of Trade Mr. Henley.

First Commissioner of Works.......Lord J. Manners

The members not in the cabinet were selected from the other leading
members of the late tory opposition in both houses.

So unpopular had the ministry of Lord Palmerston become, by its
subserviency to the French emperor, and its neglect of the honour of
England, in the instance of the two English engineers, captured on board
the Sardinian ship, _Oagliari_, by a Neapolitan frigate, that there
was a very general disposition, among all parties, to give Lord Derby's
government "a fair trial."

The course of this ministry did not, however, run smooth, and they,
soon lost popularity and power, by their prejudices, incapacity for the
crisis, and a disposition to increase their power by petty trick and
indirect artifice. This last feature of their ministerial character was
most especially exemplified in the commons by Mr. Disraeli.

The Earl of Derby abandoned the foreign refugee bill, which he and his
followers had, when out of office, supported.

During the discussion which arose concerning India, and the transaction
of business with that empire resulting from the mutiny, the Earl of
Ellenborough acted with a partizanship so flagrant and unjust, that in
order to save the cabinet it was necessary that he should retire from
it, go strong was the indignation against him both in the commons
and the country. Lord Stanley, who had filled the office of colonial
secretary with great ability, assumed the office vacated by Lord
Ellenborough, and was afterwards made "secretary of state for India,"
an office created by "the government of India act." Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton became secretary for the colonies in the room of Lord Stanley.
The chief work of the new tory ministry was to carry a bill for the
government of India. Almost every other measure introduced by them was
unpopular, yet the feeling against the late Palmerston ministry was so
strong, that there was no desire to expel the cabinet.

Lord Lucan, in spite of the public opposition, and still more
intense private opposition of Lord Derby, carried a measure for the
parliamentary emancipation of the Jews, which was admirably devised, and
ably brought forward and supported by the noble ear