BRITISH CABINET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 7

BRITISH CABINET.

THE FINAL TOUCHES.

A CLEVER TRIO OF YOUNG MENi SOME NEW BLOOD. 8Y TELEGP-AP.H —I'linss ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGH7. 1 London, April 14. 'The rc-arrangomont 'of Mr. ' Asquith's Ministry lias been'completed!As forecasted, Mr. 0. E. Hobhouse leaves the Under-Sccrotaryahip of the' India Office to become Financial ! Seorotary, to the Treasury, in place of Mr. Walter Runciman, who has been promoted to the Cabinet. ■ Mr. Edmund Robertson 'retires from the office of Parliamentary and Financial .Score-, tary to the Admiralty. Mr.' Thomas Lough retires from tho position of Parliamentary, Under-Secretary to "the Board of Education. 1 Mr. Lough lias been mado a Privy Councillor. The following appointments are .announced :— - \ Dr. T. J. P.lacnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, succeeds Mr. Robertson ', as Secretary to tho Admiralty. Mr. C. F. G. Masterman succeeds Dr. Macnamara'as"T l a'rllamentai - y'" Secretary to the Local Government f -.- Board. ■ ■ ■■ ■■ /■; - Mr. Thomas M'Kinnon Wood succeeds Mr. Lougli at tho Education; Oflise. ■■/ '' ,??■; v£v,?-f ->T,s.< ./ FRENCH APPLAUSE. OPPORTUNIST, FOR OPTIMIST. :• - . ' *'• London, April 14. Opinions in France are favourable. to Mr. Asquifch's Ministry.;" ,o*.;. '..V.:;. "La Temps" says:—"Mr. Asquith'spractical opportunism has roplaccd Sir H. , Campbell-Bannerraan's naivo sqiitimentalism; which was full of illusions,: and occasionally embarrassing." .. ....... ....

MR. CHURCHILL'S; TRANSFER.'" SOUTH AFRICA JOYFUL. - Capetown, April 14. Tlio " CJipe'Times " says that Africa may; congratulate itself on escaping, the -peril of Mr. Cliurchill as Colonial Secretary: ~ The " Argus " expresses i;elief..'at. ;the. re-; inoval of Mr. Cliurchill from : ...the .'Colonial; Office, and 'gratification- at tlie' appoiiltiient of the Earl of' Crewe. TRADE AND LOC \.L GOVERNMENT BOARDS. A BETTER STATUS. 1 , London, April 14. . . The "Daily Chronielo";says it'is intended to' increase the status bf the Presidents of tlio Boards of Trado .and Local Government by allotting salaries of £SOOO . (instead of £2000, as at present). .- ' r!' PERSONNEL OF THE MINISTRY. FOUR NEW MEMBER'S' I.^. ":f, sf It is now possible 'to 'compile, witli one; blank, a complete list, of 'the' members : of;, the new Ministry, as communicated by the cables. It is as under:— ~ ;■ ■■ ■ .; , . THE CABINET. Prime Minister: Ht. (Hon. H. 11. AsquithJ s Lord 'High Chancellor: Larebuni '' Lord President of the. Council:, Lord Tweedliioutht ' Lord Privy -Seal:"Marquess- of Kipon ,• First Lord ,of the ; Treasury: Rt. Hon. H. H.

AsquithJ, .' ■_ . '■ ■■ . First Lord of tlio Admiralty: Rt. Hon. Reg. .M'lvonnaJ Secretaries of State:'— .

Home Affairs: Rt. Hon. Herbert. John Gladstone . Foreign. Affairs:,.-Sir Edward,.Grey'.. ~ Colonies: Earlof-Crcwet'S ><; %'K'' : i War: lit.' Hon" Richard Burdori Haldane India: Viscount Mor!ey* r ;,. ■ Chancellor of tho Exchequer: Rt. Hon. D. ■ Lloyd-George! Secretary for Scotland: Rt. Hon. John Sin- : clair • . . Chiof. Sccrotary to tho Lord-Lieutenant of • Ireland: Rt Hon. Aufustinel-HirrelL Postmaster-General: l fib- "Hon.- -S;: C.- Buxton ,• • Presidents' of":—■ . ■■ - Board. of Trade: Rt. Hon. Winston ■ Churchill* Local: Goyernment.Board: Rt. Hon. John / Burns i ( u 1 - Board of. Agriculture: Earl Carrwjjton. , Board, of Education.:. Walter vßunciman 1 Chancellor' of the >'I)uchy iof . Lancaster:: .Vis?. ' count Fowler',|. . . • First Commissioner'of Works: Rt. Hon. L : V. llareourt ■ '. .r'

'. , OUTSIDE THE CABINET. \ Admiralty:— • ' 5 v-- : First. Lord: (fn the Cabinet) ■ First Sea Lords tlflmiVal Sir J. A. Fisher Second Sea Lord: \ice-Admiral Sir W. ' 11. May ' Third Sea Lord and-ComptrollervKear-Admiral Sir H. B. Jacl:6on ■'

Fourth Sea Lord: Rear-Admiral Sir A. L. AVinsloe•; :'T Civil Lord: Geo. Lambert > Parliamentary and Financial Secretary: ... Dr. "J\ J. ;Macnaiiarat . . Army Council:— "T" Socretnry of State' for Wars (In tho Cabinet) ' . First Military, l Member: ..General'Sir.<V. . . 'Lyttelton ,■■■■■ Second Military Member: Lt.-Gen. C. W. 11. Douglas , .Third Military Member: Gen. Sir NY. G. ■ . Nicholson Fourth Military Member,: Major-Gen; C. F. Hodden _! Parliamentary Under-Secretary: Lord Lucasf • Financial Secretary:. Mr. F. D. Aclandf Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:—.. Homo Office: Mr. Herbert L.' Samuel ' "' Foreign Office: Lord Fitzmaurico . Colonial Office:. ' India Office: Mr. T. R. BuchananJ • .. Board of Trado: Mr. 11. E. Kcarlev. , Local Government.Board: Mr. C. Fi G. Mastermanf , . , Board of Education: llr. 1. M'Kinnon ' . Woodf ,: ,

Treasury:—' . Junior Lords: Messrs. J. A. Poase and J. H. Lewis and Capt. C. W. Norton . Financial Secretary: .Mr. C. E: Hobhouset •' ... . . Patronage Secretary: Mr. Geo: Wluteley Paymaster-General:. iRt., .Hon. R. K. Caustoii Attornoy-Gonoral: Sir W, S. Robson Solicitor-Genoral: Mr. S. T. Evans . SCOTLAND Lord Advocate: Rt. ■ Hon. Thos. Shaw Solicitor-General: Mr. Alex. Dre . IRELAND. . Lord Lioutennnt: Earl of Aberdeen Lord Chanoellor: Sir Samuel Walkor i Attornoy-Goneral: Mr. R. R. Chorry Solicitor-General: Mr. R. Barry 'Ministers promoted to Cabinet fNcw Ministers - tPormer Ministers at New Posts \ IfNew Peers : ' ■■ ■ ■.' ' 1 RETIREMENTS AND NEW BLOOD. It will bo seen that there is a blank opposite the Undcr-Socretaryship of tho Colonies, the position vacated .by Mr.: WinstonChurchill. The cablegram's havo not stated who tlio new Under-Secretaryis. It is .a'coincidence that'they have stated that Lord Lucas is Parliamentary Under-Secretary to tho War Office, but thoy have said nothing about tho retirement of the present holder of that office, (he Earl of Portsmouth, It is just possible, thorofore, that Earl Portsmouth retains his office, and that Lord Lucas becomes ,'Undqr- ' Secretary for tho Colonies. It is clear that Lord Elgin, formerly Secretary of State ; for ! tho Colonies, retires, though the cablegrams havo not said so.

Tho probability that Lord Lucas fills the - ca ~- -Mdi gnnant in &ban taJalfl, •

that tho Earl of Portsmouth retains the ofßcsJ, against which the name of Lord Lucas ap-. pears, is strengthened by the fact that the' > cablegrams mention four new Ministers— Messrs. Masterman, Acland, Wood, and Lord Lucas. This infusion of new blood would just balance the certain vacancies caused by; tho retirement of Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-nerman, Lord Elgin, Messrs. Robertson and Lough. Lord Portsmouth's omission would have-left another blank. THREE "BISING HOPES." To-day's cablegrams announca three noir appointments in addition to tlnso previously notified or forecasted. , Dr. T. Macnarnara ■ leaves the Under-Secretaryship of. the ;Local Government Board to' become Parliamentary and Financial Secretary ; to • tho Admiralty; Mr. C. F. G. Maptermnn suc'cceds Dr. Maonamara, and Mr. T. ' .M'Kinnon' Wood succeeds Mr. Lough at the Education Ofßcc. /All three aro-men of scholastic attainments and • ability.' i /■<..■::.'.. The inclusion of Mr. Masterman will giva the Liberal High Churchman a voice in tha> Ministry. In February, .last, during the dcbate on Mr. M'Artliur's Church Discipline Bill, ; ho moved an amendment that, tho true rem I "'v. was disbstablitehment;'. which , would give the •/■ Church po\ver to regulate its own affaire.'' B«fcrring to the Rebate, the•"i'lineis" suys inr. . Masterman .raised the discussion to a- high -- level by his eloquent speech. "It may bo said, of course, that hero tho voice was the /.; Bishop of Birmingham's voice, and that Mr. r: Masterman. speaks for ; .n..-. number of " High Churchmen, who, without being advanced - Ritualists, resent v the interference of tho--" House .of Commons in , the affairs of - the// : Church."- Mr. Masterman ■is a , member of the .. ■Christian. Social .Union;,. -Ho ;hnd a dietin- - 1 guislied University career at Cambridge, and < some of his writings have attracted a. con- ■ ' sidbrablo amount of; attention. . • Tho "Pall - Mall • Gazette," 'which would : hardly bo likely to flatter the new Minister,- ■ ■refersto, .him 1 • as-"a' .rising ' hope of tho ' i Christian Social . Union typo of 'advanced' politician."/' llo' was born in' 1673. "Ha has been literary, editor of the /Daily News,' /, but' -luis 'by no lneahs given ■ up to Bouverie : 'Street what was meant' for mankind, having/ also been a University Extension lecturer, a' Cainbarwell Guardian, 1 .and secretary to the'/ ■ ,Children's,; Holi(lay,,; ; Fivndi'v '.: Many , of Mr.': iMastermaii's writings, which have verve and style, have attp icted .considerable attention, •; altogetlnr - lie'may ■ be heard-of a good ' ' deal. ■ ...

• Masnnmara .. absolutely''-pleases;' tho : ■/.. X all Ala 11 Gazette,"which considers that hiu 1 -' marked'ability entitles him 'tb his place in the V Government, and adds: He *had distinguished r '' himself; before iiß an admirable party speaker, and one of the cleverest all-round hands . amongst our younger race of politician?. The } ' con,of a.private',soldier, he was born in'Mon-1.; treal in 1881, and. was a Board School teacher between the ages of sixteen and thirty. In 1891 he became editor of the "Schoolmaster," '; and in. 1594 lie achieved a record poll in his l ' . candidature for tlio London School Board;- ' 1 and' in; lßSoj.ho' was'elected president of thn~National Union of. 'Teachers.' He fought Deptford unsuccessfully- against Mr. Justice Darling in 1595, but in 1900 lie added North:! - Camberwcll to the scanty list-of Liberal gains' in a highly unpropitious Dissolution. • :<> Mr.: T. -M'Kinnon Wood, born-in 1855, 'who .goes to the-. Education Office, is a B.A. of the University College, :'-London, and has written • extensively for encyclopaedia and reviews. vA-ri Londoner born, he is chiefly : known .in the V."--jpohtical-world : als ,a .-leader of the Progros-V . sives. who . were, defeated at the,,last' London ' County' Council elections.' He has , ; Central Hackney on the London County Council 6ir.ee 1592. -, ■ •

RETIRING. VOf the. retiring ' Ministers. Lord Elgin r (Sir'-'V -i Victor Alex.' Bruce) is' 59 ;y£ars. of age, '-and- , '-.~<-!S •first saw Cabinet rank in 1886 as First Com-;; missioner of Works .under Mr.• Gladstone'.- In !?.,'£ 1834 • liord Rosebery made . him Viceroy ;of In- - :.dia,--and- his next important post was Colohial' -i; ' Secretary; under Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-'' ' .man;'.-' He. has had trouble'with 'Natiil,'and • resisted Mr. Deakin on Colonial Offico' re-or-i ganisntion... - ■; .......- ; ( Mr. Edmund formerly Financial) ' ..Secretary to the Admiralty,,was born 'in 1816, i.; and .has a oonsidorablo record inf law and! ' 6choolan>hip. The Opposition hnvo; always gird-' • ed at; liim as • being a "small navy" man, and! " they'are now.', saying the Fame about Mr.. WKenna,' who sMcoeed6' Mr.-Robertson's Chief 7 '••■>; (Ixird Tweedmouth) as First Lord of tho Ad-' ' ; miralty.'-V,* ;>('> v.-;. f>.« v ::. . _Mr,Thos.-Lough, who' is' snecceded' ht the I .Board of Education by Mr. .Wood,' in;sß; year*' l of ago, and is an Irishman,' and a WMl'eyan, ; and a Homo Ruler. i