The Earl of Derby to Queen Victoria

THE NEW CABINET

St James's Square, 25th February 1858.

Lord Derby presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and fears that after your Majesty's most gracious acceptance of the propositions which he has made, he may appear to your Majesty very vacillating, in having at the last moment to submit to your Majesty another change.... But he finds that Lord John Manners, though he consented to take the Colonial Department, would infinitely prefer resuming his seat at the Board of Works; and on the urgent representation of his Colleagues that the Government would be strengthened by such a step, Lord Stanley has consented to accept office; and the arrangement which he would now venture humbly to submit to your Majesty would be the appointment of Lord Stanley to the Colonial Secretaryship, and Lord John Manners to the Board of Works....

The Ministry as it stood on the
1st of January 1858. The Ministry as formed by the
Earl of Derby in February 1858.

Viscount Palmerston First Lord of the
Treasury Earl of Derby.

Marquis of Lansdowne (Without Office).

Lord Cranworth Lord Chancellor Lord Chelmsford.

Earl Granville President of the
Council Marquis of Salisbury.

Marquis of Clanricarde Lord Privy Seal Earl of Hardwicke.

Sir George Grey Home Secretary Mr Walpole.

Earl of Clarendon Foreign Secretary Earl of Malmesbury.

Mr Labouchere
(afterwards Lord Taunton) } Colonial Secretary { Lord Stanley
(afterwards Earl of Derby).

Lord Panmure
(afterwards Earl of Dalhousie) } War Secretary General Peel.

Sir G. C. Lewis Chancellor of the
Exchequer { Mr Disraeli
(afterwards
Earl of Beaconsfield)

Sir Charles Wood
(afterwards Viscount Halifax) } First Lord of the
Admiralty { Sir John Pakington
(afterwards Lord Hampton).

Mr Vernon Smith
(afterwards Lord Lyveden) } President of the
Board of Control Earl of Ellenborough.

Lord Stanley of Alderley President of the
Board of Trade Mr Henley.

Mr M. T. Baines Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster (Not in the Cabinet.)

Duke of Argyll Postmaster-General (Not in the Cabinet.)

(Not in the Cabinet) First Commissioner of
Works and
Public Buildings { Lord John Manners
(afterwards
Duke of Rutland).