[The late Parliament was dissolved on March 24, 1880; and the Writs were returnable on the 29th of April following, when the new Parliament met for the despatch of business for the First Session of the Twenty-second Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.]

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.-In "The Representation of the People Act, 1867," the qualifications for the various Franchises are enumer ated:

Section 3-Occupation Franchise for Voters in Boroughs.
Section 4-Lodger Franchise for Voters in Boroughs.
Section 5-Property Franchise for Voters in Counties.
Section 6-Occupation Franchise for Voters in Counties.

THE

MINISTRY,

and Chief Officers of the Government.

SESSION 1884.

First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lord President of the Council and
Lord Privy Seal
Lord High Chancellor
First Lord of the Admiralty
Secretary of State for the Home
Department.
Secretary of State for the Foreign
Department.

Secretary of State for the Colonies

Department.

Secretary of State for India
Secretary of State for the
Department.

War

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
President of the Board of Trade
President of the Local Government

Board

Right Hon. W.-E. Gladstone.
Right Hon. H.-C.-E. Childers.

Right Hon. Lord Carlingford.

Right Hon. Earl of Selborne.
Right Hon. Earl of Northbrook.
Right Hon. Sir W.-Vernon Harcourt.
Right Hon. Earl Granville.

Right Hon. Earl of Derby.
Right Hon. Earl of Kimberley.

Right Hon. Marquis of Hartington.

Right Hon. J.-G. Dodson.
Right Hon. J. Chamberlain.
Right Hon. Sir C.-W. Dilke, Bart.

The above, with Earl Spencer, constitute the Cabinet.

(Right Hon. H.-C.-E. Childers.
Mr. C.-C. Cotes.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone.
Mr. R.-W. Duff

Right Hon. Lord R. Grosvenor.
Mr. L. Courtney.

Sir R.-W. Lingen. (Perm.)
Right Hon. A.-J. Mundella.

Mr. J.-T. Hibbert.

Hon. Sir A. Liddell. (Perm.)
Lord E. Fitzmaurice.

Sir Julian Pauncefort. (Perm.)
(Hon. Evelyn Ashley,

Sir Robt. G.-W. Herbert. (Perm.)
Mr. J.-K. Cross.

Mr. J.-A. Godley, C.B. (Perm.)
Earl of Morley.

Sir A.-D. Hayter, bart. (Finan.)
Sir R.-W. Thompson, K.C.B. (Perm.)
Right Hon. G.-O. Trevelyan,

Secretaries to the Admiralty .

Right Hon. H. Fawcett.
Right Hon. G.-J. Shaw-Lefevre.

Mr. G.-W-. E. Russell.
Sir Hugh Owen. (Perm.)
(Mr. John Holms.

Sir T.-H. Farrer, bart. (Perm.)
Admiral Sir A.-C. Key.
Admiral Lord Alcester.
Rear-Admiral T. Brandreth.
Rear-Admiral Sir F.-W. Richards.
Sir T. Brassey.

Mr. George Rendel.

Mr. Campbell Bannerman.
Captain Tryon, R.N. (Perm.)

Field-Marshal-commanding-in-Chief. Duke of Cambridge.

Adjutant-General
Quartermaster-General.
Judge Advocate General
Paymaster-General
Attorney-General.
Solicitor-General .

General Lord Wolseley.

Lieut. General Sir A.-J. Herbert.
Right Hon. G.-Osborne Morgan.
Lord Wolverton.

Sir Henry James.
Sir Farrer Herschell.

The Queen's Household.

Lord Chamberlain
Vice-Chamberlain
Lord High Steward
Comptroller of the Household
Treasurer of the Household.
Master of the Horse
Master of the Buck-Hounds
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
Captain of the Yeomen Guard .

Scotland.

Earl Spencer (in the Cabinet).
Right Hon. Sir E. Sullivan, bart.
Mr. John Naish.

Mr. Samuel Walker.

Note.-A change of Administration causes the retirement of all the persons mentioned above, except the Commander of the Forces, the Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-General, and the permanent Under-Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, and of the Admiralty.

Those Members to whose Names an Asterisk is prefixed thus (*), were not in the late Parliament at the dissolution.

Those with a (†) do not sit in the same places as in the late Parliament. (1) Double Returns.

SPEAKER,-RT. HON. SIR II.-BOUVERIE-WILLIAM BRAND. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE,-RT. HON. SIR LYON PLAYFAIR.

Acland, Rt. Hon. Sir T.-D., bart. Devon, N.

Amory, Sir John-Heathcote, bart. Tiverton, Devonshire.

Archdale, William-Humphrys.... County of Fermanagh.

*Armitage, B.

*

*Armitstead, G.

Salford.

Dundee.

Salford.

Elgin.

Isle of Wight.

Maidstone.

Herefordshire.

Bewdley.

Hertford.

Kincardineshire.

Clackmannan.

Tamworth.

Forfarshire.

Winchester.

Essex, S.

Suffolk, E.

Derbyshire, E.

Leeds.

Wexford County.

Eye.

Barttelot, Sir Walter-Barttelot, bt. Sussex, W.

Bass. Hamar-Alfred

Bass, Sir Arthur, bart.

Bateson, Sir Thomas, bart.

Baxter, Right Hon. William-Edward

Beach, William-W.-Bramston ...

Beaumont, Wentworth-Blackett.. Northumberland, S.

Westmoreland.

Louth.

Bentinck, Rt. Hon.G.-A.-Cavendish Whitehaven, Cumberland.

Bentinck, G.-William-Pierrepoint Norfolk, W.

Bective, Earl of..

*Bellingham, A.-H.