[ 150] [The Cabinet composed by the Earl of Derby in 1852 consisted of—
| Earl of Derby | First Lord of the Treasury. |
| Lord St. Leonards | Lord Chancellor. |
| Mr. Disraeli | Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| Earl of Lonsdale | Lord President of the Council. |
| Marquis of Salisbury | Lord Privy Seal. |
| Earl of Malmesbury | Foreign Secretary of State. |
| Sir John Pakington | Colonial Secretary of State. |
| Mr. Spencer Walpole | Home Secretary of State. |
| Earl of Hardwicke | First Lord of the Admiralty. |
| Mr. Herries | President of the Board of Control. |
| Lord John Manners | First Commissioner of Works.] |
[151] [The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed on May 10 to transfer the four vacant seats for Sudbury and St. Albans to the West Riding of Yorkshire and the Southern Division of Lancashire. Mr. Gladstone moved the previous question, which was carried by 234 to 148.]
[152] [The strong anti-Catholic feeling which had been excited by the measure of the Pope for the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850, was kept alive by the Tories and directed against the more recent provision made by Sir Robert Peel for the College of Maynooth.]
[153] [Parliament was prorogued on July 1, and dissolved immediately afterwards.]
[154] Curious that this scheme was eventually realised, not under Lord Lansdowne, but under Lord Aberdeen.
[155] [It was Lord Blessington who induced Alfred D'Orsay, then a very young man, to throw up his commission in the Guards of the King of France (for which the French never forgave him), and to become a member of the Blessington family. This was done with a formal promise to the Count's family that he should be provided for, and a marriage was accordingly brought about between him and the only daughter and heiress of Lord Blessington by his first marriage, which turned out very ill.]
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