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VOLUME LIII.-JULY TO DECEMBER, 1867
THE DERBY CABINET.—1867.
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Chancellor
Chancellor of the Exchequer .
Lord President of the Council .
Lord Privy Seal ....
Home Office ....
Foreign Office ....
Colonial Office
War Secretary ....
India Secretary
Admiralty ....
President of the Board of Trade
First Commissioner of Public Works
Chief Secretary of Ireland
Without Office ....
Eabl of Derby.
Lord Chelmsford.
Right Hon. B. Disraeli.
Duke of Marlborough.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy.
Lord Stanley (now Earl of Derby).
Duke of Buckingham.
Sir John S. Pakington, Bart.
Sir Staff|>rd H. Nokthcote, Bart.
Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry.
Duke of Richmond.
Lord John Manners.
Lord Naas (afterwards Earl of Mayo).
Eight Hon. Spencer H. Walpole.
POLITICAL
THE history of the Reform Bill has been attempted to be
told so fully in the Introduction to the last volume
that, although this measure was still under discussion for
the first six weeks of the current half year, it seems only
necessary here to recapitulate that after undergoing many
and important changes while passing through Parliament,
the Beform Act, as it emerged at last, gave Household
Suffrage to Boroughs, brought the County franchise down
lower than was originally intended, bestowed votes on
lodgers, and widened the operation of that portion of the
scheme which dealt with the Redistribution of Seats. The
Act received the Royal Assent on the loth of August, and
the Irish Reform Bill having been postponed and the one
for Scotland withdrawn, the Session came to an end a few
days later.
When Parliament was prorogued its members looked for-
ward to their usual long vacation, but King Theodore of
Abyssinia persistently refusing to give up Messrs. Cameron
and Rassam, and the rest of bis captives, it was determined
to employ force to accomplish their liberation. An autumn
Session, therefore, became necessary, in order to make pro-
vision for the Expedition, and also to sanction the employ-
ment of Indian troops in its conduct.
Parliament accordingly reassembled on the 19th of
November, and the Speech from the Throne, after dwelling
on the extraordinary emergency which had obliged the two
Houses to be called together at an unusual period of the
year, and making reference to our Foreign relations and
Fenianism, went on to detail the various measures of
general legislation in due time to be introduced. As none of
these, however, occupied any part of this extra Session,
further reference to them in the present Introduction is
unnecessary.
SUMMARY.
i
Abyssinia was of course the principal topic in both
Houses. Not without discussion, a vote of £2,000,000
towards the cost of the Expedition was agreed to; the
Income Tax was raised from fourpence to fivepence to meet
this demand on the Exchequer ; and the motion for charging
the pay of the Indian troops, and the expense of the shipping
to be employed, upon the revenues of India, was carried.
Almost the only other subject of importance wbicb engaged
the attention of Parliament before it adjourned on the 7th
of December, was the Italian Question and the proposed
Congress of European Powers.
Of the Abyssinian Expedition itself little need be said in
this present Introduction, as the events which make it
memorable in our history did not take place until the fol-
lowing year. The control of it was entrusted to Sir Robert
Napier, the distinguished General of Engineers, then
commanding the forces at Bombay (with Sir Charles
Staveley as second in command), and the necessary pre-
liminary preparations having been completed, the advanced
Brigade left Bombay early in October, landed at Zulla on
the 21st of that month, and reached Senate on the (ith of
December.
The summer in London this year was remarkable for the
visits of the present Viceroy of Egypt and the late Shltan
(Abdul Aziz) of Turkey, the first ruler of that country who
had ever set foot in England. The arrival of a large party
of Belgian Volunteers also gave occasion to much festivity.
But no domestic events can compare in interest with the
disturbances and alarms of Fenianism, not only in Ireland
but in England, during the autumn and winter months.
The first prominent outrage was the attack on the prison
van at Manchester in September, the rescue of two Fenian
prisoners (Kelly and Deasy) who were beiDg conveyed
THE DERBY CABINET.—1867.
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Chancellor
Chancellor of the Exchequer .
Lord President of the Council .
Lord Privy Seal ....
Home Office ....
Foreign Office ....
Colonial Office
War Secretary ....
India Secretary
Admiralty ....
President of the Board of Trade
First Commissioner of Public Works
Chief Secretary of Ireland
Without Office ....
Eabl of Derby.
Lord Chelmsford.
Right Hon. B. Disraeli.
Duke of Marlborough.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy.
Lord Stanley (now Earl of Derby).
Duke of Buckingham.
Sir John S. Pakington, Bart.
Sir Staff|>rd H. Nokthcote, Bart.
Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry.
Duke of Richmond.
Lord John Manners.
Lord Naas (afterwards Earl of Mayo).
Eight Hon. Spencer H. Walpole.
POLITICAL
THE history of the Reform Bill has been attempted to be
told so fully in the Introduction to the last volume
that, although this measure was still under discussion for
the first six weeks of the current half year, it seems only
necessary here to recapitulate that after undergoing many
and important changes while passing through Parliament,
the Beform Act, as it emerged at last, gave Household
Suffrage to Boroughs, brought the County franchise down
lower than was originally intended, bestowed votes on
lodgers, and widened the operation of that portion of the
scheme which dealt with the Redistribution of Seats. The
Act received the Royal Assent on the loth of August, and
the Irish Reform Bill having been postponed and the one
for Scotland withdrawn, the Session came to an end a few
days later.
When Parliament was prorogued its members looked for-
ward to their usual long vacation, but King Theodore of
Abyssinia persistently refusing to give up Messrs. Cameron
and Rassam, and the rest of bis captives, it was determined
to employ force to accomplish their liberation. An autumn
Session, therefore, became necessary, in order to make pro-
vision for the Expedition, and also to sanction the employ-
ment of Indian troops in its conduct.
Parliament accordingly reassembled on the 19th of
November, and the Speech from the Throne, after dwelling
on the extraordinary emergency which had obliged the two
Houses to be called together at an unusual period of the
year, and making reference to our Foreign relations and
Fenianism, went on to detail the various measures of
general legislation in due time to be introduced. As none of
these, however, occupied any part of this extra Session,
further reference to them in the present Introduction is
unnecessary.
SUMMARY.
i
Abyssinia was of course the principal topic in both
Houses. Not without discussion, a vote of £2,000,000
towards the cost of the Expedition was agreed to; the
Income Tax was raised from fourpence to fivepence to meet
this demand on the Exchequer ; and the motion for charging
the pay of the Indian troops, and the expense of the shipping
to be employed, upon the revenues of India, was carried.
Almost the only other subject of importance wbicb engaged
the attention of Parliament before it adjourned on the 7th
of December, was the Italian Question and the proposed
Congress of European Powers.
Of the Abyssinian Expedition itself little need be said in
this present Introduction, as the events which make it
memorable in our history did not take place until the fol-
lowing year. The control of it was entrusted to Sir Robert
Napier, the distinguished General of Engineers, then
commanding the forces at Bombay (with Sir Charles
Staveley as second in command), and the necessary pre-
liminary preparations having been completed, the advanced
Brigade left Bombay early in October, landed at Zulla on
the 21st of that month, and reached Senate on the (ith of
December.
The summer in London this year was remarkable for the
visits of the present Viceroy of Egypt and the late Shltan
(Abdul Aziz) of Turkey, the first ruler of that country who
had ever set foot in England. The arrival of a large party
of Belgian Volunteers also gave occasion to much festivity.
But no domestic events can compare in interest with the
disturbances and alarms of Fenianism, not only in Ireland
but in England, during the autumn and winter months.
The first prominent outrage was the attack on the prison
van at Manchester in September, the rescue of two Fenian
prisoners (Kelly and Deasy) who were beiDg conveyed