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DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT.
of Cumberland (King. of Hanover), b. May
27, 1819.
Geo. Will. Frederick Charles,
Duke of Cambridge, b. March 26, 1819,
sue. 1850 ; Augusta, b. July 19, 1822,
m. June 28, 1843, Frederick, Hereditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and
has issue; Mary, b. November 27, 1833.
Their father, Adolphus Frederick, who
died July 8, 1850, was b. Feb. 24, 1774 ;
m. May 7, 1813, Augusta, daughter of
Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, b.
July 25, 1797.
Mother of the Queen. — Victoria,
Duchess of Kent ; daughter of Francis,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg, b. August 17, 1786,
m. 1st, Dec. 21, 1803, Emich Charles,
Prince of Leiningen, who died July 4,
1814. Issue, Charles, Prince of Leinin-
gen, b. Sept. 12, 1804; Princess Feodore,
b. Dec. 7, 1807. 2d, May 29, 1818, Ed-
ward, Duke of Kent, who died January 23,
1820. Issue, the Queen.
Maternal Uncle oftheQueen.— Leopold
I., King of the Belgians.
HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.
First Lord of the Treasury, Viscount
Palmerston ; Lord Chancellor, Lord Cran-
worth ; in the Cabinet, without an office,
Marquis of Lansdowne ; President of the
Council, Earl Granville ; Privy Seal,
Duke of Argyll ; Home Secretary, Sir
George Grey ; Foreign Secretary, Earl of
Clarendon ; Colonial Secretary, Lord J.
Russell ; Minister for War, Lord Pan-
mure ; Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Right Hon. Sir Geo. C. Lewis; First
Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Wood ;
Postmaster- General, Viscount Canning ;
President of the Board of Control,
; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, the Right Hon. the Earl of Har-
rowby; Public Works, Sir William
Molesworth.
The above form the Cabinet.
President of the Board of Trade, Lord
Stanley of Alderley ; Vice-President, Hon.
E. P. Bouverie ; Judge Advocate, Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers; Financial Secretary of
the Treasury, James Wilson, Esq.; Parlia-
mentary Secretary of the Treasury, Right
Hon. W. G. Hayter ; Junior Lords of the
Treasury, Viscount Duncan, Viscount
Monck, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, and C.
Fortescue, Esq. ; Under-Secretaries of the
Home Office, M. W. Cooper and Horatio
Waddington ; Under-Secretary of Foreign
Office, Lord Wodehouse ; Under-Secre-
taries of Colonial Office, H. Merivale and
John Ball : Under-Secretaiy of War,
Frederick Peel, Esq. ; Secretary to the
Admiralty, B. Osborne, Esq. ; President
of the Poor- Law Board, Right Hon. M.
Baines; Secretary to the Poor- Law Board,
Granville Berkeley, Esq. ; President of
the Board of Health, Right Hon. Sir B.
Hall.
DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT.
THE TREASURY.
Lord Palmerston, Sir G. C. Lewis,
Bart, Viscount Duncan, Hon. H. B. W.
Brand, C. S. Fortescue, Lords Commis-
sioners ; W. G. Hayter, James Wilson,
Secretaries ; Sir C. E. Trevelyan, Assist-
ant Secretary ; C. L. Crafer, Clerk for
Colonial Business ; C. W. Stronge, Clerk
of Pari. Accounts ; George Arbuthnot,
Auditor of Civil List ; L. Rumsey, Clerk
of the Bills ; H. R. Reynolds, Solicitor.
THE EXCHEQUER.
Sir George C. Lewis, Bart., Chancellor ;
Lord Monteagle, Comptroller-general ; Sir
Edward Ryan, Assistant ; F. F. Ottey,
Chief Clerk ; George S. Frederick, Ac-
countant ; E. Romilly, Chairman of the
Commission for Auditing Public Ac-
counts ; Henry Arbuthnot, C. Ross,
Richard V. Davis, W. L. Maberley, Com-
missioners ; Charles Zachary Macaulay,
Secretary ; |J; Bowen, Superintendent of
Office of Weights and Measures.
SECRETARIES OP STATE, &C.
Home Department. — Sir George Grey,
Principal Secretary ; Horatio Wadding-
ton, W. Cooper, Under Secretaries ; Henry
J. Knyvett, Chief Clerk.
Foreign Department. — Earl of Claren-
don, Principal Secretary ; Lord Wode-
house, Edmond Hammond, Under Secre-
taries ; G. Lenox-Conj'ngham, Chief
Clerk ; Lewis Hertslet, Librarian.
Colonial Department. — Lord J. Russell,
Principal Secretary ; H. Merivale, John
Ball, Under Secretaries; T. F. Elliot,
Assistant Under Secretary ; Peter Smith,
Chief Clerk ; George Mayor, Librarian
and Keeper of the Records.
War Department. — Lord Panmure,
Principal Secretary ; Frederick Peel, Un-
der Secretary ; Col. G. C. Mundy, Military
Secretary; Henry Roberts, Private. Secre-
tary.
State Paper Office.— Master of the Rolls,
Keeper of State Papers ; Charles Lech-
mere, Deputy Keeper ; Robert Lemon,
First Clerk.
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE
AFFAIRS OF INDIA.
Robert Vernon Smith, President ; Lord
President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal,