[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 1881.

First Lord of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lord President of the Council
Lord High Chancellor

Lord Privy Seal

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 War
Department.

Chief Secretary for Ireland
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. Earl Spencer.
Right Hon. Lord Selborne.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll.
Right Hon. Earl of Northbrook.
Right Hon. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt.

Right Hon. Earl Granville.

Right Hon. Earl of Kimberley.
Right Hon. Marquis of Hartington.
Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers.
Right Hon. W. E. Forster.
Right Hon. J. Bright.
Right Hon. J. Chamberlain.
Right Hon. J. G. Dodson

The above constitute the Cabinet.

Junior Lords of the Treasury.

Secretaries to the Treasury

Vice-President of the Education Committee

Sir A. D. Hayter, bart.

Mr. John Holms.

Mr. C. C. Cotes.

Right Hon. Lord R. Grosvenor.
Lord F. Cavendish.

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

Under Secretaries for the Home Mr. Arthur Peel.
Department.

Under Secretaries for the Foreign
Department.
Under Secretaries for the Colonies
Department.

Right Hon. H. Fawcett.
Right Hon. G.-J. Shaw-Lefevre.
Mr. J. T. Hibbert.

Sir J. Lambert. (Perm.)
Hon. Evelyn Ashley.
Mr. T. H. Farrer. (Perm.)
Admiral Sir A. C. Key.
Vice Admiral Lord John Hay.
Rear-Admiral A. H. Hoskins.
Mr. T. Brassey.

Mr. G.-O. Trevelyan.

Rear-Admiral R. Hall. (Perm.)
Duke of Cambridge.

General Sir C. H. Ellice.
General Sir Garnet Wolseley.
Right Hon. G. Osborne Morgan.
Lord Wolverton.

Sir Henry James.

Sir Farrer Herschell.

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 for the same places as in the late Parliament. (§) Double Returns.

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

Acland, Sir Thomas-Dyke, bart... Devon, N.

*Agnew, W.

Ainsworth, D.

Akers-Douglas, A.
Alexander, Claud

*Allen, H. G.

....

Lancashire, S. E.

Kent, E.

Cumberland, W.

Ayrshire, S.

Pembroke.

Baxter, Right Hon. William-Edward Montrose.

Beach, William-W. Bramston.... Hampshire, N.

Beaumont, Wentworth-Blackett.. Northumberland, S.

Bective, Earl of..

*Bellingham, A.-H.

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

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