[The late Parliament was dissolved on January 26, 1874; the Writs were returnable on the 5th of March following; and the new Parliament met, for the despatch of business, March 5th, 1874, for the First Session of the Twenty-first 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.

FORMING THE CABINET.

Lord Privy Seal
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 the War
Department.

Secretary of State for India
First Lord of the Admiralty
Post-Master General

President of the Board of Trade

Joint Secretaries of the Treasury ·

Under Secretaries for the Home
Department.
Under Secreatries for the Foreign
Department.

Right Hon. Earl of Beaconsfield.
Right Hon. Earl Cairns.

Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote.
Most Noble Duke of Richmond and
Gordon.

Most Noble Duke of Northumberland.

Right Hon. Richard A. Cross.

Most Hon. Marquis of Salisbury.
Right Hon. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, bart.

Right Hon. F. A. Stanley.

Right Hon. Viscount Cranbrook.
Right Hon. W H. Smith.
Right Hon. Lord John Manners.
Right Hon. Viscount Sandon.

Right Hon. James Lowther.
Right Hon. G. Sclater-Booth.

Right Hon. Lord G. Hamilton.
A Cassels, Esq.

Right Hon. Thomas E. Taylor.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge.
Right Hon. G. J. Noel.
Viscount Crichton.
Rowland Winn, esq.
Sir J. Elphinstone, bart.
Admiral Sir A. C. Key, K.C.B.
Rear-Admiral A. W. A. Hood, C.B.
Rear-Admiral Lord Gilford.

Sir Massey Lopes, bart.

Sir W. Hart Dyke, bart. Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson, bart. Sir R. R. W. Lingen. (Perm.) (Sir M. White-Ridley, bart. Hon. Adolphus-F.-O. Liddell. (Perm.) (Hon. R. Bourke.

Lord Tenterden. (Perm.)

Under Secretaries for the Colonies (Earl of Cadogan.

Department.

Department.

Under Secretaries for the

War

Robert G.-W. Herbert, esq. (Perm.)
Right Hon. Viscount Bury.
Colonel Loyd Lindsay. (Financial.)
R. W. Thompson, esq.C.B. (Perm.)
Hon. Edward Stanhope.

Under Secretaries of State for India Sir Louis Mallet, C.B. (Perm.)

Hon. A. Egerton.
Vernon Lushington, esq.
Admiral Robert Hall, C. B.
(John-G. Talbot, esq.

T. H. Farrer, esq. (Perm).
Sir J. Holker.

Sir Hardinge Giffard.

Rt. Hon. G.-A.-Cavendish Bentinck
Earl Beauchamp.

Lord Henry Thynne.
Earl of Yarmouth.

Earl of Mount Edgcumbe.
Viscount Barrington.
Earl of Bradford.

Scotland.

Right Hon. W. Watson.
J. H. A. Macdonald, esq.

Freland.

Note. A change of Administration causes the retirement of all the persons mentioned above, except the Commander of the Forces, the permanent Under-Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, and of the Admiralty, the Clerk Marshal, and the Crown Equerry.

Those Members to whose Names an Asterisk is prefixed thus

the late Parliament at the dissolution.

were not in

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

(8) Double Returns.

SPEAKER,-RIGHT HON. II.-BOUVERIE-WILLIAM BRAND. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE,-HENRY CECIL RAIKES, Esq.

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

Allsopp, Samuel-Charles

Staffordshire, East.

Worcestershire, East.

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

Alsopp, Henry

Anderson, George..

Anstruther, Sir Robert, bart.

Arbhthnot, Colonel

Archdale, William-Humphrys.

*Anstruther, Sir Windham C.J.C bt. Lanarkshire, South.

Hereford.

*Arkwright, A.-P.

*Arkwright, Francis

*Ashbury, James-Lloyd

Ashley, Hon. A.-Evelyn-M.

Assheton, Ralph

*Astley, Sir John-D. bart. Backhouse, E.

Bagge, Sir William, bart..

Bailey, Sir Joseph-Russell, bart...

*Balfour, A.-J...

Balfour, General Sir George
Barclay, Alexander-Charles.
Barclay, James W.

Lincolnshire, North.

Darlington, Durham.

Norfolk, West.

Herefordshire.

Hertford.

Kincardineshire.

Taunton, Somersetshire..

Forfarshire.

Essex, South.

*Baring, Thomas-Charles

*Barne, F.-St.-John N.

Suffolk, East.

*Barran, John ....

Leeds.

Barrington, Viscount

Eye, Suffolk.

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

Beach, Rt.Hn.Sir Michael-E.-H. bt. Gloucestershire, East.

Beach, William-W. Bramston

Beaumont, Wentworth-Blackett..

Montrose.

Hampshire, North.

Durham, South.

Northumberland, South.

Westmoreland.

Hartlepool.

Shaftesbury.

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

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

*Beresford, Lord C.-W.-de la Poer Waterford County.

Beresford, Colonel F. Marcus