[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.]

N.B.-By Act 5 and 6 William IV., cap. 36, the time of taking the Poll in Boroughs, at all contested Elections in England and Wales, is limited to One Day. By Act 31 & 32 Victoriæ, cap. 58, § 16, the time is prolonged for certain Contributory Boroughs in Wales.

By Act 5 and 6 William IV., cap. 78, § 5, the time of taking the Poll at all Borough Elections, in Scotland, is limited to One Day.

By Act 10 and 11 Victoriæ, cap. 81, the time of taking the Poll at all Borough Elections, in Ireland, is limited to One Day.

By Act 16 and 17 Victoriæ, cap. 15, the time of taking the Poll at all County Elections, in England and Wales, is limited to One Day.

By Act 16 and 17 Victoriæ, cap. 28, the time of taking the Poll at all County Elections in Scotland (except Orkney and Shetland), is limited to One Day.

By Act 35 and 36 Victoriæ, Rule 2, County or District Borough elections to take place within Nine Days after receiving the Writ, giving Three Days clear Notice. Borough elections to take place within Four Days. after receiving the Writ, giving Two Days clear Notice.

By Act 6 and 7 Victoriæ, cap. 18, § 36, Electors resident in one part of the County, and claiming to vote for property in another, may vote near their place of residence, on making a claim at the Revision Court, according to the Forms 7 or 8, in the Schedule A of Registration Forms, p. 241.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.-In "The Representation of the People Act, 1867," the qualifications for the various Franchises are enumerated :

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.

Reform Act, Registration of Voters.
Counties.

Boroughs.

THE MINISTRY,

SESSION 1874-75-76.

MEMBERS FORMING THE CABINET

First Lord of the Treasury
Lord High Chancellor .
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord President of the Council
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
Department

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

War

Vice-President of the Committee of

Council

Vice-President of the Council of India
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli.
Right Hon. Lord Cairns.

Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote.
Right Hon. Duke of Richmond.
Right Hon. Earl of Malmesbury.
Right Hon. Richard A. Cross.

Right Hon. Earl of Derby.

Right Hon. Earl of Carnarvon..
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy.

Right Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury.
Right Hon. Ward Hunt.

Right Hon. Lord John Manners.

Right Hon. Sir Michael Beach.
Right Hon. G. Sclater-Booth.

Right Hon. Viscount Sandon.

Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere. Right. Hon. Thomas-F. Taylor. Field Marshal communding in-Chief H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. Chief Commissioner of Public Works Right Hon. Lord Henry Lennox.

Viscount Mahon.

Rowland Winn, esq.

Sir J. Elphinstone, bart.

Admiral Sir Alexander Milne.
Rear-Admiral G. T. P. Hornby.
Captain Lord Gilford.
Sir Massey Lopes, bart.

Right Hon. Sir C.-B. Adderley.
William-Henry Smith, Esq.

Sir W. Hart Dyke, bart.

R. R. W. Lingen, Esq. (Perm.)
(Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson, bart.
Hon. Adolphus-F.-O. Liddell. (Perm.)
Hon. R. Bourke.

Lord Tenterden. (Perm.)

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 (*), 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. H.-BOUVERIE-WILLIAM BRAND. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES,-HENRY CECIL RAIKES, Esq.

Allsopp, Samuel-Charles

*Alsopp, Henry

....

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

Anderson, George

Anstruther, Sir Robert, bart.

Glasgow.
Fifeshire.

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

Antrobus, Sir Edmund, bart.
Archdale, William-Humphrys

*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.

Wilton, Wilts.

County of Fermanagh.

Derbyshire, North.

Derbyshire, East.

Brighton.

Poole.

Clitheroe, Lancashire.

Lincolnshire, North.

Darlington, Durham.
Norfolk, West.
Herefordshire.
Hertford.

Kincardineshire.

Taunton, Somersetshire.
Forfarshire.

Essex, South.

Eye, Suffolk.

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

*Baring, Thomas-Charles

Barrington, Viscount

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

Beach, William-W. Bramston

Beaumont, F.-E.-B.

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

Blennerhassett, Rowland- Ponsonby Kerry.

Bolckow, H.-William-Ferdinand.. Middlesborough, Yorkshire, N. Rid.

Booth, Sir Robert-Gore, bart..... County of Sligo.