| Field Marshal Commanding in Chief | H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. |
| Vice President of the Committee of Council for Education | Right Hon. A. J. Mundella. |
| Lords of the Treasury | C. C. Cotes, Esq. |
| Herbert Gladstone, Esq. | |
| R. W. Duff, Esq. | |
| Lords of the Admiralty. | Admiral Sir ASTLEY Cooper Key, Admiral Lord Alcester, Rear Admiral THOMAS BRANDRETH, Vice Admiral Sir WILLIAM HEWTT, WILLIAM SPROSTON CAINE, Esq., & GEORGE W. RENDEL, Esq. |
| Joint Secretaries to the Treasury | (Right Hon. Lord RICHARD GROSVENOR. |
| John Tomlinson Hibbert, Esq. | |
| Secretary to the Admiralty | Sir Thomas Brassey. |
| Secretary to the Board of Trade | John Holms, Esq. |
| Secretary to the Local Government Board | George William Erskine Russell, Esq. |
| Under Secretary, Home Department | Henry Hartley Fowler, Esq. |
| Under Secretary, Foreign Department | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice. |
| Under Secretary for Colonies | Hon. A. Evelyn Ashley. |
| Under Secretary for War | Earl of Morley. |
| Under Secretary for India | J. Kynaston Cross, Esq. |
| Paymaster General | Right Hon. Lord Wolverton. |
| Surveyor General of Ordnance | Hon. Henry Robert Brand. |
| Financial Secretary to the War Department | Colonel Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, Bart. |
| Judge Advocate General | Right Hon. George Osborne Morgan. |
| Attorney General | Right Hon. Sir Henry James. |
| Solicitor General | Sir Farrer Herschell. |