Other changes Henry Goulburn made to his government:
William Bingham Baring from Secretary to the Board of Control to Master of the Mint. (1)
John Manners-Sutton from Under-Secretary at the Home Office to Secretary to the Board of Control.
Richard Monkton Milnes joined the government as Under-Secretary at the Home Office.
Up to the beginning of March 1831 the life of Benjamin Disraeli had kept on the same path as in OTL. At the end of the previous month he and James Clay, his travelling companion, had arrived in Jerusalem as part of their Grand Tour. They stayed in Jerusalem for a week. It was a deeply memorable experience for Disraeli, as it was in OTL, but in this TL he experienced a profound conversion to the Jewish religion - the religion of his ancestors. His father, Isaac D'Israeli, had Benjamin baptised into the Church of England at the age of 12 in 1817, although Benjamin's Christianity was a matter of form, not conviction.
On March 12 Disraeli and Clay arrived in Alexandria, where they were joined by William Meredith, a mutual friend. In OTL Disraeli stayed for several months in Egypt. In this TL he returned to England and London as quickly as possible.
When he returned to London he renounced his baptism and declared himself to be a practising Jew. He joined the Congregation of Bevis Marks. Although not particularly devout, he followed the dietary laws and kept the Sabbath and high days and holy days of Judaism.
In September 1831 he published a pamphlet attacking the oath sworn by members of Parliament which contained the words "upon the true faith of a Christian". It therefore excluded Jews who were not prepared to take the oath.
A radical in his political opinions, in the following months he published more political pamphlets and wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. He was getting noticed in Whig political circles and as a result of networking he was nominated as a Whig candidate in a Tory constituency in the general election of December 1832.
He was very much on the radical wing of the Whig Party. In his election campaign he advocated the secret ballot, triennial parliaments, repeal of the paper duties which kept the price of printed material high, repeal of the 'Christian' clause in the parliamentary oath, abolition of tithes to the Church of England, improvement in the standard of living of the working classes, and repeal of the Corn Laws. He was unsuccessful in the election.
In 1833 his novel,
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy was published, as in OTL. This was a tale about the twelfth-century Jewish hero, David Alroy.
In June 1834 he met Lord Durham, the 'Radical Earl', at a dinner party in London, where he seems to have made a good impression. As he did in OTL.
In November 1834 King William IV dismissed Lord Melbourne and appointed Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister. With a general election expected soon, Disraeli made overtures to Durham to secure him a candidature in a winable Whig seat. As it was Sir William Horne, one of the two Whig members for the double-member constituency of Marylebone in north-west London, and one time Attorney-General, was not standing for re-election, and Disraeli received the nomination. (2)
In the general election of January to February 1835, Disraeli, standing on a radical platform, was elected as one of the two Whig members for Marylebone.
(1) The Board of Control was the department responsible for policy towards India and was headed by a President. The Secretary was the junior minister.
(2) The constituency comprised the future boroughs in OTL of Hampstead, Paddington, St. Marylebone and St. Pancras. Here is a map showing the constituency in 1868, though it had the same boundaries in 1835 in OTL and this TL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marylebone1868.png .