THE POLITICAL CRISIS AT HOME.
_ + POLITICAL AMENITIES. [UNITZD PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] London, June 27. The Marquis of Salisbury hopes to dissolve on Monday or Tuesday week. The Queen has given assent to the Pacific Fisheries Bill. Sir H. James declined the Lord Chancellorship, owing to the state of hia health. He prefers a lighter Cabinet office. The 'limes says Sir H. James will be elevated to the peerage aud madej Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland; L. Courtnay, Postmaster-General. The Cabinet will number nineteen London, June 28. Lord Kosebery charged Lord Salisbury with unexampled disrespect to the House m declining to state the policy of the new Government. He asked why immediately after the defeat ho sent the Secretary, who met Mr Campbell- Bannerman m the street and demanded the seals of this office before they had been delivered up to the Queen. Lord Salisbury said it was urgent that the office should be filled up at once, and the requisition was a friendly one for which there were many precedents ; and no insult was intended.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 159, 29 June 1895, Page 2
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182THE POLITICAL CRISIS AT HOME. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 159, 29 June 1895, Page 2
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