THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8959, 17 August 1892, Page 5

THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND.

THE NEW MINISTRY. ME. GLADSTONE AND THE QUEEN. Pre Auooiation, —Electric Telti/rapK—Cwvrivht London, August 15. • Mr. Gladstone has gone on a visit to the Queen at Osborne, and is expected to return to-morrow. Mr. Keir Hardie insists that the Labour members should oppose the inclusion of Mr. Morley in the Cabinet. Mr. Gladstone is determined to make a personal allotment of the portfolios. It is feared that Lord Rosebery will not accept a seat in the Cabinet.

Mr. H. H. Fowler will succeed Mr. Ritchie as President of the Local Government Board.

The Marquis of Salisbury, in announcing his resignation, said he hoped the Earl of Kimberley would state the policy of the new Government. The latter declined on the grounds that he was not yet a Minister, and had not consulted his colleagues. Parliament adjourned till Thursday. London, August 16. The latest rumours as to the composition of the Cabinet are that Mr. Gladstone will be First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal Lord Herschel, Lord High Chancellor ; Earl Spencer, First Lord of the* Admiralty; Mr. Asquith, Home Secretary ; Mr. H. H. Fowler, President of the Local Government Board; Mr. Mundella, President of the Board of Trade. These, with Messrs. Campbell-Bannerman, J. Morley, Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, or Lord Rosebery, will, according to the Standard, form the Cabinet. The Daily News, however, states that the Marquis of liipon, Lord Kimberley. Sir G. Trevelyan, and Mr. J. Bryce will also be in the Cabinet, and that Lord Brassey will be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Earl Kimberley or Lord Carrington, Secretary of State tor the Colonies; and Sir C. Russell, Attorney-General St. Petersburg, August 15. The Novoe Vremya hopes that Mr. Gladstone will place foreign matters in a secondary position.