THE ENGLISH CRISIS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2549, 29 June 1895, Page 2

THE ENGLISH CRISIS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received June 28, 7.30 p.m. London, June 27. Lord Salisbury hopes to dissolve Parliament on Monday or Tuesday vreek. Sir {H. James has declined the Lord Chancellorship, owing to the state of his health. He prefers a lighter Cabinet office. Mr Chaplin has been appointed President of the Local Government Board. Received June 28, 10 p.m. London, Juno 28. The Times says that Sir H. James will be elevated to the Peerage, and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, that Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, will be Secretary for Scotland, and Mr L. Courtney, Postmaster-General, and that the Cabinet will number 19 Ministers. Received June 29, 0.40 a.m. London, June 28. Lord Rosebery charged Lord Salisbury with unexampled disrespect to the House in declining to state the policy of the new Government. He asked why immediately after the defeat he sent his secretary, who met Mr Campbell-Bannerman in the street, and demanded the seals of his office before they had been delivered up to tho Queen ? Lord Salisbury said it was urgent, and tho office should be filled up at oticr-. The request was a friendly one, for which there were many precedents, and no insult was intended. Special.—Received June 28, 7.30 p.m. London, Juno The Daily News says that the Queen took farewell of Lord Rosebery very graciously.