THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8080, 27 June 1895, Page 2

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

(Per Press Ass oia ion.)

London, June 26.

It is announced that the following portfolios in the new Ministry are allotted : - Lord Salisbury, Pecmier and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Duke of Devonshire, President of the Council; Sir J.*G. Goschen, Secretary of the Admiralty.

Later,

Although Lord Salisbury was w*-j ling to surrender the Foreign Office to tbe Duke of Devonshire, the latter preferred to be President of the Council with the headship of the Consultative Council on Imperial defences entrusted by the Executive with the carrying OjUt of army reforms. Mr McCarthy intends to appeal to the Irish at Home,and abroad for election funds. "

The 'Times says that Mr Chamberlain's desire to draw closer the ties between England and the coloniesbas influenced his choice of a portfolio.

The dissolution is expected to take place the second week in July It is reported the Liberals are unprovided with candidates for a hundred and seventy seats. Later. Mr Henry Chaplin be: Dines President of the Board of Agriculture. It w expected that Sir Henry James will be Home Secretary, and Lord Halsbury Lord High Chancellor. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, in his election address, blamed Sir "W. V. Harcouit for re fusing, to dissolve Parliament. He refrained from explaining the Government policy, excepting that he said that the Government would not by the destruction of ancient" institutions or the restless manipulation of constitutional machinery imperil the security or doinebtio progress of the country. Sir Michael Hicks Beach and the How. Goschen, Balfour, and Chamberlain leave on an electioneering tour to-day. ■ ■