Tune is really very little to interest anybody in the papers uow to hand, and the difficulty of summarising them is proporvately increased. The Pall Mull Budget pres 8 te most attractive variety, though the social question of the day still predominates and floods its columns with little sign of diminution. Among the political articles—if, indeed, it be not the only political article in the number—that headed "The Cancer of Faction? is remarkable for the healthy blows dealt by the writer upon Lord Randolph Churchill, apropos of his Indian Budgetspeoch. The Standard's attack was of course the most effective of any, from the clearness with which it laid down the wide line of demarcation uow existing between the respectable old Conservative Party and the Tory Democrats. The ropudiation of Lord Randolph by the Standard was naturally very significant, and tio doubt carried much comfort to old Conservatives in trouble about their creed. The Pall Mall article condemns Lord Randolph, not for his Budget speech, but for making that speech a vehicle for a 2
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