If Mr. Balfour is at all susceptible to Public opinion he must be feeling very uncomfortable just now. Almost without exception the Unionist Press has condemn. ed the plan of campaign which he placed before the meeting of the Conservative and day. At that-meeting he freely confessed Unionist members of Parliament on Mon-that the Government had made a mistake in overloading their programme this session, but he announced that they would adhere to their promise not to keep the House sitting after the middle of August. As it was manifestly impossible to complete even one of their big measures by that time, he proposed to take a wrinkle from the Liberals
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