this week from Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach; and it must be admitted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was by no means eclipsed by "Pushful Joe." There is no member of the Cabinet who has added more to his reputation since the present Government came into ofice than Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and it is significant of the confidence which his colleagues repose in him that the most momentous declarations of Government jolley have come from him and not from joseph Chamberlain. Altogether, from Sir Michael and from others we have been able to obtain a pretty clear idea of what the course of business during the coming Session of Parliament will be.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.