Another batch of Ministerial appointments has been announced. They have been received somewhat apvlogetically by those organs of public opinion which usuai-Jy support the Government, and with considerable adverse criticism by those which oppose it. The most striking feature about the reconstructed Ministry is the large Reid by near relations of Lord Salisbury. reportion of important elfices which are
In the Cabinet are Lord Sulishury Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal, his nephew Mr. Arthur Balfour ay First Lord of the Treasury, his son-in-law Lord Selborne as First Lord of the Admiralty, and his nephew Mr. Gerald Balfour is President of the Board of Trade; while what is perhaps the most important office outside the Cabinet, the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Afirs, is held by Lord Salisbury's eldest son, Lord Cranburne, Po ple are asking what poor Lord Hugh Cecil has done that he should be passed over. He is the only near relative of the Prime Minister in Parliament who hus been left out in the cold.
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