The Session has begun, and the members of the Government have, to borrow an idea frum one of Mr. F. C. Gould's inimitable toons, had to emerge from the entrench-mi ut of the Recess and meet their foes in It cannot be said that the pro-in cither Lords or Commons have been very.edifying. On the one hand, Ministers have made but. blunder and futile attempt to explain the causes of the position in which we find ourselves in South Africa—a position which," to. use Lord Salisbiny's own words, is "full of and not free from dange on city het eeiate the needs of the situation. Most of them, it is true, are agreed that
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