Meanwhile it is pointed out that members of the Cabinet are scattered all over the continent and the pleasure resorts of this country, making holiday. The Cubinet never rivets, and even the Defence Committee, of which so much was expected,
regards the prosecution of the war, Mr.
ite inacti Apparently, Brodrick is left to his own uncontrolled ed discretion. Yesterday for the first time for many weeks we had two speeches from Cabinet Ministers—the Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Hanbury, the President of the Board of Agriculture, at the Cutler's Feast at Sheffield. But neither Lord Halsbury nor Mr Hanbury is in the inner circle of the Cxbinet, and their speeches did nothing to remove the impression that their ignorance of the real situation in South Africa is just about as profound as that of the general public. Lord Salisbury has the largest Cabinet on record, and it haps a natural consequence that the Government of the country, so far as it is not carried out by uncontrolled clerks in Government offices, is controlled not by the Cabinet but by a handful of its members.
Itala and Moedwell.
There is, however, one aspect of the recent events at the seat of war which is encouraging. It is insisted on, though by no means for the first time, by a "Times" war correspondent who has returned from South Africa, and who addresses
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