The warning has had some effect but not very much. "The Government majority at the very next sitting fell as low as 38, and it has since fallen. lower than this, "And the troubles of the Government are acmade by Int. Balfoue two or three weeks cumulating. In spite of declaration
ago, that it would be prejudicial to the comniercial interests of the country tu p: stpone consideration of the Budget Bill in committee, he has now himself post-[coger be nny doubt Ehat the opposition to ned it indefinitely, and there can no the new tobacco tax has proved too strong, and that the tax is to be abandoned, The differences of opinion over the new army scheme have not yet been settled, and that also is postponed indefinitely, and now there is an uproar over Mr. Bulfour's announcement that the Licensing Bill is to be forced through committee next week by means of the. guillotine. 'The Bill will probably go through, though there are some who ure inclined to Ilieve that the Prime Mini is riding for a fall; but in any cue it is almost e-train that' as soon as this and the Bud Bill, lws the tobneco tax, ate through, the business of the Session will be rapidly wound up and Parliament dissolved. speeches which his Majesty made there, have been as successful as all his other Continental trips in cementing our present cordial relations with all the Powers. There is unfortunately a very active anti-German party in this country which has been doing its best to represent the Anglo-French entente as a slap in face for Germany; and this Kiel visit has had a specially useful purpose in counteracting this influence and proclaiming to the world that our Policy to-day is the old traditional Policy of maintaining friendly relations th all vations and concluding no definite alliances with apy. Tt is a policy which few are now inclined to characterise as "splendid isolation " with an irenic accent on the adjective.
The Sievier Prosecution.
The ease for the prosecution against "Bob" Sievier has now been opened. is alleged that while bankruptey proceed ings wore in progress against him, he being still undischarged under a previous banktuptey, he washying at the rate of many thousands a year, running race-horses and ent-naining house parties at a country residence. During these proceedings, it seems, he swore that he had no means and no banking account, and that he was living on the hospitality of others, Apparently however, the prosecution hope to prove that he was carrying on a great and profit. able betting ager ey in another name, and that tte Lanking account in the name of this aeney was really his banking account, and that another banking account, in the name of his mother, through which thousands of pounds jassed, was also really his. How far they will' suc ce proving these facts remains of course to be but anyhow the exse promises to quite a8 interesting as the recent libel case which he is endeavouring to get reheard, and quite as prolific in revelations of the seamy side of the turf.
Mr. Chamberlain and the Liberal Unionists.
Mr. Chamberlain has, to use the phrase of i's Froe Trade section, succeeded in "nobbling" the Liberal Unionist Paty but at how heavy a cost is revealed by vote at a meeting of the Liberal Union Club which was held on Wednesday. This is an institution which does for the Liberal Unionists what the Kiyhty Club does for the Liberals. It has no club house, Lut it holds dinners and meetings, ant provides lecturers and speakers for party gatherings. Wednesday's meeting was held for the purpose of electing 36 members on the new Liberal Unionist Council, of which Mr. Chamberlain is to be President. The Chamberlainites carried the day, but only by a majority of 108 to 64; and the whole 64 have retired ina body from the Club: and, in conjunetion with others, are starting a rival Liberal Unionist organisation on Free Trade. Mr. Chamberlain's policy. is therefore driving considerably more than a. third of the members out of the organisation, and this is not the full extent of the mischief, for the seceders include by far the larger proportion of the better-known and more influential members, The King in Germany.
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