As I ventured to predict last week, the result of the yet unclosed incident of last has been to increase immensely the bitterness of political feeling. Conservatives fool that the personal honour of the leader has been attacked, and of course they are not prepared to wdlmit that has given any cause for such an xttuck, Liberals, on the other hand, feel that they have been deliberately tricked over the matter of the Colonial Conference, and say that Mr, Balfone's conduct in this matter is only the climax of a long course of trickery and subterfuge by which he has persistently refused to oxpiuin his fiscal policy or to allow his opponents to come to close quarters with him—the moving of the previous question," the marching out of the House with all the forces when the "previous question" could longer be moved. In private conversa. tion the Liberal lealers express them. selves in the strongest terms, They point out that there was nothing approaching rowdyisia among them on Monday week. Mr. Balfow had boon callod typo to ansior what Camp. Dell Bannerman hae valle facie vase of dist they ros body else could fused to hear a trick to divert the discussion into
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