The Prime Minister has not come very well out of the incident of the Bagdad Railway; but the honours have been won not: by the Opposition but by a rebellious Conservative, Mr. Gibson Bowles. Just before Parliament rose for the Easter recess Mr. Bowles put a question to Mr. Balfour on the subject of the rumoured intention of the Government to join with Germany and France in the construction of what Mr. Bowles called the "German" railway across Asiatic Turkey through agded to the Persian Gulf. The Prime Minister's reply was that no negotiations had taken place, but that certain sugges tions had been made {o the Government and were then under consideration, In
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