Review of reviews and world's work . e water companies up attheir Stock Exchange value, without paying onecent for compulsory puichase, it would cost the exactsum which Lord Cross, as Disraelis Home Secretarj,offered twelve years ago. In 1885, when Mr. Glad-stone was in his sixth session, his Government suc-cumbed to internal dissensions. The Cabinet foundgreat difficulty in agreeing upon the policy to bepursued in Ireland, the authority of Lord Spencerbeing on the side of a renewal of modified coercion,while Mr. Chamberlain and his colleagues threat-ened disruption if any exceptional legislat
Review of reviews and world's work . e water companies up attheir Stock Exchange value, without paying onecent for compulsory puichase, it would cost the exactsum which Lord Cross, as Disraelis Home Secretarj,offered twelve years ago. In 1885, when Mr. Glad-stone was in his sixth session, his Government suc-cumbed to internal dissensions. The Cabinet foundgreat difficulty in agreeing upon the policy to bepursued in Ireland, the authority of Lord Spencerbeing on the side of a renewal of modified coercion,while Mr. Chamberlain and his colleagues threat-ened disruption if any exceptional legislation wereresorted to. The Cabinet, so divided and distracted,sought refuge in a fall which they rather courtedon the subject of allotments. Now there is affordedthe spectacle of the sixth session of the Parliamentof 1886 ; and once again the familiar phenomenon isreproducing itself. The Ministerial majority seemsto have gone to pieces. The only question that isunder discussion at St. Stephens is when the disso-lution will take HON. HONORi; MERCIER OF QUEBEC. One has not far to seek for the cause of^DebiT^ this state of things. Mr. Balfour, whose advent to the leadership was hailed withpaeans of jubilation by his own party, has madea very bad beginning. The House of Commons,accustomed to the painstaking, business-like, me-thodical methods of Mr. W. H. Smith, has not yetlearned to tolerate the gay insouciance of his some-what supercilious successor; and to the intensedisappointment of his friends and the exultantdelight of his enemies, Mr. Balfour has failed tocontrol the assembly of which he is the nominalchief. He comes down late and is seldom in hisplace during question-time. He has not doffed thatsomewhat haughty manner which sat so badly onhim at the Irish Otlfice, and he has not displayedthat close attention to details of management whichis indispensable if affairs are to go smoothly. Butworse than all this, he has seemed on more than oneoccasion to be lacking in pre
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