BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1625, 13 December 1905, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

OPINION OF THE TIMES,

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Deo. 11,

The Time 3 soys Me John Burns’ administration will be watohed with anxiety lost ho promote mo'o municipal modd'ing. Tho best points of the Cabinet, allotment aro tho Foreign and Colonial Office. Lord Elgin’s record is porfetly fioe from partisan epoeebos. Tho Seals Office has beon transferred to Mr John Davison. OPINION IN CANADA AND FRANCE By telegraph, Press A#s'n, Copyright Received 10 p.m., Deo. 12, O tawa, Dec. 12. Tho Canadian Press concedes that Sir H. Campbell Binnerman has formed an unexpectedly ttrong Ministry. Paris, Dec, 12, Tho now British Government has produced a decidedly favorable impression hore, especially theinclusionjof Sir Edward Grey.

LORD ROSEBERY CORDIALLY AP PROVES OF CABINET.

HOPES FOR AN OVERWHELMING

MAJORITY.

By telegraphy Press A'sa’n,. Copyri-gh Received 9.35 p.m., Dec. 12.

London, Dec 12,

Lord Rosebery, addressing the Liberal League in London, app'auded the conslitution of tho Government. He adhered to every word of his Budrnin speech. No man out of a lunatio asylum believed that a Home Rule Bill would bo intro duced into next Parliament. More so, since Sir H. Campbell Bannerman had said so, the Irish policy must be explained during tho elections in clear, unambiguous terms. Mr Asquith, Lord Haldaup, and Sir Edward Grey’s presence in the Cabinet was a guarantee that Sir H. C. Baonerman’s Stirling speech would not be carried into execution. When they left, let the Government look out for squalls. He hoped the electors would give the Government an overwhelming majority, rendering them absolutely independent of the Nationalists. He hoped the verdict would be final and overwhelming on the question of freetrade aud protection.