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Show KNtiLISH I.ElilsiI.ATOKS, The Ofltr.ers of I'arlamvnt Saitl to He in a Hopeless Muddle, f, London, April 10. Special Never perhaps, since Simon tin Montford summoned sum-moned the lirsl of parhunciits, has the piibli,' business been in such a hopeless muddle. The government is at its wits mill, and the country amused at (irst, is fast growing disgusted ami indignant. There are many reassns assigned for this condition of affairs, such as the informal in-formal coalition between the labor unionists, un-ionists, whereby one body of men are iu office, ami another, who sit on the opposition branches are iu power; the hopeless hotch-potch which the pert Halfour has made of Iho Irish question, the iiuconstitutitutiotial assumption of the two most, important offices of the uovermnent bv one man sitting in the unpopular house; but at the root of it all, it is charged, is the sheer incompetency incompe-tency of the leader of the government, W. II. Smith. As a politician Smith has been a disaslerous failure ever since ever since he won his victory over John Sluarlchill. His position as leader was intended only lo bo temporary, but the fates iu the form of coercion in Ireland were too strong, undJiu now has by his assiduity earned a prescriptive right to it. ! |