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Show A British Cabinet Secret. A London correspondent says that the renewed agitation on the subject of the navy has led to tbe disclosure of another cabinet secret. It is now known that Gladstone stood absolutely alone among his ministers in opposing tho large increase in-crease in the naval expenditure. He was nnyielding to the end, and this was one j of his principal reasons for his decision to resign, a decision which he did not communicate to any one of his official advisers, and which they first learned through the Pall Mall Gazette's premature prema-ture publication. |