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Show LORD ROSEBERY Tenders His .Hesitation to the Queen. SALISBURY S UCCEEDS HIM Providing- Parliament is Dissolved The Irish and Libera) Scotch Members Dissatisfied Dis-satisfied and Disappointed The English Eng-lish BimetallistSi London, June 23. It is just announced an-nounced that the outcome of the deliberations delib-erations of the cabinet, in consequence of the adverse vote in the house of commons on Friday, is that Lord RoBe- bery, theprime minister, has tendered his resigriatfojjj to the queen. Her majesty maj-esty haB therefore summoned Lord Salisbury, the')eader of the conservative conserva-tive party, to Windsor in connection with the formation of a conservative ministry. The leading conservatives declare the marquis of Salisbury will not formally for-mally take office until parliament is dissolved. He will insist that the government, before yielding the seals, shall pass a vote of an amount necessary neces-sary for the expenditures for. two months to enable a general election to beheld. The conseivatives will thus be in a position to attack, instead of defending. It is understood the Marquis of Salisbury Sal-isbury only agrees to form a cabinet on condition that parliament is dissolved. .Nothing is known regarding Ihe personnel per-sonnel of the new ministry but complete com-plete harmony exists between the liberal lib-eral unionists and the conservatives. The Irish members are extremely uneasy un-easy and dissatislied. They Btate that after acting for three years as the strongest arm of the government, they are deeply concerned at the sudden end of the governmeHt without passing any of the principal Irish measures. Not only has home rule not progressed, but the measure concerning the Christian brothers, the county council bill, which reached a second reading, the arand jury bill and the proposal to extend the power of guardians regarding regard-ing laborers' cottages, were all lost. ine oniy lrisn measure now lively to be passed is Mr. IJealy's municipal franchise bill, which has gone to the house ol lords. The Liberal Scotch members are also sore, their expectations having been disappointed. Air. James G. Weir, member for Robs and Cromarty, communicated com-municated with Lord Rjsebery this morning, urging him not to dissolve parliament until the measure exteud-iLg exteud-iLg the benefit of the crofter's act to Highland tenants should have been paeBed. ENGLISH BIMETALLI8T8, London, June 23. A bimetallic memorial me-morial has been signed by numbers of the leading bankers, mercnantsand manufacturers doing business in the east. It first refers to the recent anti-bimetalhc anti-bimetalhc memorial, in which it says bimetallism is justly described as a growing agitation. It then proceeds to relate that, instead of the commercial supremacy of Great I3ritian and the financial ascendancy of London having been establiKhed since the change in the currency in 1816, it was achieved before then. The memorial concludes: 'In the presence of the evils which cannot be denied, we hope the government will not suffer a hypothetical danger to special interests or a prophetic, but unsupported, un-supported, assertion of harm to industry indus-try or commerce to deter them from a hearty co-operation with the other powers in such measures as seem de sirable for securing a fixed par of exchange ex-change for the two metals and a more stable standard of value than we now possess." |