Show parliament will soon be dissolved by government london no 21 cabinet council which although not originally summoned for that purpose had 10 decide the question 0 resignation or temporary prolongation of tho retention of office by tho balfour indian ministry was attended by all the members with the exception of the marquis of salisbury president of the board of trade only a few score of the public gathered in If owning street to witness the assembling of ministers and there atvas no demonstration it waa regarded as a foregone conclusion that the cabinet was going out and the only public interest was in the manner of its going out whether the premier and his colleagues would take precipe tate action or decide to remain in office tor a little while longer to wind up the business actually in hand mr balfourd Bal fours hand it Is understood was somewhat forced kiy the resignation of alio marquis of londonderry the pres ident of the council and president of the board of education which was ten catered a few days ago the question immediately arose whether the collective resignation of the ministry would not be preferable to its gradual disintegration the session of the cabinet broke up soon after two in the afternoon after a couple of hours calib aeration era tion As the marquis of londonderry was present at the cabinet council it Is evident that mr balfour did not accept his tendered resignation and the lord president of the council probably withdrew it when informed that the cabinet would not again meet parliament with the idea of transacting farther business tha ministers have not yet given intimation of the actual date of the dissolution and appeal to the constituencies it is understood that tha proposal tor ibe collective resignation of the cabinet was rejected and that tho ministers arrived at the decision that it would be better to dissolve parliament themselves and appeal to the elector ates should this course be followed it would ba due largely to the well grounded that the liberals would decline to form a cabinet before a general election places them in the possession of an adequate parliamentary majority to carry out the ab eral program i |