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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Transformation in the British
Cabinet Completed.
The Work Already Cut Out for tho Admin
istration-Irish, Egyptian and Afghan
Affairs Requiring Acknowledgment
ton to Lord Churchill.

LONDON, June 20 The transformation
scene is ended; yesterday the last Depart
ment of State held by the Liberals was
surrendered, and now every public Office
in the British Empire is under Tory rule
as effectively as though the country had
been appealed to by general election and
returned the Conservatives to power by
triumphant majority. The difference be-
tween a ministry backed by majority
and Cabine5 working with minority
vote will be appreciated after the reas-
sembling of Parliament on the 9Th tJuly.
Opposition at the polls to ministers who,
as members of the House of Commons
must seek reelection on taking Office is
threatened, but such threats are invarla-
bly, made and rarely carried into effect.
Seats are always waiting to be vacated
for ministers who fail of reelection.
THE TASK BEFORE THEM.
LONDON, June 2S.-The new Cabinet
have to decide between this aud the 9th
on the BUDGET, the Egyptian occupation,
the crimes act, the remaining legislative
work Of the session and the resumption
of negotiations with Russia. The budget
will probably remain untouched with
the exception OF the spirit and beer du-
ties, which, of course, are to be aban-
doned. The deficit if there should be
any, may be spread over series ofyears,
The advice Of Sir Stafford Northcote, who,
as First Lord of the Treasury, controls
the excheQuer, an influential element
in the Cabinet, favors the imposition ola
light duty on wheat, barley, Indian corn
and agricultural products chiefly i'm
ported from the United States. The pro-
posal has been widely discussed in
the leading Conservative constitu-
encies, the leaders have ad
mitted it Genes within the
sphere of practical politics and its advo-
Gates cannot be refused a hearing. In
his last great practical speech in Devon
shire the new First Lord of the Treasury
acknowledged that the whole subject OF
duties on imports had arrived at a stage
justifying inquiry with view to legisla-
tive action.
IRISH TROUBLES.
Ireland's crop is an important factor
in the financial proposals of the new
Cabinet There are scores of starving
hamlets on the west and south coasts,
which, with a triflng expenditure for
harbor, and other public works, and
small grants to enable the local authori-
ties to assist the people to develop t e
fisheries, might soon become prosperous
and contenled.
EGYPT
The decision of the Cabinet on the
question of retirement from Egypt is
awaited with confidence. Public opinion
is satisfied that Lord Salisbury may be
trusted TO safely guard the material and
political interests of the empire in this
particular branch of foreign politics.
The dispatch of Sir Henry Hammond
Wolff, sent to Egypt on a special mission,
is significant. Wolff is the chief confidaut
of Lord Randolph Churchill, and con.
Quoted the whole of the correspondence
with Egypt, on which the noble Lord was
enabled to base the conspcuously bitter
attacks on the late Government on their
, Egyptian policy VOLTS diplomatic
career in Turkey and the East I'M
der the Beaconsned regime placed
4 ! Nun Ou lOOtluP VI lhblhhAN1 NAbh WI y
element favorable to British ascendancy
The transfer of his party to the opposi-
ton benches left in his hands means for
embarrassing the Government, possessed
= by no other living man His Information
from the inception of British troubles in
Egypt pointed to conspiracy and treach
cry against England on the part of nearly
every member of the Egyptian Govern
frnt,, tho KholiVn dawn nnH or n.
= " compromised French officials. He now
5 goes to Egypt armed with special powers
to conduct a secret inquiry for the guld-
ance of Cabinet in full sympathy with
his views and backed by the most active
and aggressive Minister of the present
reign.
. With Wolff in Egypt on special mis-
l sion, Churchill, his immediate chief, at
the head of the India office, the depart
Y mcnt chiefly interested in Egypt, and
= Lord Salisbury at the Foreign Office and
, holding the Premiership, it is taken for
: granted that there will be no scuttling
out of Egypt, or for the matter of that,
out of any country where the British iag
5 flies until Scuttling is ascertained to be
a Indispensable and unavoidable.
FATHER AND son.
The fact that Sir Henry Drummond
+ Wolff is an ardent admirer of Ismai
Pasha the eX-Khedive, is used as an ar.
), gumpnt in favor of the theory that siren
4 nous eff lrtS will now be made to depose
the son and restore the father to the
! throne. There is no doubt that Ismlil
is resorting TO every means in his power
to accomplish this result; but inasnuch
t. as his inordnate ambition and reckless
j. extravaganza brought 50 mucl ruin il
the country, it is not believed that hi,
d scheme will be successful.
: AFGHAN AFFAIRS.
j. On the Afghan question the new Cabi
net starts with an immense advantage
/. over the "outs" in the fusion of the
offices of Prime Minister and Foreign
Secretary. Granville was never able tC
=, see clearly through Gladstone's specta
= cles.' Salisbury's supremacy in the direc