NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Goblet Ministry has fallen, ostensibly on a financial 1 question. It is supposed that the Chamber is desirous of ridding itself decorously of General Boulanger ; but the question before it on Tuesday was whether it would support the Ministry or its own Finance Committee. That Committee had decided that M. Dauphin, Minister of Finance, must provide for an additional expenditure of £2,500,000 ordered by the Chamber, by reductions to an equivalent amount. M. Dauphin replied that he could not do it, and offered new taxes ; but the Com- mittee adhered to its demand, refusing in addition to suggest reductions for itself. It hoped, possibly, for the extinction of the Budget of Public Worship. The matter came, therefore, before the Chamber, which by a majority of 275 to 257 decided that the Committee was right. The form of the decision was to reject an amendment directing a continuance of the negotiation. The Ministry then quitted the Chamber, thus signifying that their funotions had ended, and a proposal of the Committee declaring the Government's reductions " inadequate " was carried by 312 votes to 143, the former number, be it remembered, being considerably more than half the House.
