15 APRIL 1899, page 4

Topics Of The Day.

THE BUDGET. T HE central fact of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's Budget was the necessity for finding a large extra sum of money to meet the increase in expenditure which will take......

A Poultice Resolution. .

T ORD BEACONSFIELD speaks somewhere of "John A I Bull puzzled, but still subscribing."• We may perpe- trate a parallel aphorism in " The House of Commons puzzled, but still......