The biraetallists who waited on Lord Salisbury and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer on Thursday, probably obtained a reply to their representations quite as friendly as they expected, though it was a dilatory reply. Lord Salisbury wants public opinion to work itself a little clearer on the subject of the bimetallic controversy, before Government ventures to form an opinion of its own, and especially he looks forward to the conference at Paris in the autumn as likely to exert a considerable influence on public opinion. Mr. Goschen concurred, but was even more disposed to twit the monometallists with their inarticulateness, than to restrain the impatience of the bimetallists. It is not a question on which to pronounce a precipitate opinion, but Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Hucks Gibbs probably departed in better spirits than they came.
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