15 JANUARY 1887, page 6

Parties In Travail.

T HE most curious political feature of the time is the evidence of the political power of names. Tories who have consented to a measure which renders Toryism in the old sense......

Making Cabinets.

irritating and alienating the responsible and sometimes powerful Ministers left outside the innermost circle. These considera- tions are familiar ; but there is another, less......