The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-06-20 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JUNE 20th, 1885.

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

Lon &IMAM? has, with a courage in-
nate, accepted the responsibility of taking
ths helm of State, and with a crew of able,
responsible officers, who have stability of
purpose and the welfare of the ship at heart,
ke will bring the vessel out of the shoals and
quicksands into which incompetent manage-
ment has floundered it, into the calm waters
of practical and stathsmanlike legislation.
It is a bold thing to do, nevertheless, to con-
sent to go into office with only time to sweep
up the detestable remnants of a cowardly
foreign plliey 'ere a dissolution becomes
inevitable, the result of which, on both sides,

if acknowledged to be a matter of absolute
uncertainty. Of course, to the Radical
'mind, office, if even for one or two months,
"Is 'the luxury for which the Conservatives
have besm pining, and, in fact, the ne plus
ultra of tly2ie existence. But under present
circumstances we can afford to pass over al-
legations of this kind and contemplate the
prospect ahead. That the incoming Govern-
meJat cannot do much in the way of initiating
legislation or remedying the errors of their
predecessors goes without saying. But
whatever they do must be began, continued,
and ended with the full view of the Novem-
• ber elections before them. The new Oppo-
sition will endeavour in every way to em-
barass them, and in fact they will use the
next four months as a period in which
"demonstrate" with illustrations at St.

Stephen's before the enlarged constituencies.
Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke
have announced that between now and
November they are going to indulge in the
unwonted luxury and delight of raising
their voices in the "cause of freedom and of
= justice," and in view of this general political
party stumping by those who have run
away from the difficulties they have created,
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it is imperative that a cool, collected, saga-
cious, and united policy should be the
characteristic of the Conservative minority.
A course like this will tell more upon the
constituencies than all the stump oratory
of the Caucus, for we opine that the people
of England, looking back on the recent re-
cords, of their country's history, will have
but scant sympathy with Messrs. Chamber-
lain and company's a tterapt at jerrymander-
ing, and will rather prefer to judge parties
upon latest evidences. Capital has been
attempted to be made out of the attitude of
certain Conservatives in Monday night's
division. ft has been said that Lord Salis-
• bury would go into power with a divided
party. No greater fallacy was ever propa-
gated. The wish was father to the thought.
It was the Gladstone Cabinet that was
diiided, Fuld which, in fact, allowed itself to
_ be dH ttd to enable it to resign, dexterously
. avoid the appearance of a voluntary
schism. To the internal divisions in Mr.
-01ads4me's Ministry may be attributed the
ltowing contradictions of policy: First,
Majuba-hill and then the Pretoria Conven-
tion! first a bombardment of Alexandria and
battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and then Egypt to be
evacuated at all costs in six months! first
absolute abandonment of the Soudan, then
an expedition to conquer it, and then the
recall of the expedition! first an ultimatum
to Russia and an outlay of eleven millions
to back up the ultimatum, and then a
yielding to Russia! Just as one or the other
of the two opposing factions got the upper
hand in the Cabinet, so England's policy was
shaped, with the result of a mixture of the
disastrous and ridiculous. The Conservative
party, if they needed a lesson to urge unity
"biarmony among them, could not find
open:sore effective than that supplied by their
-sppouents during the last five years. In
combining along with a certain amount of
Whig and moderate Liberal support to un-
ravel the tangled skein of home a .d fo-eign
affairs, Lord Salisbury's followers will have
to be guided by prudence and caution, rather
than by haste and impulse. There are
many difficulties that it would be advisable
to clear away from the path at the outset.
All hesitancy, in treating with foreigners
should give place to a firm and unalterable
policy. One great obstacle we have to
encounter is the troublesome complications
in Egyptian affairs, and although any imme-
diate line of action in regard thereto might
arouse a controversy that would be better
avoided at present, yet we venture to think
that the restoration of Ismail would have
the effect of relieving us of much that is
embarrassing. His ability to rule, and his
capacity of government can scarcely be
doubted, for whatever may have been the
defects of his administration, recent events
have proved that he was absolutely the only
man in the country with the strong head
and the firm hand indispensable to its
government, and there will always remain-
to his credit a balance of adininisCrative
•= ability and of achieved results such as can-
not h; claimed for any Mussulman ruler of
the present century. However, as we have
said, this kay be a too controversial point
for the incbming Ministry to deal with in
fronfrif November, although they will be
callt..d upon to legislate upon at least one
subject not one whit less troublesome, viz.,
the Crimes Act. Mr. Chamberlain, with an
assumed knowledge, says that Lord Salis-
bury will not renew the Act, implyino• that
this concession will be the price paid fZr the
Irish sae., But neither Lord Saiisbnry nor
Sir S. Nerthcote are in the habit of negotiat-
ing Kilmainham treaties, and no 'matter
what course Mr. Parnell and his followers
may take, the newadministration will decide
upon the measure from a fall and impartial
consideration of the exigencies of the
occasion. We urge the Conservatives in the
country tO rally in support of their leaders,
to lose no time, no opportunity of organisa-
tion, so that the spirit of duty and patriotism
displayed by Lord bury and Sir Staff ird
Northcote may 133 emphatically rewarded
when the country is appealed to for its
judgment.

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