The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-01 00:00:00

was ended the Government had
Jesse Collings's memorable
oda. Cow" motion. A "dutiful
z:ati,,o" to her Majesty followed,
olstone was at one installed into
:• or.hip, in place of .the lord of Hat.
new Liberal Government was
:•,;.;1-iiatile in that
.it contained a new
.views, the - ilight Hon.
• .-: ; and in that it did not contain
.1), chief of the Reform party as
lxyr I -1--ia.o.oino..,ton, not to speak of a tried
financier and cathmercial 'leader like Mr.
Gnschen, and such a soundiLiberal lawyer as
Henry Sir ;James. Clearly a new departure
was at hand, and ere long the countnr
„„oc..
with its working. Th Lrish contro-
.
oew phase, a Liberal Premier
and a Liberal Government were found pur-
suing a policy which aimed at giving Ireland
a to,me.iein as to her local affairs, a measure
of riome Rule so wide and broad as to corn-
maid cvyn the commendation of the Par.
nell:te part... With this was at first linked
a L Lod Bil of'kindred character. but the
opposition to this latter was so strong that it
was qnic,kly withdrawn. Home Rule on
the oae hand and the Unity of the Ernpire
on the other became political battle-Cues,
which distracted the land from end to end,
and, rent the Liberal party in twain. First
Mr..loaeph Chamberlain and Sir George
Trevelyan left the side of their old leader,
and then Mr. Bright and others of high in-
fluencewero found opposing Mr. Gladstone in
coneer aita Lord Hartington. They and
their fillo,vpg formed what played. such a
pro. rt in the ensuing general
eral Unionist Combination. As
a .fivst: the Gladstonian Government
was dw:isivelo7 defeated in the Commons,
oniy to:1-e completely routed on ap-
•-eountry. The Liberal *Jniori-
vuiu the Conservatives, with the
• t_ in the new Parliament, the Glad-
'en with the aid ot a Parnellite
iUtCr. .ore left in a most hopeless minority
As a reward for the gaud he took, Lord
.Harittota was offered high Ministeiial
'oeld aloof, and Lord Salisbury
formod his 'Second Adminstration of purely
Cooservative Ministers. The main points of
note wet e Lord Roindolph Churchill's an-
poiatment to the Chanct,llorship of the Ex.
atod the L3adersiip of the Com,
m-ms and the preferment of his more immo-
dt to subordinate offices, with
theogift of the important portfolio of the
tionio Seci.etariat to quite a stranger in the
froat:political tanks, Mr, Henry Matthews.
When the election hurly-burly was over,
notniag of a'stirring political sort occurred.
riglitoo to die time when every oue had
- tr Lon:l,ra for Christmastide. Then came
which startled all interested in pub.
hr affairs, the breakino• away from his moor-
ings of so imsortant factor, in the Con-
servaciN e party as Lord Randolph Churchill.
At first many could not credit the announce-
ment, but it was quickly found to be fact.
Toe 132 i .I;alit young statesman had hopelessly
eed with his colleagues in the Cabinet,
he tendered his resignation, it was accepted,
and so the political year ended amid Con-
servative disconcertion and undisguised
Liberal satisfaction. As to affairs abroad,
the main events have been the continuance
of the Egyptian or rather Soudan campaign
-Almost passive and well-nitzh in-
effp.-tiye manner; the Burmah Expedition's
efforts to pacify the Dacoits and. Upper Bur-
mese natives, that country having been an-
i;ritain on New Year's Day ; the
beg,inuing with the Sofia
kidnapping of Prince Alexander
y leaving the land ruler -less and
in confusion, under virtual Russian domin-
ance ; and the suicide of Ludwig, the poor
mad monarch of Bavaria. There has also
had to be dealt with a serious Ghilzai revolt
in Afghanistan ; and here at home the. So-
ciial- Democrats.. have given consider-able
trouble eso,cially in-London. A mob sacked
ithe West.-end of the metropolis on the Bth
of' February, and for a time authority
seemed Paralysed. Sir Edmund Henderson
was -retirod.' from the command of the
r&ice,n.rd. Sir Charles Warren appointed in
prc,c,c, with the result that on diverasub-
- o•--3ons notably Lord Ma, or's
- kept. svite-of threats and
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