New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-16

Disraeh received 500 votes and Mr.. Harvey 2D@.
The defeated Liberal candidate received no votes
Messrs. Sullivan and Cullen the. Home Rule
candidates, have been chosen by immense majorites
to represent the County Of Louth, Ireland. They
defeated the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and
Mr.. Matthew ORey Dease, Liberals, who rat in
the last Parliament
Six Home Rulers contested the two seats for tho
County Of Tipperary.
szsUs LATEST ELECTION RETURNS.
LONDON, Monday, Feb. l6-s a. IA
A few elections in Ireland are still pending.
With the week ending Saturday, 3i6 Consery atiyes
and POI Liberals and Home Rulers had been re-
turned to Parliament. the net Conservative gain
being 90.
Tho House of Commons win contain 2Ie new
members.
The Emperor of Russia viii visit England next
April.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's ADDRESS on BLACK
HEATH.
HIS APPEAL FOR LIBERAL USJoN-CRITrOisM OF
MR.. DIsRAELIs ADDREsS-TIrB SONcoNFoRhIsrs
AND THEIR PRISCIPLEs-THE PLEDGE WHICH
THEY REQUIRED OF CANDIDATES.
(FRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF rHE rRIbosE]
LONDON, Jan. 29--If any doubts still existed
about Mr. Gladstone's aims in this contest, and the
ground on which he means to fight, they were COM
pletely dspeled by his speech yesterday afternoon
to his Greenwich constituents That speech Is IN
order of the day to Liberal candidates all over the
country. 1t says to them, "Sink all your differ
ences take Economy and Repeal of the Income Tax
for your battle-cry, and go in TO win" AZ
an electioneerng manifesto, the speech is
one of the cleyeTest Mr. Gladstone eyoT deIiS-
cred, and shows him an unexpectedly good
tactcian. AS the appeal of u great political Re-
former it is sad anti-climax. | suppose have
,Ir oJv' coii IN
however men who hoped that when Mr.. Gladstone
came to be heard on the hustngs he would state bis
real purpose respecting some at least of tho cues
lions which only alluded TO in his address. IL
lie had any such intention the events OF The last
three days have induced him to abandon il. Plainly,
Mr. Gladstone has made up his mind that The oppos-
ing opinions of the various sections Of the Liberal
party are not to be TecODcilcd by tho pressure
of o General Election, that the eolo bOpo
Of success is to smother them for Ito
moment, that for him 10 take ono side woul"
petely ALLEVIATE the other, and that the cooperation
of every section is essential to the general weiare
that is to the success of tie party aad his own
retention of oftice-whieh in his mind ara
the same thing When You come TO read tho Inst Of
separate movements for which their advocates wish
to exact promise OF support from every candidate
you will perhaps agree with Mr.. Gladstone that the
only chance Of victory all along the line 1es IN
ignoring them. There was. think, another and
better chance, which consisted in adopting certain
number of them as in 1868, but it is too late nov.
We must get what comfort we eau out OF the Deager
programme We allowed to consider,
The interest Of tho situation Is dramatic, 10
quickly do events now follow each other The onr-
tain goes down every night leaving the spectators
In suspense, and In the morning now incident
occurs, or fresh actor appears on the stage. Mr.
Gladstones speech yesterday is his rejOlndor TO Mr.
Disraelfs address Of Monday, which was itself a
reply to Mr.. Gladstones OF the Saturday before. 30
threatening was the weather that report got
abroad that Mr.. Gladstone would not speak lie
has lately suffered from bronchitis, and an opeD-alr
address in the raw, irritating fog of yesterday was
by no means prudent performance in amedical
point of view. But when overy minute is Of yalne
some risks must be run. The speech was made fIom
q covered wagon 10 some six or seven thousand
people standing in mre or wet grass the fog all the
whiIo 80 thick that hundred yards Oh the
orator was invisible. Most of the audience were
workingmen, the class supposed to be most hostile
to Mr. Gladstone in his own borough, but they
cheered him throughout. and there was hardly
note of dissent from beginning to end IL Is not before
an audience of this kind that Mr. Gladstone In
dulges himself in hsir-splitting.
What Mr.. Gladstone says is OF moro importance
than how he says it. The half-organized army of
Liberal candidates look to him to know what they
shall say. They will understand then that tho
whole truth Tor nearly the whole about the dlssou
ton lies ON the surface, and can moreover be- 80
stated as to put the responsibility of it on Mr..
Disraeli himself. The Queen summoned the Tory
chief last year to govern, but he away, and
would neither govern with the last Parliament nor
dissolve 1t and call another. Therefore, says Mr..
Gladstone to the electors, il any Inconvenience has
happened to our opponents in consequence ~ the
time of the dissolution they have to charge IL upon
themselves, but if any inconvenience has happened
to YOU you have TO charge il on them. But the act
is done. We are before the country, and what asks
the Prime Minister has Mr.. Disraeli to say about 1T
He talks about foreign policy. There Is no more
convenient mode when you feel you have bad
case upon the domestic concerns OF the country
than TO invite attention to foreign affairs. So OFT
goes Mr. Disrae to the Straits OF Malacca ID search
of grieyance--about as far of as the kingdom Of
Brobdingnag. He had better have staid at home.
He accused Mr. Gadstones Government of compro-
missing the freedom of English trade with China and
Japan by ceding exclusive controlling rights OF
navigation to the Dutch. Mr.. Gladstones reply Is
that there have been two treaties affecting the mat
ter; one by which the Dutch acquired
supremacy in Siak where the straits are mar
rowest and the danger of interference consequently
greatest. That was in 1855, when Mr.. Disraeii was
in Office The Dutch sent copy OF the treaty W
the British Foreign Oibee. and LoIa Manos0S'''