The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-11
English Elections
nv oabl0 IN Ihe N, 4, HnTald

The English elections Of 1880 arc assured
y an imposing demonstration Of the peo'
pGi will and tho voice by which England
speaks 10 the world, II isaIl too soon 10
prophecy results, bat everything tends 10
show that u great Liberal victory will bowon
The News, In Ii lender this morning says ~
With tho daily increasing emphasis the
country Ia declaring condemnation OF Lord
Iieaconsied's government aud Ia determine
ton IN olIaGo II. The Conservative msIorlly
has ceased 10 eYlst,' The News urges nll limid
| Liberals who dread weak mnlnfly ~ do
their bosl t0 strengthen II, Tho Standard Of
this morning, In IA len ling editorial, declares
that the result Of Yesterdays voting only
served 10 Increase the Governments losses,
The Conservative majority has well nigh dis
appeared, aud tho question no longer "a whplh-
or Tho Ministry will be- nblotu bold their own,
but whether the opposition will secure such
mplurily ~ will enable them N take office
with reasonable prospect 0f carrying on
| tho business uf tic country satisfactorily,
| The Times In IL loHder, says "About third
Of the cnlro number of the members of the
House of Common, have now been elected
and the apparent result ID TINT the Conserya-
tive majority ha, been replaced by Liberal
minority, The balance Of the gains ard
losses recorded yesterday will suffice 10 sei nj
rest many hopes aud fears
and Ia give tho country the means of csl-
mating the future relations Of parties In the
House ol Clmmlna II IA generally feared
that these Liberal successes will mom still
born Ministry, for II will depend upon Rad
lcnlIam for III existence England wlll for u
brlof moment be- represented by lmdlaugh,
Ireland by PnrnclL Hut amid conflicting
rumun II u still impossible ~ lorcsoe the
end The Liberal victory Mt Birmingham
WIS expected, the Conservative triumph nj
Wcsmiphtor would have been lrrclrIoyahlc
II the Liberals had not considered that
NIL the resources Of the government, and os-
peCNly of MIR, Suilh, were thrown against
them, and nlso that the lingo element had
extraordinary strength in London, the only
Conservative mctropoliHin Europe.
"GRAyE pIsCouRAGENESr"
Has the Irish question been sotlldY Tint
your correspondent leaves 10 the readers of
of the Herald to decide, II Ia certain that,
whether the Liberals or the Tories win, the
Parnc trash Is ended, In the Liberal POI
liticnl clubs II majority of about ten Is consid-
cred certain, and speculation rife NJ to the
possibility Of forming II coalition ministry,
In the Conservative party there can bo no
doubt that tho result OF tho two days polling
has produced great CONSERVATION. Tho net !
Liberal gain of fifteen seats on the first day
Ind already east II momcntary chill on the |
ardor Of even the warmcst pnrtisnns of Lord |
Boaconsllcld's government. The Stand. |
ard yesterday said that although the
result could only be regarded as
the verdict of the borough con.
sttucnclcs WINS invested with some degree of
interest and significance, The first engage
mont, on the whole WINS somewhat adverse TO |
the government, Her Mniesty's Ministers |
Ind not yet received u decisive vote of conf |
iencc, bat tho attempt 10 elicit vote BY |
emphatic consure Ind failed equally. The |
minor defeats of Conservative candidates on |
one day might be succeeded by important |
victories on the next, The Daily News eX-
ulted In tho "great Liberal victory aud has
Ionod TO pronounce the "doOm Of Lord |
BeacOnslelds government" The Times
considered that the Conservatives would have |
10 admit very grave Encouragement, "rhe
fortune of war; it said, sis SHOWN in strange !
which wedo not venture to explain
upon any general principle" The Telegraph
'aid "No such sweeping change is mani
Tested MS that which struck down great
party in 1874 The result cannot DO pre-
lctcd from one days polling" In the after,
noon tho Pail Mall Gazette predicted the fall
If tho government, aud the Echo, which is
ultra Liberal, affirmed that the total number
IF votes cast thus far had aggregated 343, i6S
Liberal and 23l,370 Conservative. A dis
patch from Berlin announces that the results
If the elections in Great Britain have pro-
iuced most profound sensation there 1t
S thought the reports of the Liberal success
ire exaggerated.