Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-10
ENGLAND.
A COMPLETE suRPnIsE.


A COMPLETE SURPRISE.
LONDON, March 9.-The encouragement of
tho dissolution of parliament in the house OF
commons yesterday was complete surprise.
As sooa as the decision made was known there
was great rush for the telegraph officf n the
centra! lobby of the house, and ir ve.y few
seconds the little angular Office was filled, and
ministers, cx-ministers and other members
flowed out from the house to find that the only
means of communicating at once with their
friends in the country were cut of by
sturdy crowd of earlier Corners nno had the tel
egraph Office and its precincts entirely IN their
possession. It wasn't until close at o'clock
that the strain on the telegraph clerks was re-
moved. By this time nearly 6,00O messages
hao oeen dispatched. There has been no such
pres. =, since the night Lords Derby and
Carnaraon resigned.
ADDRESSES TO TIE ELECTORS.
Lord Northcote's address to the electors of
North Devon will be issued Immediately in the
form of q manifesto as to the policy of the gov
ernmeut, Lord Harrington and Gladstone will
issue formal manifestoes to Northeast Lanca-
shire and Midlothian, respectively. Asheton
Cross address to the electors of Southeast Lam
cashire is expected to be Of the character OF
manifesto. The addresses of John Bright and
William E. Forster will be exceedingly brief.
VIM. Shaw. head of the home rulers, will nc
once proceed to Dublin where q conference will
be held and manifesto issued. The first pub
lie speech of the ministers will be made on the
occasion of the Southwark conservative ban
quet to Edward Clarke, the newly elected MEM
Der, the 10Th inst. The liberal leaders meet to-
day. Warrants will be issued the 24th, and it
is believed many electors will be over by the
first week in April
ELECTION wRrTs.
LONDON, March Gin the house of commons
to-day the chancellor of exchequer said writs
for the new election will probably be issued on
the Oath inst, the day after which the house of
commons separates.
THE KEY NOTE.
Beaconsfeld's letter to the duke of Marl-
borough furnishes the key note of the conser-
vative campaign which is in opposition to
home rule and the maintenance Of English in
fuence in foreign affairs. The Times says it
must be allowed to have been in the past .
characteristic of Lord Beaconsfeld that
even his most startling utterances have been
found to be animated by q serious
purpose and to leave realities behind them, and
tho important declarations made at the close of
this letter must carry all the weight which be-
longs to the utterances of one of the most re-
sponsible statesmen in Europe. "Rarely"
Lord Beaconsfeld says, Sin this country has
there been an occasion more critical. Her
majesty'e ministers have heretofore been able
tU preserve peace, but this inaffable blessing
cannot be maintained by passive principles of
not to say the ascendency of England
in the councils of Europe"
They are strong expressions, and perhaps inn
prudently strong. but the country will not fail
to be impressed with the Importance of the
fact which must be assumed to have prompted
them. They are plain declaration that there
are no dangers in the present position of affairs
in Europe, and that in the judgment of the
premier, they can only be successfully averted
by the due exercise of English influence. As
tendency, of course, in one sense, we should all
repudiate, but as far as it may be taken
to mean the exertion of moderating
influence, it is legitimate aud may be neces-
sary. The interest of the moment centres in
the inquiry what will be the policy adopted by
the leaders of the liberal party? They are at
the crisis in their cause. To adhere obstinate
ly to the lines they have followed the lust three
years would be fatal to their influence, but the
case would be different in the hands of
liberal leaders, and everybody knows
that in Lord Beaconsfeld's hands our domestic
concerns are certain to be neglected. In this
manifesto of its chief the present ministry
gives evidence of its incapscity to understand,
or its unwillingness to face the problems which
the country needs to have finally settled, and
makes it evident that if arrested q course of
benefcent legislation is to be resumed, it must
be under another policy and with other chiefs.
FOREIGN Foley CONDEMNED.
LONDON, March 9.-Right Hon. VIM. E.
Foster, liberal member for Bradfort, has issued
En- electoral address condemning the foreign
policy of the government and declaring he IS
determined to do all he can to preserve the
union with Ireland.
IRISH WASTE LANDS.
1t is understood by tho Standard that the
royal commission Oh the agricultural
depression unanimously approved the princi-
pie of the scheme for the purchase by the
government out of the Irish church surplus
fund of Irish waste lands which are to be
located among the local farmers on certain
conditions.
SHAW'S MANIFESTO.
LONDON, March Civilian Shaw, home
ruler, has issued manifesto to the electors of
Cork denouucing Lord Beaconsield's manifos-
to, aud accusing the goverpme at Of systematic
neglect of Ireland. A large number of ms-n-
bers of parliament have already left for the
provinces to prepare for the elections.
FRANCE.