Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-09
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THE CRISIS IN ENGLAND,
Lord Beaconsfield's Policy.

Lord Beaconsfield's Policy.
Keynote to the Conservative Campaign.
Dissolution of Parliament a Surprise.
POLITICAL SITUATION IN ENG.
LAND.
The Coming Elections.
LONDON, March 9--The liberal leaders will
meet to-day to decide upon the course to be
adopted. The writs will be Issued on the 24th
inst, and it is believed that many of the cleo
hons will be over by the first week in April.
Lord BeaCOnsfield's Letter the Kew.
note OF the Conservative Cam
paign.
LONDON, March 9.-Lord Beaconsfield's letter
to the Duke Of Marlborough, lord lieutenant OF
Ireland furnishes the keynote of the conserva-
tive campaign, which IS opposition to home
in foreign affairs. The Times says: The letter
starts from the question of Ireland, but ends
with statement and appeal on momentous
only too ingenious in the skill with which the
main point is gradually approached, and few
political writer's would have conducted us in so
from the famine in Ireland to the position of
England in the councils Of Europe. II the
method IS circuitous. the language also Is occa-
sionally little startling. But these defects as
many will consider them, will not diminish the
importance OF the document, nor can they ob-
scure its purport. 1t must be allowed to have
been in the past a characteristic Of Lord Bea-
cOnSf1eld that even his most startling utter
ances have been found to be animated by Sc
rious purpose and to have realities behind them,
and the important declarations made at the
close Of this letter must carry all the weight
which belongs to the utteTanceS Of one OF the
most responsible statesmen in Europe.
Rarely Lord Beaconsiield says, sin this coun-
try has there been an occasion more critical
Her matesty's ministers have hitherto been able
to preserve peace, but this ineffable blessing
cannot be obtained by the passive principle OF
non-ntel ventfon. Peace rests on the presence.
not to say the ascendency, of England in the
councils OF Europe" These are strong express
sfons and perhaps 1mprudently strong, but the
country Will not fail to be impressed with the
importance OF the fact Which must be assumed
TO have prompted them.
The Dissolution of Parliament.
LONDON, March 9.-The announcement OF the
dissolution of parliament in the House of Com
mons yesterday was complete surprise. AS
soon as the decision was made known there was
grandrush for the telegraph office in the CEN
tral lobby OF the house, and in a very few sec
onds the little angular office was filled, and
ministers, eX-ministerS, and other members
flowed cut from the house to find that the only
means OF communicating at once with their
friends in the country were cut off by sturdy
crowd OF earlier comerS who had the telegraph
Office and its precincts entirely in their posses
sion. Inside the little office the multiplicity of
the kilograms and the earnestness of the not
over-patient though. distinguished senders Of
messages We're quite bewildering. The telegraph
forms usually handed to customers in neat par
GELS were torn into single sheets and scattered
promiscuouSy among the crowd, each one
to be picked up and returned across the
counter iii a few seconds with the
message hurriedly scratched upon it. This
lasted for over an hour, but just at that lapse
Of time distinguished legal member of the op-
position found The Office still blocked, and was
forced to write his address to his constituents
on the corner of his hat. A cabinet minister
was just as anxious in the first rush TO an
nounce the news to his constituents as the most
obscure representative of the most obscure
for telegraph form and then for the attention
OF the telegraph clerk. Between and O'Clock
400 messages were handed in, and it
was not until close On O'Clock that the
strain on the telegraph clerks was removed.
BY this time nearly $50 messages had been dis
patched. 1t is suggestive of the care taken by
the government that the news should not leak
out prematurey, that though an enormous
strain was to be expected on the telegraph de-
partment at the house OF commons, no intima-
tlon was MADE OF necessity of an increase of
the staff. The ordinary staff discharged the
duties OF the entire evening. There has been
no such pressure since the night that
Lords Derby and Carnarvon resigned. Sir
Stafford Northcotes address to the electors
OF North Devon will be issued Immediately
IN the form OF manifesto as to the policy OF
the government. Lord Harrington and Mr.
Gladstone will issue formal manifestoes to North
East Lancashire and Midlothian respectively
Each will deal at length with the policy Of tie
ministers from an opposition point of view.
Right Hon. r. AShetOn Cross address to the
electors OF Southwest Lancashire is also eX-
pected to be OF the character OF a manifesto.