Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-26
Monday Ecrntng, April 26. 1880.


l MIR. ssEADSTONE'S GOVERNMENT. ! Although the Queen of England did not
 please herself in inviting Mir. Gladstone to
 form nsw Ministry, she could not escape
 from it except by disrsgarding the wishes of
 the people and the interests of the govern 1 ment. MT. Gladstone was and is the real
 leader of the Liberal party, and the first place
 in the new Cabinet belongs to him by right. His occupancy of it is also essential to the I success of the policy of the Liberal party, if | it is to have success.
 1 What the Liberals will do and can do is an interesting subject for consideration. They 1 are, it is stated, pledged to extend household l suffrage to the counties, and to correct the great inequalities in the distribution of politi cal power in Great Britain. Political power
 in Great Britain is quite as badly distributed as it is in Connecticut. One million and l half people in three great cities return nine members of Parliament, and forty seven thou sand people in ten small boroughs return ten members. Eleven thousand people have representative on one hand, and on the other there is but one representative for every hun- drsd and sixty thousand persons. The Lib erals have also important financial questions to deal with, and the Irish land difficulties are to be met.
 But the most interest is felt in the foreign policy of Mir. Gladstone and his associates, for here the opponents of the new Premier expect failure. They say that while his theo ries are eminsntly philanthropic, they are, when applied to the case of semi-civilzsd peo pie like, for instance, the Balkan tribes, longing for liberty, exceedingly dangerous. MT. Mundslla, the henchman of the new Pre- mier, is reported as saying that Mir. Gladstone will endeavor to unite all the Balkan tribes. His ideal government for them is confedera- ton entirely independent of Austrian or Rus sian supremacy. Such a scheme, it is claimed, would inevitably result in mutually destruc- tive contest between Osnaans, Bulgsrfans, Greeks, Albanians and Servians. But these who profess to think G1adssone visionary and to fear all sorts of evils from his attempts to deal with foreign questions may find them selves greatly mistaken. The London Spec tator thinks they will and holds that 1t is mistake to regard Mir. Gladstone Rs a radical. With him at the head and Earl Granville and the Marquis of Harrington following him, it says the SO called moderates will have 6 right to be considered scrupuIously in all things with the greatest anxiety to satisfy them. In fact, the Spectator expects from MT. Glad stone's government policy of sober. praoti- l oai reform, such as will present the greatest | contrast, by its plainness, industry aud just ice, to the policy of the administration which | the country has just declared a failure.
 NIT. Gladstone's government will of course have ths active opposition of the skilled and sagacious ex-Premier and his supporters to contend with, and it's mistakes will be made | the most Of, but It will be surprising if it does not do more for the country than the routed | government did. Tine people of the United | States naturally hope to see it succeed, as they are in sympathy with the ideas which will di- rect its policy.