Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON. Feb. 2S.-Inqriry into the fall OF
the railway bridge over the Firth of Tay, on
the night of December 2Sth, by which many
lives were lost, is proceeding at Dundee before
the board of trade. Several painters who
| painted the bridge last summer, testified they
saw numerous bolt holes empty; found bolts
in holes where there should have been rivets,
and found rivets without heads, and bars loos-
ened and nuts upscrewed; that one supporting
| column of high girders was cracked from top
to bottom and held together with four hoop
bands; that sometime the oscillation of the
bridge was so great they feared it would fall
Betting on the bOat race between the Oxford
and Cambridge University crews is six to five
on Oxford.
Sir James Ferguson, formerly under secre-
tary for India aud at one time governor of New
Zealand, has been appointed governor of Bonn
bay.
steamer sailed yesterday with cable to
connect Manila and Hong Kong.
SPEECH BY GLADSTONE.
MIR. Gladstone last night addressed a meet
ing in Marylebone, London, IN behalf of the
liberal candidates fer parliament at the general
election. Referring to the reports that parlia-
ment would be dissolved on the ground of OBJ
struction, he seemed to enjoy sort of quiet
triumph in the fact that the debate now pro-
crossing in the house Of commons has deprived
the government of that opportunity. He said
the whole thing appeared to have been planned
by certain conservative subalterns and seemed
a very promising scheme, butt had turned out
totally different from what those wiseacres
expected. The fact was all parties agreed that
obstruction is very bad thing, and he was
bound to say that the ministers proposals
were moderate and that they had supported
them in spirit of equity and candor and in
stead of q storm there was in fact very
fair weather. Referring to the recent election
in Southwark he attributed tie result to lib
eral dissensions over local arrangements and
the candidate chosen. He said that owing to
this dissatisfaction large body of liberals abb
stained from voting, while the conservatives
pOlled their full vote to the last man. MIR.
Gladstone said very little about foreign poll
tics and what he did say was pitched in a very
moderate key. He said he was delighted at the
prospect held out by recent kilograms from
India, that the troops will be withdrawn from
Afghanistan; that the affairs of that country
will be settled in accordance with the wishes
IF Afghan leaders; and that the scheme for
sending European envoy to reside at Cabul
would be adjourned until the new ameer could
himself make declarations the subject. He
admitted that the responsibility for England's
attitude of the Turkish question had been re-
moved from the government and rested on the
shoulders of the majority in the House of
end there. The concluding and principal part
of the speech was devoted to Irish affairs. He
declared that he had no friendship for home
rule, and did not understand entirely what it
meant. The unity of the empire and the au-
thority maintained, independently or every
consideration, but subject to that paramount
principle, it subordinate functions could be
detached from the over-worked House of Com
mons, it would be to the advantage and salts
faction, not only of Ireland, but Of the whole
kingdom. He deprecated all angry judgments
of his Irish fellow-citizens. He could
never, he said, forget, in considering
the Irish question, the uniustifable, abomina-
BILE conduct of this country towards Ireland
through many generations, He could not
forget whattemper of mind was produced in
Ireland by the long continuance of this con-
duct, and he felt it to be his duty to exbort
his countrymen, on every occasion, to exercise
patience and forbearance, and even tender
ness, in viewing every Irish question. In con-
clusion, he declared that no higher object
could be presented to liberal politicians than
that they should endeavor to combine together
the people of Scotland, England and Ireland
three strands of one great rope which never
would be broken.