The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-10
THE LEADERS PREPARING NANTES
TOES TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

LONDON, Mar. 9.-The announcement of the
dissolution of Parliament in the Commons
yesterday was complete surprise. AS soon as
the decision was made known there was q
grand rush for the telegraph office by mem
bers to communicate with friends in the coun-
try.
Northcote, Bright, Gladstone. Harrington,
Forster, Gross and other members will imme-
diately issue manifestoes to their different
constituencies. Shaw. the head of the Home
Rulers, will proceed to Dublin where a con-
ference OF Home Rulers will be held and a
manifesto to the Irish constituencies issued.
The first public speech of minister will be
made on the occasion of the Southwark Con-
sentative banquet to Edward Clarke, when
one of the leading cabinet minister's probably
Cross or Northcote, will be present.
Bsaconsfeld's manifesto to the Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland speaks of the relief measures
just passed by Parliament and to be submitted
for royal approval, which defeat arts of
the agitators who had endeavored to represent
that England was Indifferent to the sutferings
of Ireland, During the six years of the pres
ent administration the improvement of Ireland
has occupied the care of the ministry, and they
have solved one of the most difficult problems
by establishing a system of public education.
But another danger scarcely less disastrous
than the pestilence or famine distracts that
country. A portion of the population is at
tempting to sever the constitutional ties which
unites it to Great Britain. Beaconsfeld hopes
that all men of light and leading will resist
the destructive doctrine. Those who challenge
the imperial character of this realm may now
recognize in the disintegration of the united
kingdom mode which will precpitate their
purposes of decomposition. The immediate
dissolution of Parliament will afford an oppor-
tunity to the nation to decide upon the course
which will materially influence its future for
tune and shape its destiny. Rarely has there
been an occasion more critical. The power of
England and the peace of Europe will largely
depend ON the verdict of the country. The
present ministers have hitherto been able to
secure that peace so necessary to the welfare
of all civilized countries and SO peculiarly the
interest of our own. But this inc fable bless
ing cannot be obtained by the passive principle
of non-interference. Peace rests on the pres
ence, not to say the ascendancy, of England in
the councils of Europe. Even at the moment
the doubt supposed to be inseparable from a
popular election, if it does not diminish, GER
tainly arrests her influence, and is the main
reason for not delaying an appeal to the ma
tional voice, whatever may be its consequence
TO her majesty's present advisers. May it re-
turn a Parliament not unworthy of the power
of England and resolved to maintain it,
The London Times says the issue of the cleo
ton will depend on the verdict of intervening
mass of impartial opinion on the question Of
the foreign policy. The presumption is decid-
eddy in favor of the ministry, and it is upon
the foreign policy that the battle will be
fought.
Lord Beaconsfeld' s letter to the Duke of
Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant of ireland,
furnishes the keynote of Conservative cam
paign, which is opposition to Home Rule aud
the maintenance Of English influence in for
eign affairs.
The Times says: "The letter starts from
the question of ireland, and ends with state
ments andiappeal on the momentous consid'
Grafton of foreign policy. 1t is perhaps only
too ingenious in the skill with which the main
point is gradually approached, and few po.iti-
cal writers would have conducted us in so
short space and by continuous argument from
the famine in Ireland to to the position of
England in the councils of Europe. If the
method is circuitous, the language is also oc-
casionally little startling. But these defects,
as many will consider them, will not diminish
the Importance of the document, nor can they
obscure its purport. 1t must have been al
lowed to have been in the past characteristic
OF Beaconsfield that even his most startling
utterances have been found 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 utterances of one
of the most responsible statesmen in Europe
Rarely, Lord Beaconsfield says. in this country
hhs there been az Vs hitherto been able to
preserve peace, but this ineffable blessing can
not be obtained bp passive principle of non
Intervention. Peace rests on the presence mot
to say the ascendency of England in the coun-
elise Europe. These are Strong expressions
try will not fail to be impressed with the i'm
porance of the fact which must be assumed
to have prompted them.
They are plain declaration that there are
dangers In the present position of affairs in
Europe, and that in the Judgment of the
Premier they can only be successfully avoided
by tie due exercise of English influence So
far as it may be taken to mean the extirpation
of the moderating influence, it is legitimate,
and nay be nee ,ssary. Such is Beaconsfield's
opipinO hut ha GOV tbatI o,,ht &c
be iBeparable from a popular election, which,
if it does not diminish, certainly arrests the in
huelDe of England
Ths Liberal leaders met to-day to decide
uponthe course to be adopted. Writs will be
ISSUED on the Oath, and it is believed that
manyof the elections will be oyer by the first
weekin April.
The Daily News says: Beaconsfeld's letter
as an appeal to his English constituencies is
disappointing. 1t is no outline of policy.
There IS 1othing distinctive in it as political
manifesto except its peculiar phraseology.
Beaconshdd is master of pompous words and
they havestood him in such good stead that he
hopes to win the election by their means
Vague phases which have sound without
meaning vii not win the election in 1880.
France and Russia.
PARIS, Mrch 9.-The Times saws the Rms
sian government will probably take advantage
of the jourpy to st. Petersburg of Prince Or
left to dr1 up an extradition treaty with
France.
t;ugeres Visit to South Africa.
| M. Rouhc and his wife have started for
| Chiselhurst take leave of Eugene, previous
| to her deparlre for the Cape on the 10Th inst.
| The ex-Emress will stop at St. Helena on
| her return.
The capture Of Col. Synge.
| ATHENS, Mrch "a detachment of Turk
| ish troops ha landed at Salonica to pursue the
brigands VIII captured Col. Synge and his
wife while otheir way from Constantinople
to Eastern R,inelia for the purpose of distri-
| buting relief nong the Mussulman refugees.
| The belief Onle spot is that the landing of