, 1881-08-14

| Politics Oh one side, there Is ITO man in Ell.
! gland lit to fight his shadow, and, as the
champion of tile people against the hercdit.
ary Chamber,
Ill; WILL SWEEP ALI BEFORE HIM.
| Lord Salisbury is ''ga1ue'' aud full OF
fight, but gladiators of his calibre are hope
| leslla}uteiassed i'll Il contest with Mr.. Glad
| stone. Should tie conference between the
| two Houses fail, Alr. Gladstone will call all
autumn session, Introducing Il still stronger
and more sweeping bill alu bid the Lords re-
| jc:t it 1T their Derl Some Ut Ills friends to
| ,ay 80 sU far rs IL say that, it 10 ar
ianEclnent. can be reached next week.
| tito Premier will at once dissolve Par
llauleIt and appeal 10 the country, lii;
| program would be the Land bill, a radical
reform of tho English land system, tile as
sinliation Of tile borough and county fran
clisc, the redistribution Of seats, and per-
llaps reform Of the Upper House.
! THE WORKING; GLASSES
are disturbed just now by tile flair trade -
agitation, which is making great headway In
the North, where business is sluggish; but
OIL such platform they would flock as one
man to MI. Gladstone, and the Reform
Club agents say that the Govern
mcnt would rctllrn with I'LL increased
| majority. The redistribution IF scuts would
| bc Il heavy blow 1T the Lords. III oltlen
| times, before tile Reform bill Of 1872, the
| House Ut Commons was little more than il
| private agency Of the Upper House, whose
members owned tho rotten borougls.
TIE lNEI.IENCt: or TIE LORDS
| in the Commons is still very great, the old
families being still supreme III the small bor-
| Dughs. Tllc extension OF the borough fran
| cilisc to the counties would bring into the
| field 4 fresh body OF Radical legion-
aries, which have Il long, score to
settle with the territorial plntocracy and the
State Church. Altogether, unless, ali the
signs fail, Nlr. Gladstone would be tri-
| ,lmphantly sustained, and the Lords
| and the landed interest would not
long survive their defeat. Tile opin-
ion is that Lord Cairns advice will ul-
tinlate1y prevail, and that the Lords will not
suffer themselves to be led BY Lord Salisbury
into struggle which could only end iii the
establishment Of democracy as the para
mount force III the Kingdom.
LORD JEsT1CI: Itsn.
Fears were entertained this week that i
vacancy would be created on the Bench.
LDrd Justice I4llsl' WAS taken suddenly i'll
while OIL circuit, aud the doctors
disagreed on the nature of Ills conf
ptalnt- Yesterday, however, Sir Henry
Thompson performed all operation upon him.
| and 4 large calculus was removed. Ills
L"r1lship is now doing well, and his recoy
cry is all tile more probable because the
doctors have no further excuse for suuab
bling over tile symptoms OF tile disease.
Lol:D JUSTICE l;1;AalWELL
will shortly retire from the Bench. lie is
eminently Il strong Judge, aud will b.:
much missed. lie joined tile home circuit
as ''brletIcss barrister: forty-three
years ago. and has been OH the
Bench for more tllan Il quarter Of
Il century. Tic was made a Baron Of the En-
ci1euuer III 1886 in place Of Baron .I'nrke
Lord Wensiey.lale, and on the constitution
Of the Court Of Appeal under the Ju-
diciuture act. in 1875, he was
made Il Lord Justice of Appeal,
and there lie lEts ever since generally pre-
siled i'll tile Court at Westminster, the Com
nun law division OF the Court. conducting
the business with characteristic yigor and
ability. Few Judges have sat SO many years
upon the Bench.
THE NEW AMERICAN CABLES.
One special, feature Of the new American
cables attracts much attention here, and is
very fayorably commented on by business
men, They are the first transatlantic cables
which have been landed III England. Tho
two so-callel English cables, controlled
by the Pender gobe-sirdllng monopoly
are i'll fact Irish cables. One Of them is
landed at Valentia and the other at Bailin-
skclliSs, in Ireland Tile two French cables
are landed at Brest, from which poin:
they connect with London by small
cables under the Channel and land
lines from Plymouth. It results from
this that messages by the existing
cables must undergo transmission there by
the neW American cables. The direct cable
messages are subject to four transmits
sions, the Erlanger messages to five traus-
missions, the OLD Anglo messages to four
transmissions, and the Puuyer Quertler
messages to five transmissions. The
new American Cable messages, being
landed directly at WIitesand Bay, in Corn
wall, will undergo but three transmissions.
and for the first time, therefore, London anu
New York will be put into what may be
called really direct communication by the
new American enterprise.
WIDESPREAD ALARM.
The stand taken by the Lords against the
Lapd bill has created widespread. alarm
through the Ministerial ranks. The attitude
and conversation Of members in the 1obbies
to-day are both most instructive. Minis
teriaIists of all shades had lost the jauntinE,
seIf-satistied air which distinguishes them in
possession and looked anxious. The Irish
Wings wore truly rlleful countenances,
While the ringing laughter from groups Of
Parnellite members gave proof that for one
section the woru "DssoIution had 10 ter
rors. On every tongue the question was,
What will be the outcome? Each
solved the problem according to his
fear or desire. The possibility of a dissoln-
ton was received with marked iisfayor,
both by Liberals and Radicals, on the ground
that the Government majority was so great
and the Parliament so young that nothing
could be gained by :.
AN APPEAL TO TILE COUNTRY,
while much might be lost by the growth of
the s'tair-tradc " movement among the work
ing classes. It was pointed out that the Par
nellites were the only party certain to profit
by the dissolution of Parliament, while the
Liberals ran great risk Of loss without
any hope Of improving their position.
This is made evident BY the examination OF