New-York tribune., 1882-03-05
GREAT BRITAIN.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL TOPICS.

explain, or to explain away. his LVerP'o' g..
more especially the one fatal sentence Vi i' w.,
get how many letters he has written L"'
many articles in the papers nave oe'n ,toL
him. with the same view. But 'ne WIN"
Io,, NJ Cbo,,hcrlau's lips have flown 100 lar
Wv 80 49, lied He does not challenge the
accuracy Of tie report Of the speech hc ""ni''
-. 80 ill that 10 have stilcd agitation during
III, ,,riod of the Land League would maze
-, =, nrevent reform. The phrase was under
stood by every body TO mean that If the Government
had then put down the League, the Land Act couIu
NOT have been passed Mr. Chamberlain last night
conceded that tins was It's meaning. He accepted
Mr. Pluuket's paraphrase, substituting Lahu
League for agitation, and Land Act for REFORM
But he denied all the same that the GoVerhineu'
had encouraged agitation in order TO promote the
Act The distinction is much TOO hhe' " non
read Mr Chamberlains speech. which | did the Gay
of,or us oeliverv his statement seemed to me an
indiscretion of the most amazing kind Grew
from II the same conclusion which his Tory critics
have drawn from it since. And latter reading all
Mr. Chambe1laiu's subsequent Calculations ana
qualifications of his own words, am unable 10 see
that he has improved his position.
The sentence was one of those where more is
meant than meets the ear. MI Chamberlain was
then the representative In the Cabinet OF the anu
coercion minority in the Liberal parry During the
period which preceded the adoption of the coercion
policy he and they were opposed TO it and fought
against il. He made no secret or his opposition
Theirs was loud-mouthed. i do not in the least
doubt that Mr. Chamberlain approved of the Land
Jcague in its origin that he regarded 1t as leglt
mate instrument of agitation that he did thlnk IL
ought to bc tolerated and did think the suppression
nj II would have endangered land reform. He
would have resisted any attempt to suppress it even
more vigorously than he resisted much later every
measure of coercion Bet tween that and encouraging
A. there is not straw to choose. The Tory orators
who went further and tried to charge Mr. Chamber
lain with approving outrages-maiming and murder
only weakened their case by cXaggeration. NO
body in his senses believed that. But the other
charge is quite grave enough, and the gravity OF 1t
il only increased by Mr.. ChambeIlans unsuccessful
attempts to rctute IT..
Th, following sentence, which occurs in a weekly
n,per with circulation Of 200 0OO deserves atten-
ton
Mr.. Bradlaugh's speech was telling one and
considering the provocation he has received not
Nnduly bitter. ] could have wished he had held up
more vigorously to the eXecration of English work
men the ncoucelvable meanness and stupidty OF lhe
Parnellite faction who thus encourage their tTneet
friends and Nlndlcate freedom ol eicttIon W. "V az
wonder that they have not sympathZer lett IN
England except Miss Helen Taylor, Mr. Joseph
Cowen and Mr.. Hyndmanf
The paper in question IS The Weekly Dispatch
about the most radical among important LngHsh
newspapers. Its owner and Editor Mr.. Ashton
Dnke, NJ. F. for Newcastle, was one OF the
stsunchest advocates Of Irish reform and still IS
lie tried honestly to work with the Irish lrrecon-
cjlabes. and this IS what it has come to-a public
derunciation of their inconcelvabe meanness and
stupidity" That is very strong language indeed to
appcar in English print but no stronger than has
long been heard in private from Radicals OF every
shade 1t was reserved for the Tory country gen
temen to welcome as allies the faction of which
English Radicalism did not choose to be the tool.
Lord Randolph Churchill who was criticised last
session for his open comradeship with Mr.. Biggar
and Mr. ODonuell, proves to be. as usual only the
forerunuer of the general body OF Tories
The Tories and the Parnellites are hand and
glove, not on the Bradlaugh question only, but on
auy question where there is o chance of embarrass-
Ing the Government. The coalition between them
is complete for all practical purposes with as much
morality in II rs generally goes TO the making OF
coalitions Sir Stafford Northcote himself reoices
over the successes which Irish votes have given
h,m-over North Durham and Lincolnshire and
Stafford Ii there be any sign of detective CO.
hesivene.s in this cOnfederacy, 1t comes from the
Irish not from the Tories Mr ODonnell, whose
political cynicism has not hg leaf 10 cover its
nakedness has Just intmated chat he and his squad
are open 10 conviction on the cloturethe one ques
tion on which they might be supposed TO have
conviction in common with the Tories. When he
wrote his letter to The Morning Post the Govern
ment were believed 10 be in difficulties and their
majority for the First Resolution doubtful Mr..
ODonuell promptly caused it to be understood that
ST votes were wanted he knew where they we're to
be had But it has become known that the Liberal
detection is unimportaut and that nobody wants TO
square" Mr.. ODonneu, cares for his merchan-
disc and he sinks gracefully back into Tory en-
braces.
II NAV not be amiss TO mention that MI Justin
Mccarthy has found 1t advisable 10 withdraw from
the Radical Club Of which he became member
when he was a Radical in the respectable English
sense OF the word He too has discovered that be-
tween true Liberalism and Irish hatred of every
thing English there is an irreconcilable incOn-
eruity. The Radical Club is a club for the dis,us
sion Of current political questions It's members are
forty in number half NJ. P.'s. They dine together
az unstated intervals and talk the subject that
happens to be uppermost in Parliament or the
Press II is not a little significant that man Of
Nj Justin McCarthy's stamp-one of the few Par
nellites who had what may be called social posi-
tion-should have had to sacrifice such connection
a. that.
The subscriptions in England to the Dean Stanley
Memorial are practically at standstilL Instead
of the $50 900 OF more asked for less than 100000
has been given. 1t is just at this critical moment
that one hears from America of an effort 10 raise
money thereof which the only thing TO be SAID IS
better late than never If any considerable sum
was hoped for, the American subscription should
have been set on foot simultaneously with the Eng
lish. special whip has Just been sent out here
60 the NOncOntOrmists the circular saying: IAe
name of our departed friend is held in so much
honor by many NoLcOnformists account Of his
hat We feel will lp oil