New-York tribune., 1883-06-03
rifle match at wimbledon has not been salts

rifle match at Wimbledon has not been salts
factory. At no time have more than ten OF
the sixteen members of the team been present.
but yesterday there were only eight in attend
ance, The scores thus far have been poorer
even than those made in practice before the
match last fall Yesterday it was the am
munition that was to blame. This will hardly
do. If the representatives Of our National
Guard hope to defeat their English rivals az
Wimbledon this summer. or even to come OH
with creditable defeat, they will have 10
attend more strictly to business than they have
attended to it up to the present moment. When
thew accepred positions on the team they must
have known that they would be expected 10
give great deal of time to practice If they
are not willing to do that, they ought 10 WIFI
draw, and let others take their places VIVID are
willing to shoot faithfully at Creedmoor before
going to Wimbledon.
Tho news from London contained in Onr
snecial cable dispatches is of the first lmpor-
tance. Mr.. Gladstone's Cabin ct IN dropping 'ho
London Municipality bill has quietly and reso-
lutely determined to persevere IN every other
legislative proposal until the Commons have
either adopted or rejected them. These meas
ures include the Tenant Right, Corrupt Prac-
tees, Ballot, Bankruptcy Patents, Criminal
Code, and Procedure bills. They are to be pressed
upon the attention of the Commons even II lt
be necessary to prolong the session until winter.
The Ministry intends to place tt Q responsibility
for legislative impotence where 1t belongs, on
the side of the Opposition and its Irish allies,
who have persisted in employing tactics OF
new and insdious kind, not because they are
opposed in principle to any OF the measures
proposed, but merely because they wish to re-
duce the Government to a state OF lnacCon.
American politics afford no study OF sterile
and malignant partsanship more discreditaDie
Il IN the recent conduct of her Majesty's Oppo-
si,ion. Its leaders are ready to ally themselves
with anybody and for any purpose so long as
tbey can waste the time of the Commons on
one soecious pretext or another and hold up
the Ministry to public reproach as Govern
ment that does not accomplish anything.
The Aqued,ict Bill being now the law, all
that remains is to make the best OF it, and to
hone that tie city may be happily disappointed
in the way the vast sums involved are spent
1t is plain that little more than beginning III
this great undertaking can be made tins year.
The Commission must oIganlze, get Its Offices
and hire clerical force before it can even de-
eide the questions to be settled before actual
work can begin. 1t will ne remembered that
generally speaking, the Mayors Commission
only decided thai more water was needed Tor
the city and while the plan of great dam at
Quaker Bridge was favored, the Commission was
Mountainous on this point The careful inquiry
which the new commissioners will make prODa-
bly will develOpa good many arguments on both
sides of the question not heretofore suillcientiy
considered. But the construction OF new
aaueduct in connection with the present sys-
fem is provided for in the act and undoubtedly
that will be pushed to speedy completion.
Questions of Importance seem likely 10 arise
soon, touching the exact meaning OF the meas
ute as it stands. 1t will be seen, 10y an article
in our local columns, that the last clause seems
to give the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
mcnt great power over the employees OF all
grades which the new board may employ. III
this construction should hold, the politicians
who hope to profit by the expenditure OF many
millions may have more trouble In getting at
the spols than they imagine. Other clauses
seem to conflict with the last one. Ii will make
a good deal of difference, therefore, whether
the act is finally construed as being as narrow
as its narrowest part, or as wide as its widest
section.