Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-23
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stones government. The conflict within
the Liberal party, joined TO the disor'
ganized opposition without, are dragging
along a parliamentary session, which.
since the close of winter, has been barren
of all results except ceaseless contentious
and long continued obstruction. on the
part of the minority. So little progress
has been made hat another conference
of the Liberal party is suggested. The
new rules of procedure have failed to
check obstruction, all the bills are
behind hand in committee and even the
Radicals are said to admit the entire par.
alysis of legislation, and blame the gov
eminent for its want of tact and firm.
ness. If we would seek the cause of Mr..
Gladstone's embarrassment we must 90
deeper than mere personal wrangles be.
tween party leaders, The struggle is
really between the Radical and Wing
elements of Liberalism, which have been
heretofore kept together only by the
strong personal influence of the premier.
1t is the Wing faction which, taking
fright at the extreme radical programme
of Mr.. Chamberlain, which laid down
universal suffrage, and disestablishment
as cardinal principles of Radicalism,
is vainly trying to stem the tide of radi.
cal reform in Liberalism and to keep
within the party lines while opposing the
party tendency. This decision in the
Liberal ranks has been shrewdly taken
advantage of by the Conservatives, and
Lord George Hamilton has proposed a
scheme for the sale of Irish landlords
estates to the government, which in con-
n%ection with the tenants compensation
bill, will split the landholding and noble
section of the Liberal party still wider
apart from the growing Liberal wing. 1t
is limited that one result of Lord Hamil-
tons bill will be . coalition between the
duke of Argyle and his Wing following,
and Lord Salisbury, the Conservative
leader, against it. Meanwhile the Rad
ical faction is more active and aggressive
daily, and MI. Chamberlain is holding
public meetings to discuss the pro-
gramme of universal suffrage and church
disestablishment. Here are elements of
a division which may be postponed until
Mr.. Gladstohe's death or retirement, if
that event occurs soon, but which will
not wait longer. The future party
division in England will be between the
representatives of the people on the one
side and the hereditary landholding
families on the other, and this issue will
separate the sections of the present Lib
eral party more widely than it is now
separated from the Conservatives. The
most obvious reimbursement of parties,
as a result of this division, is a secession
of the Wing element to the Conserva-
tive party, while the Radicals, with per-
haps the aid of some young noblemen
like Sir Charles Dixie, shall form an ag-
gressive and determined opposition, and
grow into the the great reform party of
the future.
During the week Lord Randolph
Churchill resumed his attacks upon the
ministry for its Egyptian policy, and insti-
tuted an enquiry into the responsibility
for the burning of Alexandria, in which
he directly charged the guilt upon the
Khedive, the government refusing to sat
isfy the tory curiosity. Mr.. Bright was
also attacked for his Birmingham speech,
in which he claimed that an alliance had
been formed between the conservatives
| aud Irict rahalo hut an ,n1:, oux.
sure was defeated in parliament by a strict
party vote i'll which Mr.. Gladstone spoke
personally in Mr.. Bright's defense.
The queens health continues in a pre-.
carious state, but rumors of her abdica
ton have stirred her majesty to a show
of activity in order to disprove theil
foundation. Thetaint of insanity which
runs in the Hanover blood is said to b,
beginning to show itself in the unsettled
melancholy that has taken possession OF
Queen Victoria. No n who knows tn,
queen has any idea that she will end hel
reign in any way than as a monarch
Nothing is farther from the minc
than abdication, and the Prince of Wales
will only put on the full robes of royalty
Mt his mothers death Saturdays theatre
horror at Sunderland, in which 1877 chill
dren lost their lives, is still the subject O
comment in London, where the architecr
of the hall and the manage are both Sc
verely blamed for criminal negligence.
France seems to be hurrying into wal
with China with reckless foolhardiness
A special telegram asserts that the French
government has sent China an ultima
tum demanding that she should abandon
all claims to AMMAN on pain of a declara
ton of war. Furthermore, it is asserted
that Bismarck is regarded by the Chimes,
government as a warm friend, and that
while China will avoid war if possible
she will not purchase peace at the cost o
dishonor. That France is resolved upoi
a war with China is now evident, if tn,
above cable is true, and no evidence il
needed to prove that Bismarck will lool
with pleasure upon the wasting of French
resources in a miserable and profitles
foreign war. While it need not b,
supposed this sentiment has any
thing to do with the chancel
lor's political course, he will natur
ally wish all possible success to tn,
Chinese, for the longer they can prolon,
the struggle the more injury they can in
flict upon France. Doubtless he is en-
c%ouraging the Chinese government t,
resist the pretensions of France, an,
when it is remembered that he can at an,
moment pick a quarrel with France con