New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-14

There is new pool instead of the old Iowa pool,
according TO report. The excited gentlemen who go
mp and down exclaiming that the Iowa pool has
bursted" carefully neglect to mention that the new
compact is more strict than the old one lasts for 25
years and will probably be strong enough TO secure
the amicabe alliance of the roads not yet in
terested As rule, railroad managers in this conn
try do not generally decide to bankrupt their COM
panes if they can conveniently help 1t.
The recent gale IN Great Britain and Ireland APP
pears to have been almost IL not quite hurricane.
It's effects upon land were as disastrous as those
upon the sea. In Liverpool cabs in the street were
overturned by the wind. Elsewhere people were
blown off their feet, and in at least two instances
killed by being hurled violently against the ground.
In Ireland iron ampposts are said to have been bent
by the force of the gale. In the manufacturing
centres scores of tall chimneys were blown down,
and even factories and mills were destroyed In fact
the power of the wind seems to have been almost rs
great rs in some of those so-caled tOnadOeS which
have wrecked so many small Western towns i'll this
country The extent of this gale too was very great
1t swept over the greater part of the United King
DOM It made harbors ofrefuge mere traps. 1t rem
dered even the Thames unsafe. No doubt many
vessels were saved by the timely publication of
storm warnings, but had such tremendous gale oc-
Cured twenty yearsago, when knowledge of meteor
ology was much slighter, and before seamen had
learned to avail themselves of weather predictions,
the destruction of life and property would no doubt
have been ten times as great at sea.
Strikes are of no nation. Across the border the
Canadian Pacific is temporarily crippled by the
strike Of engineers and other employees. The road is
in no such rotations with American roads that its OPP
Grafton materially helps or hurts them, but the call
made by the Canadian company for engineers from
tho East may perhaps be used an excuse for con-
troyersy about wages elsewhere. On the whole, the
engineers and Gremen are doing better relatively
than the companies with which they work.
The English Liberals have now a signal victory
ut Ipswich as an offset to their recent defeat at
York. Mr.. West, who fell III votes behind the
conservative candidate IN 1880, now has majority
of $50. This is positive success which will tend
to reassure the Liberal party, whose voting
strength has steadily albeit not very rapidly, di-
minished since the general election in 1880. The
municipal election this year have also gone against
the Liberals. Although this is not to be regarded
as an unerring sign of public dIstontedt with the
party in power, ii Is not without Significance lt Is
never safe however, to assume that political opln-
ion is favorably OF unfavorably affected toward the
government of the day. Lord Beaconsfeld was en-
conraged by tho results Of small bye-elections TO
appeal to tho country nearly four years ago. and
in the Judgment of nearly all the political experts
aconservativo victory was inevitable. The pros
poets were abashed by their miscalcuations then,
and probably they would be again If a general cleo
ton were to be ordered.
Bills to grab the lands which the United States
has granted in aid railroads are quite popular Just
now. Every Congressman who offers one seems per-
shaded that his constituents going to consider
him an lncorruptible patriot. As q matter of fact
however, the persons here who get kilograms that
sucb bills have been offered usually rush to brok-
er,s office and sell stock "shOrt" and the inter-
ested members of Congress sit at the ticker" at
Washing ton every day thereafter, wondering why
their stock does not go down in consequence of
their patriotic bills.
Mr.. Parnell, Mt the Dublin banquet, refrained
from making any reference to ODonneu. The
branches of the Irish National League would do well
to follow his example, ODonnell was not the agent
of any secret league conspiracy. He acted upon
his own responsibility in numbering the infamous
Carey, and was in sense representative of pub
lie opinion In Ireland. Why, then, should the Ma
tional organization interest itself in his fate aud