New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-02


TBY CABLE TO TIE TRIBUNE'l
LONDON, Dec. 1.-The news from NsSP'
meagre but it confirms the first reports oi 'no u
struction of Hicks Pachas army ana inc pio'"'''
oho,ao,,oert of Kbartoum- Colonel Coetlogan' COM
mandne the garrison at that point thllkins ~ un
+enoble Raker Pacha in his movement TO suakln
roeons first 10 secure the port and secondly u uSo
itasa base and if possible to open ROAD 10 Deroe
but il is doubtful whether he will be aDie 10 COLI
troll his troops half of whom are reported 10 Oe u'
sertinp between Cairo and Suez Nothing mas peen
heard from Ell Mahdi except through the frehcn
Cororal in Algeria, who teegraphs that he expects
an insurrection.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
The French Ministry induced the Chamber OF Dep
mites on Thursday to reject NJ. Clemenceau spropoS
for an immediate debate, Premier Ferry plauSloly
urping that the papers were not printed; Dut nc
alarmed Paris by describing the situation as seri-
Gus. NJ. Ferry hopes that Admiral CourOet Will IL
port victory before the debate, and CONTINUES
to circulate hopeful rumors and TO repleS'n'
the negotiations as continuing, when Marqui'
Tseng denies. The Heralds kilograms 10 the erect
that the Chinese have fed in terror from Bac-Nlnh
are not believed here.
RADICAL TACTICS.
The Radicals are continuing their Efforts more en-
ergetic than scrupulOus, to secure precedence 1or
the Franchise bill over other measures OF the next
session. Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Bristol on
Monday is regarded by moderate Liberals as a de-
iberate attempt to force the hand Of the Cabinet
by putting them in this dilemma: either to accept
his scheme of legislation for the session, or to re-
pudiate q colleague. The same remark applies TO
what Mr. Chamberlain said about including Ire
land in the Franchise bill He violates the cher
isbed traditions of English public life by attempt
ing to pledge the Cabinet of which he is MEN,
Der to a policy not yet adopted, when Mr.. Glad
stone has refused to state the programme of the
session.
Lord Hartington's speech on Tuesday was
a good example of the opposite method
He avoided either prediction or an ex-
preston of personal preferences on the subject Of
the Franchise bll but clearly indicated some prac-
tical difficulties which Mr. Chamberain's sweeping
gcneralities fail to touch. Everybody agrees that
public opinion Is ripe for reform, but the character
of the measure and its precedence over all other
legislation are both matters of uncertainty.
The Times to-day publishes singular attack on
Mr. Gladstone, accusing him of preparing the meas
ure secretly and refusing to disclose the details to
his colleagues and rather insOlently warns him
that he is the servant of free people, and not
Pope issuing an infallible decree. The balance of
opinion incliues toward including Ireland in the
Franchise BILL for the very practical reason that
the Irish members otherwise will defeat the bill.
HOUSING THE PooR.
The discussion of the questioned housing the poor
is taken up eagerly by the leading magazines. Mr..
Chamberlan's paper in The FOrtaghly, though
able is regarded as too obviously intended to make
party capital and to outbid Lord Salisbury His
main contention that the landowners should bear
the whole burden of relief denotes the hostility to
the land-owning class which the author has ex
pressed elsewhere, but which the Liberal party is
not disposed to adopt. Mr.. Arnold Forster points
out that of the seven points in which Mr.. Cham
berlain declares that the law requires amendment,
The Niaeteenh Century contains four articles on
the same subject including one by Lord Shaitcs-
bury warning the public against the danger of
leading the poor to believe mere charity to be the
true remedy for miseries.
The Liverpool Artisan makes some sensible con-
tributons to the debate, dwelling on the
difficulty of inducing the Irish to accept
sanitary reforms, but insisting that the main OBJ
stacle is the difficulty Of procuring sites for houses
which laborers afford to rent or buy.
Mr.. Mearns, the author of the pamphlet az The
Bitter Cry of Outcast London" which started the
present discussion, writes in The Contemporary Re
piep in a much less sensational tone than some of
his imitators. Nobody attempts to answer Mr..
Gifen the eminent statstician whose proof that tho
condition of the workman and the poor is vastly
better now than it was in the last generation has
done much to modify the agitation.
THE sUEz CANAL
The convention between ~ dc Lesseps aud the
English shp-owners surprises the public and meets
with doubtful reception mainly because it deals
solely with the financial and commercial sides Of
the question. NJ de Lesseps's concessions on these
points much exceed the original agreement but the
public is anxious TO know whether the Ministry will
now enforce English views against NJ. dc Lesseps's
claim to monopoly, and insist upon having control
OF the new canal.
IRISH EPISODES
Ihe suspension Of Justice RosSnore, Justice of the
Peaee, because he resisted the holding of a rebel
meeting in Ulster, delights the Parnelites, angers
ulster and Is acquesced III by Liberals technical
grounds 1t offers a singular contrast to the lenity