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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Split In the British Liberal Camp
Gladstone Threatens TO Retire From Pol
itics-The Invitable Outcome-Lurd Sails
bury's Liberalism-His Estimate OF John
Dillon and His Public Utterances.
LONDON, October ls.-The split in the
liberal camp is complete. Gladstone
threatens to resign aud the party is
hopelessly divided on leadership. The
advanced Radical wing and the non.con-
iormist clique, led by Morley, and Nor
Iey's paper the Daily Nel0s, are united to
man on Chamberlain; and the Church
party, the Wings and the Moderates are
equally sincere in their devotion to Hart
iugton. The Marquis has invariably
acted as de 6dctO Prime Minister during
Gladstone's temporary inability to per-
form the duties of office, aud In that ca
pacitY has satisfied all sections of the
party except the extremists Chamber
ain is distastelul to leading Liberals,
outside his own particular circle,
and must prove himself stronger
man than he has yet done
before he can expect to be called
TO the head of affairs. Gladstone's
threat to resign may have the effect OF
bringing Harrington and Chamberlain
together on an outwardly friendly foot
ing once more. Unless the two men
agree to sink their differences and can
eel their aversion for each other Glad.
stone will assuredly go out Of politics
and the Liberal organization crumble to
pieces with Chamberlain eventually at
the head of one division and Hartingt on
1T the head of the other. A combination
Of Radicals and Conservative Demo Gratis
on one hand, and Wings and mod crate
Tories on the other, effaclng and replac-
ing the two great parties of the State, is
the almost inevitable outcome of the
revolutionary process at work.
sALIsBURY's LlBERALITY.
Lord Salisbury is being strongly
pressed to take cognizauce of Mr.. John
Dillon's revolutionary speech, in which
ne warned landlords that they must sell
their lands at nominal price or fight.
The Marquis so far turns deaf ear to
the appeal. He regards what he calls
Irrational flights" as capital safety
valve. "Shut up such men as John Dill.
lon by force" he says, ''and you cause
ten times the outcry. Dillon is an en-
thusiast He Is as honest as the day.
Everyone respects him for the purity of
his motives and the depth of his patriot
ism. He says what he believes and say
ing 1t pleases him and gives him some
thing congenial to think about and does
no one any harm" To the objection
that such speeches are incendiary and
dangerous, his lordship says "The
crowds that go to hear Dillon and Healy
and other vigorous orators, go with the
determination to get something stimu-
lating, and they get it and go away salts
aed. Nothing the speakers are able to
say can possibly rouse them to higher
| pitch of enthusiasm. Irishmen have
| plenty of cause for dissatisfaction, and
the more they are allowed to give 1t vent,
the sooner we shall know all about it
and how to apply remedies"
This is the ground Lord Salisbury has
repeate dly taken with representative men
of his party who are lending their infu.
ence to the landlords in the new controver-
! sy that has arisen out of the purchase bill.
| Overt acts viol ating the laws of person
and property are different from words,
and will be severely dealt with. On this
point the Cabinet are unit. Boycotting
has been carried on to an insufferable
extreme and threatens the extinction OF
aw and order if permitted to so on I'M
checked. The Government have deter
mined that it shall be vigorously dealt
with and put down.