St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-29
aged over the inutility, and even danger O

aged over the inutility, and even danger OF
their organization and fall to pieces.
At the different Liberal clubs great
concern is already manifested as to the
future leadership of the party. Mr.. Glad
stone in private conversation, admits his
willingness to enter the next parliament as
the leader of the party, but he intimates
that he will do this merely for the
purpose of helping to place 1t on its
feet as the party of opposition. and declares
that it is his desire to retire from public life
during the session after completing this
task. So far as his expressed preference
goes it would appear that the ex-premier
wishes Lord Huntington, ex-war minister,
to succeed to the Liberal leadership. So far
as the elections have already gone in Eng
land. the moderate Liberals have prevailed
over the Radicals In Scotland, however,
the Radical candidates who were committed
to disestabIshment have everywhere
succeeded in getting elected. The majority
of the Scotch members of the next parlia-
ment will go to London pledged to subor-
dinate all other measures of legislation for
Scotland during the session to the Cameron
bill for dlsestablishing the church III Scot
land. The
FREE TRADE AGITATION
is reviving throughout England. British
traders in nearly all branches of manufac-
ture are renewing their complaints
of suffering from the effects
of the competition carried on by
foreigners under tariff protection. The
complainants rely on Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, to in
trOduce into parliament for their
benefit some comprehensive and effica-
cious scheme of retaliatory duties. The
German sugar refiners have already become
alarmed at the prospect of the establish
ment of a system of cOuntervaluing duties
which may bear out their products from the
English markets.
With the improvement of the prospects
for the continuance of the Conservatives in
power, the chance increases for renewal of
British activity in Egypt. Preparations
are already being made on an extern
sive scale in both Alexandria
and Cairo, under instructions from
the London war Office for new expedition
to Dongola to check the advance of the
Mahdi's successors. The indications are
that the proposed expedition will be
made sufficiently formidable to effectively
protect the Dongola and Nubian frontier
from the threatened incursion of the hostile
Arabs. At present the
INTENTION OF THE WAR OFFICE
would seem to be to send out force of
$500 men. half English and half
Egyptian, and to reinforce this army
by rifle fotilla, comprising
about 1,7OO British and 1000 native troops.
The river transportation service is now be-
ing overhauled, it is thought. for the pur-
pose indicated. The expedition, it is be-
lieved. will soon start. The retention of 8, 900
British Indian troops at Suakim is taken as
an indication of Lord Salisbury's intention,
if he remains in power, to reconquer the
Soudan. An enormous development of
stock exchange transactions has taken
place in London within the past
month. The monthly settlement concluded
yesterday was the largest recorded in the
history of London. The dealers in Ameri-
can securities were compelled to keep their
clerks at work during the whole of Thurs
day night preparing for settlement to-day,
and so vast was the amount of business
to be done the clearing house
was almost unable to cope with it, and paid
three guineas per day for the services of
assistant clerks capable of helping out the
work. The British public are now becom-
ing more largely interested in stock specu-
lation than they have been az any time n
the past five years.