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FOREIGN NEWS.

SUCCESS IN the coming Elections Means
Wharf.-The Horse Guards Placated.
LONDON, August 2.-Poitical matters
have become badly mixed up in England
and chaos seems to reign, all on account
of Lord Randolph Churchill's defiance of
discipline. The Cabinet is badly split
and demoraiZed. Churchill is practical
iy Prime Minister pro tenn, and most of
his crew are mutinous. Sir Michael
Hicks Beach as Chancellor of the Exche-
quer supposed he was going to be leader
and spokesman of the party in the Com
mons The first Lord of the Treasury
being in the upper house, he stands stifily
on his rights, but Churchill coolly thrusts
him aside and regardless of precedent,
usage and everything else, places himself
at the front, leaving Beach and the 9th
ers to follow as they may feel disposed.
Churchill is warmly seconded by Lord
Manners and the Duke of Richmond.
Lord Iddesleigh, who has never forgot
ton was the selection of Beach for Com
mons leadership, thereby putting him out
of the race for the Premiership of course
gives Churchill his support in everything
involving Beach.
Salisbury gives way to Churchill for
the sake of peace, although unable al
ways to conceal his resentment at the
young leaders, assumption of supremacy.
Churchill is bad enough in office; freed
from ties he would be simply intolerable.
Beach can be more easily spared If there
must be break up. Churchill is not
afraid of provoking a crisis. Far from
that he appears resolved to force the
resignation OF Beach and any of Beachs
supporters who refuse to bend the knee.
He is ready to fill their places with men
of his own stamp, active, aggressive and
uncompromising. He dictates Sails
bury's foreign policy, and will content
himself with Salisbury's nominal leader
ship as long as the Premier follows his
advice but not day longer. 1t is all
important to the Conservative party to
go before the country in Novem-
Der with united front, hence
Salisbury's reluctant acqniesceuce in
ChurchlPs supremacy. Churchill thinks
the Beach crowd ought to be completely
cleaned out and the Cabinet completely
reconstructed with men of one stripe be-
fore the elections. He insists on the
Beaconsfeldian axiom that the first ele.
ment of success is party discipline.
Rather a good joke that from the mouth
of man whose every step in life has
been taken in defiance of party discipline
Churchill's opponents in the party assert
that 1t is chiefly owing to Churchill'S de-
fiance of leadership that the organization
has gone so completely to smash
Churchill's refusal to attend the great
Liverpool meeting was the first sign ot
his reformed views. The Tories are tC
move like a machine in future at the
crack OF the party whip, and the whip is
to be welded by Churchill men eXclu.
sively.
Advices from st. Petersburg, Berlin
Vienna, Paris and Constantinople all
point to the certainty of war if Tory
majority is returned to Parliament at the
next election. Church i'll, referring to the
Central Asian question, declares that the
Tory leaders will neither be caioled, mol
deceived, nor frightened by Russian tao
tics, but intend to preserve peace to gair
time to make the northwest frontier Of
India absolutely impregnable against any
Russian army. This statement admirably
defines the Anglo Russian situation. The
Cabinet, against their personal predlec
tions, are preserving the peace to gail
time. When they are ready, If still in of
fee, the mask will be thrown off and wal
invited. The one flaw in the programme
is the provoking freedom preserved by
the Russian Generals to bring on a con
flct, whenever and wherever they
think best. Churchill chafes un
der what he has designated
situation gravely compromised
The Queen and country have
been pledged, he declares, and positions
of incalculable military and strategic
importance irrevocably coded to Russia
The Liberals were not fighting Govern
ment They said in effect, we can dc
nothing, we are not a military power
If Russia would oblige US by annexin!
the British West India islands, we should
know how to take it. The admiralty
would ue up and at 'em in less than NJ
, time, but as it is, we can only threaten
and protest. The Tories take differen
1 view. i ucl argue JlldJ du umpire COu
tanning Just four times the population o
, Russia and its annexations, and witt
vastly more money aud facilities for wag
ing war at command, ought to have NJ
. real difficulty in the time of need in rails
5 ing four times the military strength o
Russia. They say it is mere question
, of cost resolution and necessity.
, Under the new regime the India Office
q and War Office have been brought into
!, unusually close relations of late. One
of the first discoveries Churchill made
on looking over the India Office was tina
nothing effective in the way of mill
= tary preparations could be done with
: out the energetic cooperation of thu
}. Horse Guards. Under the Liberal Gov
p eminent the relations of the two de
partments become painfully strained.
Stories have been put into circulation
: apparently for purely party purposes
: that the Duke of Cambridge, Com
: mander.in- Chief, and the Secretary o
State for War have seriously quarreled