The Osceola times., 1885-08-08
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Political uotch-Potch In Engian"-
Lord Churchill Grasping the Reins ana
Proposing to straighten Things-r"ry
Success In the Coming Elections Means
War-The Horse Guards Piacated.

War-The Horse Guards Placated.
LONDON. August 2.-Political matters !
have become badly mixed up in England
and chaos seems TO reign, all on account
OF Lord Randolph Churchill's defiance oil
discipline. The Cabinet is badly split
and demoralized. Churchill is practical
ly Prime Minister pro tenn, and most oil
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 aud 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 aud the Duke of Richmond.
Lord lddesleigh, who has never forgot
ten that the first step toward his deposit
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 b. 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 Beach's
supporters who refuse to bend the knee.
He is ready to oil their places with men
of his own stamp, active, aggressive ana
uncompromlsing. 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 bat 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 acquiescence in
Churchills supremacy. Churchill thinks
the Beach crowd ought to be completely
cleaned out aud the Cabinet completely
reconstructed with men of one stripe be-
fore the elections. lie insists on the
Beaconsieldian axiom that the first ele-
ment of success is party discipline,
Rather 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 it is chiefly owing to Churchilps de-
fance of leadership that the organization
has gone so completely TO smash
Churchill's refusal 70 attend the great
Liverpool meeting was the first sign of
his reformed views. The Tories are to
move like a machine In fusire 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 a Tory
majority is returned to Parliament at the
next election. Churchill referring to the
Central Asian question, declares that the
Tory leaders will neither be caioled, nor
deceived, nor frightened by Russian tao
tics, but intend to preserve peace to gain
/ 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 predilec-
tions, are preserving the peace to gain
time. When they are ready, If still In CT
fee, the mask will be thrown off and war
invited. The one flaw in the programme
is the provoking freedom preserved by
the Russian Generals to bring on a con-
fct, 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 incaculable military and stratesic ic
importance irrevocably ceded to Russia.
/ The Liberals were not fighting Govern
ment. They said In effect, we can do
nothing, we are not a military power.
II Russia would oblige us by anneXing
the British West India islands, we should
| know how TO take it. The admiralty
would oe up and at 'em in less than no
time, but as it is, we can only threaten
and protest. The Tories take different
view. They argue that an empire con-
tanning Just four times the population of
| Russia and its anncXations, and with
vastly more money and facilities for wag-
Ing war at command, ought to have no
real difficulty in the time OF need In rails
ing four times the military strength OF
Russia. They say it is a mere question
OF cost resolution and necessity.
Under the new regime the India office
aud 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 that
nothing effective in the way of mill
tary PREPARATIONS could be done with
out the energetic cooperation Of the
Horse Guards. Under the Liberal Gov
ernment 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 of
State for War have seriously quarreled.
The facts simply are, that through "A
meddling aide -de-camp, stupid ques
tion of procedure was raised, the per-
manent officials of both branches OF the
establishment, Horse Guards and War
| Office proper, assuming the right of pro-
cedure In the exchange of official COM
munication with the India office. Mr.
Smith settled the matter by walking
over to the mmander-in-Chier room
and holding conference there without
formality, limiting at the close that re-
turn visit would ALWAYS be acceptable.
The hint was taken, and the snobs of the
Chiefs encourage have given up the at
tempt to domineer over the civil side of
the house, and there is peace.
Arrested for Embezzlement.
NEW ORLEANS, La, August 2.-P. S.
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