, 1885-05-24
e ACROSS THE SEA.
Members of the Cabinet Have
Left London
To Spend the WhitSuntide
Holidays.
Small Demand for American
Wheat This Year.
European Events.

memDerh OF the caDlnet nave already lett
the city to spend the Whit-Suntide holi-
days This is generally accepted as a
pretty good indication hat whatever dis
s%ensions exist in the cabinet, they have
BY no means brought about an actual cri-
sis. There are persons, well informed,
too, who assert that the cabinet is really
on the verge OF "A split. 1t is rumored in
some quarters that Sir Charles Dixie ten
dered his resignation before he departed
yesterday for Dublin. Many of the
Radical newspapers declare Sir Charles is
mainly responsible for the dissensions in
the cabinet. He caused the trouble, they
say, by his persistent efforts to force the
government to adopt a Radical policy.
The Dispatch, which is undoubtedly the
organ of Dixie, is urging the Radicals to
combine and assert themselves. 1t says
if they do they will have the best chance
of securing control of the next parlia-
ment Even if they do not secure a
majority, they can, the Dispatch argues,
so increase their power as to secure a
header more truly Radical than Gladstone
is, or than the Radicals could hope ever
TO see, ever if he were twenty years
younger. ~ ~ A
A good general survey of the political
situation would show that no man in Eng
land realizes more thoroughly than does
Gladstone that there is in the present
state Of British affairs all the elements
for A political crisis, and that he himself
is strongly in favor of making every rea-
sonable concession in order to hold the
Liberal party, with all its diverse factions,
together as a solid body to prevent the
return Of the Conservatives to power.
A serious division in the Liberal party
would most likely result in putting the
Tories into power. The return Of the
Tories to power during the ensuing cleo
ton would almost undoubtedly be followed
by war with Russia. lord Randolph
Churchill, aspinnt for the Tory leader
ship in the house of commons, has al
ready attempted to induce Lord Sails
bury, leader of the Tory peers, to join
forces with him in opposing a removal of
the crimes act. Salisbury refused. Young
Churchill, nothing daunted, has arranged
On ms own account to organize a Tory
opposition. He will fight hard and effect
lively II goyernment do not steal away hs
ground BY Withholding the renewal bill
ltls certainly Il somewhat extraordinary
condition IN English politics when a Tory
leader organizes his followers to JOIN the
Radicals and English members of the
commons to night coercion IN Ireland IL
IS dIfhcult' IN view Of all this, to with
hold admiration from Parnell for the edu-
cational effect OF his long parliamentary
agitation.
The Dublin Hreeman's Journal, com-
mentlng to-day upon the situation, says
the retirement oil either Dixie or Cham
Derlaln IRON the cabinet would be a far
more disastrous blow to the government
thn any such occurrence as the resigna-
ton oil Earl Spencer who IS credited with
a threat to resign the lord iieutenancy of
Ireland, unless the crimes act is renewed.
nc resignation OF either OF the two gen
uemen' the journal thinks would cripple
the government hopelessly during the
rest OF the parliamentary session, and go
iar TO prejudice their chances Tor success
IN the general election.
The report Is reiterated that Prince
Bismarck initiated the pressure which in
dnced the khedive TO refund the . per
cent on the Egyptian bonds. The reason
that aetuated the chancellor is said to
have been a desire to see England assume
a protectorate over Egypt, with the rein
Statement of lsmail Pasha as ruler.
dsmall Is acknowledged by nearly every
Statesman IN Europe to be the only man
entirely capable OF effectively dealing with
the Egyptian government In return for
Bismarck support OF this policy, II Is
SAID England Is to support Germany 5
colonization enterprises in Fast Africa
and elsewhere. II would not be sur
prIsing II the present special conference
now going on at Berlin between Lord
{ hoseberry and Prince Bismarck, who re-
4 turned IRON S~hoenhausen specially TO
meet Lord kosebefry, has been arranged
r ior the purpose OF adjusting the terms OF
q new Anglo-German Egyptian policy.
The Indian government PROPOSES with
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