The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-17
FOR EIcN.
Gossip Concerning the English
Cabinet.
The Marquis of Salisbury Accepts
the Premiership.
Queen Victoria on Her Way to
Windsor Castle.
The Cholera Rapidly Spreading In
Spain.
Terrible Loss of Life Caused by the
Cashmere Earthquakes.

LONDON, June 16.-The Standard, in an
editorial, referring to the difference of
opinion on the seats bill among the Con-
servatiyes in the House of Commons yester-
day, says:
This Incident, in the present moment. is an un-
fortunate exhibition of ndscipne. We have no
wish either to magnify to minimize its signif-
eance, but it may prove useful if it causes the
the more fractions members Of the team. Lord
Salisbury must be the presiding and commanding
spirit and assert his position. The statement in
the Court Circular does not imply that Lord Sails
bury has been actually appointed Premier.
The Times in an editorial says that until
the Marquis of Salisbury has settled the
rivalries in his own party, it will be useless
to try to obtain pledges from the Liberals
that they will not obstruct it. The result of
the crisis may be the return of the Liberals
to office.
The News, referring to yesterdays Incl
dent in the House of Commons, exults over
the fresh proof OF strife i'll the Conservative
camp.
AT the close of the conference to-day be-
tween the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord
Randolph Churchill, Lord Randolph pro-
ceeded to the Carlton Club. There the mem
bers were gathered to hear the result Of his
conference with the Marquis. The Conserva-
tlves in general are disappointed that no
progressiha been made since yesterday. and
fear is expressed that the delay to form
Cabinet will damage the prospects of the
toAJ Poie9 III tHO 0pp1octlliiS &CllcIdl tleC-
tionS.
Matters just now are at standstill The
Conservatives appear reluctant to take office
until the opinion of the whole party can be
taken. The Marquis of Salisbury win con-
fer with the Queen again tomorrow. In the
meantime nothing will be done regarding
foreign, colonial or Indian affairs without
the Marquis of Salisbury having been first
consulted
LATER.
LONDON, June 16.-The Queen left Bal
moral at 2 this afternoon for Windsor. Her
Majesty was accompanied by the Princess
Beatrice.
1t is semi-officialy announced that Sir
Stafford Northcote will be created peer
and be given a minor place in the cabinet;
that Lord Salisbury will be premier and
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and
that Sir Michael E. Hicks-Beach will be
Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader in
the House of Commons.
Lord Salisbury has definitely accepted the
premiership. 1t Is stated that Sir Stafford
Northcote has accepted peerage leaving Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach to lead the Conserva-
tives in the House of Commons. Lord Ran
dolph Churchill will have an important posi-
ton IN the new cabinet. Lord Churchill has
the condition it only be enforced if found inn
pcrative.
DUBLIN, June 16.-T. D. Sullivan, mem
Der of Parliament for County Westmeath,
presided at a league meeting here last even
ing. He said that coercion now was inn
possible. The Irish members OF Parliament,
he said, will treat the Conservative cabinet
about to be formed in manner not dis
similar to that which characterized their
treatment Of the Gladstone ministry if the
Conservatives should treat Ireland in the
same way as the Liberal government had
done. The prospects for Ireland, said Sull-
van, were never brighter.
The Cholera in Spain.
MADRID, June 1.-THE government cholera
commission and also many native and foreign
doctors declare that the cholera in the south
of Spain is Asiatic, and of virulent and
rabid character, attacking all classes of
society.
There were five new cases of cholera in
this city yesterday, and one death from the
same disease. In the city of Valencia there
were two fresh eases, but no death. In the
province of Valencia, however, outside of
the city, there were As new cases and q
deaths. The city of Murcia reports 40 new
cases and seven deaths, while other parts of
the province of Murcia return II fresh cases
and four deaths.
In the province Of CASTELAR, de la Plana
yesterday there were so cases of cholera and
60 deaths. Thirty thousand people have fled
from Murcia, owing to u terrible dread of the
disease which has taken possession of the
people.
In the city of Murcia alone yesterday
there We're, according to the latest returns.
I'll fresh cases of cholera and 30 more deaths.
In the province of Murcia, outside the
city, there were 50 cases of cholera and 16
deaths within the same period.
The Official Gazette confirms the statement
that cholera is raging in the provinces of
Valencia, Castelar, de la Plana and Murcia
and in the city of Madrid. Opposition news
papers, on the contrary, deny that cholera
exists in Madrid, and say that all the teSti-
mony regarding suspicious cases is insuffi-
cient to give warrant for the assertion that
they are cases of cholera.
oxford confers a Degree Upon Rev.
Phillips Brooks.
LONDON, June 1G.-The Oxford University
Convocation to-day conferred the degree Of
Doctor of Divinity upon the Bishops of
Winchester, Bristol and Bath, upon the re-
viserS of the Old Testament, and upon Rev.
Phillips Brooks of Boston.
More Earthquakes In Cashmere.
SIMLA, June 16-Shocks of earthquake
have reoccurred in Cashmere with increased
violence. 1t is reported that 2,281 persons
have pershed in the district of Muzutfura-
bad.
Foreign Notes.
All the London papers Tuesday morning
published editorials on the late Prince Fred
erick Charles of Prussia whom they eulogize
highly. The national feeling against France
is exhibited in the way they glorify the 'Red
Prince for his achievements in the Franco
German war.
The Schleswig- -Holstein Trading Company
announce that they have acquired land on
the Rio Negro near the Chill frontier on
which to establish German colony.
Some British officials travelling ON the
Russo-Persian frontier with two servants,