St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-26
Englands Coming Elections Expected to
be the Most Closely Contested in
Many Years.
Both the Conservative and Liberal Par.
ties Making Strenuous Efforts to
be Successful.
Determination of the Tories to Con.
test All but About Forty
Constituencies.
An Enormous Fund for Defraying
Election Expenses Already
Accumulated.
Politics Getting Warm.

LONDON, July 25.-The popular interest
in politics has again been transferred from
parliament to the huStings. When the To-
ries assumed power there was a general,
though vague, idea that they would at once
inaugurate a radical foreign policy and
public interest was centered on parliament.
But the Conservatives in office have been
less belligerent than the Liberals were, and
the people now await new declarations OF
principle from both parties. Many men,
berS of parliament have already left Lon
don and gone to their respective boroughS
to arrange for the coming struggle.
All indications show that the next
battle at the polls will be by all odds the Sc
vereSt and the most closely contested which
has been waged in England since the lannon's
campaign of 1856. At present it would be
hazardous to give odds on either side. The
Tory political agents in the provinces con-
tinue to send in promising reports OF their
party's prospects. Nearly every report re-
ceived from these gentry by the central aSSo-
citation contains confident assurance of
victory in the farming districts and mine
borough over the Radicals, as the Liberals
are called since the Wings have been so
largely supporting the management OF al
fairs of the Gladstone party. The ConServ-
atives have decided to contest every con-
stituency in Great Britain where there is
shadow of chance for success. Tory can
didates will therefore stand for every con-
stituency in England and Scotland, except
in about forty, where the Liberals have
such an assured aScendency that it would
bea
WASTE OF ENERGY
to try to beat them. An enormous fund
for defraying election expenses has already
been accumulated by the Conservatives.
Col. Frederick Hanley, secretary of state
for the colonies, practically promised to re-
vive the negotiations which were abandoned
by Lord Derby, his predecessor III ONCE,
for commercial treaty between the United
States and the British colonies in West In
dies. 1t is true that Col. Hanley declined
to make any official promise to this effect
to the delegation headed by Mr.. Charles
Tenant. NJ. p. for Selkirkshire and Pee
bleshire, which called upon him at the
colonial office yesterday, and urged him to
take steps to secure such treaty, but Ill
private conversation with different members
| of the deputatiOn after the formal confer
ence. the new colonial secretary practically
| committed himself to a resumption or nego-
| tiations with the Washington government.
| Mr.. Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot,
/ having been again invited to become can
didate for a seat in parliament, has written
public letter in which lie declines: i
have determined that will never sit i'll an
English parliament. This determination is
irrevOcable. Fifteen years ago was SEN
fenced, in the name of the queen, to term
of servitude which is now expiring. can
not perform an act which would compel
me to seal my forgiveness and forgetfulneSS
of all this personal wrong and inhumanity
by invoking Gods name as testimony OF
my LOYALTY and devotion to the power which
inflicted this wrong" Mr.. Davitt denies
that he ever wrote to Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain offering to assist him III stumplng ire
land upon Radical platform.