Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-22
the Land-Grant Roads.
FOREIGN.
The English Political Situation.

The English Political Situation.
LONDON. June 20th-Political matters
are moving briskly to-day, and the people
are taking active interest in the issue This
morning Ponsonby, private secretary to the
Queen, delivered TO the Marquis of Sails
bury message from her Majesty. The Mar
quis, Immediately upon the receipt of the
message telegraphed to Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, Arthur Balfour. William Henry
Smith and Sir Richard Assheton Cross that
he desired to meet them in council In a
short time the gentlemen named were in
conference with the Marquis of Salisbury
in the House.
The report is current this afternoon in
some quarters that the Gladstone Cabinet
has concluded TO give all the aid that may
be in their power to enable the Conserva-
tives 10 take Office. 1t is also said that the
Cabinet adopted resolution to this effect
There are other reports, however, that the
Tories have refused to accept the response
bility of the coming Ministry under exist
ing circumstances. and that Mr. Gladstone
will resume The Premiership.
The Pail JfaH Gdgeite in an editorial says:
The opini N is growing that nothing Will
break the existing deadlock but the return
to Office OF Alr. Gladstone.
CONTINUED DEADLOCK.
LONDON June 20th-The political situa-
ZION tonight is one of deadlock. The
Tories will not assume power unless the
Liberals pledge themselves 10 refrain from
obsiructing The progress of the new Gov
eminent, and this promise the Liberals re-
fuse To give. They say: " You overthrow
Us by opposition we simply. as parties,
exchange functions The deadlock, based
as it is. gives a cast Of absurdity to the
whole British political situation. Here is
Il party which, having driven the Govern
ment ont Of power by relentless, often I'M
reasonable, opposition, dares not take its
place unless the defeated enemies bind
themselves from attempting to recover
power. Nothing more absurd can happen,
unless 1t be the return of the Liberals to
power because of the fears Of the Tories to
assume it. The belief that the Conserva-
tives will accept Office is. however, becon-
Ing quite general this evening. 1t seems
that the message which Sir II. +. PonsOnby
handed to the Marquis of Salisbury this
morning conveyed the information that
Gladstone and the members of his Cabinet
were willing 10 give their successors in
office all aid possible in the conduct Of the
Government.
Opposed to Irish Emigration.
DUBLIN, June 20th.-The Feeman'S JOUR
nat publishes long interview with Bishop
O'COnnor of Nebraska and Wyoming, in
which the prelate deprecates extensive Irish
emigration. He JakeS the ground that for
two-thirds of the people who leave Ireland
Is emiLrduts To America the change means
misfortune and physical hardship of a most
terrible kind, beside a moral degradation
still more appalling. " In the great cities
Of tie East, says Bishop O'Connor, Irish
newcomers sink daily until they become
the scum of the population, without money
and without friends. In this condition they
are compelled to do the hardest and most
mental labor, and from this position they
can seldom raise. If they 90 west" con
tinued the Bishop, their prospects are
scarcely any better. In the West there is,
OF course, land III abundance, but this land
must now be purchased, and the Irish emf
grant has no money" In commenting on
the dec ar3tionS made in this interview, the
Fcs1a1a s journal expresses the hope that
the Bishops statements may save many
freshmen and women from misery and
ruin beyond the Atlantic.
How Request Was Answered.
LONDON, June 20sh.-The Times reports
that one OF q party Of British officers who
crossed the BuSsO-Persian frontier recently.
while travelling, and were arrested bv the
russians and carried to Askabad, was a
clerk in the office OF the British Consul at
kcShd. At the time of the arrest the clerk
was the bearer of u note, couched in most
friendly terms from the Consul at Reshd
to the Russian commander at Sarakhs The
Consul had been on Il visit to the camp of
the British Frontier Commission and had
the misfortune to lose his mule near Sa-
rakhs. lie sent his clerk to the Russian
commander there, asking for heip to cap
ture his mule. The officer did not reply to
the Consul note, and sent the clerk priS-
oner 10 Askabad.
The Cholera.
MADRID, June 20th.-The official reports
OF the march oi the cholera in Spain for
The past twenty-four hours are Us follows
IN Madrid, new cases 3, deaths u: Valen-
cia tcityj, new cases Is, Ceaths H. in Va
ieucia province, new cascs 2i9, deaths
III; in MUrcia (city), new cases 2l0, deaths
So, in CaStel!on province, new cases 81,
deaths -.
The Ministry has resigned in consequence
of The decision Of King Alfonso to visit the
chu!er -iEl1cteJ districts All shops and
cafes have been closed Us Il precautiOn
against cholera.
4 Fatal Explosion.
LONDON, June 20th.-By an explosion to-
iay in the Burby coil pit in North Stafford
SHIRE. ten persons were killed
Terrific Starm on the Newfoundland Coast.
HALIFAX, June 20th.-Mail advices from
Newfoundland give details Of u terrible
storm on the coast last Sunday week,
which show that il was moge disastrous
than iiist reported. An enormous amount
OF shipping vas destroyed, and many lives
were lost \ Old PeFiican all the iishing
stages, and other wa,erSjde properly, we're
es,royed and upward OF forty vessels to-
tally wrecked. Twenty-Five vessels were
driven ashore al Bonayista, and some of
them smashed. Reports from many points
sye accounts Of vessels, from one to a
dozen in number, being smashed, and the
coast is strewn with wreckage. The storm