Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-26

The Church and the CO"-Iho ArAsA
 Questfon-Burmah- Wflfred Law
 son-Two Grand Old Men-Dramat1c
 Affairs in London and Paris. Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CouR.
 HER. All Rights Reserved.l
 LONDON, Dec. 12. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The COW is winning in the end. Whereas
 the Conservatives carried most of the bor-
 oushs with the cry s'Save the churchP' the Liberals have carried the counties with the cry 'svote for us and you shall have each
 three acres of land and 8 cow!" Each party claims victory, but for my own part only see one victor and that is MT. Parnel1, who has eighty six followers, the whole of Ireland at his back as it were. Whoever has failed in the elections, it is not MT. Parnell. Only l four members remain to be elected and the result now known is: Liberals, 332; Conser- vatives, PAS; Parnellites, 66; Independents, ] g. So YOU see that Conservatives and Par | nellites uniting together are stronger than | the Liberals, and that no government will be possible unless MT. Parne1 is squared. l rather envy the position of the two Indepen- dents; they seem to be holding now in their 1 hands the future destinies of the British empire. Of course there is talk of Conser- l yatiyes and Liberals combining their forces l against Mr. Parnell, but this in plain Eng lish would mean civil war in Ireland, and the reconquest of the sister island by force
 of arms All hope of peace seems to rest
 upon the possibility of MT. Gladstone and
 MT. Parnell coming to terms. A man who has
 thelwhole of his country at his backis an i'm
 portant factor in politics. The Parnellites
 ware returned by majorities of something
 like six thousand votes to two or three hun
 dred given to their opponents. It MT l Gladstone can maintain discipline in tht
 iheral ranks as Mir Parnell does in tho | ranks of the Nationalists, it seems possl hIe to see arrangements concluded for tn better government of Ireland and the redres | of the real grievances of the Irish. Untortu
 natelv hear that Lord Salisbury accepts tn
 Irish vote as victory for the ConserVativ ,Iar41 alrn or rather as Q condemnation of tn Liberal party and that he will not resign , l There is nothing like pluck, but really h. ] cannot be hard to please if he thinks powe : to be tempting under the circumstances. l The conquest of Burmah has been mao
 bv Enoland in week, and, so to speak, with
 o,t any bloodshed. This new addition t Tohn Rulls estate is what should call tin l. l catch Burmah possesses mines ct sap r phires, rubies, iron and silver ana Io[es! # 1 Yielding teak in immense quantities It one of the r1c1oSG auSl WoSO loA AoAAo SSoH in the world. Of course numberless thing f must be reformed before the country can prf e duce what it is capable of yielding, but n f. doubt the English will set to work at once :. turn it's wealth to account.
 $ I had always wondered how King Theeba e could be so foolish so blind, as to refuse tf
 English demands, even if they were unius
 and to proclaim war against such tornld' !, bic neighbor. But find the explanation (
 his conduct in a very interesting intervie 'r published by the Times. In conyersatlo n between the Paris correspondent of the hui Il London daily and the envoys extraordina1 ' of the late King of Burmah in Paris, the Ia U ter explained how superstition prevailed O. Burmah, and how the English should maj of use of it in order to govern their new acqu i'd sition. Sovereigns styling themselves "Kll ,s of Kings" seLight of the World ''Star as the Earth" 'Lord of the Elephants" fe looked on by the people as superior bein st not to be ranked with ordinary morta r. Such peoples must long be governed in t 5s name of superstitious personifcation, otht a' wise the English will have to suppress en or less revolts, brigandage and piracy, and { if mics of sixty thousand men would have It. be posted at all points to maintain order a