The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-24
The Cunning Hand of Premier
@ Gladstone.
RENEWAL OF THE CRIMES ACT.
Disaffection-Admir
for Parnell.
The Situation in Britain.

can perhaps discern in even the visit of
Dixie to Ireland the cunning hand of
Gladstone. Sir Charles goes to Dublin
to attend the meetings of commission
for housing thepoor of the Irish capital.
He will be the guest of Earl Spencer, at
the yiceroy's official residence, Dublin
Castle. Lord Spencer is far from being
radical He believes thoroughly in
renewing the Irish crimes act, which
Sir Charles opposes. In the many con-
ferences which these two gentlemen
must have, it is more than possible the
will seriously affect the irrepres-
sionable Sir Charles, and the lat
ter will return to London after the
holidays more tractable in his
relations to the prime minister. If he
does, then the public may look for
good compromise renewal bill, which
will give offense to no one and whose
harmless life will be limited to about
one year. Gladstone has this way of
doing things, and it may be he has cast
his lines successfully for thus getting
entirely rid of coercion in Ireland. If
this surmise proves correct, government
will. before recess, announce the lines
on which they will proceed next year
with the bill for local self-government
in Ireland, The moderate Liberals are
certain to follow Gladstone and consent
to make almost any concessions to the
radicals rather than cause split in the
Liberal party.
A majority of the members of the
Cabinet have already left the city to
spend the Whitsuntide holidays This is
generally accepted as pretty good in
dication that whatever discussions exist
in the Cabinet, they have by no means
brought about any actual crisis.
There are persons, well informed, too,
who assert that the Cabinet is really on
the verge of split. 1t is rumored, in
some quarters, that Sir Charles Dixie
rendered his resignation before he de-
parted yesterday for Dublin. Many of
the radical newspapers declare that Sir
Charles is mainly responsible for the
dissensions in the Cabinet. He caused
the trouble, they say, by his persistent
efforts to force government to adopt a
radical policy.
The Dispafch 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
Parliament. Even if they do not secure
a majority they can, the Dispatch
argues, so increase their power as to
secure a leader more truly radical than
Gladstone is, or than the radicals could
hope even to see, even if he were twenty
years younger. 9h a e5 y.
A good general survey of the political
situation would, perhaps, show that no
man in England realizes more thor
oughiy than does Gladstone that there
is in the present state of British affairs
all the elements for the political crisis
and that he, himself, is strongly in
favor of making every reasonable con-
cession in order to. hold the Liberal
party with all its diverse fac
to prevent the return of the Conser-
vatives to power.
A serious division in the Liberal
party would most likely result in put
ting theyTories into power. The return
of the Tories to power during the COM
ing election would almost undoubtedly
be followed by war with Russia.
Lord Randolph Churchill, aspiFant
for the Tory leadership in the House of
Commons, has already attempted to
induce Salisbury leader of the
Tory peers, to join forces with him in
opposing the renewal of the crimes act.
Salisbury refused. Young Churchill,
nothing daunted, has arranged, on his
own account. to organize a Tory oppo-
sition. He will fight hard and effectively
if the governments do not steal away his
ground by Withholding the renewal bill.
1t is certainly a Somewhat extraordi-
nary condition in England's politics
when a Tory leader organizes his follow
ers to join the radicals and Irish mem
bers of the Commons to fight coercion
in Ireland. Tits difficult, IN view of all
this, to withhold admiration from Par
nell fer the educational effect of his
long Parliamentary agitation.
The Dublin FTeemdn's journal, COM
menting to-day upon the situation, says
the retirement of either Dixie or Cham
berlain from the Cabinet will be far
more disastrous blow to the
Government than any snch occur
renee as - the resignation of Earl
Spencer, who is credited with the threat
to resign the Lord Lieutenancy of Ire
land, unless the crimes act were re-
newed. The resignation of either of the
two gentlemen, the Journal thinks,
would cripple the government hope
lessly during the rest of the parliament
airy session, and go Tar 10 preludlce
their chances for success in the general
election.
The report is reiterated that Prince
Bismarck initiated the pressure which
induced the Khedive to refund the 3
per cent. on the Egyptian bonds. The
reason that actuated the Chancellor,
is said to have been desire to see Eng
land assume the protectorate over
Egypt, with the reinstatement OF Ismail
Pasha as ruler Ismail is acknowledged
DIV nearly every statesman in Europe to
be the only man entirely capable of
effectively dealing with the Egyptian
government. In return for Bismaack's
support of this policy. it is said that
England is to support Germany's colo
nization enterprises in East Africa and
elsewhere. Itwould not be surprising
if the present special conference now
going on at Berlin. between Lord Rose
berry, Lord of the privy seal of England,
and Prince Bismarck, who returned