The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-05-27
OUR CABLE LETTER.
SurmiseS Regarding Future Political
Combinations in the British
Parliament.

Parliament.
The Tories and Parnellites Believed
TO be United to Effect the
Premier's Downfall.
LONDON, May 23.-A majority of
the members of the Cabinet have
already left the city to spend the
Whitsuntide holidays. This isgen-
orally accepted as a pretty good indi-
cation that whatever disseDsions
exist in the Cabinet, they have by no
means brought about any actual cri-
sjs. 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 resig-
nation before he departed yesterday
or Dublin. Many of the Radical
newspapers declare that Sir Charles
is mainly responsible for the dissen-
sions in the CABINET. He caused the
trouble, they say, by his persistent
etfD1ts to force the Government to
adoot radical policy. The Dis1oatch,
which is undoubtedly the organ of
Dixie, is urging the Radicals to COM
bm, and assert themselves. 1t says
that il they do they will have the
best chance of securing the control of
the next Parliament. Even if they
do not secure majority, they can,
the DisDQtch argues. so increase their
noweras TO secure leader more truly
Ra Ijcal than Gladstone is, or than
the Radicals could hope ever to see,
even if he were twenty years
Younger. A good general survey OF
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
would perhaps show that no man in
England realizes more thoroughly
1han does Gladstone that there are in
the present state of British affairs all
the elements for political crisis,
and that he himself is strongly In
favor of making every reasonable
concession in order to hold the
Liberal party, with all its diverse
factions, together as SOLID Dody 10
preyent the return Of the Conserva-
lives to power. A serious division
in the Liberal party would most
likely result in putting the Tories
i 10 pOwer and a return OF the Tories
TO nower during the ensuing election
would almost undoubtedly be fol-
lowed by war with Russia. Lord
Randolph Churchill, an aspirant for
the Tory leadership in the House OF
Commons, has already attempted to
induce Lord salisbury, the leader OF
the Tory peers, to join forces with
him in opposing the renewal OF the
Grimes Act. Salisbury refused.
Young Churchill, nothing daunted,
has arranged on his own account to
ORGANIZE A TORY OPPOSITION.
He will fight hard and effectively
if the Government does not steal
away his ground by withholding the
Renewal bill. 1t is certainly some
what extraordinary condition IN
English politics when u Tory leader
Organizes his followers to join the
Radical and Irish Members of the
Commons to fight coercion in Ireland.
1t is difficult, in view Of all this, to
withhold admiration from Parnell
for the effect of his long parliament
ary agitation.
The report is reiterated that Prince
H smarck initiated the pressure
which induced the Khedive to refund
the five per cent. on Egyptian bonds.
mi, hot ocfn fa1 tho Chan, I
celIor is said to have been a desire to
see England assume prOtectOrate
over Egypt, with the reinstatement
of Ismal Pasha as ruler. lsmal Is
acknowledged by nearly every states
man in Europe to be the only man
entirely capable of effectively deal
ing with the Egyptian Government.
In return for Blsmarck's support OF
this policy, it is said England is to
support Germany's colonization en-
terprises in East Africa and else
where.
THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE.
1t would not be surprising if the
present special conference now going
on at Berlin between Lord ROsebury,
Lord of the Privy Seal of England,
and Prince Bismarck, who returned
from Schoenhausen specially to meet
Lord Rosebury, has been arranged
f,r The purpose of adjusting the
terms of new Anglo-German
Egyptian policy.
INDIAN RAILWAYS.
The Indian Government proposes,
with a loan Of $50, 100000, sanctioned
by Parliament, to rapidly strengthen
the railway system OF India In both
a commercial and military sense.
There will be expended Sic, 500, 600
in constructing a railway west OF the
Indus; $40, 600, 900 will be laid out in
builiing a railway on the east slde
Of the Indus, including ferry across
that river; S., ,OOO,O 600 will be used in
the building of a bridge; 81 ,OOO,OOO
viii be spent in the construction OF
another road on the west side OF the
the Indus and crossing the Plssene
plateau ;anl 81 100000 will be ex-
pended in still another line west OF
the Indus.
The official reports concerning the
Indian wheat crop prospects lndlcate
that if the present anticipatlOns are
realized, there will be smaller Euro
pean demand for American wheat
this autumn than last year.
THE RUSSIAN POLES.
Private letters from POsen and ST.
lesia describe tha present expulsion
by Germany, at Russia's request, OF
the Russian Poles from their prov
lnces, is being attended by the most
cruel and heartrendlng incidents.
Manv of the Poles, who are now De-
ing driven out, have been settlers IN
German territory for many years, and
have thoroughly identified them
selves with the local interests. Most
of them went to Posen and Silesla to
escape from the intolarable despotlsm
at home. DEGREES of expulsion were
Issued by Won Put.kamer, formerly
Minister of the Interior, and affect
thousands of Poles now resident In