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 LONDON, Feb. 6.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 Mir Gladstone has been very busy this week forming a ministry and giving his sec ond daughter in marriage to his sons eurate at Hawarden. The new ministry is Radi- cal one. MT. John Morley, formerly editor of the "Fortnightly Review" "Macmillan's Magazine and the ''Pall Mall Gazette" is to be Chief Secretary of Ireland, which means that part at least of MT. Parnell's demands will be granted to the Irish. MT. Gladstone means to end his political career by some grand stroke. Most probably, to begin with. the Irish Viceroyalty will be suppressed, which means the abolition of that which is the first and last object of Irishman's de- testation, ''the Castle;" that is to say of the highly centralized system of administration having it's headquarters at Dublin Castle. Even among the Irish Loyalists there is scarcely man who has good word to say for 'sthe Castle" If the partisans of home rule in Ireland curse the institution, nine out of ten Loyalists (not in government em- ployment of course) will tell you that "the Castle" is a nuisance, or at all events that its day is done. So unpopular is that same Castle" that, in the common language of Dublin society, the only persons besides civil and military officials who will accept invita- tions to it's receptions are people who ould not be admitted to third-rate clubs in Lon don. Lord Harrington and MT. Goschen have declined to join MT. Gladstone's Cabi- net, and the now old-fashioned Whig party will vote against the Liberals on the Irish question. It remains to be seen whether MT. Gladstone, with the help of the Parnell ties, will be able to carry on the government. It is this question of Ireland that will put the stability of the government to the test. By that it must stand or fall.
 In deference to the Nationalists Mir. Joseph Chamberlain will probably forego the imme- diate qualification of his own wishes to see every citizen of the United Kingdom pos sessed of 'three acres of land and a cow" Mr. Chamberlain can afford to wait; he is the man of the future, and before many years have passed the destinies of England will be alternatively in the hands of Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Chamberlain. Nothing is wanting to secure the latter gentleman's suc cess. When an English statesman has risen high enough to arouse the enmity of the Times it may be safely taken for granted that his political fame is made. The wrath of this newspaper acts as fruitful rain on the young plant of celebrity. For years it descended on Benjamin Disraeli; Lord Ran dolph Churchill has hardly got dry, but on no one else does it's rain fall plentifully just now as on the Birmingham caucus apostle, the Right Honorable Joseph Cham berlain. He is the hogey of the well-to-do middle classes, whose interests are represent ed by the Times, the official gazette of the city It tutors him, but he remains untu- tored; it scolds him, but he remains obsti- nate. Words do not frighten him. he is sure of his future. To him Mr. Gladstone is the greatest man of the century, but he smiles compassionately when Sir William Court (who by the bye is not going to be Lord Chancellor) breaches about ''the old pi- lot and the old cause, and when Lord Rose berry would fain creep once more under the Umbrella of the Grand Old Man"
 More societies! You never heard of the National Political union, presume. It will not be long before the world hears of it. The National Political union is a society whose object is to look after the morals and man. nsrs of every body from the Queens minis ters downwards. Its formation was in this wise: A few bold-spirited ladies have taken it into their heads that "party bias is the evil of the day." directly answerable for all England's little troubles. They have drawn into themselves score or two more ladies and six of the sterner sex, and propose discussing the affairs of the State without party bias. The first subject they mean to tackle is the much veXed Irish question: and having discussed it will ''hand over the re suit to the ministers amidst the applause of the nation" as Mrs. Fawcett put it on the opening night. Things were looking very dark in England, but N. F. U. are going to ;, 1,,;o ing. One of the items of the programme of these ladies q say ''ladies' because at the meeting all the ideas seem to have come from them) is the educating of the country. Every body shall learn all about everything if the N. P. U. can do it, and especially shall workingmen be taught to vote irrespective of party. One lady speaker wanted to know if pressure was to be put on the ministers by the union, because if it was not it ought to be. Ministers were men devoid of princi pie and having such things as consciences, and it was clearly part of the unions duty to teach governments to have consclences. So far so good. ''There's method in their madness" and there are plenty of us who quite endorse their feelings with respect to party bias being 8 stumbling block to prog ress But like bad postscript to a good letter came speech from certain lady who felt that such limited sphere of operations as Great Britain was all too petty, and who palla0Uly dQVOCaLeO Ildb Iu0 IN. T. U. SnOuld embark also on spirited foreign policy. This proposal met with general approval. It is strange that English people can never pre- vent their enthusiasm from becoming de- mency.
 M. Carvalho, husband of the celebrated cantatrice and director of the Opera-Com- ique at Paris, has conceived the bold project of playing Wagner's Lohengrin to the Pari- sians It is true that for few years past WaOOar'S C. corded good hearing at concerts, and his music is much in favor at the Conservatoire, but though we may wish M. Carvalho every success in his daring undertaking, few of us who know Paris and the Parisians expect the thing to succeed or even to pass off without a row. Wagnerian music has it's haters in most countries. However, in France it is not only the music, but the man whose memory is held in detestation. The French are great at remembering phrases, and it will take them a long while to forget that, when their capital was surrounded by Prussians, Wagner was loud in his wishes that the great city might be burned to ashes. It is all very well to say that it is unworthy of great and intelligent nation to remember such wounds to it's self-love now that the perpe- trator is silent forever and his genius has been acknowledged to be of the first rank, but the million do not stop to reason on such points. The million go to the opera in Paris, and as sure as Wagners Lohengrin is put on the boards so surely, I believe, will there be demonstration of feeling from men who are the brothers and sons of those who fell in 1870, and from the taxpayers who help to support the opera houses (which in France receive a subvention from the State) Now there is no doubt that Wagner had little or no cause to love the French. It has ever been the ambition of foreign com posers to be played and appreciated in Paris. But the French hissed Wagner's music wherever they heard it, and are in fact only now learning to value it at it's worth. can