New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-17
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
CONFLICTING OPINIONS OF MR.. GLAD
STONES ADDRESS.
ynE scorsMAN's CRITICIsM-CAL'iN' NA"I
ELECrIoNEERING-NR. CLtNELAND "
rxu,,,r,ox-rosrAI REFoRM-DR. HOLMES.

ENuiDIIION--rOSTAL N'O
IBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUSi-l
-roxno~ June 16.-The political situation has
heen little changed by Mr. Glalstones MANIFESTO
uh,cb his supporters eulogIze and his opponen's
insist has fallen fiat. The scotsman tEuihn"'e"
once Mr. Gladstone's ardent admirer, puts 'he caso
against him more tersely than any fngiish c'i'''
Air Gladstone SAYS the issue is: " NH you govern
ireland by coercion, will you let her manage her
own atiairs" "Was the Government" reiorts i"e
Scotsman "defeated or that question IL was not
Would it have been defeated on that pues ion IL
would not Mr.. Gladstone cOuld obtain IN Inc
present House large majority on the question as
NOW stated to the country. Why then uih he
dissolye9 Obviously because lie seeks from 'h'
country authority 10 enable him To pass ths P"'
ticular scheme which the House rejected 4 hoS.
who now support Ministerial Candidates VIII III"
they not only lave affirmed a principle put nave
accepted "a plan" Mr.. Gladstoncs one hohuon
organ seems unable to make up its nina as 10 "ha'
the real issue is and offers its readers today two
alternatives: Gladstone or Salisbury; Concllatloh
or Coercion The Liberal press throughout the
country expresses conflicting opinions. The Man
eL,stcr Ereminer thinks Mr.. Gladstone commits
himself 10 an appeal to the country on Clause ~
The Nercastle Leadr considers that there are bnt
two connecting policies: Autonomy and coercion.
THE Fr.emdn's Journal dublin insists that the
one great central question the constituencies must
answer is: Shall Ireland have domestic iegs-
latnre or not ? The Leeds Mercury finds the issue
ns stated by Mr.. Gladstone clear and lntelilgipe.
The Birmingham Post declares that the only questloh
which can really be settled at the polls is whether
MIR. Gladstone or Lord Salisbury shall frame ana
snbmit to Parliament a working plan for the gov
srnment of Ireland The word plebiscite ana
dictatorship" have been elsewhere pronounced
Mr.. Richard Bentley, the well-knOwn publisher,
,tod inf niece of evidence as
TO the fasciration Mr.. Gadsones personality sthi
exercises. Mr. Bentley has been visiting Wales
AWelsh Conservative told him as he stood by the
sea that "If Mr.. Gladstone walked IN ana was
drowned the people would follow and get drowned
also A Radical Welshman whom Mr. bentley
.sred whether his fellow Radicals would vote
AGAINST disruption answered that they understoou
nothing about il that If God mighty were put
up here against Gladstone, Gladstone would heau
the poll"
The House reassembles today, but moribund
House is never a centre of political interest," Eiec-
tonecrng not legislation, is the present business OF
the members, Mr.. Gladstone at the head. MindloI
of last autuun's mistake when long seclusion at
Hawarden loosened his hold on the country, MI
Gladstone hastens his departure and opens his cam
paign OH riday at Edinburgh. He speaks twice at
Fdinbnrgh and once at Glasgow within week
The Tories now propose TO contest Midlothian, but
can at most only reduce Mr. Gladstones majority
Mr.. George Otto Treveyan expects to retain his
seat for Hawick. There is curious truce at Edlh-
burch which If maintained will insure the re-
election of Messrs. Childers, Goschen, Buchanan
and Wiison-one MinisteIialist to three opponents
of Home Rule. At Birmingham there are similar
ARRANGEMENTS But Lord Harrington will have to
foh for Rossendale and Mr.. Leonard courtney LOT
Cornwall The Tory leaders are doing their best
IN nrcveut Tory opposition to Liberal UnionlSts
tbe Tory whip, Mr.. Akers Douglas, having gwen a
distinct pledge that no Tory under such eircum-
stances shall get help from headquarters
Already on both sides the suggestion is heard
t1,ot when tins election Is over and Home Rule
settled tie parties may relrTange themselves as
before Both sides are meantime engaged with
more industry than success in manufacturing mex
names for their opponents. The good old words
"Liberal" and "Radical" have ceased to be de-
ecriptive. Either may mean for or AGAINST Home
Eule But the Ministerialists seem little inclined
to alopt the name Home Rulers though appeal
inc 10 the country to sanction Home Rule Mr..
Gladstone calls the Liberal opponents OF the Home
Rule bill aseceding Liberals" and his London
.rcon respects this name and labels them DIS
san,ient Liberals" Lord HartingtOns followers
describe themselves aS " Liberal Unionl'ts,' while
the Tories for the nonce claim the title OF Union
lists and denouncc the Gladsonians as DIS
pnlonistsn or "Separationsts' Mr.. Gladstone
re,orts that his opponents whether Tories OF
Seceders, are not Unionists but Paper Uniohlsts
but the effort to give the latter sobrquet currency
has no great success. Nothing has yet been IN
vented which seems likely to stick even during the
present canvass, and political nomenclature, like
the political situation, is all confusion.
4 New-York dispatch announces that President
Cleveland has accepted the honorary presidency OF
hn hall m on
1857. There is danger that this Will be understood
here as giving the official sanction of the American
Government 10 the Exhibition, which is known to
he n private speculation under English manage
mont and for which Englishmen lind the money.
The attempt to connect the American Minister Win
IL having failed the capture of the American Presl-
dent is the more surprising. Mr.. Cleveland ought
10 understand clearly that should the Exhibition
fail to pay expenses his patronage Will be IN
trpreted here rightly or wrongly, as involving the
credit OF the American Government financial OF
otherwise.
NJ Emile de Laveleye. a Belgian OF some repu-
tatlon revves IN an English paper, apropos OF the
Fisheries question, the suggestion OF permanent
Cont of Arbitration between England ana
America. His letter contains nothing novel except
the prediction that If Lord Rosebery should pro
pose such an arrangement President Cleveland
and the American Nation would certainly approve
it, NJ. Laveeye omits to disclose the sources OF DIS
information and seems unaware of how unpopular
arbitration is in Eng land since the Alabama award.
The British post-O Office announces the abandon
ment of the present contract system for the con
yeyance of American mails. 1t adopts portion of
the American system. but clings to fixed days OF
departure from Liverpool with Queenstown as a
port of call 1t promises to consider other oilers,
but apparently intends still to give the preference
10 a slow slip via Queenstown over fast ship
from southampton.