Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-24

TO the Edltof or the JOURNAL AND COURIER: King Demos is speaking and speaking yer
 plainly too. He will have none of MT. Glad
 stone's bills, not even for the grand olc
 mans sake. Not only are the classes record
 ing their votes against home rule, but tn
 masses are marching with them side by side
 Thousands of laboring men who live by dai
 ly toll, and are part and parcel of these mass
 es, to whom MT. Gladstone has made des
 perate appeal are lifting up their voice
 against the prime minister's proposals. Th'
 counties are voting like the boroughs. Tn,
 newly ly-enfranchised Britons gave their frs
 vote in October last to those who had giver them the franchise, but this done they now feel independent and many of them are vo ting for Conservatives or Liberal "Union. ists." Of course to many of them the nov city of the vote has worn off. Besides the hay-making is in full operation everywhere and the "three acres and cow'' cry has lost it's charm with its increasing chance of be- coming a myth. It must not be inferred from all this that home rule is put off to the Greek Kalends. No, home rule is now be- fore the British public as it never was be- 1OI0' 11OHS Iul0 WILL U6 STdltcu GO 1ISldllu by the next Parliament whether the Conser- vatives or the Liberals are in office. The great 'tNo" now laundering from all parts only applies to MT. Glalstone's bill. As for the principle of elfgovernment to be given to the Irish in some shape or other, all Eng lishmen know that this will have to be done. As I said last week, the politicians only diff f,,,; ;,, IL. forthcoming bill, and as constituencies can not settle matters of detail it was useless to appeal to them. The next Parliament will be the same Parliament that was dissolved a fortnight ago-only little more so.
 The very intimate connection of MT. Glad stone with Ireland at the present moment prompts @ London "society" paper to retell humorous story related of him when he was travelling in that country in 1877. Wish ing to see something of the humber life of the Irish people, the great statesman decided to travel some distance in third-class car riage and incognito. Shortly after he had taken his seat in one of these compartments a man dressed as 8 laborer, who sat next to him, entered into spirited conversation, in, which the then leader of Her Majesty's op- position heartily joined. Presently the na- tive said with a rich Irish brogue: 'FThey tell me, SOFT, that Mir. Gladstone is on this train" "Yes," replied the Liberal leader, 'tso understand" ''Thin," rejoined the native, ''Fll tell you what it is, SOFT, there's not a bigger blayguard on it! Don't you think so?' Mir. Gladstone concurred and npon rejoining his companions in the first class compartment was eonvulsed with mer- riment and related the incident with much brio. It is this same "blayguard" who is now thought demi-g god in Ireland.
 Two great figures of the last Parliament have disappeared from the political stage, at least for the present. MT. Goschen, anti Gladstonian Liberal, has been defeated in Edinburgh and Sir Charles Dilke, Gladston- ian Liberal and ex-Cabinet minister, has failed to secure his reelection in the London borough of Chelsea. There is no doubt that MT. Goschen will ere long be accommodated with another seat. His voice IS indispensa- ble in a British Parliament. How is it, by the by, that the universities of Oxford and Cambridge prefer being represented in the House of Commons by Conservative nonen- titles instead of choosing such men as Mr. Goschens As for Sir Charles Dilke, it is not that he will have to retire to private life for some time, if not forever. The famous Crawford vs. Dilke case is still hanging on. It is almost impossible to hope that it will end satisfactorily for the baronet, who but for the indiscretions disclosed at the trial, and which most people disbelieve, would have been looked upon as the certain success sor of MT. Gladstone to the premiership. It must be @ sore trial for Sir Charles to be busted from 8 seat which he has occupied ever since he was about twenty five.
 do not know how it may be in America, which is democratic country, but in France there seems to be an irresistible tendency to sit upon any man who by his talents appears to shine above his fellow-citizens- politi- gal life especially. This I take to be an out come of democracy. The people are imbued with the feeling that they are free, equals and brothers," and it goes against their grain to see one of the brethren manifesting signs of being more than their equal. AS soon as he shines every means is resorted to to luench his light. General Boulanger, the French war minister, is just coming in for treatment of this kind in Paris. He is a clever, resolute man, who has of late been making himself conspicuous for his reforms in the army, and the zeal with which he breaches the love of the Republic to the sol diers. There are not wanting those who cry put that he is aiming at a dictatorship, and is just treading in the steps of the "Petit Caporal." But they need hardly be alarmed. If Bonaparte had been called Boulanger "baker') he would never have risen to be first consul. "What's in namel" says In France there is great deal in name. The French are an aristocratic and mocking race, and e name that lends it. self to jokes and ridicule is quite enough to prevent the owner of it from soaring to gid dy heights. The French already begin to cry: Mind, Boulanger, you will get your self into the petrin." (This word, which means dough, also figuratively means messy Besides something more important than re- name is wanting in General Bou- Ianger; he has allowed the French soldiers to wear whiskers-but he has not beaten the Austrians at Marengo or the Prussians at Tena The French may live under a democ-
 xI~a of President Grevy represent hisn with the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. If he wore uniform he would be cheered in the streets If his name was Der Lrand du Gueselin he might aspire to the honor of being expelled.
 Although Victor Hugo had his apotheosis at his very funeral, Lamartine has had to wait seventeen years for his. grand cere- mony took place in Paris last Thursday on the occasion of the unveiling of the great poets statue. A dozen speeches were deliv- cred in which the epithets lavished upon the poet fairly exhausted the terms of praise supplied by French dictionaries. M. Clovis Hugues, the poet deputy of Marseilles. reel 'ed piece of poetry with much spirit and Lesseps was so overwhelmed with emotion that he fell on the poets neck and kissed lim, a sight which must have been enjoyed oy the English who were present at the pro- ,eedings.
 Emma Crutch, the English livery stable zeepers daughter, who, under the name of Cora Pearl, gained so much notoriety during he empire, has just died in Paris in the most abject poverty. This wretched creature, who handled millions, outdia the luxury of the imperial court, was an object of repulsion ,n account of her vulgarity and the absence of feeling she showed on many occasions, es oecially when young Duval, son Of the butcher who started the Duval restaurants in Paris, after spending seventeen millions on Ter and being ruined, shot himself in her presence and fell bleeding on the floor. This hameless courtesan simply observed that he was much concerned about the accident as it had entirely spoiled new carpet
 The next American season will be favored
 see by the presence of two of the London heatrical stars. Mir. Wilson Barrett will be aking his troupe across the Atlantic in ew weeks and so will Mrs. Langtry I un- lerstand MT. Wilson Barrett will give per ormances of Hamlet, :" ''The Silver King" sClaudian" and ''Clito.' In the romantic | lrama Mr Wilson Barrett has not his equal n England. His fine presence, the vigor of lis acting, the melody of his voice, his ten 1erness and pathos entirely free from affec- 1 ation-a gift so rare in an English actor, all lelp to make him the Frederick Lemaitre of