The Portland daily press., 1886-03-15
Gossip Concerning the Political Pros
pectIn England.
cIadstone's Scheme for a Home
Government for Ireland.
Fears That 1t VIII Lead to Disruption
of the Cabinet.
Critical Condition of the Marquis
of Salisbury.
Sweden Refuses to Levy Customs
Tax on Foreign Wheat.
Fresh Complications PiIing Up About
the French Republic.

LONDON, March 13.-There have been two or
three occurrences in The parliamentary history OF
the past week which are calculated to send cold
shivers down the spnes of those ''ine old crnsted
Tories" The first of the iconoclastic surprises
occurred on Tuesday, when Mr.. l.. Llewellyn
Dillwyn, q Welsh Radical who sits for Swansea,
boldly moved to disestablish the church of Wales.
A few years ago such a motion would have been
regarded as an act of rank blasphemy and would
have condemned its author to social ostracism
ii not to accommodation. Last Tuesday the
sympathes of the House were evidently so
largely in favor of the motion that the government
was forced TO resort to parliamentary trick to
prevent its discussion. A meaningless motion was
offered as substitute for Mr. Dillwyn's motion,
and the amendment was necessarily put to a vote
first and was adopted as substitute by the close
vote of PAL to 229. Then the motion as amended
was rejected by large majority.
The second check to the patricianS came on
Thursday night, when that audaciouS Radical,
Henry Labouchere, moved to strike out OF the
civil service estimates the grant for the mante-
nance of parks belonging or used exclusively by
royalty or the royal family. This impudent prop
m Te Ssg draws az the pSbc
treasury $2.6l5, 900 annuiteS yearly, and out of
this plttance its members will now have to pay
their own gardeners. Both Hyde Park and st,
James Park are the property of the crown, but
have always been maintained and used by the
public. Now the House has refused to pay for
their further maintenance, the crown will un-
doubtedly refuse also, and Mr.. GladStOneS only
resources will be ask to for local tax to enable
these great pleasure grounds to be kept open.
front today with a characteristic solution of the
difficulty. He advises the Queen to give these
parks to the people, who will see that tney are al
ways kept in good ORDER but he advises the peo-
pie not to pay farthing towards the mainte-
nance of parks which the Queen can shut in their
faces tomorrow if she chooses to do so.
The new element introduced into the electoral
body of the nation by the franchise act Of 1885
has lowered the new House to an extent which is
Just beginning to be SEEN Democracy is making
more rapid strides than the majority of even pub
icsts appreciate, and there is every prospect that
there VIII be more radical changes III the political
and social economies of Great Britain within the
next decade than within the past century.
The cabinet held a protracted meeting today.
The sitting lasted fully three hours. 1t is stated
on semiofficial authority that most of the time
for the government of Ireland All the members
were present.
LONDON, March 14.-The Observer says that
at the cabinet council yesterday, measures sub
mitted by Mr.. Gladstone for the home government
of Ireland were unfavorably received, and that
the project if persisted in will lead to disruption
of the cabinet
The Observer states that Gladstone's draft, as
printed and handed the Cabinet, deals exclusively
with appropriation, for which a colossal sum will
be required The administration of the fund is to
be entrusted to an Irish local body, the cOnstitu-
ton OF which is left blank in the draft but which
the ministers were informed would be of the
character OF an Irish parliament.
Inc Standard says 1t Is supposed that Glad
stones schemes tor the government of Ireland
proposes the establishment of single chamber
OF Parliament at Dublin. and embodies the prin-
clple Of minority representation, and Ireland will
continue to send members to Westminster, not in
proportion to her population, but In proportion to
her contribution to the imperial revenue. Under
this scheme there would be thirty Irish members
OF Parliament and the police are to be disarmed