Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A CALL FOR GLADSTONE To Proceed to Osborne
 House. A NIHILIST PLOT UNEkRTHED, High Officials In the
 Conspiracy. ScHAEFER DROPS TO THE REAR. Another Gall For Three
 Per Gents.
;cHAEFER DROPS TO THE REAR.
LAND RE FORM TO THE FRONT.

LAND REFORM TO THE FRONT.
 An Impending Struggle That May Break up Party Lines i'm Great Brit afn-Salisbury Under Guard on His Return From Osborne-6ladstone Called by the Queen to Form a New Cabinet.
 LONDON, Jan. 29.-While the newspapers
 devote themselves to speculation to what
 Cabinet will be formed, the uppermost topic
 of conversation among people generally is the
 coming struggle over land reform. There is
 widespread feeling that it really matters
 little whether there is Tory or a Liberal
 ministry, for the vital question of changes
 in land tenure, which is sure to be forced
 upon the attention of Parliament, is one that
 is pretty certain to destroy the present party
 lines. The vote on the Ceilings amendment
 the other night shows that all the Liberals
 are willing to put themselves on record as
 favoring legislation compelling Irish land
 lords to part with their holdings for the ben
 eft of their tenants, but people are ex
 pressing curiosity to what these same
 Liberals, many of whom own large es-
 tates in England and Scotland,
 will do when Joe Chamberlain
 or some of the coterie of statesmen who
 practically believe in State ownership of
 land proposes to extend to those counties the
 principle of interference with private owner
 ship. The progress already made towards
 radicalism in the treatment of the land ques-
 ton may be inferred from the fact that six years ago MT. Gladstone found it impossible to force measure of the kind contemplated
 by the Ceilings amendment through the House, and finally achieved what was looked upon as one of his greatest triumphs by car rying much less radical measure for Ire land. Yet the overwhelming majority for the Ceilings amendment was given apparent 1y without any idea of it's being a measure which would have been deemed revolutionary ten years ago. A membe of Parliament who is ardent disciple of Henry George called the attention of your correspondent to this fact tonight and ventured the prediction that within the next few years at the rate of progress the idea of standardization of land will have so permeated the minds of the masses as to p1ecipitate one of the greatest revolutions ever witnessed. At present, however, it is sufficient to point out as above that the land question is to-day one of vital practical importance. It will only have to be pushed little further to the front to assume such an aspect as to bring out the natural conservatism of the landed classes, irrespective of Liberal or Tory lines. The natural result will follow of a new Conservative party comprised of the larger portions of both the existing parties arrayed against radicalism, Irish nationalism and the democracy brought 1 in by the operation of the new franchise law, l all of which elements are more or less afili- | ated with the opposition to large holdings of l land by private parties. Such surmises as | these age heard on every side, and, as indi- l eating what is going on beneath the surface, l are of more far reaching importance than the | coniectures which are rife to the personnel | If the new Liberal ministry.
 The Queen has formally accepted the res | gnation of the Salisbury ministry. Whether | MT. Gladstone the Marquis of Harrington | will be summoned to form ministry has not 1 yet been decided by the Queen and her maj | esty's hesitancy in choosing between the two | eaders is the subject of comment. Mean | while the Salisbury ministers will retain | heir seats until Monday at least, the Queen | having so ordered.
 Lord Salisbury returned to London to-day | rom his visit to the Queen at Osborne house. l no reasons for such precautions l were apparent Lord Salisbury was closely | guarded by detectives from the time he ar l rived at the railway station until he reached l his apartments