Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-25
FOREIGN.
English Politics at Boiling
Point.
ARMING THE FRENCH BOYS.
A Disastrous Steamship Collision.
A Liverpool Menagerie Burns.
A Bear Rescued.

| Especial TO the Herald by the associated Press
LONDON, December 24.--In conse-
quence of Lord Salisbury's request Lord
Harrington will remain in Rome until
Sunday to await letters from Lord Sails
bury. Lord Harrington has not re-
csived an invitation yet to enter the
cabinet. 1t is improbable that the in
vitation would be sent by telegraph as he
has no cipher that would enable him to
trace the government dispatches. He
will not come to decision until he has
received Lord Salisbury's letter. Lord
Harrington thinks virtually there has
been no change in the situation since
last autumn. He reserves his opinion
as to the political future. The opinion
here grows that Lord Harrington will
not enter the Cabinet. It has been fur
ther decided to further prorogue Parlia-
ment until the second week in February.
Lord Randolph Churchill alone insisted
upon an early meeting of the Cabinet
Council which has been summoned for
the next week. Lord Randolph Chur-
chill is irritated and astonished at the
unaninity of the denunciation of his
course by the Conservatives.
1t is expected that Parliament will be
prorogued until the third of February in
order to allow the formation of new
ministry. Mathews, the Home Secre-
tary, whose resignation was thought
probable, says he is in perfect harmony
r.@k h. Haksnnf Mo has- Af
within or without the Cab
met avows adherence to Churchill. The
Conservative clubs are opposed to a
coalition ministry under Lord Harting-
ton and want purely Tory Cabinet.
The St. James Gazette, rejecting upon
this spirit, doubts the wisdom of maxi
ing any appeal to Lord Harrington and
urges the Conservatives to close ny their
ranks, throw overheard all domestic
legislation for awhile and 90 straight on
with their reform policy. "It will be
fitting" says the Gazette, "for England
to act with vigor and promptitude in the
OF crime in Ireland and
leave the result to fortune"
The supporters of Lord Randolph
Churchill declare that when he is able
to tell a true reason for his resignation,
the disclosures will cause q sensation
the country and result IN his
triumphant vindication. They say it
will be shown that he did not oppose
the grants for the necessary defence OF
the empire, but that he refused to
sanction an increase of the estimates un-
less it was accompanied by reformed
of the war and admiralty
Lord Randolph discov-
cred while in office, say his friends, that
the government had no control over the
Of hundreds of thousands of
poands which are yearly voted for the
war office for material that has never
been provided and that similar abuses
exist in the admiralty.
The Times says: Lord Randolph
Churchill's resignation will do more for
reform in one year than his
would have been able to
10 in dozen years.
The Daily Telegraph says that Cen
sral Willoughby, Malagassy agent in
Europe, has been instructed to stop me-
yotiations in Paris of the loan
Tor the Hova Government. The
Daily Ne,cs, referring to Lord
overtures to Lord Hunt
ngton, says that by this act OF misera-
BILE weakness and miscalled patriotism,
Lord Salisbury acknowledges that the
are absolutely dependent
upon the will and pleasure of Churchill.
1t is an act so strange that many Con-
servatives are puzzled over and indig-
nant at the feebleness of their leaders
which must surely damage the reputa- .
tion of modern Conservation.