New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-16
ENGLAND'S ONLY GENERAL.
worsrLEYs pIsAPpoINTNGLY PACIFIC
SPEECH.

MN CAMPAIGN - LORD RANDOLPH
cHuRcHILL EsTRANGEs THE GOV.
ERNMENT-ANoTHER SQUAD
BILE OVER KING-HAR
MANS PAY.
rsr CABLE TO THE rRIpuSEi
c.s.,rtoni, 1888. IN The Eeo York TSibuns
, rondon. May I5-The scare about defenccless
ropdon has subsidized. No serious alarm
sud Ione exist after an order to the city Of Lon
don volunteers announcing that England was IN
ssrcsr and putting the trainbands on guard.
Iord Randolph Churchill who unwisely chose this
,.omept to widen the breach between himself and
.hs Ministry strove hard, hear, to persuade Lord
woselev to assume belligerent attitude toward
,hs Government; but Lord wolseley would not.
Es has met Lord Salishury's attack with discre-
tion tact and good temper. Peers and peeresses
rushed down to the House of Lords yesterday, ex-
recrine to hear their only General
r,ak. warlike speech, attack Lord
salisbury. attack the Duke of Cambridge
and attack Mr.. Stanhope. Rumor said that
.omcbody would have to resign before all was
aver. Nothing Of all this happened, however Lord
yVolseley maintains the accuracy of what he had
said about the condition of the army, protests that
his comments ON party action had no reference to
the present Ministry. did not resign but left him.
solf in Lord Salisbury's hands. The Prime Min
,st., could not do less :Lan decline TO avail him
elf Of this. To lose General Lord Wolseley would
no he said the greatest possible blow to the mill
,ayv administration. The Duke of Cambridge,
,oo was friendly. The wellknown differences
between him and Lord Wolseley were not Of
Find to be discussed publicly. AS Tor
tbe defenceless condition Of London, 1t is
,,pe. said Lord Woseley. London could
mt hold out against an army Of hundred thou
sand men, But there is no cause for panic. NO
invasion is likely. There is time enough to do
all that needs to be done to protect the English
eapital Lord Wolseley, however, gets roughly
handled in the press. The Tories resent his at
titude toward the Tory Government. The Lib
erals have never forgiven him his revelations
about the Soudan campaign, especially his oluno
declaration that delay in sending an expedition
was the cause of Gordon's death. He is without
any very jealous champion in print. But Wolseley
has the public on his side.
What the Opposition wanted to do yesterday
In the House of Commons was to raise DEBATE
on the merits Of Dillon's case. They
found this impracticable. Balfour had only to
say that Dillon has appealed, and that the case
is still pending in court No discussion was posi-
BILE till II was decided one way or the other.
Therefore it was that Healy, after some fencing
with the Speaker brought forward Harhltons
letter as a question of privilege. Hamilton the
magistrate who tried the case, reported to the
Speaker that Dillon had been sentenced to SIX
months Imprisonment for taking part in the Pian
of Campaign. There is not such an offence as
taking part In the Plan of Campaign cried
Healy. "The law knows no such crime" ana on
this text there was a hot debate. Hard words
were exchanged, as usual. The House ended by
voting "no privilege Pubic attenVion was
diverted from the real issue.
Then followed another wrangle, perhaps the
twentieth, over King Harman's salary. Heneages
amendments proposing to pay the Irish Under sec-
rotary ont of the salaries now paid to the LORD
7 I5eutenant and Chief Secretary, came curlously
near being carried. Balfour, in general way put
N NJ purpose explained that those officials are well
raid IN appearance only. The truth is, no man
yithout a fortune of his own can afford to take
a;,har most. The Chief Secretary gets about
500 600 n year. and must spend as much, or
more The Viceroy receives 100000 year. NO
v;cerov in recent times has lived on his salary OF
ANYTHING like it. Lord Londonderry is said by his
friends to spend at least 100000 besides MS
salary. ALI this large sum is for the benehb OF
the country in which it is spent. Heneage, now
ever is a Liberal Unionist Enough Unionists
followed him to cut down the Government ma
jority to eight.
The Westminster-Spencer incident is, perhaps,
the most striking in that long series OF soclai
surprises which the present political SITUATION
has occasioned. No ether has so profoundly IN
terested London society The story, when hrsb
told, was not believed 1t is, nevertheless, true.
Robert Spencer, Earl Spencer's half-brother, was
engaged to dine with the Duke OF Westminster
Before the appointed day came he dlned Win
the Eighty Club one evening when Parneu was
their guest. When the Duke saw Mr. Spencers
name in the lists, he wrote him that he should
be unable to receive at Grosvenor House man
who had sat at the same table with Parnell Such
letter would, forty years ago, have ended in
duel Now it occasions nothing but talk.
but a great deal Of that. There are people In
London, not a few either, who stand ready to
applaud any slight or insult offered to any Home
Ruler The Dukes act is approved by people
of this sort. Many Of his own party and his own
friends condemn 1t. They say he might have
put of the dinner altogether had he felt he
could not have Mr.. Spencer as guest after he
had sat at meat with Psrnell What makes the
case more fragrant is the fact that this dinner
was arranged in honor Of Mr.. Spencer's marriage
last autumn Mrs. Robert Spencer was, Of course,
invited. The letter to her husband, therefore,
reaches her also. "The Duke of Westminster
said one Of his friends, has one surprise year
for US. Last year it was his sale Of Gladstone's
portrait This year he breaks with the Spencers
What will he do next?" And once more he is
reminded that it was Gladstone who gave him
his dukedom.
The real Little Lord Fauntleroy.' by Mrs. Bur
nett, has now taken the place on the stage
usurped by Scebohm's sham one Critics with
onc accord say that Mrs. Burnetts dramatzation
Of her novel is in all respects better than the
piratcal version which the courts have suppressed.
The delicate charms Of the book now reappear in
the play. Mrs. Kendall has looked after the pro-
duction of it The acting is good throughout.
Little Miss Vera Beringer. who PLAYS the boy