New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-17
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
THE GOVERNMENT SCRRENDERS THE Ii.
CENSE COMPENSATION CLAUSES.

SPHINX - ART, MUSICAL
AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
rBY CABLE TO THE rRipcxEl
copyYrem, 1883: BY me Trfouna
London, June l6.-lhe Ministers have at
last plucied up the courage to sur
render their license compensation clauses.
The temperance men are jubilant and the
publicans angry The jog of the Home-Rue OPP
position expresses itself in chorus Of jeers They
think 1t sign Of weakness. Privately more
over they remark, some Of them do, that il will
be Just as easy to obstruct the progress of the
Ministerial measure by proposing amendments TO
other clauses. Mr.. Richie not very prudently let
fall the remark that IL was the number of amend
ments which had convinced the Cabinet that it was
useless to persevere with their proposals for the
benefit Of the publcans. Probably Mr.. Game
figures convinced them. That practical arith-
metical person proved, or at least professed TO
prove, that the claims to compensation under this
bill would have amounted to thirty millions ster
ling an appalling figure indeed.
Surrenders you may call them concessions
being in order, Mr.. Goschen, too, has given way
on the wine duties lie is greater master of
figures than Mr.. Game. lie strikes out from the
new duty list all still Wines and reduces the duties
from five shillings per dozen TO half crown per
gallon when the wine is worth thirty shillings
shIngs to one shilling per gallon Yet the sum
accruing to the revenue remains the same. The
explanation is that the amount of duty was origi-
nally much underestimate.
Irish incidents of the week have not been
numerous nor important Nothing further has
been heard from the Bishop of Limerick or from
any other Irish Bishop on the burning question
of the Papal rescript. The English have taken
much less notice of DR.. ODwyers address
than might have been expected They say, how
ever, that it is a challenge which the other
Bishors cannot well refuse to notice in some way.
Dr. O'Dwyer declared explicitly that he spoke
for his episcopal colleagues as we'll as for himself
I'VE are all agreed said he. If they do not
dissent they will be thought to have consented.
Some pains were taken to deny that Mr.. Parnell
meant 70 give dinner TO those of his colleagues
whom Mr.. BIlfour had imprisoned for law-breals-
ing but the dinner was given all the same. Mr..
Parnelfs afterdnner oratory was thought to show
more feeling than is usual with him. lie dropped
his arctic manner and poured out in
a torrent his Indignation against the Chief
Secretary for enforcing the law. The epithets
coward" and bastard" which Mr. Dillon applied
10 Mr. Balfour sound rather like effort TO rise
10 the heights, or perhaps descend TO the depths
expected Of him. Both speeches were interesting
out contained nothing new.
The same may be said of Lord Roseberys speech
at Inverness. lie spoke in his best vein, at times
in n new vein, and with wit and weight through
out. But neither from him nor from anybody else
docs any hint whatever come of Mr.. Gladstones
new measure of Home Rule. Mr.. Chamberlan'S
latest entreaty TO know remains without response
from any oracle. Mr. Gladstone" says the au-
thor Of the Fisheries Treaty, calls that Brming-
ham scheme, which some people attributed to me-
moonshne. At least it is scheme. lie either
has none which he is willing TO avow means in
the end TO revert to those old Home Rule bills
which the House and the country have both re-
ieced, and which he allows his friends 10 describe
as dead" give the substance of what Mr. Cham
bcrlain said, not his words
Mr. Gladstone. meantime instead of complying
with Mr. Chamberlain's curiosity, addresses fresh
manifesto TO Lord Harrington, complaining Of
broken pledges, of coercion, and of many other
things Only an electioneering squib,7 cry out
the Unionist journals; and they say that Mr. Glad
stone was in such hurry to reach the electors OF
the Ayr Burghs that he sent his letter TO the pa
pers before sending it 10 Lord Harrington. Not
polite" continue they; but without evolung from
the Grand Old Man any apology whatever
Ne Gladstone's health continues to be the SUB
Jet OF numerous para graphs in the Home Rule pa
pcrs. all vehemently insisting that their leader
was never better nor younger There IS perhaps
little too much of this Nh. Gladstone is not ILL
though people begin TO think so when they see his
friends so frequently alleging in print the exceed
ing goodness Of his health. But neither does he
seem so strong or vigorous or confident in his own
power of work as he did last year. lie looks
much older; his voice is, or lately has been, very
husky he talks less and with less vivacity; ana
on the whole, he does not seem much younger than
most men of sixty.
NJ Clemenceau's visit to England might be
supposed to have some political end in view. lie
knows England and English well enough 10 DE
able to sound in short time Ministers II he meets
them and to discover whittier English opinion WIN
reference 70 French affairs is really tending De-
sides the story is current that General bouianger
is coming over. 1t is affirmed that Mr. Howard
Vincent, NJ p, lately Director OF Criminal investi-
cation, has invited him, and that General Dou-
LANCER will be Mr.. Vincent's guest while here
Why should be not? Buffalo Bill was to be met
last summer at MI Vincent's house in Grosvenor
Square
NJ Clernenceau however says that his visit
has no Political object. He came on Admiral
Naxse's invitation for few days relaxatoh.
The Radical leader seems in great health ana
spirits He has grown slightly stouter' as wen
as grayer but has lost none of his elasticity VI
manner or exuberant intellectual energy.
Our countryman Mr.. Abhcy's original drawings
Of the Illustrations 10 She Stops to Conquer
are to be exhibited in London. Good as the cuts
are, remarks Mr. Stephens, the Aristarchus oil
The Athenaeum,' the drawings surpass them
in finish vivacity and brightness.
On the authority Of the journal, but not OF the
same critic, lamenta5le failure in song was MADE
by the American performer who somewhat rasnly
has called herself Mile. Columbia VINO TINS
lady is know not, but the English pubic IS
told that though she sang at Covent Garden III
EAficaine" she is deficient in voice. IN method'