St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-06
FORCED TO A FAILURE,
English Politics Beginning to
Get Into Somewhat of a
Middle.
No Prospects of a Satisfactory
Settlement Of the Irish
Question.
Revolutionary Circulars Are
Widely Distributed in
Bulgaria.
The True Condition of Empe-
ror Frederick Being Care
fully Concealed.
Copyright Cable to the Globe

Copyright Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, May 5.-The dissentient
Liberals profess to believe that the gov
eminent will, in due time, announce
their intention to propose what they
term home-rule legislation for Ireland;
that Mr.. Gladstone will be obliged, if
the government should refuse to adopt
any other policy than that of coercion,
to propose a compromise such as they
can accept, and to which the Irish mem
bers will be forced to give way. The
very success of the government promises
to be their difficulty when the legisla-
ton of this session is disposed of, and
no doubt it is felt that a substantial
part of the local government bill is al
ready sure of passing. Everything
points to the whitSun recess as period
OF great interest and possibly of new
formations among political parties. Mr..
Gladstone, who has seen much ebb and
flow of political life, is obviously much
less impressed than some of the younger
of his followers by the apparent success
of the government, and it is notable
that other politicians of great expert
ence regard the facts of the session as
arguments in favor of the view that the
government will be forced on to fail
ure, either by proposing an insufficient
measure for Ireland or by making no
proposal at all, and so alternating MANY
of those by whom they are now sup
ported. 1t is a curious circumstance
that the success of the local government
bill has caused the belief to spread.
even in conservative London, that it is
the duty of the government, and that it
will not be difficult for them to make
satisfactory
PROPOSALS FOR IRELAND.
Lord Hartington's reference to the
present bill as a measure of home rule
has greatly caught the fancy of such as
make up the majority in London. and it
is difficult to understand how it will be
possible for the government to per-
severe in the practical denial which has
been the last word of Lord Salisbury
and Mr.. Smith. Mr.. William O'Brien
has been once more sentenced to i'm
priSonment. The charge was that he
addressed an unlawful meeting at
LOughrea. Even if it be granted that,
as the law in Ireland at present stands,
the meeting was unlawful, it must be
said that Mr.. Balfour does not seem, to
fair-minded persons, to play his game
fairly. He made a provocative boast
and threw down a challenge; the Irish
leaders took up the challenge and dis
proved his boast, and Mr.. BalfOur's
retort is to clap them into Jail. This is
playing with loaded dice. The condi-
lions of the game are not fair, and for
man who has the powers which have
been entrusted to the Irish secretary, to
utter such provocation strikes the
majority of Englishmen as unworthy.
If he wants to out-argue and pooh-pOoh
his opponents, he should stick to argu-
ment and not call in the resident
magistrate when he has got the worst
of it. The consolation is that it is not
to the interest of the government to
make martyrs, and that Mr.. O'Brien will
be as great power i'll prison as outside of
it. The same intolerance of any shadow
of opposition is shown by the ridiculous
prosecutions of the past week. Several
men were fined for shouting down
with evictionS;' twelve were sentenced
for cheering, shouting and groaning;
four others were ordered to find security
for their good behavior for six months or
60 to jail for groaning at the police, and
two were fined for calling constable "a
buck-shot warrior" If such persecu-
IiOuo dlS III Will tAIillS
Mr.. BalfOur in universal ridicule, and
from a home-rule point of view, the
more he gives of it the better.
THE SITUATION IN THE EAST
grows more ominouS every day. Though
the peace is not officially broken be-
tween Russia and Austria, many
agencies are at work which seem to
make preparations for a coming catas-
trophe. Everywhere systematic, albeit
as yet apparently desultory, attempts
are going on to create disturbance in all
the Balkan countries. as we'll as in
Roumania. There is strange activity
of Russian agents among leading men
of the Servian Skuptschina. The en-
deavOr is to ply the latter in favor
of q secret convention which would set
tie things to the advantage of Russia if
hoStilities should break out. For this
purpose the army is being worked upon.
King Milan has become alarmed in con-
sequence of these intrigues, and is not
over-eager to receive back Queen
Natalie. His own life may not have
been very exemplary, but the queens
political leanings are such that the
monarch fears he would only add to the
internal complications and to the
strength of hostile cabals, with which
his own tenancy of the throne is threat
ened if she returned just now. Recently
it has been bruited about that in place
of the Russian envoy, Persiani, the con-
sui general at Serajevo, M. Bakunin. is
to be appointed. He is of the Hitrovo
and Kaulbars school, and there is not
unnatural fear lest, at his instigation,
scenes might be enacted one day in Bel
grade similar to those which formerly
occurred at Sofia and quite recently at
Bucharest. King Milan is an easy-going
man, rather corpulent and not over
famed for personal courage. The queen
is of more active temperament, and is
supposed to be capable of an unpleasant
energy if an opportunity to exert it pre-
sented itself.
REVOLUTIONARY CIRCULARS
continue to be widely distributed
throughout Bulgaria, Servia and Rou-
mania, despite the efforts of the authori-
ties of those states to suppress them.
The style of writing employed by the
Pan-Slavist agitatOrS may be seen from
| the following circular, which was again
this week widely distributed through
out Bulgaria, Notwithstanding the eX-
| traordinary efforts made to discover the
authors and prevent their distribution.
'To the army:u A handful of
| traitors have forced upon you as COM
| mander-in-chief a heather who de-
ceived you, and led you to the massacre
of your brethren and kinsmen. May
| the vengence of heaven fall upon you if
| you do not make PREPARATION for that
| miSdeed. But no, soldiers, it is not
you who are guilty, for you have been
| imposed upon: but you would be guilty