The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-06-02

| ate protests heard in Ireland against the Pa
| pal rescript Not word of the rescript is
| its authority, but they side with the League
In denying its efficacy on matters of politics.
The Great Derby Day.
The famous EPSON Downs presented
wonderful sight Wednesday. From early
morning procession of vehicles, including
everything from costermonger's cart to
tally-ho coach, made line of 20 miles long,
steadily pouring out Of London and into the
race course at EPSON. Special trains, three
minutes apart, thundered through Clapham
Junction, coming from everywhere. For
three hours all local railway service was
suspended.
BY 1.30 o'clock, when the police cleared the
course, the simply numberless throng, run
ming into hundreds of thousands, covered
the green turf everywhere If you can con-
seive reasonable solid mass of humanity
half mile long and 200 feet wide as being
the small fraction of the multitude that clus-
tered In the course In front of the stands to
follow the betting, you may imagine the
number present. From the top of the grand
stand, high in the air, the spectacle reminded
one OF nothing so much as gathering at the
millennium.
All classes of society were equally repre-
sented from the Prince and the Princess of
wales IN the royal stand to the aristocracy
OF Whitechapel engaged in lodging Scotland
YARD detectives and picking pockets with
unwearying industry down below. The roy
al party came by a royal special train with
large number of guests. The platform ar
Victoria Station was covered with red cloth
as usual, for them to walk over in entering
the cars.
Ayrshire won the race, and over two mil
lion dollars changed hands.
Gladstone and Chamberlain.
Once more Mr.. Gladstone thinks that he
sees chonce of shaking this Ministry on
side-issue. Accepting Southampton as a
victory won on the licensing question, he
takes that question as the basis of his next
attack in the House of Commons and in the
country. He failed to break up the Tory
Unionist alliance ON the Budget, and he ex-
poets to fail again; but with each successive
attack he believes that he will make an inl-
preston on the public. The Ministry, no
doubt, are perplexed by this licensing busi-
ness. Their hope of squaring the Temper
ance party by offering them local option has
been disappointed. They would like to
drop these licensing clauses. but cannot.
What Mr.; Gladstone hopes is to reduce the
majority by which they will be carried.
Al Ml. onalapS.iain, however ms come to
the rescue. His speech at Birmingham is
perfectly explicit declaration of Confidence in
the present Ministry. Not only with refer
ence to Ireland, but on other subjects, they
come nearer to adopting his views than any
Ministry that he has ever known He Is
even able to remind Mr.. Gladstone that Lord
Salisbury has accepted certain radical pro-
posals which Mr.. Gladstone himself three
years since rejected. He restates with his
usual lucid energy his own views about Ire
land and Irish policy. discusses briefly the
again lately put forward, and challenges the |
Gladstonians to produce better If they do |
not like his. Remove agrarian difficulty" |
says Mr.. Chamberlain, give State aid for |
content has disappeared, enlarge their local |
government powers" Beyond that he will |
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