New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-19
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
.rNERAL SATISFACTION AT THE PROSPECT
CF NEW FISHERIES TREATY.

NEWS FOR ENGLISH READERs-MR o'BRENs
SPEECH = DUNDEE AND SOUTHWARK
THE BOARD OF WORKS INVESTIGATION
LITERARY AND PERSONAL NOTES
rBv CABLE TO TRIBUNEl
Copyright; 1888 Bv The Ne~ York Tribune.
LONDON. Feb 10-Mr. Chamberlain's success
q a negotiator is gall and wormwood 10 'no,7
Of his political opponents who have turned poi'
cal differences into personal dislike. 0ono W
them have tact enough to conceal their chasr'h
Others angrily parade IL in PRINT Inc ST. ST.
thing occurs in private You may near cns"Sn
men solely because they dislike their envoy GA
-, 80 ,hat the Senate will reject the treaty
They are exceptions The generai iceihe h'io W
4 unmistalable Few Englishmen know or care
-,rch abont the details of the fisheries dispute
Tbev know il is a serious business and certain
sause of trouble with the United States IL hoO
settlcd and they eager to have IL se''ieo Oh
.nv rational basis The leading journal OF Mr.
Chamberlan's own town reIoices In ms SUCCESS
hut feels no surprise that statesman whose SKILL
tact. energy and business aptitude are SO wen
lr,up sbould pro>c himself good dlplomatiet
also. ,,,
Tho Senate proves as usual, stumbling-bocR
4, a portion of the English press. Some Journals
exnress fear that the treaty may not get t"o-
thirds vote of the whole Congress, which they
hold necessary for its ratification ho"eNci'
the general tenor of English comment Is inoeiii-
GENT approval of the work OF the Noh'misson
and sincere desire to see it carried INTO eheoo,
Tho Spectatorn which often further ana
more cl, arly across the Atlantic than faoso Eng
Hsb journals doubts whether the Senate Will ra'-
NV the treaty hut says that TO have maue o"o
which satisfies the executives of the three Statcs
&c of itself a triumph for Mr. Chamberlain. lie
annears TO have satisfied the remaining ComihS-
soners of his straig ghtforwardness. lhao oi'oe
done. his quick ability and gift of argument De-
gan TO tell.
The New-Yorlt correspondent OF The DailS
News, continues to send to that paper astonish-
ing accounts of what is passing, or is not passing
In America To-day's medley about the hshcrc',
TnE TrIBuNV, Mr.. Chamberlain, Mr.. Blame ana
Mr. Patrick Ford surpaSscs all previous perform
.nces The lRIBUNEs opposition TO the fiSh-
cries Treaty is put he declares. on the vague
ground that any agreement signed nv Mr' O"a," .,
berlain is open to suspicion Is thao Vrue' NV
full meaning of your utterances aoouo 'iio -.
is revealed he continues, by leadinS '"',' "
THp TRIBUNE in which Mr. fatrlcK roi" u
nand for Mr. Blaine's denomination Is in""o,
Ir'aa,t,, no..ibIe inference here is that Mr.. Ford
writes and signs the editorial articles OF lHh
Tam, NE. Mr. Ford declares says this singular
witness that Mr. Blaine must be renOmipaoco'
because he is the only Republican VINO can coiii-
mand the support of " The Irish World anu 'ne
dvnamite followers. / quote eAlunly' Doo'
Mr. Ford declare that? The IkIBVNE moic
over makes these dynamite views the oass Vi
an indirect appeal for Mr.. Baines denomination
Mr. Rlaine's advocates it is expressly asser'cu'
clearly intend to put him forward again upon
the old plea that lie can be elected by the aio VI
Irish dynamite votes.
Sucb dispatches as these to " The Daily News
NAV helm you to understand the value OF Ensisn
somments based on them. There may oe efloi'
of transmission to explain what look IKE iaoi'0"
tops | hope there are. But errors VIII noo e
Main the repeated use Of the WORD uy hani'oo
in a way clearly intended to ldentily "r' p'no
and the Republican party with inc oSh""l
party | leave to others to comment OH 'ne p
yiotism of an American who is content to ngure
day by day in q British journal ~ ''o p"'N
ealumniator of his own cOuntrymcn
The Irish debate in the House Of Commons mas
.t last risen to a level which justifes lts pro-
lonoation. Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Morley, Mr baiiour'
MIR Gladstone Mr. Goschen and Sir william ''"
court have all spoken during the last two oaS D. "n
with some definite object, all with pi'uo"'
ability, and each after his kind ME- y Drien
made a striking speech with many good points
and much effective defamation lnJuolcious
friends are trying to spoil it by overpiaise' 0r
William IIarcourt is said to have described IL as
tho finest ever heard in the House; which 90 hoV
heIieve Sir William did. What he did say was
that Mr. O Brien's speech was one OF the mosV IT,
marLable and impressive that he had ever "e"iu
in the House. One euloglst IN the press repro
sents the Tories sitting in awe-StrucK sii'noo'
Mysteries of this sort only rouse that hhghsh
sense of the ridiculous the want OF which III Mr'
O'Brien spoiled some passages OF his speech. 'nc
most desnondng feature Of the Irish question,
pnxyInp
That those Irish leaders who are most frank ana
.non-Mr O,Briep. Mr. Dillon and Mr. Davitt-
most thoroughly close the door to any reasonaoie
,olution Mr. O'Brien's speech in the House
Thursday night was not attack on ME- baliour'
but an attack on the law: not on any particular
law but upon all law. 1t was defence OF one
right of every man to take the law INTO MS own
hands, That give you as coming nearer I'M
partiality than any other English expression that
have seen.
Mr. Balfour's reply was not less remarKaoie'
M contrast could be greater than that between
Mr. O'Bren's emotional style and the Chlel oecre-
mry's cool good humored and mainly intellectual
nctbod Mr.. Gladstone to use an English phrase,
sas in great form When he is at or near his
nest H. is useless to compare anybody else with him.
Rut as for the substance OF his speech, one thihg
nav be said which covers the whole debate lhere
a no agreement about the essential facts OF the
situation The leaders on both sides are arguing
IN parallel lines which never meet Each corrects
what he deems the inaccuracies of the other
Zone coll, cts points Of harmony if any there be-
perhaps there never was moment when the diff
,ulty Of disentanging Irish facts from the maze
rhetorical contradictions was greater than now.
The only undisputed fact is the majority OF eighty
light against Mr Parnelrs amendment
Debate on the Address expected to close
practically last night. The Tory whips under
stood that the Opposition had agreed TO this. But
part Of next week will now be wasted One re-
suit is that nobody knows when the Trafalgar
Square debate will come of. Sir Charles Russelrs