New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-26


| Sir Charles Upper has resigned his portfolio
| as Minister of Finance and will return to London
as Hich Commissioner for Canada. His With
drawal from the Cabinet is attributed by news
mongers to differences Of opinion which have
arisen between Sir John Macdonald and himself
respecting commercial union. This is improbable
Sir Charles Upper has been one Of the Premlers
most active supporters and one OF the stouteso
advocates OF protective tariff. When Sir John
Macdonald was embarrassed by receiving several
designations on the eve Of the last general cleo
| lions, Sir Charles Upper went promptly to his
| relief, entering the Cabinet and organizing
| successful campaign in the Maritime Provinces
| His return to London is probably due mainly to
| personal preferences He enjoys life there more
than he does the routine Of office in the lumber
mems capital What pleasant meeting he will
have, to be sure with Mr.. Chamberlain, when
he reaches England! How that willy pair will
enjoy their quips and jests in recalling poor,
innocent, helpless Mr.. Bayards diplomatic game
with them
widow McGuinness's pig furnished nice
tenderloin cuts for some Of the hungry voters OF
Elmira.
The general conventions Of the Methodist and
Presbyterian Churches have been showing the
splendid growth and vitality Of those denominar
tons in this country. They will be followed
presently by still more significant gathering OF
! Christian workers, in the General Conference on
Foreign Missions, which is to be held IN London
from June to 10, and to which many eminent
| American ministers are now on their way as dele
gates. This conference is intended to represent,
as far as possible all the Protestant Churches OF
the world that are engaged In evange1zing the
heather, and it will include nearly all of them
| The entire revenue Of all Protestant foreign MIS-
sions is said to be less than S11l25,OO0 per year.
and at this conference there will be delegates from
societies having an aggregate annual revenue Oh
more than SO, O00 900. That is close approx
nation to universal union on at least this one
| platform.
Senator Hale voted against his Republican
| colleagues on the question of opening the doors
during the Fisheries debate, but it is not probable
that he will take part in the Democratic canvass
| for electing Commissioner Putnam Governor Of
Maine
| IT, is reported that Physical Wreck Black
| entirely lost his grip the Illinois Democratic
| Convention He hoped and planned to have
majority of the delegates to the National Conven-
| ton pledged to support him for the Vlce-Presl-
| dencv. Instead of that, he has only two or three
| deleoates while eighteen of the twenty-four are
practically pledged to Morrison. Accordingly,
| 81 Horizontal Reduction stock is enjoying big
| boom in the Vice-Prcsidential market This Is
| a state of affairs which the country can con-
template with complacency. Cleveland and Morrl-
con On MilIs's Dark Lantern bill for PLATFORM
would be just too lovely ticket Tor anything
Governor Fill is a very kind-hearted man. He
| fhat raised
pay for poor widows pig
t. IS q surprise to read that Matthew Arnold
| left an estate valued at only $4,000 lie held
for many years position in connection with the
| BOARD of Education and had in addition his IN
come from his books, which this record would
| Indicate was smaller than had been supposed. At
the time OF his death he had given up his official
position but was receiving q pension from the
| Civil List This disclosure Of the narrowness Oh
his means lends peculiar interest to the recollec-
ton that he undertook his American tour in the
hope of making considerable sum Of money.
The lions head has been patted by the Demo-
cratic tariff reformers in open session OF the House.
Equal publicity should be given to the twisting
OF the lions tail in the Senate, If any honorable
member considers this variety performance neces-
| sary.
Southampton promises to renew the youth OF
the Grand Old Man. Imagine the disgust OF the
Unionist managers! After consulting the vital
statistics furnished by competent insurance ex-
perts they had convinced themselves that the
present Parliament would be certain to listen to
eulogies on the departed statesman, and that with
Gladstone buried, Home Rule would be lost
cause. Mr. Gladstone was never In better health
and spirits "A very exasperating old marpiot!"
is the Tory's secret thought