New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-03

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Irish Parliament from l 700 to 1900 as a better
| nursery of freedom than the English Parliament
and eulogy the France of to-day. as
friendly to England, evidence of which he omitted
| to disclose,
Municipal elections occurred yesterday all over
England. Complete returns not in. but the
| morning reports show a balance of II to the
credit of the Liberals Their most shining success
| is in Birm CHAM itself where in each of the
| four wards contested politically the Liberals
| have won. MIR. Austen Chamberlain. his fathers
son, has been beaten by IL votes in his attempt
to capture Liberal seat These are hard days
| for the Chamberlain family
Strikes continue, but none on a great scale
has occurred seems probable Just vet The
most considerable victory gained this week bv
worlUngmen is at Glasgow, where the gasworkers
demanded both increased wages and reduced
hours. The Glasgow gasworl1s are run by the
city itself and as all the men who threatened
to strike have votes. the City Council gave in.
The estimated additional cost of gas to the city
| is 81 90, 900 a year.
| Sir William Harcourt presented himself this
week as champion of the Salvation Army. The
| greater freedom allowed TO the Army the better
says Sir William. Citizens. who find the streets
|
with brass bands, may not agree Perhaps most
of them do not. But Sir William. like his leader
is clearly of opinion that the masses must be
conciliated.
The echoes of the Brighton election have hardly
| yet died away. Sir Robert Pees attack on
Lord Harrington and on the Tory ladies, whom
he called filthy Witches" has been so strongly
condemned that the defeated Home Ruler offers
! To tbn Sir
Robert calls blooming assassin" has written
him threatening letter. and Sir Robert in return
threatens to shoot the author unless the police
take charge of him. The Liberals say with justice
! that Tory cxultaton the saving OF this seat
shows the extent of their depression and panic
| before the election.
The new deputy chairman of the London County
| Council will apparently be Mr.. Haggs, an Alder
man of Croydon lie is the nominee of the Rid-
cal caucus, and the Radicals strong enough TO
elect their own man. Next to Mr.. Ilaggis came
Mr.. George Russell, who might probably have
been nominated had he not the other day told
his colleagues, who found his ant-musc hall
speech too long, that they had no manners. lhls
was thou ght ungracious, from a first-cousln
to the Duke of Bedford. Nothing, however, is
yet settled, and the private meeting of the Council
yesterday, summoned by the chairman, broke up
without voting
| The letter of the American publishers of The
| Contem porary Review" to The Tribune, saying
that the English publishers had told them that
| Mr Gladstone was the author of that too-famous
| " Outdanos" article is reprinted in England and
| elicts a direct denial from Messrs. lsblser 1hey
have authorized they declare no one TO say who
is the writer of the article Perhaps not. but Mr.
Gladstone is now universally believed TO be the
author, both at home and abroad.
Mr.. Spurgeon hns again been heard from, this
time on the subject of the Church of England
There are; says Mr. Spurgeon, gracious and goodly
in the Church; yet IL is going from bad to
worse every day even celebrating high mass with |
Bishops looking on: and man knows how far
that pernicious superstition may run. 1t is the
hour for Baptists, cries Mr.. Spurgeon. But the |
Baptsts take it quietly, and the Archbishop Of
Canterbury is still Archbishop of Canterbury
Mr.. Frederic Harrison's discussion in Z" The
Nineteenth Century" of the New Trades Unionsm |
is interesting, but he generalizes with raShness.
The New Trades-Unionism is according TO Mr. /
Harrison, Socialistic. But the Socialism which /
has given it this direction is itself new; it /
no longer attacks capital or seeks to rediStribute
property, but strives to influence opinion and ,
legislation that the social necessities of the |
shall be the basis of every law. He,
like Lord Rosebery, looks On the late |
dock strike as epoch-makng, and finds lhe |
secret of its success in the fact that skilled |
worl1men for the first time struck in support of /
unskiled II is this new departure from which
Mr. Harrison nfers the near approach of the |
industrial millennium. His article is much more
remarkable for eloquent enthusiasm than for cool |
Judgment.
The New Review" publishes an interesting
article on Anonymity in journalism by Mr. |
Tighe Hopkins embodying contributions from Mr. |
Gladstone, Mr.. Mccarthy, Mr.. Sala and others
who have some practical knowledge of journal
ism. Mr. Gladstone thinks that all articles should |
be signed, but 40 other opinion of weight is
quoted on that side. All, nearly all, journalists
defend the existing system, and prefer editorials
to be anonymous None of the London papers
care to join in this discussion, allow their
readers to suppose that there be any doubt
that their own method is perfect.
London has been favored with a visit from NJ |
Chautemps president of the Municipal Council |
OF Paris. Lord Roscbery, as chairman of the |
London County Council welcomed him, received !
him at Spring Garden. presented him to the Coun-
Gil who greeted the Frenchman cIvillv. and in |
vted him to dine and sleep at Mentmore where |
dozen eminent councillors we're asked TO meet |
him. NJ. Chautemps returned these attentions
by farewell dinner at his hotel on Monday |
evening. Relations between Paris and London
satisfactory but NJ. Chautemrs has hardly |
made out whether the Lord Mayor of London or
the Chairman of the County Council be the real
head Of the metropolis
Mr.. Barnum continues TO fill a considerable
space in the London press Each successive step
toward the opening Of his big show at OLYMPIA
IS chroniccd with admiring minuieness The ar
riyal Of the FurncsSia with her cargo of curiosi-
tics took an army of reporters down to Gravesend