Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-24
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 Continent.
MIR. CHAMBERLAIN'S ANSWER.
A Oaustic Reply to Lord Randolph
 Churchilrs Open Letter.

dence Over the Birmingham Election. A Turbulent Meeting of the Edinburgh Council Before MT. Parnell Was Granted the Freedom of the City. Rioting Strikers in Vienna.
 LONDON, April 24.-Mr. Joseph Chamber lain has written reply to the open letter of Lord Randolph Churchill arraignng the Birmingham Radical leader for his action in the recent election in the Central Dlvi sion.
 In the course of his writing Mir. Cham berlain says: II will endcavor humbly to profit by your advice, though l fear the task of reconciling conflicting interests is not made easier by your communications regarding future action."
 MT. Chamberlain thinks that the Conser- vatives and LiberaLU Unionists ought to make q joint canvass to ascertain their rel ative force ill Birmingham and afterwards submit their differences to arbitration. He declares that he would welcome any resist ance from Lord Randolph tending to the es- tablishment of unity.
 The general dullness incident to the Easter holidays has been very favorable to the excitement of widespread interest fin Lord Churchilrs attack upon MT. Chamber lain and that gentleman's reply thereto. Lord Randolph's letter is admitted to be straightforward statement of the situation in Birmingham and the cause thereof and the concensus of opinion is that Mir. Cham berlain's answer dodges the issue and wid- ems the breach between the Unionists and the Tories.
 The local leaders of both parties had reached a perfectly harmonious understand Ing previous to Mir. Chamberlain's inhibi- tion of the nomination of a Conservative candidate in the Central Division.
 Concerning MT. Chamberlain's arbitrary course, Messrs. Rowlands and Hopkins and Sir James Sawyer, (Conservatives) have prepared a concise statement which will be published in the Birmingham Gazette and the controversy opened by Lord Ran dolph Churchill promises to involve large number of persons and disclosd some in teresting political secrets.
 A turbulent meeting of the Edinburgh Council was held yesterday on the question of conferring the freedom of the city upon MT. Parnell. A division was finally taken, resulting in the passage of a resolution of fering: the freedom of Edinburgh to the Irish leader by a vote of 24 to 13.
 Upon the announcement of the vote the Lord Provost declared that the minority would not assist in what they considered would be an injury to the city, and further more that no man of honor would accept the freedom of city thus given.
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 Lord Salisbury, in speech at Bristol last night, said that the government had not added to the cost of England's defense without serious reflection. In the event of variance with European countries an enemy might come from the coast line anywhere between Schleswig and France.
 Ut was a grave thing" he said, ''for any man to propose to add the coast line of Ire land to England's responsibility of defense by giving Ireland independence.'
 The recent letter of Prince Regent Luit- pold of Bavaria to Doctor von Lutz, Bava- rlan Minister of Worship and Public h. struction, defining his understanding of Catholic educational institutions, has caused great deal of annoyance at the Vatican and will probably result in q protracted correspondence.
 It has been discoyered that NJ. Doronitz- Xxi, who was recently arrested at Granitzki for conspiring against the life of the Czar is an Austrian subject and was formerly a student at Cracow.
 The strikes of the tram-car men in Vii
 
 which the strike was made the pretext still continues A formidable mob stoned the cavalry yesterday and held them at bay un- til they were reinforced by large detach- nent of infantry. A charge was then made upon the crowd and many of them were wounded. A large number of arrests were made and the crowd finally dispersed The workingmen have steadily refused to join the mob, which is mainly composed of merely anl-Semitic hirelings and Socialist ruffians.
 The municipal authorities of the city oi Milan will give a banquet to the Cologne g]ee club. Signor Verdi, the composer, at tended performance of the club at the Eden theatre last night.
 
 MT. John Dillon, en route to Australia paid visit to Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian rebel, who is confined to certain limits oi he island of Ceylon.