New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-06

THE CHURCH coNGREss-THE-
ATRIcAL TOPICS.
tar CABLE TO TIE TRIBUsEI
Copright; 1880 By The Ne'c-f YORK i'70""N'
Iordon Oct 5.-The mystery concerning une
"Contemporary Review" article on the iriPie A.
s.nce continues: that Mr. Gladstone Is the autnor
\. however, now pretty generally peneVeu'
b;ohlv improbable that The Daily news wouiu
,-nst To guess work in matter OF SO mucn I.u'
ror,ance 10 itself Mr. Gladstone saws thao ino
pp.,r- N.us- has no authority for attributing the
.-,ice IN him But how does he know? He can speak
Gov himself and for none else. And why docs hs
M. deny the suggestion point blank ihere W.
facts 70 be put in evidence against him' ins
il not the first time he has written ahohy No", 90,
- torsicn affairs. When Prime Minister in 1871
bs actually wrote on the foreign pohoy IA
Fdinburph Review and the article caused some
--aa.ion before the authorship was discovered.
In the present case the article is less remarRaoie'
h,, mpst preiudice Mr. Gladstones relations WIN
..rtain Fnropean Governments if he again returns
:. now.r and is not able TO repudiate 1t. we nave
rot 70 learn what the German press thlh<S Vi 'ne
article They will not be too polite Anu as !"
the Italians, "the gigantic tomiooiery vi 'ieii
foreign policy will not be forgiven 10 iVe au'n0i'
OF course there is a chance that Mr Uidusooho Is
NOT the writer. and that his reply to the dlreoo
question. which has such dubious look Is only
another specimen of GladstOnese'
The Pail Mall Gazette attributes tne arCioie &c
IN Mr.. Gladstone's friend, Canon Malcolm NlacOoI'
and there are others who, forgetting the hl-neaiUn
~ Mr. Escott, will have it that the executor OF
1.-The Fortnightly" has been playing announcer
nrank upon the ingenious public Meantime IL
is 70 be noted that The Daily News sticks TO l's
mns though with certain consideration 1or lts
patron.
closer examination of the returns OF the
French general election shows how firmly the re-
nubican idea has become rooted throughout
France A keen observer like NJ. Blowltz THINKS
that the result of the election ought to convince
the Count of Paris of the futilty of his propa-
rsnds and that the Count would do well 10 give
ND the struggle after an impossible monarchy, 50
as to give solidty to the Government OF the
Fatherland. A frank recognition OF the exsuhg
regime by the Monarchists would certainly DC ol
vast advantage to the Republic and do greaU
things for France in relation TO the other fo"efe
But this is too much to hope Orleanlsts OF 'he
better tyne are secretly pleased that the elections
have cleared their leaders from the suspicion OF
employing any underhand means against the pup
uo life of the Nation This being demonstrated.
thew have better heart for continuing the hgho
for the monarchy. As TO the Boulangists, they
excuse their failure in the provinces by attr'o
uting all manner Of malpractices TO tne oniVei.
of the Executive, and they make much Vi "n"'
is undoubtedly q very Significant triumph j." '".
cantal. The fact, however, is that they cannoe
hone to achieve anything in the new Chamoer' anu
before another general election comes srounu
their chance may have passed.
ON this side of the Channel the impression is
strong that Boulangism as political force IN
no longer come TO any sort of a head. Funds are
said TO be falling off rapidly, consequence OF
recent events and there is a prospect that the
Portland Place establishment will have to be gwen
ND. The General admitted on Thursday that II
the November fogs came up to what he had heafd
Of them. he should very likely leave London for
Jersey or elsewhere.
The autumn political campaign in England has
already set in with severity. OF the numerous
,peeches of the week, the chief have been LORD
Hartington's addresses al Aberdeen and Stirring
At Aberdeen he took up new attitude toward
Mr. Gladstone one of strong antagonsm which
has MT away all smooth things. Lord Harrington
was unsparingy aggressive, and hit out at his ola
leader with full force. He roundly accused MI
Gladstone Of melting TO insurrecuon by attacks
upon the method employed TO secure the ACT o1
Cnion impugi.ed the claim Of Mr.. Gladstone to
the confidence of the Liberal party, and reminded
his hearers that Mr.. Gladstone had thrice led his
friends TO defeat, the last, in 1886, being such
as had permanently rent the Liberals into two
factions These failures, he said, disqualified MIR.
Gladstone. Mr.. Chamberlain who has spoken
twice at Newcastle, has shown equal warmth.
Taking up some remarks of Sir George Trevelyan
at Hexham that the man who deserted the party
of progress always made it out that the Tories
Iod md hp
lists, the Member for Birmingham said that Sir
George was the most perfect specimen Of the
political weathercock which the process of natural
selection and development of species had yet pro-
duced. / ought, perhaps, to explain that since
their difference at the Round Table Conference
Mr.. Chamberlain has refused to speak TO Sir
George Trevelyan. But friendship, or what passes
for il, does not prevent plain speaking, since the
other night Sir William Harcourt said of Mr..
Chamberlain He is not against Home Rule.
lie is against Mr. Gladstone lie objects to Mr..
Gladstone passing it. He regards it as his own
property. his own invention: he has got patent
for IT, and is always publishing new specifications
10 secure patent which nobody will take up"
As matter of fact the controversy is getting
decidedly warm, but these personal thrusts do
not advance matters IL is doubtful if the
weeks speeches have done more than to please
partisans The only new points of importance
found in the fact that Lord Harrington jussfes
Mr.. Balfour in proposing to take up Roman
Catholic University education in Ireland, and in
his Endorsement Of the statement. put about with
such persistence by the Chamberlain group, that
both the lahd question and Irish local govern
ment are TO be dealt with at the first OF the
incoming session of Parliament This being
so it may be added that other Irish questions,
such as the Parnell Commission, will be brought
forward next year, and that the indications clearly
point TO very stormy weather at Westminster.