New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08


far into tho future saws his London organ sulllfy
| Taxation of ground values he favors, and allot-
ments be favors but on no other essentially social
ouestion does he announce any opinion whatever.
He refers TO other topics but only refers to them
There is nothing in what he said at Manchester
to prevent his taking any line he
pleases hereafter on social SUBJECTS, or
no line He pleads old age: Many social
questions are ripe, or ripening' Tor discussion
But ! am fourscore and 10 pretend TO have any
personal interest in them would be an act Of
rrossest presumption" When he came to Ireland
10 which he devoted the whole of his speech
on the second night in Free Trade Hail. he went
once more over oft-trodden ground once more
remembered Mitchelstown, once more retold his
own version of the kinsella case, and once more
accused the Government of repressing in Ireland
combination which was legal in England These
speeches were if il may be said respectfully, dull
They had little of that force or fire, that SYM
pathetic or magnetic quality which Mr. Gladstone
usually displays. But there was no lack of con-
fdence He is in great spirits, and has convinced
himself that he could carry the country if the
Government would but do his bidding and dissolve
Parliament and appeal TO the constituencies.
The National Liberal Federation, which held
IFS conference at Manchester and let loose this
/ flood
delegate IS prophet and every caucus has fig
ured out coming victory. They passed string
of resolutions, of which the most significant is d
declaration of perfect trust in their great leader
They cannot get him to show his hand, but they
invite the country to believe that it contains a
Home-Rule bill which will satisfy every section
of the Home Rule party when produced.
While the Home Rulers were holding their fes-
tival at Manchester, the enemy were invading
their domain in Scotland. The Unionists of Scot
land gave Mr. Balfour banquet in Edinburgh
in that very Waverley Market where Mr.. Glad
stone had twice spoken to vast multitude Mr..
BalfourS hosts numbered @ 700, and they included
almost every Scotchman of rank or social dis
tinction. with the Duke Of Fife In the chair The
presence of the Prince of Wales's sOn-in-law at
political meeting has given rise TO comment De-
fore now 1t is thought to infringe that rule
of strict mpartiality on party questions when Uhe
ROYAL family is expected TO observe. But the Duke
saws that he does not belong TO the Royal
family. Mr.. BalfOur spoke with elOquence enough
TO eXtort a com plment from The Daily News
to his conspicuous ability, and torrents Of IN
vective from The Freemans Journal Ihat
leading journal Of Home Rule says that the Chlei
Secretary may choose between being calico
Ananias and Ignoramus; he is an lgnoranuy
insolent and cowardly Scotchman, ehemlnatey
supercilious pseudo-aristocrat who diets upon
pills and saline mixtures and 1t declares that
Ireland has borne great deal, but is not going
TO allow this grinding quadrumanal TO play goli
with her past history and present claims. When
Mr.. Balfour spoke on the following day to ten
thousand people he devoted himself to Mr.. Glad
stone. He cannot rival his Irish opponents in
language. but he describes Mr.. GadstOne's excuses
for the Plan of Campaign fimsy and sophstlcal,
with no foundation in fact; he declares that
when Mr. Gladstone assured the working-classes
| of England that the population of Ireland was
deferred by the Crimes act from those comblna-
tons which would be innocent in this island, he
uttered perfectly unfounded and shameless
calumny; and he directly accuses Mr. Gladstone
of directly ncouraging crime in Ireland Mr.
Morley replied to Mr.. Balfour last night at
Glasgow, speaking with warmth, even bitter
ness, not usual 10 him
Mr. Stanley is more than the hero of the
time with the English people, and his arrival at
Bagamoyo is hailed with Joy, diminished only by
Emin Pachas unhappy accident The German
Emperor speaks for Europe in welcoming him,
while his offer of a German ship of war TO convey
the illustrOus traveller TO Zanzibar Is com
plment without precedent. Mr.. Stanley's every
letter is better than the last That which he adj
dressed to 1.-The New-Yorll Herald" published in
nearly all of the London papers. astonishes his
friends by its Gordon-like tone Of
fataIistic belief in the direct intervention of Prov
idence in behalf of his mission. Nothing that he
ever wrote equals it in pure eloquence. The
most curious of all the tributes TO Mr.. Stanley
is that from Mr.. Joseph Thomson, his fellow-eX-
plorer who a year ago expressed a belief that
complete disaster had befallen Mr.. Stanley's eX-
pedition. He now owns his mistake, and con-
fesses that he stands amazed at the Homerlc eX-
ploits and Napoleonc energy of Mr.. Stanley.
" What man could do says Mr.. Thomson, what
Mr. Stanley did, with an unrivalled resource and
indomitabe courage such the world has rarely
seen ?'
Preparations are proceeding for his reception
in England on a great scale The Royal Geograph-
ical Society is taking the lead, and proposing
to offer him banquet in St. Jamess Hall. Eng
lish publishers are competing for his coming
book and one offer of 100000 is reported 10
have been made.
A Simultaneous attack on the Government IS
made by Professor Huxley and Sir Austen Layard,
each accusing the authorities of sacrificing the
one art, the other science TO foolish economy.
Sir Austen reproaches them for refusing 10 spend
s35. 900 on a site for a National Portrait Gallery
But the Office of Works replies, they are actually
negotiating for this land. Professor Huxley says
that land near the Natural History MuscuI at
South Kensington worth 81 100000 has beer
offered TO the Government for s350,OOO, ana
complains that il has been refused, though urgent
needed for carrying out the schemes already begun
for technical education. No reply 10 this char7e
is yet vouchsafed.
Perhaps the Ministry are more disturbed by the
broadside which Admiral Sir Geoilrey llonny
fires into Lord George Hamilton. The country
certainly cares more for the navy tlan for science
Sir GeoIrey condemns almost everything Wmch the
First Lord OF the Admiralty praised IN his recent
speech-guns ships, organization. mopnl|duoh'
If you believe Sir Geo1rey. the English navy Is
still deficient in fast sea-going ships IN Dig guns
that can be fred in drilled crows and IN oihcr