New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-21
nTsCUSSING HOME RULE.
rvr GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA AS FAC:
TOR IN BRITISH POLITICS.
n.1youw oR1r1usEs THE NEW fo1do1-
ru. PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LONDON
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LAlrY-rwo THEATRICAL FAiH
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nation Of the Federal GoVefninen0 " " Ason;th
such is Mr.. Balfours summary % o. O"' Wv NV
Rosebery New Gospel OF Home nu'e ,,,e =.
nUoe'. both sides the American example is
beins more and more frequeh'iy "pp .,I,
though for very different purpou p,,. o..
~.oNs t.. also that the question OF Home kuie lor
ss.,"nd "a rapidly merging into the question
HS.,s., ,h. existing Parliamentary Constitution
.st. Emn,re shall be broken up in order TO
-. o., &, n new scheme OF federation, IN
80. IrsIapd only, but England and Scot
- re,baps Gallant little Wales also, shall
."' h.ra Parliament Of It's own. Mr.. Glad
80 80 a,ro,e NJ the danger Of confusing political
80, 49,. rven AS yet only what MIR. Baliour
Iii. n NEGATIVE approval to that policy. MI
s..v,,h and Lord ROsebery have dotted the Is.
u,h.. NJ Gladstone said in the Southwest 1
,.,.,aa ,he other day / refer to 1t again, as
a. o. What Mr.. Balfour now says, solely in order
>, o,h vour attention to this changing order Oh
,hincx and to the new issue which Is now more
clearly than ever before presented TO the bn2usn
...nle Mr.. Balfour discussed 1t yesterday IN ST.
Jsmes,s Hall in that analytical and criucal spirV
,rhjeh ia characteristic Of him. Mr. Oiaos'ohe
has Internationally accepted the principle OF re-
teution of Irish members in the Imperial farlla
uens. From that seemingly simple modincauoh
~ his original Homc-Rule scheme flows, II you
,ccept Mr. Balfours view, this whole new federal
doctrine. Lord Rosebery, who is supposed to know
better than anybody else what is going on In Mr.
sladstone's mind avows his adherence TO federalism
in its larger sense. Mr.. Asquith summons his
leoder 70 say yes or TO IT. MIR. Gladstone
ssys yes and no for the present, but yes
IA clearly involved in, or may be clearly evolved
from. his contention that Scotland and Wales
has each the right TO 6iScstablish its Church
because the Scotch and the Welsh people want to
disestablsh il. The Tories have awoke slowly,
As their habit is, to the mn magnitude Of the con.
sequences Of this new dogma. MIR. Balfour has,
perhaps, opencd their eyes. That at any rate,
was the evident aim Of his very careful and power
ful speech last night
There is English authority, very good authority
too, for saying that Mr.. Gladstone improved the
occasion Of Mr. Carnegie's dinner To expound
American Home Rule TO the Americans there
present. He did not fail, says one of his intimate
friends, to explain to some Of them that the case
Of the Civil War in America is not one against
Home Rule, but rather the other way a. showing
that Home Rule, that IL. the subordinate govern
ment of several States by their own
legislations; rendered the American Union
possible and invulnersble IL may not
DC cdby W uuucIeVuuu WhnV ,iiio meuhos "eS ." 10
interesting.
The Prince Of Wales has supplied to the pub
lie, through his secretary. Sir Francis Knollys.
Ma authority for his story about the leper in
London meat-mnriSet His authority rs unfm-
pcachabe being none other than DIR. Thorne.
president Of the Chronological Society. and
medical inspector to the Local Government Board.
Dr. Thorne now repeats the statement TO another
inquirer, but the Prince is, say his friends, an
noyed at the story having been published. The
Damien memorial meeting was to have been
plivate Journalists were excluded. One Sot
In under false pretenccs and supplied report TO
an evening paper Nobody has yet ventured TO
name the market in which lepers are employed
So great is the general anxiety that Smithfield
butchers are said to have sent deputation to
House to ask the Prince for par
hculars-
There seems to be some sli ght chance that the
coal dues question may be reOpned There is
every reason why il should he. To abolish the
duty will benefit the coal merchants. Whom
else IL will benefit cannot be clearly stated
large sum this year collected indirectly will, II
the dues are abolished be collected directly by
the increase in rates. But the London County
Council begins to find itself in danger OF increas-
ing rates TO a point where dangerous unpopularlty
will set in. Some Of its more prudent members
already regret the declaration in favor OF aboll.
ton, which, they say, was forced on them. IL Is
not surprising, in these circumstances that refer
ence Of the whole question to q hybrid committee
should have been carried yesterday in the House
Of Commons by large majority. The Radicals
raged but they rage at many things. Full in
quiry into freetrade crotchet like this proposed
abolition can at least do no harm.
Las, nights reception at Burlington House by
the Royal Society once more brought Colonel
Gourahd to the front with the latest form Of Mr..
Edisons phonograph. Mr.. Edison, who is beyond
s,ion the hero of the Paris Exhibition is hardly
less wen known in London than in Paris, though
no such exhibit has ever been seen here that
which redcems the American section at the Champ
de Mars. Mr. Muybridge. another American. was
another of last nights celebrities with his instan
tAneous photography Mr. Streeter, the third, is
not an American but his rubies from Burmah were
the centre of attraction to such OF the
hides as preferred sober Burlington House
% the splendors of Lady Sahsbury's
huge party at the Foreign Office.
A foolish new piece, called "Aesops Fables
rs produced last night at the Strand. This piece
be,oogs 10 that group OF dramatic iDeptitudes
hnovn as farcical comedies. The volatile energy
q an extraordinary actor like Mr.. Wyndham has
made some of them popular. blr. Penley, In less
degree and in different manner. has seemed certain
Of success, but there are limits beyond which
sbsurdities become distasteful to an English
audienee. They were passed in Aesop's Fables
which was soundly hissed in spite Of the exertion
cl Penley, Giddens and other favorites.
Another failure il to be set down to the credit
sf Mr. Robert Buchanan, whose Old Home was
tiled at Vaudeville matinee. THAT Doctor
cupid,' by the same author, has been
sunnins at this theatre long enough
To prove that there 10 pubic
even for Mr.. Robert Buchanan. This new piece,
which win be given In the evening, cannot be more
vulgar o. inans than the other