New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-16

closure, be voted on and rejected; and there "n
end. Not 80, say the Obstructives; we 20"
move as many amendments we AAs'
and debate each one. ] observe, however. tns'
gentlemen Of the Obstructive party are shghuy
less confident on this point than they were so"e
weeks ago. They have bethought themselves t""s
there are Rules Of the House and Speaker, anu
that under the rules It is very doubtful whetner
all their proposed amendments, the first excepted
may not be ruled out Of order as not germane 10
the question.
Should there he any Americans who care 10
see how some of Mr.. Gladstone's recent Midlothian
statements appear under the microscope with MI
Goschen holding the microscope, they wouid uo
we'll to consult the Chancellor of the Exchequer
speech last night at Dundee. But l presume
there are none. Mr. Gladstone's accuracy Is an
article of faith; and faith, when it Is robust ID
not to be unsettl6 by processes Of reason OF "
mere facts.
The liberation of Castion by the Court OF
Queens Bench proceeds the familiar grouhu
that this gentleman was engaged in pohtlcal
revolution. There was however. theory that
he seized the occasion to shoot his victim, against
whom he had private grudge. Legal evidence
of this was not forthcoming, and the judges pu.
1t aside and once more reafirmed the right OF
political asylum. The decision is by no means
universally approved, either here or abroad
Nothing has happened in connection with the
questions at issue between capital and labor more
important than the union of the London Associa-
ton of Shipowners and Brokers with the
Shipping Federation. The new recruits rep
resent 100000 tons of shipping, and the
total tonnage of the joint bodies is six and ono
half millions. Among the great companies now
joining hands with others the Peninsuiar and
Oriental, the Orient, the Royal Mail Steam
Packet and others of hardly less magni-
tude and influence. The work Of the
organization is going on all over the King
dom and seamen's strike, should it come, will
have to meet combination not less formidable
than its own. London, which in some respects
has been most backward in preparation, will
now be taken in hand by the Thames District
Committee.
Mr.. Gladstone has now to be named among the
many who have expressed some sort of approval
Of General Booths scheme Of social regenera-
tion. He calls General" Booths book i'm
portant volume. Important is a word used by
picture dealers to express size. He has begun the
important volume has not on account Of distrac-
tions. finished it, looks forward with great inter
tics progress on the question will have to depend
on less ful-handed men, The Salvationists in
England have votes; or some of them have. The
continued conversions of Bishops are perhaps more
remarkable. The Bishop of Durham has now to
be added to she former list. lie is
civil, but throws a little Episcopal cold
water on General Booths scheme. declaring
his belief that there can be no permanent social
improvement except by the action Of spiritual
forces. The Bishop of Manchester, however, is
struck with the practical wisdom of General"
Booths plan thinks il has many elements OF
success, and that General" Booth may hope to
carry out his scheme successfully with his large
staff of officers working for Christ's sake prom
ises him $500 next year, and involes Gods bless
ing on him.
The Stage is coming TO General Booths help
as well as the Church. Mr.. Bancroft, ex-maaascI
of the Haymarket and cx-Abbe Landry in The
Dead Heart at the Lyceum. who retired some
years since from the managing business with
competent fortune, offers General" Booth
$4,000, on condition that ninety mine other equal
sums be given by other enthusiasts. Mr.. Ban
croft says truly that he knows nothing about the
details of General" Booths idea, but thinks
the object noble, and hence his hundred-to-one
offer, or rather one 10 hundred. The novelists,
too, are joining. A female writer of some dis
tinction, Mrs. Lynn Lynton, thinks reading In
Darkest England" pleasant evenings occupa-
ton; does not believe in panaceas, but does he
lieve In alleviations, General Booths plan
included.
The medical journals contain what appear to
be imperfect disclosures by Professor Koch of his
new consumptive cure, In which men of high
medical and scientific position disposed to be-
lieve. Experiments continue. Meantime comes
the unpleasant news that Professor Koch, who is
not consumptive, in trying his lymph on himself
has made himself seriously i'll. Homeopathy
will think this confirmation of its own theories
Lord Mayors Day filed the streets Of London
with the usual multitude to gaze the singular
procession which accompanies new Chief Magis-
trate of the City Of London on his circuitous
route from the Guildhall to the Royal Courts
of Justice. The show was finer than usual. One
of the Sheriffs of London is Mr.. Augustus Harris,
the manager of Drury Lane Theatre long familiar
with the organization of theatrical spectacles and
to him was intrusted the ordering of the pageant
1t was still confused, tawdry and grOtesque in
many Of its features, but on the whole would
have done some credit to the stage of Drury Lane.
and was nearly as good as Mr.. Harris's last pam
tomime, or spectacular melodrama.
At least Englishnan of position has been
found to condemn the ridiculous proceedings in
the Rabelais prosecution-Mr. Joseph Knight
critic, scholar and man Of sense. lie protests
against the police magistrates order to destroy
twentyone of these Rabeais pictures, pictures the
exhibition of which in foreign capitals was not
thought destructive of or even injurious to public
morality. They the work Of an artist of
repute. This English magistrate deals with them
as il they were so many obscene photographs
They are, says Mr.. Knight, the most characteristics
illustrations of Rabclais yet seen, and
their destruction would be piece Of
pure vandalism. The National Vigilance
Association, with Mr. Coote. its precious secre
tary, are the authors Of the prosecution. Almost
any indecency were better than to make these
dull, prurient bitter fanatics the guardians Of
public morals.
There is report which everybody hopes may
be true, that Mr. w. s. Gilbert and Mr. D'Oyley