New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-03

| SpccchcS than they onRht. ana dcScrlPd thcr
conduct uneXampled insolence. MIR Speaker
irowning that phrase Sir William substituted
unexampled contempt and followed it mp with
| b0isterous. bitter little speech concluding once
more with threat OF renewed obstruction Mr.
Smith. who has dignity and goodsensc. and keeps
| his temper contented himself with calling this
! an extraordnary performance and proving that
! Sir Williams charge had foundation. Sir
William then praciously allowed business to pro-
| ceed.
| No long time elapsed before Mr.. Raikes, on the
other side lost his temper, too, and rallied awhile
| at Lord Compton, who presumed 10 think the
| telegrapbists hardly treated by the Postmaster
| General The affairs of the Postoilicc have been
| twice this week under discussion. Mr.. Raikes's
| House Of Commons tone with reference 10 Post
office servants is almost as arbitrary as in the
! Postofioe itself and his impatience of criticism
! takes the form Of irritation.
Mr. Gadstones recent attack on Lord Sails
bury for combining in himself the offices of
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister has not
maued long unanswered Lord Salisbury SAYS
! in substance If | we're Leader of the House OF
| Commons and Prime Minister, and tried 70 direct
| the foreign policy Of this country. | should per
! haps manage no better than somebody else did in
those circumstances; but in the House of Lords
there is leisure, and AN not overworked." But
his party would nevertheless be grateful 10 him If
he devoted more attention 10 domestic affairs
Mr. Gladstones No Popery speech on wednes-
| day was made in circumstances for which he
! shows curious partiality. lie spoke at a private
dinner with strong stan Of reporters ts insure
publicity. II was an ingenious discourse, full of
energy, emotion and shrewd appeals To prejudice
| both political and religious. His host was
Wesleyan, and all the other guests, or nearly all,
were also WeSleyans Himself ChurchDlan. who
probably has much closer sympathes with Roman
! Catholics than with NOnconformstS OF any kind,
| he found q bond of union between himself and the
| Wesleyens In common repugnancc 10 Rome lie
attacked Lord Salisbury with extreme heat for
sending Sir Lintorn Simmons on an embassy to
the Vatican. and for making bargain with The
Pope Everything with Mr. Gladstone now turns
on Ireland He dwcs on the fact that Sir
I.ntonn's mission related 10 Maltese marriages,
but what angered him that certain conces-
! sons 10 the Pope had been made and that these
concessions were the Tory return for that Persico
mission 10 Ireland which ended in a declaration
| against Home Rule against the criminal prac-
tees by which the Home Rule cause was supported
His one other topic Mr.. J"stce Harrison
and his suggestion that the people OF Galway
might resort to lynch law 10 protect themselves
against the terrorism OF the LcnGue. The Judge
has explained since that he did not mean lynch
| law but meant only defensive action within legal
limits but nothing will appeaSe Mr.. GladStonc's
wrath He can tolerate illcgality and defend il
when used on his own slde. 1t becomes scandalous
when used or proposed on The other. lie goes 50
| far as 10 say that no declaration for thirteen
years from Nationalist lips has been one-half as
| intemperatr or one-tcnth dangerous as MI
! Justice IlaTisons. Apparently Mr.. Justice IiaT-
rson is now to do duty on Home Rule platforms
instead of M!tchestuwn. The topic Is, at any
rate, much less stale.
Mr. Gladstone, when blazng away at Sir Lin
torns mission. seemed TO baYe forgotten oil about
the mission he himself, when Prime Minister, sent
| to the Pope. Yet the Sir George Errington mat'er
made stir enough in its time Questioned about
| it in the House. Mr.. Gladstone grew rather hot and
| complained that as a matter Of decency MI Rus
sell onght to have given him notice of the ques-
tion; which, perhaps. he ought. Bnt. notice or
no notice, the Old Parliamentary Hand Is never
without an answer, does his power Of drawing
distinctions irnpcrceptbe TO minds less acute than
his own, diminish with Sir George Errlng-
ton he said bore diplomatic character what
ever lie conveyed and received information,
but he had no mission. The mission Of Sir
George Errington was not so much mission as
the taking advantage Of Sir George Errington 5
residence in Rome 10 correspond with the Foreign
Office and make known his viows. Seldom has
Mr. Gladstone surpassed that But he will prob
ably have try to surpass II little later Min
sters are going to produce in answer 70 vi.
! Gladstones challenge Foreign Office documents
relating to this mission which not mission
These documents will prove az least one thing.
| that Sir George wac an accredited agent OF Lord
Granville al that time Mr Gladstone's Foreign
| Minister.
The colossal statue 30 Forster the Embank
ment unveiled Yesterday. is Of bronze. and bears,
| with his name and date OF birth and death. this
inscription: TO his wisdom and courage Eng
land owes the establishment throughout the land
Of a national system of elementary education.
| The artist has treated his subject sim
plv. striving 10 produce good Likeness and
content with that. This he has DONE if not
| much more Eminent pcrsonages looked Oh Will"
the ceremony proceeded including Lord Granville
| and other colleagues of Forster, but not Mr.. Glad
| stonc Lord Knutelord made one speech and Lord
| Cranbrooz another in his capacity Of Official
head TO that Education Department Of which
Forster was the most distinguished and useful
chief England has ever had.
4 little strike on the steamers Of the London,
| Chatham and Dover Railway has been going on
| fnr some days The hremen the Channel
steamers belonging 10 that company quilted work
in order 10 compel the company TO rcns'at~ SIX
of their comrades who had been dismissed for
| ioinipg the union. They have not Yet succeeded
| either in coercins the company or in stopping
traffic Their leaders are now considering
ybcther they will not coll out all the men en-
| ,loved on the railway between London and
| Dover. o step which would show the regard for
n,hlic convenience usual with union leaders
The Dunlo case creates that extraordinary in
terest which attends almost every case in this
! country in which peer and a woman are con
cerned The peer is not, Of course Lord Dunlo.
lie is not peer. But his father the Earl Of
| Clapcarty. is: though only All Irish peer. Lord
| Dnnlo is simply foolish boy who married a
| pretty music hall singer known as Belle Billion.
| Lord Cancarty therenpon SEM MS son ronnd the
or,d with the expectation that meanwhile the wife