Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-22
INCONSISTENT.
Record of British UniOnists in 1885
Doesn't Conform to Their Posi-
ton To-Day
French Behead King DahOmy's Female War
riors-steamer Lost in North Sea.
Fifteen Persons Drowned.
On the Other Side the Fence.


Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, April 2I.-The Daily News
has sprung mine under tbs Cnionist
camp by printing extracts from the
speeches of thirty Unionist members of
the house of commons commencing
Gladstone's land purchase bill
of 1886. At that time those
gentlemen were followers of Gladstone,
and are on record as having in the
strongest terms compatible with their
rhetorical attainmentS commended he
Bill as measure framed in
equity, launched in justice and securing
by its operation the greatest possible
benefits, not only TO Ireland, but
to the whole kingdom. To these gentle
men the News profTers the advice that
TREY would do well, in order to avoid
stuItifying themselves, to compare their
utterances on that occasion with those of
which they have delivered themselves
in support of BaIfour's scheme
and hasten to make the necessary mod
ficatiOns.
TO REOPEN A SCANDAL.
Miss HAIRS has secured q new trial in
her action against Sir George Elliot upon
the representation that evidence will be
forthcoming at the next presentation OF
the case which she was unable to Introduce
at the last. The venerable defendant
still adheres to his contention that the
action is an attempt to blsckmail him,
but the public verdict is against him, as
his relations with the plaintiff and other
women are matters of common report.
Cretans Drawn to Desperation by Turks.
LONDON, April 21.-There is every
reason to believe that the first shot OF the
new civil war will be fired in Crete to-
day at Ambellos, where all preparations
for such an event have begun. The
Cretans are being deliberately driven To
desperation by Turks with view 10 IN
doing the freedom gained in fifty years
of struggling and to restoring the I'M
limited Turkish rule of the last century.
The Turks had advantage of being able
at the beginning of last years disturb
ances to put the Cretans in the wrong
and at the same time to gain military
force on the island. The powers are en-
barrassed, first because they cannot con-
test the right of the Turkish government
to repress what was plausibly represented
as an Instruction, and secondly because
the strong pressure on Turkey might up
set existing combinations. The Turks
have before appealed to Russia for
help and might do so again. The
powers are rendered even more cautious
by their own present grouping into two
camps, and by the dread OF precipitsting
q conflict between them, but this very
hesitation involves the greatest risk.
The Turks will probably be unable TO
conquer the Cretans. In the struggls OF
1866 the Turks spent $50 900, 900 and lost
GO 600 men without succeeding. TX
a similar effort should again be required
Turkey can only make it upon conditions
that she has no distractions elsewhere,
but at this moment the sultan has to face
a strained situation alike in Asia aud
Europe. The outcome of his latest at
tempt to coerce Crete cannot be pre-
dicted, but there will probably be some
interference by the powers to put stop
to the butchery, not so much in the in
terest of Cretan sufferers as in that OF
Turkish bondholders, who do not want
to see Ottoman revenue wasted in doubt
full and useless warfare.