New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-15

SOCIAL oUEsTIoNs-THE BARRING SETTLE
MENT-sIR CHARLES DILKE-RAILRoAD
SCHEMES IN LoNDoN-CoPYRIGHT.
by CABLE TO THR TRBUNE.l
copyrfght: 1891 By The Tribune ASSOCIATION.
London, March 14.-ln reSuming, after some
months, this review of the week am struck py
nothing so much by the foolish monotony OF
human affairs The same topics rccur, inevitably
recur: nothing has much changed, nothing is set
tied No real novelty comes to the surface and not
one of those many revolutions or crises when
are always predicted has really been brought
about The Bchring Sea difficulty is still diff
Guilty Home Rule for Ireland is rather more
distant than'it was. Social warfare between the
different classs, of the English people still goes
on. The German Emperor has made one more
n,istoke-that of sending his mother to Paris as an
unaccredited messenger of peace and goodwin,
whence she just escaped before French wrath had
reached the exploding point His great exNlin-
lister still broods his disgrace at Fredrichsruh.
There has been cabal in the Italian Parliament
and Signor CriSpi is out of Office but Italy stlll
holds TO the Triple Alliance and bears as best
she may her burden Of taxation well nigh not
to be borne.
France, when not devOting her energies 10
teasing Empress Frederick, is busy with the
censorship of plays, the suppression oil Del'ihS
on racecourscs. nagging al England in Egypt aAu
discussing the details of Madame Carnots parties
at the Eysec. There notion two days
ago that another financial trouble was impending
in Paris, but the Bank of France came TO the
rescue of the SOciete des Depos, as II dld TO the
help of the Bank of England last autumn ana
that is all over. VI. Rouvier, her Finance Minis
ter has now for the second time shown himself
10 picfr nc
whole, is nevertheless weaker, and radicalism and
anarchy are rather stronger since NJ. Constans
weakly and even basey gave way to them in the
suppression of Thermidor, because its denuncia-
fion of the old Reign of Terror hateful to
thosr who propose presently to set up new
one on their own account. This last event eX-
ceptcd there has been no event of very great
moment in any of the many worlds, French,
English or other, which concern themselves with
drama or science or letters or art.
The English Parliament has proceeded for the
most part in a humdrum course, though the Irish
have ceased, to great extent to trouble It's
deliberations. being much occupied at present in
wranrling. over the great question. Who is the true
liberator of Ireland? But have dealt with that
in a scparate dispatch. and it is time to turn to
some of those other questions which, In the inter
walls of Irish dispatches, may still deserve atten-
ton.
Lord Sasbury's latest Bchring Sea dispatch
is commended here almost as warmly as by the
two Anglo-Americah organs In New-lorK'
whose raptures reach us by cable Both
papers," says one dispatch "pralse LORD Sails
burys action at the expense of Mr. Blaine |
nresume neither {" The New-York Times" nor The
Evening POST had the English market in view
when it took this line. Their dislike to Mr
blaine is strong enough TO make them forget that
they are supplying powder TO the enemy. They
mirht however, remember that nothing is more
eagerly cabed from NcwYork than these anti
American views of a controversy pending between
England and America, and that nothing is more
usetul 70 the adversaries of America than Amer
lean testimony, or what passes for such, IN pehah
of the English contention The English public 10
do them justice, are not deeply eNcIteu over
this Behring sea business They did not even
lose their heads when, some three months ago,
o.e New-York correspondent, more excited than
they. cabled to his London friends that Mr. Blaine
was fitting out powerful squadron on the Pacific
Coast to prey on Canadian sealers and to do
battle with the British feet. They do, however,
stand by their own Government and their coun-
try's cause They do not allow political or pei
sonal enmity to hcgue them into attacking
their own Minister when ne is engaged in "A din
cult dispute with the Minister of another Nation
If there be a journal in England ready to 90
all lengths in partisan warfare, it is The Daily
News: bat The Daily News" which in matters
domestic is Lord SaliSburys bitter enemy, backs
him up in this international controversy just as
loyalv as The Times or The Standard ,
There is no dissenting voice in the English press
One and ALL the English papers take the Eng
lish view When shall we be able to say as much
of American papers?
Not only is there no excitement in England
hut there is general conviction that England and
America will find a common basis for arbitration.
Mr. Blaine and Lord Salisbury have each con-
ceded something. The points now at issue be-
tween them are not thought serious enough TO
prolong the controversy.
There is satisfaction that the Newfoundland dis
pute will go the same road. The agreement by
France to arbitration involved the surrender OF
O settled purpose to use Newfoundland in order
TO compel concessions by England in Egypt, and
is for that reason a more handsome action on her
part.
Canada has received more than her usual, per
haps more than her full, share of attention from
the English press, if not from the English pub
lie That rather limited section OF the English
public which concerns ItSeII aDOuU CANADIAN al
fairs was for some time provided with daily col
umns by cable, instead of the meaere paragraphs
which British journalism commonly considers suf-
fccnt for this part of Greater Britain. There
was indeed one day when The Times pub
ished no less than three columns in solid
small type, purporting to come by cable, and
embodying the views of Air Edward Blake on
the situation. Full summaries of speeches by Sir
John Macdonald and Sir Charles Tupper were
sent by the same expensive medium. The English
bad therefore, the means of forming an intelligent
epinion OH the conflict in Canada. Whether they
did form an opinion. intelligent or otherwise. is
open 10 question. The general state OF the
English mind in these perpeXing circumstances
was. | imagine, accurately denoted by the remark
NJ ope of the most eminent of the living subjects