New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-05

not lack enthusiasm. Yesterday the Emperor ana
Empress left Tor the much less interesting Hague
Thence. they went 10 Rotterdam. and in both
cities everything went we'll Berlin paper says
in its German way that the Emperors visit Will
confirm the neutrality of the Netherlands, which
will insure q supply of cereals to Germany in the
event of European war.
The alleged interview between Count Munster,
the German Ambassador at Paris, and NJ. Blowitz
which The Times publishes contains but one
noint Of importancc Count Munster is made to
say that the old German Emperor, this boys grand
father, had conceived the notion of dismlssng
Prince Bismarck and replacing him by General
Caprivia The statement is denied by Berlin;
but true or false, ii is meant to suggest that the
present Emperor in cashiering the Chancellor was
only carrying out the secret wishes of William the
First. 1t is foolish story
President Kruger has been as good as his word,
and the Boer trek is damped once for all IL
dwindled from 900 to a single 90 armed Beers,
who tried to cross the LimpopO River into
MashOnaland They were ANONYMOUSLY stopped
by the police of the British South Africa Com
pany, exactly as if they had been gang of East
End roughs starting out To loot the West End OF
London. Their leader, a kind of Dutch Saliva
ton Army captain, arrested and then CON
TEN mptuously released. No further trouble IS eX-
pccted" says the Cape Town dispatch lacOnically
The days of great Dutch migratons into South
African promised lands are over. Not even Lord
Randolph will revive them, for Lord Randolph
has business interests singularly Incompatible with
the kind of South African politics he has lately
been talking. He has given, as it were postum
nous approval TO Mr.. Gladstone's Majuba Hill
surrender. Even Gladstonians not grateful to
him for this pocpOtric view They had rather
Mauba Hill were forgotten.
Very interesting and significant, if true, is the
news that France has crossed the border of Slam,
or Of the State tributary to Slam. She has long
cast a cOvetOus eye the Lao States and on
Siam itself Her experiment in TOnquin has
taught her little Her aim is still to become
mistress of provinces and Kingdoms enough in
the Far East to console her for the loss of India
and to repay her in some degree for her suicide
in Egypt Siam is a kingdom which France can,
if she chooses subdue but Siam is tributary to
China, and not even the statesmen of the Paris
bOulevards can believe China likely to acquieSce
cheerfully In a French conquest of any country
in which China has an interest. If, therefore,
NJ de Freycinet and NJ. Ribot have really resolved
on another Oriental annexation, they have entered
upon a career of which no man can foresee the
end The story Of the movement of French troops
is of course denied from Paris, but such denials
90 for little.
England looks on with some curiosity, and does
not much relish the prospect of having a French
neighbOr on the Burmese frontier. But the
Power TO whom all these French adventures in
the East are most interesting is Germany, and
Germany welcomes with delight every fresh en-
gaeement of French resources in distant enter
prises.
The Free Education bill passed through Com
mittce early this morning. and is now practi-
cally safe 1t has been amended in some useful
particulars in Committee and though It does not
make education entirely free, is undoubtedly the
most important measure relating TO education since
Forster carried his great Act Of 1870. The very
Radicals who at first derded the bill and its author
who said that it was never meant to be passed
who attacked it on a dozen different grounds,
now rejoice over its passage.
The Land Purchase bill has passed through
Committee in the House of Lords almost un-
scathed. There were peers who would have liked
to pull it to pieces but they were warned of
The only important amendment was Lord bon
donderry's, modifying the distribution of the
funds between large and small tenants. Minis
tcrs accepted this amendment. Whether the
House OF Commons Will is doubtful; but the point
and there is no longer any doubt that this great
measure will speedily be law.
The major accommodation has once more
been pronounced against Mr.. Parnell. The arch
bishops and bishops of Ireland, assembled at May
nooth, adopted a resolution recording the solemn
expression of their Judgment that Mr.. Parnell, by
his public misconduct, has utterly disqualified
himself to be political leader. They add that
Mr.. Parnelps action since they first denounced
him. especially his open hostility TO ecclesiastical
authority, has supplied new and convincing proof
that he is wholly unworthy of the confidence OF
Catholics. We therefore call on our people 70
repudiate his leadership Well, if the Irish
people like TO take their politics from their priests,
it is 10 some extent their affair; but imagine Eng
lish archbishops and bishops in solemn cOnclavc
declaring Mr.. Gladstone or Lord Salisbury unfit
10 be political leader and calling on the English
PEOPLE 10 Tepudiate them or either of them. These
episcopal thundCrs moreover, are not mere thun-
der Priests are refusing ahsolution and the com
munon to men who, in spite of priestly pro-
hibition continue 10 support Mr Parnen. Cases
Of this kind are said by those who know Ireland
well To be frequent. Few of them, for obvious
reasons, get into the papers; but at least one
lrishman under this piiestly ban has had the
courage to tell the truth, and his statement has
| lt.udlUeu n lOlllGNI uHuCIHu. line was NIl'h
such story would have reused Protestant Eng
land, but Protestantisin, at least of the Noncon-
iormist kind, is now much occupied in condemn
ing adultery and gambling, and utters 40 protest
while the Church Of Rome is quietly asserting its
control over the political conscience of Ireland.
The Labor Commission continues its sessions.
II seems ready to listen to anybody who wishes TO
air his opinion. This may not be quite the
object with which the Commission was formed,
but it is a useful function. More than one social
isic crank has been before LORD Derby and his
colleagues Of Group b. There was for example,
Nh Quelch, known to his comrades Of the South
side Labor Protection League as Quech the
tyrant-qucller. Mr.. Quclch is opposed to labcr-
saving machinery. Mr. QUelch thinks all men
should be guaranteed eight hours work per day
and allowed to work no more But he makes an