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


The CalcdOnian and North British railways. which
between them monopOlize Scotland and tyran-
nizc it, are bitter enemies: but they Joined hands
against the common enemy The shipping inter
ests of England hOncycombcd with rivalries
Of every kind, but they united TO fight the unions.
! The Shipping Federation includes some 100000
| tons OF shipping and nearly every great steam
| ship line in England. 1t has been well and boldly
! guided by Mr.. Laws and his colleagues. They
| took their stand the simple principle that
| they would manage their own business, and not
! allow the secretary of the Sailors and Firemen'S
, Union to manage it for them. The struggle
| turned, as many others have turned, on the
| claim Of the unions to exclude all non-union men
from employment. The union officials rcsorted to
boycotting and pielyetng. AS usual, they have
! been so completely defeated that their men are
! leaving them by thousands and legitimate business
proceeds usual at every port i'll the United
| Kingdom.
The most important act of the House OF Com
mons during the week has been the passage of the
Small Holdings bill. perhaps the most important of
the session. for this is one Of those half Socialisc
| measures characteristic of the time. Mr.. Cham
berlain who is in agricultural matters Mr.. Jesse
| COllingss disciple and not tmid man, described
it as allowing the local authorities TO set poor
men up in business. These local authorities are
in fact empowered by this bill TO buy land and
either to sell or TO lease il in small lots and may
even put up buildings. Few finer fields for job
berry have been opened and few measures adopted
by an awise Legislature better adapted to de-
moralizc the classes they are meant to benefit.
But Mr. Jesse Ceilings. whom Mr.. Gladstone once
| used, then threw over, has his revenge. what
more could he wished? Both political parties
have now fairly entered upon race for tie
Iaborers, votes This bill went through the
House of Commons without division.
Next after this Mr.. Bafour's statement on the
relief of Irish distress is notable, and notable
for nothing more than for the applause bestowed
| on him by his opponents lie has. by their ad-
mission grappled with this problem with as much
success as is humanity possible He has dis
tributcd large sums of money. entered upon con-
siderable industrial and financial enterprises of the
| light railway order, acyiatcd much misery in
the districts most congcSted, swept aside that
| mposturc and spurious sentiment which usually
dog these official efforts, and proved himself a
| good man of business. good administrator, and
| a real beneiactor to Ireland.
| Mr. Iiddcrdalc, Governor Of the Bank Of Eng
| land is not only an able inanccr, but dramatic
| artist. lie appeared in this new capacity al a
| general court of the Governor and Company OF
| the Bank of England held on Friday. 1t then
became his duty to describe what he had done
| in the matter of Barring Brothers. Nothing in
| Monte Cristo" surpasscs it in romance. The
| Barings made clear breast Of it early in Novem-
! ler last Mr.. Liddcrdalc and his colleagues were
then invited to come TO their rescue. They spent
| four DAYS in Investigation, and found that the
| Barings' liabilities exceeded f20,000,00O sterling.
Their assets than covered this great sum,
but could not be realized in time to prevent their
,I.o hon do.
have been the signal for a crash TO which all
other financial disasters IN history would have
| bocn triles SO lat 3 o'clock Friday after
! noon" saws Mr. Liddcrdalc, "a guarantee list was
| opened and headed with 81, 100000 by the BANK
| of England In half an hour the amount reached
| c3 0O0, 900. and a quarter to II next morning
| it was c6,jO0 600, and at 12 o'clock was able to
announce that the liabilities of the firm would be
| surely met Ultimately the guarantee list
reached Gl1,250,00O sterling. Liquidation has
proceeded. The Barring Liabilities had been reduced
| by March to $500, 900, plus f6,jO",OOO due.
Bank assets will cover this There is promise of
a surplus, and no loss 10 the public or the guar
antors is expected. We'll might the general court
pass a vote of thanks to their Governor, and
well NAV it be said. as it has been. that he had
| nothing to envy the victor of Austcrtz or Sedan.
| Sir Charles Dixie has chosen what seems an
| odd moment for his c1ort to rc-cntcr public life.
| He puts himself forward as Gladstorian candi-
date a year and a half before an election is likely
10 occur There is no vacancy in the Forest of
Dean nor is there likely to be any till this Parlia-
mcnt has been gathered 10 its fathers-probably.
# all goes well in the autumn of 1892. Sir
/ Charles puts himself up 10 be shot at durino all
this long interval. SO great is lis Impotence that
he forgets, and expects others 10 forget, his own
explicit pledge rot TO attempt 70 Tc-cnter public
| lie til he had vindicatcd his character. II"
has neither vindicatcd il nor taken any single
step toward vindcating it. What he has done i
10 publish n pamphlet enbodying such comments
on the proceedings in tie Divorce Court
as to him or TO his legal advisers seem
| likely 10 shake the general conviction OF ms
pnih II is an idle effort. No number
of pamphlets will avail against the verdlcts
of two juries who, after a full hearing, agreed
that Mrs. Crawford had committed adultery with
Sir Charles Dixie. The second verdict had the
full concurrence of Mr. Justice Ilannen, who tried
| the case, than whom faircr and few ADLER
| Judges ever set on any bench He must do more
than upset these vcrdicts. What damaged him
| more than the verdict, what was worse than the
stains and smrchcs Of the Divorce Court what
| drove him from public life, what destroyed him in
the estimation Of honorable men, was the feeling
that in all this dcplorabe and dcspicablc busi-
| ness he had not behaved like an honorable man.
That feeling will not be csScned by his reap
pearancc on the political platform i'll violation Of
| his public pledge nor by his speech TO the Forest
| Of Dean electors. He meets none of the points.
lie says nothing to justify his present attitude.
| He has not, far can judge, shaken public
| belief in his guilt sOltcned the common con
victon that he is impossible political leader
The press, with few exceptions, passes him over
in silence or condemns him. His return TO full
communion in the Liberal party would be con
siderable event, but they do not believe in his
return. The NoncOmiOrmist conscience, OF which
so much has lately been heard in connection with
Mr. Parne is seadfast against him WITH as i'll