New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-19

| cure. The speech OF the Austrian Emperor did
something to reassure the tiInid. Imperial as
| surances it is true. have 70 be received with
caution, but there are many evidences that Austria
who is threatened. IL anybody is threatened, by
Russian preparations for war-does nevertheless,
believe that peace will not be broken this year.
She is busying herself with large measures Of
domestic policy. The reports Of military move
ments toward the Austrian frontier continue,
| though the alarm they caused at first is clearly
subsidlng. The Russian press, never eminent for
reserve in its treatment of a Russian question,
makes this week a heavy draft on the credulity of
| European readers "Ihe Moscow Gazette" gives
what may ne taken as the view Of the murder
at Sophia which its Panslavst readers wish the
world to accept. The assassin OF NJ Baltcheh
was, says this journal, NJ Stamboulof. This is
not suggested joke n malicious sneer, but is
deliberately put forward as true account OF
what occurred. II may be believed in Moscow
Prince Bismarck's failure to secure majority in
the Geestemsnde election for the Reichstag on
Wednesday gives equal pleasure to those who hate
| snm and uo those who hate Germany. The
French, or at least the Partisan press, the German
Socialists and the German Emperor, all rejoice TO-
gether. The best opinion seems to be that Prince
| Bismarck will be chosen on the second ballot He
polled nearly twice many votes as his chief COM
petitor, who is a Socialist, and can only be
beaten by coalition between the Socialists, Radi-
Gals and Guelphs. which will not be easy to bring
about. The minority will put what pressure they
| can on the constituency, for Prince Bismarck's
chief object in consenting, If he did consent, TO
stand for the Reichstag was TO be able to express
| in Parliament his views on Ministerial policy. He
| has been censured for expressing them otherwise
and elsewhere and his critics said that he ought to
| be silent
Never" answered Prince Bismarck, In a speech
at Kiel on Tuesday, have come across piece
of greater stupidity than is involved in that
unheard-of demand"
| He defends his action as truly conservative
and points out that conservative and ministerial
! are not always necessarily convertible terms
Neither the Ministers nor the Emperor will like
him the better for that
There are people," adds the Prince, "who
feel impelled to make mankind happy by means
of their own elaborate devices"
1t is a thrust which may pierce even that
amor Of selfconceit and divine right in which the
Emperor delights to parade before the world
There are others, and altogether it Is clear that
attempts to silence Prince Bismarck, whether in
or out of Parliament, are not likely to succeed.
It cannot be said that the proceedings in the
Committee on the Irish Land Purchase bill do, as
a whole, excite great interest, even in the House
| of Commons itself, or outside. They drag. Irish
members have reappeared ON the scene in con-
siderable numbers and with the usual result
There Is friction if not open obstruction English
| and Scotch Radicals are, however, rather more
| prominent just now than the Irish. The time OF
the House is consumed by members of the stamp
Of Mr. Seymour Keay and Mr.. COnybeare
| The most remarkable incident of the week arose
out of the zeal of Member quite unlike these
Mr. Gladstone, who contrived on Tuesday, in the
heat of financial discussion, to get himself called
to order by the Chairman of Committee for ir-
relevancy Mr.. Courtney is bold man.
The rift between the English Radicals and the
Irish Parnellites grows wider. Mr. Morleys amend
ment. defeated finally by n majority showed how
it yawned. Mr.. Morley, whose radcalism is some
| times philosophical sometimes political, proposed
that the guarantees under the Land Purchase bill
should not be enforced without local consent. and
that bodies empowered to award this assent should
be created during the present or ensuing session.
No, said Mr. Parnen, this is to make land purchase
contingent on passing the Local Government bill ;
and he declared himself willing that this veto
should only arise when the councils had been
formed, leaving to chance or circumstance to deter
mine when they should come into existence. Mr..
Morley stood aghast. But the difference between
Mr. Morley and Mr.. Parnell is this: Mr.. Parnell
thinks that this bill will be- or may be- real
him land on as good terms as he is likely TO get,
and. therefore, wants it passed. Mr.. Morley, in
his capacity as o GladstOnian politician, peroeives
that IL still further diminishes the chances Of
Mr. Gladstone's return to power, and is against it.
The GOOD of Ireland is paramount with one party ;
with the other, to put it more charitably. Mr..
Morley believes that no real good to Ireland can
come out of the Tory camp. Mr.. Parnell, always
business-like, takes, as always, what he can get,
when he can get it, no matter from whose hands.
He is not man to fear the Greeks when they come
with gifts.
/ Wednesday afternoon is commonly dull in the
Uouse Of Commons This week it proved q scene
OF excitement which has had no precedent for
vearz Ireland of course, was the occasion. The
Irish Sunday Closing bill came up. This is one
of those measures, if it be not the only one, re-
lating TO Ireland which the leaders of both Eng
lish parties are agreed in supporting, and which
como of all sections of Irishmen oppose. Mr..
Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt shook hands
NTH Mr. Ralfour: and Mr.. Parnell and Mr. Sexton
io;ned forces on the other side. Perhaps Mr..
Eitzoerad binted at the true reason or one reason
whom he remarked that whis1ey was the only
reallv flourishing industry IN Ireland however
that may be, Irishmen urged plauslDiy, SO lar as
Tnn,isb Home Rulers are concerned, that this was,
il anything was nla''ci on "H =,
entitled to decide for themselves. "hat couiu oe
more purely Irish than the question wnee' p,t ont
Irish sbopld keen sober or drunk on Sundays? bue
.,.I,or NJ, Gladstone nor Sir William Iarcourt
ould coo tho force of this appeal, when proceed
NC from the mouth of Mr.. ParnelL He said with
point: uroroso snch n measure as
chic tor onv English city, and surely English Lib
Ills onJ Radicals. who had pledged themselves Ia
the principle of Home Rule and who denounced al
English legislation for Ireland on the plea that 1t
came in foreign garb, might have waited Tor
some cases of exceptional intemperahce 10 De SCI up
before they supported this coercion hi' iOr IL was
one" ~, c,.s..,u