The record-union., 1891-11-14
copyrighted, 1891, byN. Y. Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 13.-The Executive Com
mittee of the Conservative Association
has drafted a platform to be adopted at
the great party caucus at Birmingham on
the 23d inst. The leading proposals con-
cern Ireland. The conference will be
asked to indorse the intention of the
Ministers to extend local government
and promote technical education in Ire
land. At the same time it is declared
that the inequalities arising from accord
ing to Ireland disproportionate repre-
sentation in Parliament ought to be re-
dressed. Other important planks provide
for the extension of the franchise to
women who are landowners or house
occupants; the creation of a labor depart
ment under a member of the Cabinet,
and the legislation to enable the local
authorities to acquire land and to facili-
tate the creation of small rural holdings.
As a further concession to labor repre-
Sentation, 1t will urge the Conservatives
to support labor candidates everywhere
who appeal to enter public life upon no
party lines. This plank, contrasting it
with the Liberal pronouncement against
| labor candidates in purely labor
| interests, is deity contrived to encourage
a split in the radical wOrlmeu's vote.
a resolution proposed by Howard Vim
cent, an eager advocate of imperial fed
Grafton, who has just returned from
America full Of wrath against the McKin-
ley law, tavors a preferential tariff
| throughout the British Empire.
Startling evidence has been laid before
the Labor Commission in regard to the
| condition OF operatives in textile trades
| in Lancashire and Yorkshire, Of the
! workers scant wages. ranging from six
teen Shillings weekly upward. The sys-
tenn of relentless fines for spoiled mate
rial and petty causes abSOrbS a large per-
| centage y single fine sometimes alb
serbs whole weeks pay. Many work
men live in state OF semi-starvation.
| The track" abuses, supposed to have
! been suppressed, are still in active ex-
istence, and the Factory Acts are openly
| defied.
Due Ia Tremouille and Due de Noailles.
! prominent Orleanists, have arrived at the
! Shen House for conference with the
| Comte de Paris in regard to the charges
against Duo d'Orleans in connection
| With the Melba divorce case. The Due
| d'OrleanS persists that his relations with
! Nine. Melba has been purely platonic
| The French discuss me case as matter
that does not affect the political prospects
/ of the Orleanists. The English papers
! give almost no attention to the case.
The race horse Ormonde, i'll which an
English syndicate invested 942, 900 in re-
| buying him from the Argentine stud
! breeder, was recently offered to the Brit
ish Government. Chaplin, President of
the Board of Agriculture, declined to ac-
cept Ormonde on the ground that he was
a ''roarer." This response has raised
| public discussion beyond horse breeding
circles, in view of the fact that the horse
! Golden Plume won a race at Liverpool
| yesterday after undergoing an operation
| of frachpOfnnnv for tho of sErOor-
ing" Golden Plume had a silver pipe in
his throat, through which the trachea is
visible. The pipe is secured in the throat
! by a turned edge, the horse breathing
| through the tube with the utmost free
! dom.
Dr. Stanton Corl, successor of Moncure
Conway in the South Place Chapel, has
resigned, in order to devote himself to
| the work OF the guide movement origi-
mating in America.
The British admiralty is much excited
| over the growing record of defects in the
great guns on English war-ships. Five
vessels have recently been officially de-
clared to be carrying unreliable guns.
In the 110-ton gun Of the ironclad Ben
| bow, which has been in commission only
| a few weeks, crack was discovered in
the inner tubes after firing a few rounds
of $50 pounds each, the service full charge.
Similar accidents happened to guns on
| the Victoria and Sanspareil. Generally
these heavy weapons are becoming dis
trusted, and the admiralty has ordered a
number of them to be taken to the ord
nance works to be strengthened Mean
while the lotion guns of the French fleet
are acting perfectly.
Political clubs are interested in the
controversy raised by L. P. O'Connor in
accusing Stuart, NJ. p, of originating the
split in the Parnellite party by injurious
haste in publishing Gladstone's Novem-
Der letter to Parnell. O'Connor's abuse
of Stuart, who succeeded him as manager
of the London Star, has led to disclosure
that Arnold Morely, the Liberal whip.
gave to the press the letter referred to
under authority of Gladstone, with the
initiative of rupture in the Irish party.