Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16
LAWS TO BE 0VERHAULED
So That Hereafter Things Will Be
Favorable to the People.
TIE BATTLE OVER yIvISECTION
Becoming Vivid in Its Intensity and the
Epithets Used.
The INTERESTING NEWS FROM EUROPE
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH l


LONDON, Oct 15.-I COPYRIGHT ]-Readers
Of The DISPATCH have been prepared
for news of the Tory victory in Cir.
encester and the consequent reduction Of
Nh. Gladstone's parliamentary majority to
S. The Liberal defeat was entirely due to
a variety of local causes which have been
sufficiently explained in this correspond
ence, but the result will strengthen the
great determination to reform the electoral
laws at the earliest convenient moment
The register of voters upon which Ciren-
cester was fought was compiled in July,
1891, and large number of agricultural
laborers, nearly all Liberals, who have
shifted residences since then, found them
selves disfranchised simply because they
had moved from one cottage to another.
About 200 such removals have taken place
since the general election, and that alone
would practically account for the Tory vic
tory. A new register was compiled last
July, but it will not come into operation
until the first of January next The sys-
tenn is admittedly so bad that the Govern
ment will probably receive some Tory help
in reforming it.
Mr.. Gladstone has found time to prepare
lecture on medieval universities, and will
deliver it at Oxford on the oath inst He
will arrive at Oxford on the 22d, reside at
his beloved university until the 25th, and
then come to London to take part in series
of Cabinet councils at which the legislative
programme of the Government in the
coming session will have to be settled.
The Ministers are already agreed, how
ever, that the session shall commence the
middle of January, several weeks earlier
than is customary, and that the three chief
measures to be submitted to Parliament
shall provide for home rule for Ireland,
disestabiishment of the alien English
Church in Wales, and reform of the laws
relating to Parliamentary electionA Other
bills will be introduced, but the three
measures mentioned, together with supply
and the various topics which invariably
turn up for discussion outside of the Gov
eminent programme will almost certainly
'ufice to occupy the whole time of the
tssion.
How the Grand Old Man Is Progressing.
\ The grand old man continues to enjoy
1cellent health, but he will spend at least
we month of the winter in Southern
Europe 1t is estimated that since his re-
turn to power Mr. Gladstone's correspond
ence, which has always been large, has in
creased four-fold, and his secretaries can
scarcely cope with it. The proportion of
purely abusive letters is much larger than
when Mr.. Gladstone was a private citizen,
while, curiously enough, the number of
presents sent by enthusiastic admirers has
decreased
The latest gift which the Grand Old Man
has received came to hand the other day
per parcels post from Scottish working
man, in the shape of handsome walking
stick made of hickory, "cut by your humble
servant from wood growing on the estate of
the late Right Honorable Mr. Macdonald,
Prime Minister of Canada" with handle
of Highland elm. The worthy workman
further explained that his forefathers were |
true and stanch Liberals, which one can |
we'll believe, and he expressed the hope |
that the stick might long support Mr..
Gladstone sin slashing Goschen and Bal
four out of the House of Commons'