The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-25

This as the world all knows, Is the
"of season" in London. An Englishman
is never completely happy, it is said, un-
less he is killing something, and the
grouse having bad their turn. Oh the Eth
of August the doom OF the paTtrldgcs
sounded. All English country houses
are full, and the reaped wheat fields are
being hunted in the Southern and Mid
land counties with the characteristic
energy which always distinguishes uyl-
lied men when their purpose Is slaugh-
ter.
GLADSTONE.
II is considered positively disreputable
TO be 'in town" at this moment, ana you
may ranble through Hyde Park whole
afternoon without meeting sontnry
equipage whose appearance w0uiu JUS
tify tie suspicion that one OF London
'.fo,r hundred" was in it. In that con-
secrated drive no public vehicle, however
handsome. is ever allowed, and of the
crowds which turn into It's broad
avenues by ApSley House not one SIT
behind q hired horse. Sluce my stay
here / have twice seen Mr.. Gladstone
once when Oh his way to Osborne 10
kiss hands" or his assumption OF tlie
premiership, and again yesterday. ~
was very greatly hoped that ne WouIu
promised before the Oriental congress,
hut il is now understood that he will
not. and his son will read It. There
seems TO be absolutely no limit to the
prodigious intellectual activity OF the
aold man" Lord Broughams case is
the nearest approach 70 1t III modern
times but even bis is only an apprOAlina,
ton. The cases of Oliyer " enuah
Holmes and Whittier, often clteg Us
American parallels, bear no resemblance
TO his. The placid and extremely ililileu
intellectual scope OF their hNes uoys .T
merit mention in COMPARISON Win lle
wealth and versatility and lmpe-
rial sweep of Gladstone, who 10,
dav addresses a General Councli
Of tho most erudite specialist In held
for the cultivation of whose tilileSt cor
nor the whole Of the most learned hVes
scarcely sufices. while yesterday he was
fighting for stTictest orthodoxy against
the prince of agnostics, fiunley. ana lo-
morrow will be discovering WIN apr
t1,de Of learning a disputed reading or
Homer or busying himself, as he lately
has done. with hunting through the dim
naees extemporary letters or the more IL
Iusive WAYS of deduction from his own
WRITINGS "The Wanderings OF Dante.
And with il all he is the best living par
Iiarnentary debater, almost the best Nv
ing general historian. and far and away
the most masterful politician OF me cen
turv. In that field l DO not tnink ms
merits. even in England. are sutliclently
appreciated. One can only measure tneh
by the circumstance that English I0rylsm
no longer exists.
EXTREME ToRYIsM DEAD.
do not meet the Toryism Of Pitt or
Percival or CaStlereagh or Nelllngton.
but the extremely modified Ioryisih OF
Russell or even Of D'lryalle. 1t Is as
dead as the dodo. Many things have
combined to produce this result but the
most potent factor has been William II.
Gladstone. who. commencing his par
Elementary life as a Tory, has gradually
but surely grown into Democracy
which would be Radicalism but for two
things-his passionate loyalty TO the
rcigning house and his sincere devotion
10 the Church of England. To compare
this prodigious and varied activity with
the dlletantism Of Holmes or the Jng-
ling career Of Whittier. who is no more
of a poet than / am (which eXhausts crit
icism) is absurd. Mr.. Gladstone has
lived more in any FIVE years of the last
half century than both of these easy gen
tlemen in the whole of it.
QUEER ISTERREGNUM.
Just now queer interregnum, unnar-
alcled. ! believe. in modern parliamon,,
tary history. obtains. OF course II VIII
not be admitted, but | do not doubt that
a bargain was made between Lord Sails
bury and Mr. Gladstone last February
that if the Liberals would offer no fac-
ito IS opposition to the financial measures,
which here go 10y the general name 81
"sunpy," the Conservatives, in the event
of Mr.. Gladstoncs success, would let nm
have the rest Of the year for the matur-
ing Of his policy.
Why the government did not resign on
the issue of the election, no one knows.
Salisbury's friends now admit that 1t was
n mistake The vote of want Of conf
dence" which ousted them did not pretend
to specialize the objections OF their adj
versaries 1t was simply formal and
parliamentary declaration Of the result
of the polling. But it had this very sin
gular result. that the government has
been turned ont without a declaration OF
fault. and another, not only indicted, But
guaranteed a half a years existence with
out an official declaration Of its policy in
any particular. Every one knows that
Mr.. Gladstone is pledged. as far as home
politics are concerned. 10 the Newcastle
programme. but the means he
is completely "footlooosc' to de-
wise. As to foreign politics Eng
land has but two questions. and
has had but two since the Berlin treaty
Russian advance i'm Southern Asia. and
her outstay in Egypt. Smitten by the
double horror of famine and peSlllence,
and tremendously cramped for money,
Russia, though never at rest on The At
CHAN border, cannot contemplate ruinOus
war. As to Egypt. no power but France
gives the slightest heed to Englands pos
session and as long rs the Triple Alliance
holds French protests are tune quantite
neglgeahle." Sir Charles Dixie and Mr..
Labouchere constantly clamor for the
fulflment of the promises made under
orders OF bis government bv ! dn''r'l Sow
mour in 1SS2, announced officially ~
lord Duiferin, then minister al Constan-
tinople, and repeated since win suspi-
cl0us identity OF phrase by every govern
ment. Tory and Liberal. for the last ten
years. that England would evacuate
Egypt. In fact. there is nothing Ike the
unanimity with which all Enclishmcn in
Office say that England viii evacuatc
Egypt. except the unaAllnlty wiki which
all Englishmen out of power say Size Will
nor.
Indeed since 50 pretty much all the
great Powers have been raidiug Africa
on their Individual account, anl it would
seem to require some little auaacity for
the French at Algiers the Italians at
Tunis and at Manowah, the Germans at
Zanzibar, the Dutch here, the Belgans
there, to complain of John Bull or the
Nile So ] fancy the Egyptian question
is not in the range OF practical politics
except in the form in which Lord Sails
bury was willing three years ago to solve
ii, tO-Wit: by contract 20 leave at some