The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-26
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
sREAT BRrTArN's ELECTORAL CANVASS
has REGUN IN EARNEST.


has REGUN IN EARNEST
STANLEY Howied Down aud Other speakers
Roughly Ussd-eisastoue's Prospects for
Living 600 Year. - Mckinley rs Cam.
pn,xu Ammuuitiou--A brutal Assault on
Tim He.iy In Dubiin-Dr. Keeiey Wants
20 Tars Eritish DrunRnrds in Hand-B'e
Prices 1t the Sale OF the Dudley Pictures
Buffalo BnI and HE Braves Perform
Esrors Queen vieioria-stories OF wild
Oats sowu by the Duke OF Kent.
LONDON. Juno 25.--Parliament will not BIO
formally dissolved until next Tuesday. but
tho great electoral struggle has begun in
earnest Mr.. Gladstone and the other leaders
have issued their mnnifestoes IN the FORM OF
addresses to their constituents and have since
been making speeches The daily newspapers
contain scarcely anything excs.S politics.
md there Is so much OF that mat orators.
usually rcported verbatim or to tho extent OF n
column, arc now relesated to paragraphs.
Everywhere the light is being fought with de-
Termination on both sides. aud the popular
interest and enjoyment arc demonstrated by
hstcuFs US wstt rs arguments in this country
and Ireland nike. Mr.. ". NJ. Stanley. the
friend of Kings. who thought that tho magic OF
his namc would suffice to CAPTURE North LAM
beth without serious effort on his part
has been howcd down and mobbed by
quite common people. and has been
glad 70 cot. for protection. behind his
wi,e's ,otticoats. Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain Mt
Coventry last night had to sit down five times
In the course of his speech while his body
guard threw out scores OF interrupters whom
he had denounced rs drunken blackguards.
but who were in reality overenthusiastio
Gialstonians who had managed to get into the
encmy's CAMP His brother Richard. BY . Gu
rious coincidence. had an extremely warm ex-
perience at exactly the eame time IN the
Islington division Of London. which he Ia con-
testing. and. like Stanley In Lambeth. had to
shelter himself behind his wife. Even Mr.
Balfour in Leeds last night had to speak amid
continual intsrru ptions. although his audi
ence had been carefully selected and was sup
posed to contain not single Liberal. All this
shows that the people are taking keen interest
4 the general election. and that Is good ONION
5or the success OF Gladstone and homo rule.
Mr.. Gladstone alone seems to be able to COM
mand universal respect There are never any
interru options at his meetings. and even the
promiscuous crowds assembled at the railway
stationR listen to him In respectful silence
md cheer him with unanimous enthusiasm.
Dr. Clark Ia reported to have said recently:
"There is no physical reason why Mr.. Glad
store should not live to be zoo years old
And certainly at Chester. where he addressed
q big meeting to-day. the Grand Old Man
seemed to be man in the very primo o. physi-
cal and intellectual vigor.
This Is emphatically the time for mani.
festoes. Every interest threatened with Par.
liamentary Interference has Issued appeals to
the electors. and all the fadists and others who
have knives to grind on the great Westmin.
ster milestone have sent out macifestoes By
the thousand. The United Empire Trade
League has spent q small fortune In mailing
literature designed to prove that the policy OF
imperial protection can alone save England
from sure decay: but the League is not likely
to get any return for its money except per-
haps in Sheffield. where its President. Col.
Howard Vincent. Is one Of the Tory candidates
The local organ OF Toryism. the Daily Tels-
Graph. has for years past been advocating pro-
lection. and apparently with considerable OF.
feet, because in Sheffield the election will b
fought moro upon economic questions than
upon home rule. Sheffield. more than any
other manufacturing centre In England. has
felt the effect OF the new American tariff. and
Major Mckinley Ia In consequence name ab
horred. Major Mckinley little knew when 9
week or more ago he praised Lord Salisbury
protectionist utterances what q scurvy trick
lie was playing upon the Sheffield Tories. His
words were cabled here. and they are at TIL!
moment placarded in big and flaming posters
on the grimy walls Of the cutlery town. "Vot'
for the friends OF Mckinley and protection" II
one Of many telling nook appeals issued from
the Liberal committee rooms. 1t stares In thu
face thousands OF men who for many month";
past have becn walking about the town will
idle hands In their pockets. cursing the Amer
lean to whom they believe their troubles ar
al lrn a tal NJ fha f,nnd tim
before Mckinley. when there was no stint o
beef and beer and the workingmsn had monel
to SPARE to back his favorite sprinter or rae,
horse
The Tories are trying hard to prove tina
there is nothing In common between them ant
American protsctionists. and workingmen or,
asked to help roturn Lord Salisbury to powel
In order that he may demonstrate how little
no loves Major Mckinley.
Tory candidates Of the baser sort are max
Ing INSCRIPTIONS use OF the anti-Popery or,
started by Lord Salisbury and emphasized b,
Protestant conventions In Belfast, Dublin. ant
London. According to the Ulster newspaperl
n discovery has just been mado at Porta
down which will doubtless he trumpeted forth
at many Tory meeting as another proof o
tho danger OF home rule to the Protestant
minority In ireland Tho story Is that thu
men engaged in making quay at Portadowr
have. In the course OF their excavations or
the river bank. discovered about dozen hu
man skulls and other fragments OF tho re-
mains OF Protestants mastered by beinG
driven into the river by rebs!lious Catholics II
l84l."
One scarcely knows which TO admire thu
more. the singular opportuneness OF THU
discovery" or the precision with which the
religious complexion OF human remains 351
years old was ascertained.
One curious effect OF the general election I.
to put money into the pockets Of tho lawyer
VINO ns rule. are not overburdened will
briefs. But three-iourths Of the leading bar
nsters practising In the High Court of Justio.
are cHndidates for Parlame ntary honors ant
a. the Judges have dec!in ed to postpons ca "a,
for their convenience until after the elections
they have had to return briofs already In b.nI
and refuse others The novel spectacle ha,
therefore been afforded Of solicitors scarchin,
In vain for counsel Litigsnts will benefit b,
this etato Of things. because instead o, pawn,