New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-27

res's upon no hearsay, nut upon dispatch from
Count BernstorG, then Prussian Minister in Lon
DON MIR. Gladstone with all his passionate
Gallic sympathies which govern his mind to this
day, told Count BernstorT that Prussia had in
1870 gone to the utmost limits of conciation
and that France would be most fagrantly in the
wrong if she insisted on further concessions.
So leisurely are the French papers in collection
OF news and comment on it that their brief sum
mares and less brief editorials on the German
Chancellors speech did not appear till Yesterday.
They are singIlarly bitte,. both against Count
Won Caprivi and against England for approving
what he said. They are enraced that the Ems
incident should once moro be put in its true light
and that France should have 10 resume all her
crushing responsibilities for wanton attack on
Germany. 1t was not 10 be expected that they
should approve of the new Army bills. They
find comfort in the absence Of all allusion TO the
Triple Alliance, and profess 70 believe that Ger
many is preparing TO fight France and Russia
single-handcd
France is, in truth, more occupied with the
Panama scandal than with any outside topic
The decision of the Government to prosecute NJ.
de Lcs-eps and certain other directors was an
unpopular decision. II might have been other
WISE had there been any hope of recovering the
money they sqnandered; but there is nonc and
as there is none, they angry that discrcdit
should be brought on France in the eyes OF the
world and on the man who for more than thirty
years they have been calling the Great French
man. But the prosecution became secondary
matter when NJ. Delahayc demanded and th"
Chamber of Deputies granted, Parliamentary
inquiry into the whole business and especially
into the accusations Of bribery against Deputies
and Senators. There was a most stormy slttih2'
NJ Dcrahayc's charges were specific enough aS 10
the payment Of money, but he refused TO give
names. although alleging that more than hundred
had corrupty received money. IN" committee
of thirty-thrce appointed TO investigate the'e
charges has since met but NJ. Dcahayc Is re-
ported still TO refuse the names, saying thau h'
has only moral proofs Everybody knows what
that means He has, however. handed to the
committee and 70 the press long statement, indl-
eating certain sources of evidence which may or
may not prove fruitful. Everything in France
turns into politics. and already the rcactionary
Journals are predicting the overthrow of the Re-
public as the effect of these disclosures. 1t docs
not. however, seem likely TO occur for several
days.
have said in another column so much on Eng
lish politics that | will add hut n word here.
The rehabilitation of the political world proceeds
/
the other, but al great speed in both Inc
-nionsts are content TO lie on their oars for the
present They look with interest and perhaps
| with cynical content on the struggles OF thclr
rivals. now that they are actually in oilc" ana 10
some extent in power. The nlonlSts nave ho
election pledges maturing and no Impoesip" pro
| rrammc TO fulfil; they al" not haraNSed pN coh-
| tending factions each insisting that IFS own par
ticular crotchct shall he first on the list oi MIN
| isIerial measures, ami they await the meeting ol
Parliament at the end Of next January ~reheN.
| They are even ready, or son" oi thch "re' W '''
a benevolent hand to the Government against
some of it's own more extreme supporters
| Leading man among them averrcd the other day
| that the best chance the Government has ot sur
vjving the session lies in Unionist support 20 Min
| jstcrs tormented by their radical followers
The Irish said this philosophical POLITICIAN
think they hold the balance Of power ana can
turn ont the Ministry if il does not come TO heel
| on Home Rule TO the crack Of the irish whlp'
| They NAV find themselves mistaken. We snail
stand by the Government when il stands by the
| Union
| Consider on the other hand the declaration OF
| a Gladstonian whom many look 10 az the leader
| of the radical wing, Of the most radical Wig
| of the Gladstonian party. He was asked nor lone
since, whether he thought the Government wonIl
| live through the session. Nou had better ASK
whether they will live through the debate on the
| ADDRESS, was his answer II is the answer Of an
angry and bitterly disappointed man, hut also o.
one who has some power Ia CIV" effect 20 MS Nelcn
| prophecies ard his hardly vciled Ill Will
! Labor questions have occupied public attention
| In ENGLAND 10 a very unusual degree. ne LABOR
| Commission has resumed its sittlngs and heard
some important and much nnlmporant cNldehcc
| This very strong and able Commission spent three
DAYS in listening TO Mr.. Tom Mann. who repre-
scnts labor on the Commission itself lhcy were
M, entirely wasted. because Mr. Mann IL one Of
the tlrcc or four most influential leaders of work
! inpmcn. and his views and proposals were weak
enough and chimerical enough to make it clear
that his clients have no wcll-conSidercd scheme Of
| reform.
| The uncmployod meantime meet daily on Tower
Hill 10 air their grievances and to listen to snch
oraceS of socialism as DR.. Aycling, WHO told thc
on Tuesday that he 0athcd and dct'bted the mih-
die classes and locked upon them as accurscd
These accurscd middle ella scs are nevertheless
doing much 10 relieve the other working claSS's.
Tho London County Council may be considered
| their representative body, and IT loses no chahc'
of trying new experiments III the interest OF the
artisan sometimes with little regard to prudence
I,e latest move is 10 90 into the building business
on its own account, apparently 'ccauSf l'h "'""P'
70 force contractors TO pay more than the market
| rates for labor has not been entirely successful
The Council has now agreed to appoint sort OF
builder-ecncral who is to buy plant and matcra' :
sufficient to erect all cdiiccs wanted for municipal
purposes, and TO pay trades union rates 10 work
men The church, not to he left behind In thc
race for the suYragcs Of the great artisan majority
has held conference at Lambeth under the
presidency of the Archbishop Of Canterbury, to
| see what it can do in relief Of the poor. That
also is now a labor question, and there are dozen
others.
! IL is rcckoned matter for congratuation that
| there were in England during the whole OF last
month but forty strikes There have formerly