The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-12
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
pI1FouR WILL ANNOUNCE TOMORROW
7UE DATE OFF DISSOLUTION.

7UE DATE OFF DISSOLUTION.
r,. british Campaign VIII Open This Week
and VIII Ba short and Iivcly-Mr. stead
hiding His High Moral Horse Again
The Liquor Men VIII Work Hard to De-
fen, the Liberal Candidates-Fiascoo OF tho
Fireman Torpedo-A Poor but Noble Lord
wcd~ n Very Rich Plrbeian-OxfordD Dc
sire. to Row with the Winner ortho Next
Hnrvard-Y Yale Race-Pcter Jack son Star
ring In the British Provincss.
Joyroy Juno lit Is now settled that Bal
four will announce on Monday tho actual date
otdissulut on. and on tho following Wednes-
day he VII inauguratH Tho Tory CAM aisn by
scrrat speech at tho Conservative denonst.a-
ZION to be held in London on tho evening OF
chat dnv. He will no answered ny Mr.. Glad
,torc in a speech which tho Grand Old Man
has arranged to dsliver in Chester previous to
mis- start upon his Midlothian tour and thcro-
After for two OF three weeks tho big guns on
both sides will pound away ut each other daily.
The Grand Old Man Is as FESTIVE aud eager for
the fray as Il melted warhorse. Scarcely day
now passes upon which he docs not fire OH u
u;ti. speech. or u letter in reply to some In
onirer. or encouraSin tho Liberal candidate
selected to lead tho attack upon some Tory
stronghold. by way OF relaxation after tho
pclitcGi fight. He has promised to preside
over one OF tho sections OF the Oriental Con-
ercss be held In London early in September
and deliver IN address on Archaic Greece
and tn. East" and in the following month he
will lecture at Oxford on the history of the
universities.
A determined effort Is to be made in the
next Parliament 10 put down betting. Editor
Stead, who. as all the world knows or should
know, cxudes morality and benevoience. has.
with the ass stance of several muddlc-headed
noncntitics, drafted bill which. should 1t ever
become law. will place under the same con-
domination the small boy who plays pitch and
toss in the street and the noble Lord who
gives or takes the odds ut Epson or New
market, the lad who sells newspapers con-
tanning ordinary sporting news. the journalist
who edits them. and the printer who prints
them Even her Malestys Postmaster-Gen-
eral who. by his employees. accepts and trans
mts letters and kilograms relative to betting.
may find himself in the criminal dock and in
danger of being fined and imprisoned. But
Editor Stead and his friends are desperately in
earnest. and to them has been prom
ised the support OF number Of Rad
ical and labor members In the House
Of Commons. This monstrous measure will
in all probability attain to tho dignity OF being
debated and rejected. When one considers
the constant efforts that are made or sought
10 be made by legislative enactment and mu-
nicipal regulation to PuritaniZe this Merry
England the wonder is that the people do not
resort to sinful ways out OF sheer disgust and
revulsion OF feeling. The latest Victories in
the so-cal!ed cause OF morality are the prohi-
bition b. the London County Council Of play
ing dance music on Sundays by thesbands In
the public parks. snt the refusal by the cor
-roration Of the city Of London to open the
Guihlhall Art Gallery on the Sabbath.
Something phenomenal in record breaking
was accomplished by the House OF Commons
on Thursday night when. sitting in Committee
ofSupply for u period Of about eight houra.
itvoted the enormous sum Of f1So22. O16. In
other words. 1t sanctioned the expenditure Of
public money at the rate Of f2327,752 per
hour. or G3S.795 IT'S 4d. per minute. or fG4a
lis. 11hd. per second Altogether no fewer
than eighty live votes were agreed to. the
largest being f3.70e213. for education in
England and Wales, and the smallest so. to
complete the amount required for the Bank
ruitcy Department OF the Board Of Trade.
Lady Henry Somerset. invigorated BY her
American trip. has thrown herself into the
electoral struggle with unbounded enthusi-
party She has impaired novelty into British
political campaigning by urging the anti
!i9uo: mon and women to hold plenty OF meet
ings OF Sundays on the grounds that they are
engaged in Il religious crusade and that the
unreSen",ato masses can best De reached on
the Sabbath. Staid people, however. regard
this method OF work as American. and are not
certain that it does not SAVIOR OF atheism. Her
lady,hip will have to moderate her enthusi-
assn if no does not wish to SO. tho temperance
peoL'c b" the oars. Gnd SO pla.' into the hands
the enemy
The liquor party Ia working with great
energy on tho Tory sido. and has undertaken
to speud 100000 during the next few weeks
TO hc!p iefcut the Liberal candidates identi-
ned W til temperance principles.
Lord Randolph Churchill exhibits no sign OF
interest in the coming general election. He
will eel Il recollection for Paddington. but has
10 rr, seat intention o! taking tho stump on
behalf Of the Tory party. Only two toms OF
news relating to this orratic genius and disap-
pontel politician have appeared in the nows-
papers rhi5 week. The !lrst is to the effect that
Nc last n lot o! money at thc Loves races on
thursday by lacking tho wrorG horse IN tho
chse! race: ana the second records that he has
gwen to III" Natura! History Museum very
line stuffed l!OH aUd !iouoss which he did not
shoot in Africa.
hpsish writer's and speakers havo been SOL
emmy taken to task this week by The Scottish
WON" Euic Association for their loose habit OF
u,'nh tho terms England and English IN stead
" "E'alh and British when referring to tho
'''sh empire and its officers and institu-
WINS Americans IA well us Englishmen
e"'ulu 'aIe ho.c. for instance. that Scotland
20 Ho' included in tho torn InGland, that
queen Victoria Is British. not an English,
ho'tgeGh, and that tho Government OF this
united Kingdom is the British, not the Eng
hsh, Government. That the ilutter is re.
gurdod AS serious by the Scottish Home i:u;e
ASSOCIATION is evident from the fact that mt ts
last meeting it passed u resolution setting
forth that tho practice complained Of "isn do
hberato attempt to deiraud our country and
conntrymea OF their treaty rights and prjv.
i"gcs and to degrade Scotsman from their
Proper historical position and make their
country moro province Of England"
A"e!.ess to say. had Il resolution on such
lines been passed 10y the Irish National League
II would have Oocn called rank tr,a son; hu,