Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-07

! conference of the Liberal election agents,
4 bat here was nothing OF a startling nature
ITO fide. Mr. Schnadhorst, at the close Of
conference, in summing up the reports, drew
sh average
ri Liberals Counting Unmatched Chicks.
~ He calculated that the general election
Z viii give the Liberals majority OF a in the
/ NEXT House, and held that the labor COM
Y rlications would exert only minor In
a-iuence, Sir William Vernon Harcout, In
+ cpnversing with the agents, stated that the
4 reflections were certain TO be held at the
opening of July, following the Ulster con-
vention at Belfast, and the all-lreland
| Unionist convention in Dublin In June.
The Orange lodges, Sir William asserted,
are privately subscribing money for the pur-
chase of arms to carry out the threats 10
| rebel rather than to submit to an Irish
Parliament Whether or not the Tories
sincerely believe that an armed conflict
would follow the establishment of an Irish
| Parliament, they assume the sincerity, and
| cultivate the belief that civil war would be
the outcome of home rule.
Mr. Mcdonnell, Lord alisbury's private
secretary, has written to an Oxford clergy
man that ellis Lordship is glad to see you
| impress upon the electors the probability
| that home rule would produce the greatest
of all curses-a religious civil war" After
this it is no wonder to hear of men drilling
in Ireland, and that rifles and munitions of
war are being stored in England
Ships to Fly American Flags.
The free ship bill and the report that the
Inman line will build two ships in Amer
lea, are causing considerable discussion in
English shipping circles. The first effect Of
the passage of the bill, according to En-
glish opinion, will be to advance the value
Al l;.h
of which will replace the wooden sidewheel
steamers now engaged in the American
coasting trade. A subsequent result will
be that some of the large Atlantic lines will
be put under the American flag. In regard
to the Inman line, CLYDE builders hold that
building their vessels in America will add
one-fourth to the cost, beside the extra ex-
penditures for the wages of the officers, en-
gineers, seamen and iremen.
In a conversation with representative of
the press, Sir Charles Upper, Canadian
High Commissioner to England, expressed
confidence that Lord Salisbury intends to
give effect to the desire of Canada for de-
nuuciation of the Belgian and German
treaties, despite the tenor of the recent dis
patch of Lord Knutsford, Colonial Secre-
tary, to the contrary. Lord Salisbury, Sir
Charles said, proposes to place India and
all the British colonies Oh an equal footing
Gun Importers Dodging the Tariff.
A report on the Birmingham gun trade
shows an increase of Sc per cent in the num-
Der of barrels proved in the year the Nc
Kinley tariff bill has been in operation over
the previous year. American importers are
supposed to have found way to evade the
tariff by taking the gun material in parts
Countess Clancarty, wife of the Earl of
Clancartv, whose escapades while she was
plain Belle Billion, a tavorite music hall |
singer. must still be fresh in the minds of |
American readers, has adopted the best way |
of getting into society. She has Joined a
select circle of lady horse owners. Her
horse, Sunlight, ran in the Galway Hunt,
but was beaten. Countess Clancarty has
benefited physically by entering into mat
rimonv. She now weighs 40 pounds.
No petition in Deeming's case has yet
been lodged with the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council. If petition is for
warded from Australia it will promptly be
refused hearing Mr. Lyle, Deeming's
solicitor, defended the murderer Colston,
who was executed in Melbourne last
August In that case he presented petit
tion to the Privv Council asking for re-
hearing on the ground that the Judge had
misdirected the jury on the definition of
insanity. The appeal was rejected. A
similar course in the Deeming case would
receive no consideration here.
Catholic Chaplain for the Lord Mayor
Alderman Stuart Knill, representing the
Bridge ward, who is stanch Roman Cath
olic, will be the next Lord Mayor of Lon
dom 1t is expected he will appoint a
Catholic priest as his chaplain. Should he
do so it Will be the first instance ofa Roman
Catholic holding the position since the
Captain Verney, formerly member of
who was imprisoned for gross
and who was expelled from the
House of Commons, has been released from
Holloway Jail, his term of Imprisonment
having expired. He has gone to his estate
1t Bhianva, Wales, where he will live in
the strictest seclusion and privacy. The
entire period of his Imprisonment was spent
N the prison hospital.