Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-30
TORIES GIVE IT UP.
They Concede a Liberal Majority of
so Even as Early as May.
THE FIXED END OF PARLIAMENT.
Salisbury Went Delay Longer. Fearing
More Crushing Defeat.
CONSERVATIVES ASK NO MUGWUMP AID

PREss.1
LONDON, Jan. 29-If no change occurs
in the political situation serious enough to
cause the Ministers to reconsider their de-
cision, Parliament wi IL be dissolved in May.
A majority of the Cabinet agreed at the
last Cabinet Council to hasten the cleo
tions. The meeting occurred under the
shadow of the result of the Rossendale con-
test.
A report of the Central Conservative As
sociation, summarizing the advlces received
from agents in the electoral centers on the
chances of early and delayed dissolution,
was before the Ministers, leading to a con-
currence of opinion that a speedy appeal to
the country is the best policy. A highly
placed Ministerialist states that this deter
mination is largely due to an official calcu-
lation based on the best attainable data,
that the general elections, if taken soon,
will give Gladstone majority of about 90,
including Irish vote, while postponement
of the elections is certain to increase the
Liberal majority and consolidate the Lib
eral ranks, at the same time weakening the
Unionists.
The Dissident-Tory Alliance Doomed.
Among the unexpected results of the
Rossendale election, the impending rupture
between the Dissidents and Conservatives
is the most important. The Tories have
long been fretting under the supposed dicta-
tion of the Dissident leaders, and have
hitherto submitted solely because they be-
lieved that the Dissidents commanded a
number of electoral districts where the Con-
servative chances were hopeless. The re-
suit in Rossendale disillussioned the Con-
servatives regarding the fighting strength
of their allies.
The leading Conservative papers through
out the country, which better represent the
sentiments and policy of the party than do
the London organs, concur in demanding
that the Conservatives be freed from an
alliance which now weakens instead of
strengthening the genuine Conservative
forces
A rupture, however, would not imply
hostility. The cessation of the alliance,
according to the Conservative argument,
would not prevent the Dissidents retaining
what few seats their own voting power
really commands.
No Right to Mold the Party Policy.
In constituencies where they still hold
some voting remnant, they ought, it is
maintained, either to hold aloof from con-
tests or support the Conservative candidate
without claiming right to mold Conserva-
tive policy.
The signal for revolt against the Con-
sentative nionist compact ftly comes
from the headquarters of unionism in Bir-
mingham, where conference of Conserva-
dafa HoI hot ho hoI
come to dissolve the alliance. As large
number of Conservative agents urge that
the question ought to be Immediately set
tied Lord Salisbury will be asked to take
the sense of the party at a reunion of the
Conservative members as soon as the House
OF Commons assemblies.
The dissolution can hardly be effected be-
fore Whitsuntide. The Ministers propose
to devote the whole session until Easter TO
the estimates. The Irish local government
bill will be introduced on the verge of the
Easter recess, and the second reading will
be had Immediately after the recess. The
Ministerialists rely upon obstruction to
the measure to afford them a reasonable ex-
cuse for an appeal to the country.
Discouraged Conservatives Not in the Ring.
The precarious prospects of the coming
session are having an effect on the personal
of Commons. About 120 members will not
seek reelection. Others, especially
Conservatives knowing the Ministerial
plans, will not take residences for the sea-
son. The proceedings in Parliament prom
ise to be marked by listless expectancy,
everybody waiting for the signal to CO.
The Irish party has been called to meet
at Westminster February 9 to re-elect the
Chairman. In view of the expiring of the
present Parliament, Mr.. Mccarthy is will
ing to retain the chair for the session.
The Conservative rural conference, in i'm
itation of the recent Liberal conference,
proved a. burlesque of popular gathering.
After prolonged canvass among laborers,
Mr.. Chaplain's agents collected at Ely a
SCRATCH body of 210 pseudo-delegates
licans and hired rustics seduced by free
railway tickets and free quarters at the
hotels.
Not Dignified Gathering.
A smoking concert yesterday evening,
with free beer, opened the conference
After the singing of some comic songs, Sir
Edward Birnbeck, NJ. p, talked on the
need of parish councils, laborers' allotments
and old-age pensions, and promised legisla-
tion to compensate farmers for pigs killed
on account of swine fever.
To-day Mr.. Chaplin, although in a more
serious vein, spoke similarly, and invited
the delegates to state their views for sub
mission to the Cabinet, with the view of
Ministerial promotion of bills during the
ensuing session. Much speech-making en-
sued, but no resolutions were passed. 1t is
obvious that the character of the conference
will prevent its having the smallest In
fuence on future legislation.
The suicide of Hume Webster, the horse
breeder, has been discovered to be due to
worse than monetary troubles. He used
forged signatures on bills amounting to over
e40,000. A bill presented for payment
Monday with the signature forged led to
the discovery of other forgeries.
He Forged an Americans Name.
The name of an American financier, long
a friend of Webster and associated with
him in the Erbreville Freehold Company,
had been used on the specious paper. Web
sters affairs became SO desperate that the
frauds he committed, even if they had not
been revealed, would not suffice to cover his
debts.
The special night services held in London
Tabernacle in behalf of Mr.. Spurgeon are
largely attended. Waiting near the diyine's
sick bed are his wife, his son Charles, two
deacons and other friends Private tele-
grams from Mentone, received tonight, re-
fer to as'prayerful, but despairing group"
beside the dying pastor.
The Westminster Chapter will support
the nomination of Mgr Gilbert as Arch
bishop in succession to the late Cardinal
Manning. The meeting February Is will
forward the nominations to :he Vatican.
VarioIs Items OF Court Gossip.
There is repNt in court circles that the
Czarina, accompanied by Grand Duke