New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-12

elector. The London tradesman is i'll despair
lie generally is.
| Mr.. Gladstone has written a letter to declare
his intense satisfaction that the Hull Glad
stonan caucus and Hull Trades Council have
agreed on Mr.. Madison as the joint Liberal ana
Labor candidate. II is just fortnight since
he declined to express opinion on Sir Charles
Dilkc's candidature in the Forest Of Dean. lest
he should interfere with tile freedom Of that
constituency.
There are members Of the London Trade Council
who think that Mr.. Gladstone has not yet COM
pctey atOned for his first refusal TO receive their
proposed deputation the eight-hOurs question.
They made themselves heard at the monthly
meeting of the Council this week They wanted
u know by what right the Executive Committee
had constituted themselves a deputation, or why
there should he any deputation There was
scene, and what the friendly reporter calls very
animated interruption and an Interpolation Of an
irregular character. There was an effort 10 alter
the deputation. which failed by one vote Finally
it agreed that Mr.. Gladstone should have
his interview
The Whitsuntide holidays brought no rest to
the makers or hearers readers Of political
speeches. Mr. Goschen, Mr. Chamberlain, Lord
Rosebery, Sir Charles Russell and many more
orators have upifted their VOICES. Lord Rose
berry is always heard with intereas for his own
sake. and also with some faint hope that he
may be commissioned some day by Mr. Gladstone
TO draw aside corner Of the veil from the ark
in which The law Of Home Rule. II there be
such law, is supposed to he hid away. This
faint yet reasonable hope comes again to naught.
| His hands are still tied, his lips sealed The
mystery of Home Rule is as much mystery
| ever. Lord Rosebery chose to devote the whole
of his speech to an attack Mr.. Chamberlain,
who had devoted part Of his speech at Birlning-
ham TO an attack Lord RoSebcry. These
| platform duels are entertaining but they are
not business. Lord Rosebcry called Mr.. Cham
bcrlain brilliant political butterfly and declared
that for his own part he did not think ii ncces-
sary TO proclaim day and night that he was not
scoundrel and had not changed his political
| opinions Docs he then hold that man who
changes his political opinions is a scoundr,l?
Would he apply that hard word 10 q man who
before 1856 opposed TO Home Rule and since
$50 has supported Home Rule II seems an
incautious remark
The International Miners Conference has been
sitting all the week in Westminster Town Hall,
which has become. for the time being Tower Of
| Babel. Not only languages, but opinions are dis
! cor1ant. The international Miners cannot even
agree about the great eight-hours question. They
ought TO send for Mr.. Gladstone who has 50 lately
discovered that he has on that question also an
open mind. They debated during nearly the whole
OF one day the question whether surface workers
ought TO have the benefit OF the cght-hours law
rs we'll as those who work below the surface. Eng
lish miners said il absurd TO put these two
classes Of tOilcrs the same footing. Belgian
miners said il absurd not 10. France said
ditto 10 Belgium 4 canny Yorkshireman was Of
opinion that the matter should BE- considered with
reference 20 the general election. Everything il
now considered with reference 20 the general
election. Public opinion, thought the Yorkshire
man, had been educated up down to eight hours
for miners, but not Ia eight hours for nom
miners. The resolution finally carried was based
on TIE celebrated Maine law precedent, that they
were for the principle, but against It's enforcement
similar line was taken the question Of an
international strike 20 compel the passing OF an
eight hours law The Paris Congress Of March
resolved that such strike might become ncces-
sary. This Congress, after rejecting various forms
a. not vague enough, resolved that an inferna-
tional strike OF miners should he discussed on All
s,dcs. and that if they did not get n Parliamentary
eight hours law I" there Is good cause 20 prepare
FOR It's realization" Finally by 10 TO the Con
grrss mustered courage to declare that the most
successful way to obtain the eight hours day is
hv legislative enactment This also was avow
edlv adoptcd In view Of the general election In
England Then after a contribution Of 500 from
Belgium to Durham. this body adjourned.
second edition Of the little book which Mr.
Gladstone calls The Impregnable Rock of Holy
Scripture appears this week IL may bc lnpreg-
nabe. II is not immuable. 1t is somewhat
enlarged and much altered, and contnins re-
nrint OF his magazine replies to Mr.. Huxley on
tho miracle of the Gadarcne swine The preface
contains the rather remarkable statement that
recent Bibical controversies stand related ra'hcr
| IN the literary form than TO the substance
of the Divine revelation conveyed 10 us III 'he
| Old Testament. 1t is the primary purpose Oh
Mr.. Glads,onc's book TO prove that proposition
and 10 show that in the main the old pehel as
| TO that substance is plainly the rght pei'i
| Does them Mr. Gladstone believe IN the NioSaio
cosmogony If he does, he must le nesry tnr
| last of living students who clings to IT. II he
docs not. in what sense Is the old belief the ruc
| bclicfp In either case, would he maintain that
tho controversy which touches the historical trurh
of that mart of the Old Testament is controversy
about literary form?
The book is Il curious performance altogether
It, may give comfort 10 those who agree WIN mum.
| II will hardly make converts. Still less VIII IL
add TO Mr.. Gladstone's reputation, never 4ui'e
| so high as one would like to see it for exact
scholarship or sound criticism.
Long telcgrams from Minneapolis ana lons
editorial discourses them have appeared thro"gh
| the week In the English papers 'he teiegrahs
| have not been remarkable for impartialty, nor
| tbc eiitora. discourscs for accurate knowledge
-, Am.ricon politics The news OF President
| Uorrison,s denomination is Oh the whole fairly
well received if only because lie defeated Mr.
blaine The Times" which never liked Mr-
| Blaine and never just TO him, now digs
| grave for him and dances on It, Let that per-
Torrance pass Americans will not admire or
| like Mr.. Blaine the les. Comments on President
| Harrison are in the usual British tone
| lie and his party are for the absurd
Mckinley tariff. The American question which
now as ever interests Engshrnen most is pro