New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-31
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
LOOKING; FORWARD TO MR. GLADSTONES
FOURTH GOVERNMENT.
THE NEW MINISTRY AND ITS PROGRAMME
LIBERAL UNIONIsTs IN DILEMMA
CARFLEsSNESS IN COUNTING
yoTEs-LoRD sHERBRooKE.
,rycLpIy TRisCNK.
lpy CABLE re THE THisCNK.

coryrfcht. 1882 BU IN, TRIBUNE As'"r'n"on'
London. July 3N.-Nr Gladstone has returned
N town. taking up his residence, as he dld Ias'
session. in the house of his sons father-ln-la"'
conveniently situated in Carlton Gardens hat
field House and Downing Street now hold a sec
ondary place in public interest Inc ohces SUI
lodgs with them but power reigns in Mr.. Glad
stones room which, by an odd chance, lm'ne-
diatelv faces Mr. Arthur Balfour's house on the
other side of the road
The Conservatives have convinced themselves
that at his ace il would be suicidal for Mr.
Gladstone 10 undertake the labor of leading the
Uouse of Commons. with the superadded task OF
niloting the Home Rule bill. In their concern
for his welfare they suggcst that he shonlu ac-
cent a p1eIage leaving the drudgery OF Mihis'eIl"
work 70 Sir William Harcourt failng 'na'' no
is plainly threatened with sudden dcath a' n'9
most: or worse still, a breakdown OF MS Heh,"
facnties Mr. Gladstone takes no public notice
of these daily lucubrstions, but in private nc
smiles gcnially at them and goes forward WIZ"
his work. lie is, in fact, in ooun"lhS ne"in'
having suffered nothing from his hercuIean ei
forts in Midlothian. lie possesses TO this day, IN
q remarkable degree, tie faculty OF s"l'' IT,
crneration. The week be stayed in Braemar, aitcr
Tho Nidlothan election set him up for the work
.h+ o,voi+s hin, in the short session OF Parliament
that opens on Thursday.
Tho nape1s are full of lists of the new Ministry,
wherein they have the ADVANTAGE of Mr. Gladstone
WIN has not vet drafted one There VIII De TINE
cnonph for that in the recess tnat VIII follow
unon the defeat Of the Ministry on the Address
" tho rneontme no communications of any kind
ho,.o token nlace between the Premier designate
and the gentlemen who may be regarded as GER
taio 70 be invited to take office. All the li'tS
put forth are necessarily pure conlectnreS based
upon material open 10 any newspaper reader Wheh
the time for action in this matter arrives interest
will be keenly excited in respect to Mr. Glad-
stones dealing with some of the failures and fos-
sils that still cumber the Front Opposition @nch.
Lord Randolph Churchill, when in 1886 he came
into power did an ineetimable and permanent
service to the Conservative party by making a
pretty clean sweep of what he irreverently called
the old gang There is an old gang on the bench
where the ex-Liberal Ministers will sit at the
opening Of the Parliament. Whether Mr.
Gladstone will have the courage, or rather the
hardness of heart TO follow lord Randophs eX-
ample remains TO he seem
While nothing has yet been done in the way
of arranging the personnel of the new MINISTRY
an important decision has been taken in respect
of the arrangement Of the Ministerial programme
thrase introduced by Mr.. Gladstone in one OF
his Midlothian speeches gave rise to the suspicion
majority. he would be compelled TO reconsider his
position and abandon the intention OF putting
Home Rule in the forefront of legislative work
This opcning was eagerly seized by the Ministerial
lists who have boldly assumed that the inference
Is correct, and have amused themselves Dy piot
uring the conservation that will fall on the
Irish Nationalists when they find themselves be-
trayed. I have the highest possible authority ior
stating that there is not now, nor has there at
any time been. the slightest shadow OF foundatloh
for this report
Mr. GladstOnes attitude in respect or the reia-
five position of the Home Rule question with 9th
ers clarnorng for settlement was deliberately as
sumed. in his conversation with the representatives
of tbe workingmen who waited upon him TO en-
deayor 10 enlist him as a recruit for the eight
hours-dav propaganda On grounds OF pubic utli-
itv drty honor and character. he must he then
said face the settlement OF the great con tu'lohaI
ouestion which had been raised between hreat
Britain and Ireland. That constituted the irS'
duty. and not on account of Ireland alone nut
because without the settlement of that question 1t
WAS quite impossible, as had been proved by the
experience of his whole life, for Parliament 10
do its duty to Great Britain and to make proper
progress with British questions. am, he EN-
phatically declared, so bound In honor ana CHAR
acter n the Irish question tlat | should really
unprincipled could possibly sink TO if | were 10
rocede from the position TO which | am bound by
,bo struocle of the last few years" This decla-
ration was made on June / 6. ! am in position
,o state that il a. fully and accurately expresses
b; o,inion and determination to-day a. IL did when
it spoken.
Pint while Home Rule will come first, there
is neither reason intention why other measures
dear 10 the heart of the Liberal party should nov
be put forward and carried. In the "eher"
Election lust over. the Liberals were soieiy nam
pcred by the existing condtlors OF tle eIec'orai
register and the possibility OF plural voting Ao
cordjnQ 10 the present law ~ pracucalH cohes
TO pass that man must hc III resi'e"'c iVi
two years before he is quaiIhed 10 No''' "ii''
another may by judicious arrangement vote
dozeh or twenty times in many constltueiSIcs'
Mr. Gladstone. in one of his Midlothian speeches.
c;tod . uellautbenticated case where through a
single General Election a moncyed man had Vo'eo
fortv times These conditions naturally ana Cd
vionsly oDerafc TO the disadvantage OF the Li"i'1
candidates depcndent for the most part upon 'ho
support of the masses. Members who suffered ."
this score at the last election do not welcome 'nc
prospect of entering upon fresh contest ein'''''
h,rd;conncd Some-notably Mr. Lobouchere-
insist that before Home Rule Is tackled 'he sio"".
shall be cleared of these encumbrances, ~ u'"'
when-as is REGARDED as incvtabe-a 1rcsh c',,''S
is forced by the Lords by rejecting the Home
bill the Liberals may enter on the battic "l''
light heart.
Mr.. Gladstone will not listen to this Dut ne
recognizes rs clearly IA any one the aosoiu'o
necessity of putting these things right pei're
another General Election. Bills dealing with thcSc
questions. with the establishment OF parish couh'
ellis and ssibly with the payment OF mennoeis'
will be brought in at the earliest opportunity III
the new session, and will DC proceeded with
IN N. intervals of time necessarily left by tho
prooress Of the Ilomc-Rulc bill through sue