The morning call., 1892-02-14
BRITISH POLITICS.
The Dissolution Of Parliament Pre-
diCted,
Errors Of the Leaders Of the oppositOn-T
Irish Factions Increasing -Gladstones
Continental Trip.
Special to THE MoRNINe CALL

LONDON, Feb. I3 Smalley's special
cablegram to ths Tribune from London
SAYS: The announcement that Lord Sails
bury has again been making trouble about
the Behring Sea NEGOTIATIONS, which was
cabIed to London, was con,radcted in the
House Of Commons almost before ii was
made. Young Louther, the Under Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, was happy on
"Wednesday to be able 70 inform the House
that a complete agreement had been arrived
at between her Majesty's Government and
the United States with regard to the BeBr-
ing Sea dispute. This statement was not
limited to arbitration 1t covered the
whole ground It has presumably tie
value which official contradictions usually
have.
THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLTA,GENT.
This is. says Chamberlain, tie last ses-
sion Of the present Parliament. No equally
definite indication respecting the general
election has been given by any other poiti-
clan Of equal authority. 1t may now be
assumed with some certainty that the dis.
solution VIII occur IN the course Of the
present year. The time Of II no man can
FIX, not even Lord Salisbury himself. 1t
must depend on circumstances but the ap-
interest to the proceedings Of this session.
The Queens speech does not add much to
it. II IS for the most part list of the re-
maindeTs Of the catalogue of the measures
left over from the previous sessions. The
opposition were expected to make things in
terestng. They were going to commence
by demand for an immediate declaration
about the dissolution and were going to
stop the supplies II the date named did not
suit them and do other terrible things.
They have done none Of them and things
take their usual course. The session in
fact opens tamely.
THE LEADERS ERROR.
1t fell to Sir William Harc0urt to lead the
attack in the House of Commons on the
Queens speech, and 10 Lord Kimberly,
whose chief exploit was to give away his
case on Egypt and his colleagues. Sails
bury took advantage Of IL at once, de-
claring that Kimberly's statement about
Egypt was not materially different from
the one he himself would make. Kimberly
proved himself too good a patriot TO be a
thorough partisan. He has, however,
made il difficult for any opposition
leader with less authority than Gladstone
TO attack the Ministry on this ground.
What Is still more singular, Sir William
Harcourt av0wed that English patriotism is
the one that includes the success of his own
party. They are both supposed to wish TO
hint 10 their chief that the less said against
Salisbury's Egyptian policy the better for
the party They and the party are anxious
lest Gladstone should resume the line he
took up at Newcastle, and they have made
ii as awkward for him as they could.
THE IRISH POLITICAL PARTIES.
Not much more has been heard about the
negotiations between the ParnelIites and
the anti-Parnellites, unless it be that Red
mOnd has made Healy's expulsion the con-
dltlon OF reunion. Meetings have been held
all around, as result off which it is
computed that there are at least five Irish
parties. The anti Parnellites are divided
into the McCarthyite. Dllonite and
Healyite sections. The Hpaly section
consists of Healy. Dillon's friends
tried to elect him Chairman, but
were beaten. Mccarthy, whom nobody
breads, again becomes the Chairman, that
little band of Parnellites, although not
numerous, enough to afford the luxury of a
quarrel or a split. The fifth party consists
OF the UniOnists, reckoned at about one
third OF the people Of Ireland, but so scat
tered as TO be unable 10 act together or do
more than poll In most bOroughs or county
divisions anything but hopeless minority.
GLADsToNE's VACATION.
Gladstone is still on the Riviera in obedl-
ence to peremptory orders from his physi-
clan, Sir Andrew Clark. He divides his
time between sixmie walks over the hills
and researches into the personal history of
the young lady whom he first introduced to
the pious English public, Marie Bashkirt-
sieff Marie's mother has been imparting to
her English Rdmirer many interesting par
tculars OF her life. These, il is understood,
will presently be given TO the world in the
pages OF the Nineteenth Century, for which
GladstOne's Olympian dissertations were
formerly deemed too serious. He has not
yet found time either to substantiate or to
withdraw his specific charges against the