New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-22
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
.nrp.n1NG FOR THE OPENING OF PARLIA.
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,,oNr.rrLE BILL-OTnEI LEGISLATION
~ pRosPECT-LoED ST. OSWALD
Dr.. nERz-FANNY KEMBLE.
Try CABLE TO THE TaBuYr)
copyr;gst: 1898: By 7he Tribune Assoc'atiOn.
rordon. Jan. 81 Cabinet councils were held
...,v other day Of the week, each lasting from
49, % three hours. There will he another on
Wonaay. On Saturday the Queen holds a coun-
- q. Osborne to consider the Speech. She has
o,,ya,ely intlmated to Mr.. Gladstone her desire
:. excuse him the trouble of journey to Os-
s,,ns The Earl of Kimberley will accordingly
mad the deputation of the Frivy Council present
:. ,he formality Of revising the Speech.
Today is published an official paragraph con-
a,r,tory OF tho denial I cablcd last Saturday
:, ,umors of the Premier's failing health. II
1. Aeesred that he is in the best Of health, sleeps
..markably well. and. so far from having shown
Ans OF decreasing vitality through inability to
maintain appetite for food, the right honora-
NJ. gentleman enjoys his meals with the zest Of
young man.
II is not Known yet whether the Official Op-
nosition will move an amendment to the Adj
dress. On the whole il is improbable They will
have an early opportunity OF effectively Try
inc a fall with the Government. Mr.. LabOucherc
will raise the Uganda question. ard Mr.. james
Iowther will move az amendment, calling on
the Government TO limi, the opportunities Of
alien immigration. Neither demonstration is
very serious The suggestion is thrown out that
Il would. in the present circumstances. he a
graceful thing 10 invite an Irish Nationalist Mem
her TO move or second the Address Mr.. Glad
stone. however, SHE'D at the innovation. The
duties will be performed by the ordinary Eng
lish country ard borough Members
Tho action by which the Khcdive's attempted
coup d etat was frustrated should make an end
OF the nonsense noisily talked about Mr.. Glad
stones foreign policy. 1t was no inconsidcrablc
triumph when Lord Randolph Churchill visited
Africa and, looking on the situation with his
shrewd eye, was compelled to admit that the
policy carried out by Mr.. Gladstone's Govern
ment in the Transvaal was not only generous but
wise, and had been fruitful Of happy results.
That was a policy which Lord Randolph, with
the able assistance Of Sir John Gorst and Mr..
Wolf, backed up by the Conservatives in Parlia-
ment and out, had night and day riotously and
relentesly attacked With any Government
their foreign policy is an attractive point of at
tack because il is a matter on which the man in
The street is naturally and newt bly, most igno ant.
He likes to hear the beating of drums and to
see the British flag proudly carried at the head
Of well-equipped regiment; likes it, that is till
he is called upon to pay The bill in money and
blood. 1t is not patriotic even for the patriotic
party to make political capital out of q Govern
ments embalrasSments with foreign States. This
was felt by the Opposition in the late Parliament.
whose conduct contrasts happily with what habit
uallv nj ub Tor Ia AZ ha
Foreign Office in place OF Lord Salisbury That
the old spirit survives, and that old habits will
b. returned TO- was made sufficiently clear when
the Uganda business was clustered around. IL
is certain that before the new Parliament has
been many weeks in session there will be rev-
val of the old tactics 1t is equally certain that
at the outset check has been administered, and
that Ministers will meet Parliament strengthened
and encouraged by the outburst of popular ap-
proval evoked by what was done in Cairo on Tues
day.
Apart from this substantial advantage, the
Government will profit in another way By tile
rash action OF the young Khedivc. There exists
DO doubt considerable section Of the Liberal
party. Of whose views Mr.. Labouchere and Sir
Wilfrid Lawson may be accepted as opponents,
who are prepared to insist on the immediate evac-
uatOn Of Egypt. The Khedive has furnished n
reply to this demand more effective than any
which Lord Rosebery could frame or Mr. Glad
stone suggest. 1t is made clear to the most
prejudiced mind that the withdrawal at the
present time Of England's friendly grasp on the
reins of Government in Egypt would mean an
immediate plunge OF the now prosperous country
into tie cordijon nom which il was ten years
ago rescued. Fakhri Pacha. whom the Khcdive
placed az the heat OF affairs, is a representative
Of the Unspeakable Turk, Of all he means and Of
all he does when he has free hand Had Eng
land not been in position, or had English Min
listers not been disposed, to insist on bis with
drawal from the scene, Egypt would quickly
have drifted back into the bad old times Lord
Cromer happening to be the spot. backed by
q sufficient armed force and sustained by reso-
lutte Government at home, promptly convinced
the Khedfve That the time for that sort OF bust
ness was not yet at hand and the mischief was
undone before its effects could spread. But the
influence of an invaluable object lesson will re-
main, and Egypt will ever have TO thank the
young Khedive for an undersigned service.
In other directions affairs arc shaping them
selves in promise Of favorable opening for what
is certain 10 prove O memorable session While
the secret as to details is still kept there is no
longer a doubt that the Cabinet have succeeded
in framing a lIomeRule bill which, while con-
cedng to the Irish people adequate powers of self
government, will be accompanied by provisions
tie rights OF minortics and the wider
interests Of the Empire. The realization Of this
description must he accepted everywhere as salts
factory, and the description is Sir Charles Rus
sells, who, not being a Cabinet Minister, is al
lowed 10 speak with more freedom on the subject,
and who as being in the intimate counsel OF Mr..
may be trusted to know what he is
talking about.
Whatever the bill may propose, it has nnques-
tionably been accepted by representatives Of M
tional opinion in Ireland, and that is half the
battle If Mr.. Justin Mccarthy and his friends
are satisfied with what is proposed for Ireland, the
rest of the nation may trust Cabinet OF British
statesmen to fave taken care of the interests OF
the rest of the Empire. As TO the Liberal party