, 1893-06-21

SAN ~ PViANy anu LAC GOADNlouSC-
trick, the Government asking that the Irish
should be trusted with power lst to show the
English confidence in their character; but the
speech Of the day was Mr.. Chamberlain's at
Birmingham. There he MAS on his native
heath; and he let himself loose, deola ing
again and again that from all his experience
he was satisfied that Scotland was turning,
that England was opposed to the Home-rnlS
Bill, and that every Uniouist was longing for
q dissolution" The tide had turned and was
flowing with them, and he knew personally
that Mr. Gladstone would never be returned
again for Midlothia.. The Gladstonians
knew the facts az well III he did, and were
fighting like pirates with ropes round their
necks." The obstruction was due to the Min
istfy alone. who were slaves not only 10 the
lllsh, but to factions whom they tried TO pacl.
fy with many ills, Bills which were like
goods exposed in a shop window for advertise
ment. not forSale. MI. Chamberlain proceed
ed to denounct the Employers Liability Bill,
which greatly interests Birmingham, and the
Veto Bill. which WAS not directed against
drinking, but against publicans, and fell
heavily on the poor, while wholly exempting
the rich. AS for the Home rule Bill itself,
he repeated that it was dead, and the Glad.
stonians were waking the corpse, after the
Irish manner, with howls and disorder, and
even violence and promise the most strsnu-
Gus resistance to the 'monslrous proposal
that While the irish were to have a practically
coordinate Parliament of their own, we should
place IN their hands the power of interfering
In our affairs, of hampering cur business, Of
controlling our Government, Of electing our
Ministry, and Of settling our taxation, all 50
many weapons TO extort from us further con-
cesslons." Mr.. Chamberlain ended with all
appeal to his hearers to face, like courageous
VNn Tho u, ~ Arl -. -lo-l aud
not at the bidding OF Il pu>illanimous Govern
mtnt to transfer her rule 10 conspirators and
adventures wh6 have been the ruin Of their
own country, but shall not be the ruin of
ours"
To all appearance, the drought has broken
up. Ia the South If England it has been one
OF the longest on record, having lasted some
seventy eight days,-ie, two months and a
half, The result has been to add u month to
the summer and to virtually destroy the hay
oroP;-tne grass has hardly grown, and the
farmers have been forced to buy food for their
stock. Mr.. Symons, the great authority on
rainfall, writing in the ines of Friday, points
ont that the most serious partial droughts 90,
d~roughts tempered only by negotiable
showers of the century were those of 1910,
which lasted 9j days; Of 1874, which lasted
100 days and of 1862, which lasted SO days.
IN places where the water-supplY is naturally
short, the dist ess and difficulty caused by
having to haul water has been very great.
Under these circumstances, il ia interesting
to note an important find of water in Windsor
Forest, and within what is geologioally "the
London Basin" After boring for l,234 it,,
water was found, and rose 1T. above the
surface, though the site is on a hill 223 fl.
above the sea.leveI. The underground reservoir
thus tapped is in the lower greensand. If
similar conditions prevail in other pats Of
the London basin, the London water question
may have been advanced a long step.
On Thursday, atorpedossgunboat was launch
ed from Messrs. T..ornycroft's yard, which
may affect the whole policy of England in
regard to naval construction. What is pecu
liar about the new vessel-'"The Speedy"-is
that she can steam twenty-five knots Tie.
twenty-five miles an hour; and that she is
fitted with Messrs. Thornycroft's patent
water-tube boilers, which develop steam pow
er "almost at a moments notice" Besides
this great advantage, the boilers are light,
and possess absolute freedom from leakage"
Unless experience shows some latent defect
in the system, which seems unlikely, a
veritable revolution will have been caused
III naval construction,