Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-20
TIGHT LITTLE ISLE.
England's Grand Old Man Serene
Amidst Alarms
THE SILVER QUESTION.
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fhy Anglo-Amercan caoie 70 tife Dispa'cn'
IoSpoN, August I9.--Few English prime
ministers have encountered such difficult
ties among their political friends as GLAD
stone has encountered and overcome since
the home-rule bill went into the commit
tee stage. Almost every paragraph mas
been made the subject of domestic quar-
rels by the government majority. ln
the committee stage Mr.. Giedstone
was worried day and night oY
tho requests. demands, AMI threats
of tho divided Nationaii,ts. WI" Nm
the passage Of the financial clauses, tne
paracraphs concerning Irish representa-
zion AZ Westminster and similar thorny
narts of the bin in committee the, great
i,horal uublic supposed that the old man
time of trial was over aud that the OIL
would be carried through the maj read
ing without further STRAIN uDon ms over
taycd energies The great LOeral puohc;
However. was comparatively unacquainteu
witbthe deplorable iacuousness whlcn nus
crown steadily with the progress OF bhe
I'm through the House of Commons. re
centlv the situation OF the government
has been critical. and only by Gladst0nes
uncomfortable tactical skill ana DV MS
dauntless persistence in pressing forward
towards the hOme-rule goal mas IL peeh
saved from going to pieces.
QUARRELsoME SET.
Trniouist Obstruction has been far less
threatening difficulty than the innutneta-
hlc jealousles and near Duihlhgs III 'uo
liberal lines. Each Gladstonian group
whose support Of the home-rule bill was
secured through promises of special legis-
lat,on oDensd out on the Prime Minister
~ soon as II felt that the bill was virtually
through the House and therefore thelr
mart of the bargain had been tut LED.
demands that the governments pledges
anu assurances be reaiized without doiaV
multiplied on every SIDE.
The Welsh members went so far as TO
send Mr.. Gladstone a sort OF ultimatum 10
tho eTec, that unless Welsh disestabnsh-
ment should be the next measure proposed
by the government they would slip from
under NJ the last moment and leave nome
rule and the ministry IN the lurch.
The Scotch-Liberal members, after
party conference, made known their de-
inauds 10 the Premier in similar, III
tho1rh somewhat less menaclng, manner.
The English Radicals who. under the
leadership OF the ircaculable Labouchere,
have been regarded with growing appre-
henson ever since the beginning OF toe
bowe.rule fcht, insist that the parish
councils bin must be passed at the au-
trnln session of Parliament, even though
all other government business 20 10 the
wall
THs GREATEST DANGUP.
OF all the malc0Ltcnts, however, the
Welsh threaten most vigorously and are
most keeny feared, "a the withd, awal OF
their thirty votes would leave Gladstone
with n majority Of hardly ten, and would
render IND ls,lbie the continued existence
of tho government. Their open revolt
has been deferred for the tins beng hy
d.ssensious among themselves. rs well as
bv the appealing remonStrance5 OF the
Liberal whips.
The Scotchmen have been placated by a
letter from Gladstone to the elect that
their demands shall be duly considered
when the time for determining the course
of government business shall come. MI
Gladstone has also proml'el privately
that he will have appointed select parla-
mputary committee 10 consider the tinaa-
cial relations of Scotland towards the rest
OF the United Kingdom. This promise
was "a trump card. "a the ScotcLmen CON-
MAN almost unceasingy that they paw too
much and get too little IN the national
economy.
10 the protesting Radicals Mr.. Glad.
stone hns said merely Watt This ad-
vice is not grateful TO Labouchere: and
before starting for Mcrienbad 10 enjoy a
vacation and take the waters he expressed
hls dlspleasurc IN manifesto to his consti-
tuents. In tins manifesto he condemns the
legislative plan Of applying closure re-
lentlessly IN the inal stages OF the home
rule hill and the estimates. and adYO-
Gates the dropping of the homa-rule bill
until 1894. IN order that the autumn
session nav be devoted 10 the Newcastle
programme.
GLADSTONE sTRTNE.
DESPITE the yelling of this quarrelsome
mack az his h,olr, GlGd.tOne, In apparent
serenity. holds to his course straight
ahead aud keeps TO himself whatever yexa-
ton and misgiyIng his diversified follow
inc causes him. He plans now that the
final vote on the whole bill shall be taken
August 3lst
Joseph Chamberlain, leader of the
Liberal Unionists. declares confidently
that the House will be kept sitting until
November, when the government Will be
forced 20 Propagation. or more probably
dissolution. Mr.. Cham berlain has aban-
doned his proposed trip with Mrs. Cham
berlain to America in September in order
that he NAV be here TO fight IN the last
ditch. He intends to move, some time
during the fall, O vote of censure, and TO
challenge tho government TO dissolve
Parliament.
TIE GALLAGHER CASE.
The false report that DR.. Thomas Gal
lncher, the Irish-American agitator, had
been released from Portland prison in con-
sequence of mental arrangement has
caused the publication OF considerable
medical literature concerning his condl-
ton and conduct since conviction. He
has been examined repeatedly by experts
SINCE 1888 with view to testing his
sanity. DIR. Blandford. Sir j. Il. Bennett.
aud DR.. luke. after making careful exami-
nations, agreed that Gallagher was merely
Stimulating mental and physical illness.
The prisoners knowledge of medicine.
they said, enabled him TO do this with eX-
cepfional eleverness. Sir James BENEFITS
private report, made in 1889, stated that he
found Gallagher dining off chicken and
potatoes. for he had felgned stomach
trouble so well that the prison officials had
concluded be was unable 20 digest ordl-
nary prison fare. The latest report, made
by DR.. luke. says that at last Gallagher
was induced TO give up his stimulation OF
insanity and 60 to work with the other
prisoners. He is now, says Dr. luke,
healthy and industrious,
INDIA AND SILVER.
Since the India Council sold drafts I'd
below the minimum rate of 16d., Indian
exchange has declined sharply, vet tho
movements of the exchanges have hardly
affected the price of silver in London.
An important fact In connection with
the silver crisis, and one which increases
the distrust OF the recommendations OF
the Lord Herschell committee. Is that the
closing OF the India mints TO free coinage
of silver has not caused the imports of
silver to cease nor given the expected i'm
petus TO the imports of gold. The mlnts
were closed ON June 26th. During the
next six weeks the silver shipments from
Europe to India amounted to G5SS,200
against S9is. 800 during the corresponding
period OF 1892.
This decrease in exports 10 India. how
ever. was more than balanced by the in
crease Of silver shipments to China and
the Straits. In the same SIX weeks OF
1898 the latter amounted to sl7.50J pounds,
or 475.O00 pounds more than during the
corresponding period of 1892. The con-
SUMPTION OF silver" saws the S'dfiSi. docs
not and will not ahate. The recent fall
was due 10 tho Indian government, and
was not the consequence OF cessation of
the demand"