New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-18
-....,osf 1893: By The Tribune Assoe'duon'


tpY TO THE TRBUNED
...., 1893 By The Tribune Association.
,ondon June 17.-There has been, IN Mr..
t;Iadstope's phrase, flowing tide all ths wfA'
hr, Il has been a stream of ill-luck TO the Ulad-
stonians To recount their mistortunes ann mis-
.ok.s will | suppose seem cruel TO the eoon
Clads,onian in America, where the ldol l. Wor-
sLinned more devouty than here. hut facts are
facts and NAV as we'll in the intervals OF worship
no looked in the face The solid majority OF
forty is no longer forty, and no longer solu'
II never was solid. The alliance with the iri'h
is in some peril The Irish themselves, hefe'o-
fore uneoually divided into TWO sec'lohs' a'o
now split into three. Mr.. Sections resignation
and what followed upon ii have dlScio>e" 'h>
sensions suspected indeed before and now
avowed, open and probably lrlecohciiapic' WI
Morroshs resignation of his seat for Southeast
Cork is "a sufficiently significant commentary uP,"
.be ,na+ter Mr. Norroch is a IIcaytc, and ne
goes of diamond hunting in South Africa oecausc
MIR HeaIv has been teattn, and Mr.. Sexton II
for the moment victorious.
Lord Wolvcrtons resignation of his post as loru-
in-waiting is less important, but is important i'o
is one of the thirty forty peers VINO are MI
Gladstones He held office under Mr. GLADSTONE
He is partner in of the great banking HOUSES
of the City of London where Mr. Gladstoncs eN-
perments upon the Constitution OF TINS co"h-
fry are watched with dismay. His father was
one of Mr. Gladstones most intimate personal ana
noltioal friends But Lord Woiverton cannot
stand Home Rule. Now he parts company WITH
his chief for that and no other reason
On the top of all these calamities comes the
Inonist victory at LnlithgOw, the first authentic
VOICE from the country for some time past On
ton of that comes "a fresh Irish mutlny IN the
House of Commons: the whole Nationalist party
voting twice last evening against the Ministry, lol
Owed both times ny band OF Lnglish, S"o'ch
and Welsh Radicals, exceeding the irish them-
selves in number and the dividing OF the "Iau-
stonian party exactly in twain, nlnety-liVe BRUSH
Cladstopians following Mr.. Gladstone and ninety
five British Gadstonians following MIR. sexton
these and the finance bundei, which Will refer
10 later are the bare facts of this weeks flowing
tide
The Irish speeches. which accompanied the
Ir;sb secession. would he thought more alarming
than the vote if anybody ever knew precisely
what value to attach to Irish speeches. or what
value the Irish themselves attach 10 their own
words But "A coalition between the Parneillt'S
and the Anti-Parnellites in opposition To MI
Glsdstone-and il is the second coalition must
mean something Mr.. Clancy SAID 1t meant
protest against any more concessions 10 'he
Cnionists. and against "unjustfable encroach-
ments" on the Irish Government. MIR. sexton
s,id rho conduct Of Mr. Gladstone was folly,
that he was "incurring the fatal danger OF
alternating the people of Ireland from the DILL
that the policy OF concession was policy oil
"unaccountable fatuity" Again were the Min
istry indebted to their Unionist opponents lor
a majority Twice last evening they would have
been left in a minority oil nearly TWO nuhurcu' pu'
for Unicnst votes.
Mr. Sexton no doubt is over-clatcd by his
triumph over Mr. Healy. and shows il too plainly
The Irish Natonalists when united are Mr. "iad-
stones masters. If they quarrel pubHcly among
themselves they may lose their present ascendehcy'
both over Mr.. Gladstone and over Parliament
The Anti-Parnclltes are it appears about equally
divided The followers of Mr.. 1lealy outvote th'
followers of Mr. Sexton one day, and the next day
the followers of Mr.. Sexton outvOte the followers
Of Mr. Healy The quarrel between the two To-
lated nominalv to the control of The Freeman
journal. II is really struggle for leadership
and il is certain the last word has not been learl
from Mr.. Healy. If they will not keep the peace,
Home Rule is wrecked. An Irish faction fight In
che House of Commons is not exactly the sort OF
an exhibition TO convince the English people that
the government of Ireland ought 10 be intrusted
20 either of these factions.
Most mortifying of all these caamities of the
week. at least to Mr. Gladstone has been the dis
coycry, due 10 Mr. Chamberlain's persistence, Of
a gross error in the financial calculations on
which the finance clauses of his Home Rule bill
have been founded He had figured out an lrlsh
surplus Of 100000. 1t is now admitted that tn"
Irish contribution to the spirit duty. on which
this surplus depended, had been overstatcd by
9364,649, 80 that more than three-hfths OF his
imaginary surplus vanishes at once. The whole
scheme must be recast and Mr.. Gladstone who
meets even this catastrophe with smiling face and
jaunty manner, promises that the new scheme
shall be forthcoming speedily. No doubt. He
can do anything with figures But we have
lately been informed that Mr.. Sexton also is Il
considerable financier, and Mr. Sexton, with his
colleagues unanimously backing him this
point. is resolved that Ireland shall have better
money terms than have yet been offered her
She may get them, paper; but there, in the
background, silent but watchful, is the somewhat
perpleAed and angry figure Of the British taxpayer
and with him Mr. Gladstone knows he has in the
long run 10 reckon.
The progress Of the Home Rule bill in Com
mittee which for a moment seemed to quicken,
has again slowed down The dreaded and long
debated clause three lis out of the way, but il
soon became evident that questions not less i'm
portant were raised by clause four, and coald not
be summarily disposed Of as the Radicals WISH
by the guillotine That is the name which the
Radicals, their minds saturated with memories of
the French Revolution, give TO the closure.
Banking insurance, the law of divorce, the cen
sus and finance. were some OF the matters last dis
cussed in clause three. The establishment and en-
dowment of religion came up first in clause four,
and then political disabilities education judicial
Office, bills Of attaindcr, and the meaning of the
words /" due process of law All these are high
h.. a. ....l.
by the guillotine
The American Constitution has been much talked
about, being sometimes alleged in defence OF
Ministerial proposals. and at other times secuted
by these same Ministers. especially by Mr. Bryce,
as of authority application. Mr.. Gladstone