New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-15

ton was much longer than that Of last year,
and the streets were thronged with the multi
tudes who gathered to pay homage to Parnelrs 8
memory.
Next evening there mass-meeting In
the Rotunda. Mr.. Redmond presiding. He
plunged at once into the politics Of to-day say
ing they had assembled to consider the situation,
which, in his judgment, one OF deadly peril
to the Home Rule cause. He thought Home
Rule had within the last two years undergone
fatal change" and it has now been hung up
by the Liberal party, and hung up indefinitely.
Next session is to be an English session. Ire
land will longer block ths way and when
she ceases to block the way, the lesson of Par
nells life and policy is unlearned. The neces-
sity which alone eXtorts Home Rule from Eng
land will have ceased. The Lords VIII nave
their way The bill is dead and the next bill ia
to be a compromise. If the Irish submit to that
they fools slaves. For his part he re-
fused to submit lie would never accept less
bill, nor Mr.. Gladstone's bill itself as anything
but nstalment of Irelands claims They
were asked to become the silent and obedient
followers of Mr. Gladstone in English legisa-
ton next year. They would not. If it was to BE-
an English session. the Irish would stay at
home. Where, then would be Mr.. Gladstone's
majority?
independence is considerable. True. Mr..
Redmond commands only nine votes in
the House but he is in position
to put great pressure upon the whole
of the Nationalist party. There are anti-Par-
nellites in whose districts the priests are by
no means all-powerful There is a great force
of public opinion in Ireland which is extreme.
The votes of the extreme sections, though
scattered must be considered. II is safe for
no section to be much less violent than the
most violent. and for no body of Irish poll
ticans to acquiesce in the policy Of an Eng
lsh leader who avows his purpose to postpone
Irish to English claims. Such Is Mr.. Red
monds calculation and If it be accurate his
revolt promises to be formidable indeed
Lord Elgin's appointment to the Niceroy-
atty OF India is at best but a makeshift lie
Is the son of his father, who had some emil
nence and with all his own fame to make.
He has heretofore held no office Of impor-
tance discharged no public duty and created
no reputation public or private. except that
Of who leads blameless lie. Iheh'
all at once, he is pitchforked into post where
he has to govern two hundred millions OF peo-
ple and this at a very critical moment IN
their history The excuse for such a nomna
ton is that none Of the capable men would
60 or none of the right party. The natVe
press seem disposed TO hail Lord Eigin as
second Lord Ripon. l do not think he is that
or that he will be allowed to embark upon
policy so pregnant with disaster 10 Enghsh
rule in India and to India herself, as that
with which Lord Ripons name is ideh'iiieu
But nobody really knows.
The return of Prince Bismarck to Friedrichs-
rub. his daily drives, and the return OF Dr'
Schweninger to Berlin have put an end to last
weeks rumors of immediate danger. Nothing
however ends probably Will ever end' Ger
man comments upon the relations between the
Prince and the Emperor The great German
nation is still largely In a state OF poltlcal
childhood There are vast numbers OF grown
men. the whole Inperialist party indeed. who
think and say that because the Emperor has
sent civil telegram to Prince Bismarck on his
illness Prince Bismarck's mouth is or ought to
be closed and he ought no longer 10 criticise
the conduct Of public affairs nor to have an
opinjon of his own If II differs from the Emper-
or's or Count Won Caprivi's. The most iniiu-
entail journal in all Germany urges this view
and of course, the journals devoted TO Prince
Bismarck combat it. and so the fruitless
wrange goes
The Sheffield conference found no solution Of
were willing to accept the four mayors pro-
posals and the deadlock continues. The owners
are willing, apparently to accept Il instead OF
25 per cent reduction, but the miners are un-
willing The owners have only TO hold together
to win. for though much is said OF reopened
pits and miners returning to work, the truth Is
that but CO. 900 out Of 27l 900 miners have been
taken back. The prices of coal are falllng
rapidly. and falling prices will induce the owners
to insist on some reduction OF wages.
The final victory Of the Vigilant Is accepted
in England with soberness. The first gave rise
to irritation, which diminished with the second
and has now pretty much disappeared. the
closeness of the last race bringing comfort 10
the English breast There is consolation. also,
IN the reiterated remarks that the Vakyrie is
q seaboat and the Vigilant only racing ma
chine. and more In the discovery that the Val
kvrie has not been racing in her English trim;
and most Of all in the Valkyrie's good seaman
shin On the whole, our cousins take their de-
feat very we'll deep as Is the chagrin In yacht
ing circles. and to some extent elsewhere
Mr. Howellss opinions on the business OF III
erature as expressed in 'Scribners excl'e
some notice here, and give rise to some comment
which is almost entirely critical and hostile
where II is not contemptuous. Even the So
cialist organs think his Socialism not according
IN knowledge The more rational OF them nave
never sanctioned the novests view that society
is bound to provide everybody with work ana
warrant him a living. They regard Mr. HowelIs
az an amiable amateur in such matters. lie
mistakes kindly impulses for reasoned opinions
They laugh at his theory that nobody ought 10
live by an art. They point out that by MS own
admission the conditions under which his
Utopia might come to pass are impossible. ana
are therefore outside the pale Of useful dis
cussion
Nor do the English. the best Of them. ac-
cent Mr. Howes's account Of the evil state OF
literature and Of literary production In America
No English critic Of repute that ] know OF has
felt called upon to announce to the world as
Mr. Howes does. that successful American