, 1893-07-01

OppOSltlOn Is mat Inc new CeudHue are
pressed in exceptionally bad years. The
increases do not appear to excite resistance
either in Hungary or Austria, the dread of a
Russian attack being much more sincere than
III Germany. The Austrians have not, like
the Germans, a career of victory SO bright as
TO make them think that the Army is already
invincible. They believe, on the contrary,
that they never can have artillery and
cavalry enough.
The correspondent of the NsW York Herald
at New Granada has furnished his paper with
accounts of the pitched battle fought on May
Goth between the Nicaraguan Government
and the insurgents. The Government had
thirteen hundred troops, and the rebels about
one thousand The latter, however, held a
strong posi- ion in amountajn- pass, and were
we'll supported 10y feld-guns. After two
desperate attacks, the Government troops
were beaten back with considerable loss, and
the action is reg .rded as rendering further
opposition to the revolution hopeless. The
President has, indeed, fed to Corinto $50 a4
to be really to leave the country as soon as he
is finally convinced that his party cannot
win 1t is possible that the Revolutionists
are being helped by Americans Of the type of
Walker, the grey-eyed man of destiny"
who once played 80 great q part IN Nicaragua.
Ia any case, the overthrow of tie existing
Government will be welcomed by the pro-
motors of the Canal, which in spite Of many
ieaIousies, will be made, and will immensely
help to decrease the size Of the world.
Lord Salisbury has had a splendid recep-
ton in Ulster, and the huge meeting in
Belfast, which he addressed on Wednesday,
was, perhaps, more impressive in its personnel
and its enthusiasm than any yet held there,
not even excluding that which welcomed Mr.
Balfour. The Marquis brushed aside all the
details Of the discussion, assuming that he
was a1dr essing an audience already rs firm
in its convictions as it is possible to be, 1T was
better to go straight to the mark most inter-
esting 20 that audience, -nsmely the prospects
If the measure now before the House or
Common. The Unionists were moving
amendments. he said, not with the view of
improving a measure essentially and intOlsra-
bly, bad, but with tho hope of getting its
various vices and blots so throughly riddled
in the discussion, that the British public,
which had not fully realised it's Importance,
and is only now beginning to grasp It's dangers,
might become fully aware of them before the
appeal to the country can take place. The
Marquis seemed TO have but slender hope
that Mr.. Gladstone's majority would not keep
together. even through the difficulties of the
Ninth Clause and the financial causes. This
0ldQSpOhldAtS hShS ~SJS wa"
round their necks, and if they allow the
Government to be defeated, they lose alt
chance Of carrying their great measures. But
Lord Salisbury, in that estimate, forgets
that if the constituencies take fright either at
the Ninth Clause or at the financial clauses
they will bring a certain number of Gladstoni-
an Members round with them Representa-,
tives are never deaf to the wrath of those
whom they represent.
As to the future, Lord Salisbury insisted
that the question of he reform Of the House
of Lords cannot be raised at a time
when a definite duty is required of the House
of Lords. "You cannot swap, ho' es whom
crossing a stream" AS for the threatened
agitation against the House of Lords, it
would fail. This is not a case, like that OF
the first Reform Bill, where the nation Is on
one side and the House of Lords on the
other. The great majority of the English PEG
pie and the most prosperous of the Irish
provinces are anged abehind the House Of
Lords in this case and therefore the House oa
Lords, in standing finn. will express the
national sentiment of the great majority
of the people most nearly concerned, even
taking England and Ireland together. OF
Mr.. Gladstone's boast that the Liberal Party