New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-20
GLADSTONE'S TIME OF TRIAL.
HIS FACTIOUS SUPPORTERS.
THE MINISTRY SAVED FROM WRECK BY THE
PREMIERS SKILL AND PERSISTENCE.

UNIoYIsr OBSTRUCTION LESS FORMIDABLE
THAN LIBERAL JEALoUsIEs AND HEARTBURN
INGs-THE ACID STATESMAN SERENE AMID
ALL HIS TIoUBLEs-THE SILVER CUES
TIoN-INTENsE HEAT IN ENGLAND
YACHTING AND THEATRICAL-THE
KHEDIvE'S CHANGE OF POLICY
London, Aug l9.-Few English Prime Min
istcrs have encountered such difficulties among
their political friends as Mr.. Gladstone has on
countered and overcome since the Home Rule
bill went into the committee stage. Almost
every paragraph has been made the subject of
domestic quarrels by the Government majority.
In the committee stage Mr. Gladstone was worried
day and night by tile requests demands and thrcats
Of the divided Nationalist. With the passage
of the financial clauses the paragraphs concerning
Irish representation at Westminster and similar
thorny parts of the bill in committee, the great
Liberal public supposed that the old mans time
of tYi3l was over and that the bill would be
carried through the final reading without further
strain upon his overtaxed energies The great
Liberal public, however, was comparatively I'M
acquainted with the dep orabe factousnoss which
has grown steadily with the progress of the
bill through the House of Commons Recently the
situation OF the Government has been critical. and
skill and by his dauntess persistence in pressing
forward toward the Home Rule goal has it been
saved from going to pieces.
J'nonist obstruction has been far less threat
ening difficulty than the innumerable jealousies
and heartburnings in the Liberal ranks. Each
Gladstonian group, whose support OF the Home
Rule bill was secured through promises of special
legislation, opened upon the Prime Minister as
- cole tl,atf ha was
the House. and therefore their part of the bargain
had been fulfilled. Demands that the Govern
ment's pledges and assurances I've realized without
DELAY multiplied on every side The Welsh mem
bers went so far as to send to Mr.. Gladstone a
sort of ultimatum TO the effect that unless Welsh
disestablishment should be the next measure
proposed by the Government they would slip
from under at the last moment and leave Home
Rule and the Ministry in the lurch. The Seofch
Liberal members, after party conference, MADE
known their demands TO the Premier in similar
although somewhat less menacing manner. Now
the English Radicals, who, under the leadefe'lP
of Mr. Labouchere, have been regarded with grow
inc apprehension ever since the beginning of the
Home Rule fight, insist that the Parish Councls
hill must be passed at the autumn session of Parlia-
ment, even though all other Government ous-
ness 90 to the wall. OF all the malcontents, the
Welsh threaten most vigorously and are most
keenlv feared. as the Withdrawal of their thirty
votes would leave Mr. Gladstone with "A majority
Of hardly ten and would render inp'sNlbie
the continued existence of the Government. ih'ir
omen revolt has been deferred for the time by dis
sensions among themselves as well as by the ap-
pealing remonstrances Of the Liberal whips Inc
Scotchmen have been pacated by letter ITO"
Mr.. Gladstone 10 the effect that their demands
shall be duly considered when the time for de-
termining the course of Government business shah
come. Mr. Gladstone has also promised privately
that he will have q select Parliamentary Com
mttc, apponted to consider the financial relations
of Scotland toward tie rest Of the United Kingdom
This promise was "a trump card. as the Scotchmen
COMPLAIN almost increasingly that they pay 100
much and Get too little in the National economy
tn thc protesting Radicals Mr.. Gladstone has sal
,nerelv WAIT" This advice is not grateful TO
Mr. Lahouchere and before starting for Mlr!enDad
To enjoy a vacation and take the waters he eA-
pressed his displcasurc III = manifesto to ms con-
stituents In this lie condemns the Government
plan of applying the closure ielentessN III 'ho hhi
stages Of the Home kule bill and the cstlinat - AKA
advocates the DIR piping Of the Home Rule biIi nntil
1894 in order that the autumn session may be de-
voted to the Newcastle programme.
Despitc the yelling of tins 4uarrclsomc pack at
his heels, Mr. Gladstone in apparent serenity mol Is
10 his course straight ahead and keeps 70 himself
,,botovar veyation and misgivngs his diversified
following causes him. He plans now that the
final vote Oh the whole bill shall be taken on
August 81. Joseph Chamberlain. leader OF inc
Liberal Unionists, declares confidently that inc
House will be kept sitting until November whch
the Government will be forced to prorog'tIon' or
more probably dissolution. Mr. Chamberlain mas
abandoned his proposed trip with Mrs. Chamber
..r,iar hat hp
may be here TO fight in the last ditch. He intends
10 move some time during tho fall vote OF
ccnSure and 10 challenge the Government to dis-
solve Parliament
The false report that DR. Thomas Gallagher, tic
Irish American agitator, had been released from
Portland Prison in consequence Of mental deranGc-
mont has caused the publication Of considerable
medical literature concerning his condition ana
corduct since conviction. lie has been examined
repeatedly by experts since SIS with view 10
testing his sanity. DR.. RlODdimd, Sir j. X.
BENNETT and DR.. luke, after making careful en-
o,,ino,ions. agreed that DR.. Gallagher was merely
Stimulating mental and physical illness. Inc
nri,onrr's knowledge Of medicine, they sald, en-
aided him TO do this with exceptional clcVcineTs'
c,r lanes Hcnnett's private report, made in 1859,
stated that he found Gallagher dining of chicken
and notatocs for he had irigncd stomach trouble
go ,v,lI that the prison officials had concluded lie
was unoblo to digest ordinary prison fare The
lates. rcnorr made by DR.. luke, says that AZ
last Gallagher was induced to give mp MS Sii"-
lation of insanity and 60 TO work with the o'hef
prisoners. lie is now. says DR.. Take, healthy ana
industrious.
Since the Indian Council sold drafts ohc-io'r'n
NJ = ncnnv below the minimum rate OF 10 peho'
exchange on India has declined Sharply |c' '"I
movements of the exchanges have hardly aA''c'cu
the price of silver in London. IN important 'aC'
in connection with the silver crisis, ana OH" ".'''ii
increases as the distrust Of the recommch''a'i'n,
of tLc IIcrscLnu cnnmilthc. is thAt the clOsln9 VI