New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-07


evidently not eager to give him his old position.
AS piece Of tactics Sir Charles Diles proposal was
| mistake. II showed how readily for the sake Of
courting popularity he has abandoned his opinions
on the Egyptian question: and he also put his
leader into position of being compelled to ndorsc
the policy of his predecessors. 1t must have
been ds unpleasant to Sir Charles Dixie. with his
French proclivities to Parsians themselves to
hear Mr. Gladstone declare that France had no
special title to intervene in Egypt beyond any
other Power, and though the Prime Minister was
careful for courtesys sake to say that any fur'er
overtures from Turkey or France would receive
proper consideration, the old Parliamentary hand
very properly pointed out that recent events in
| Cairo had only increased Brtain's obligations III
respect of European as we'll as of native interests
| in Igypt Mr. Gladstones unfinchings adhesion
to the policy of his predecessors, now that he is
in Office stirred up the wrath Of men like Mr.
| Iabouchere Dr. Clark and Alpheus Clcophas
Morton to the boiling point, but their gibes and
sneers fell harmlessly, and the debate rapidly
! fizzled out Its wholesome effect upon the Eng
lsh Radicals is shown by the comments of The
Daily News" which says that, till the effects
of recent events in Cairo have died away. and
| Egypt has assumed its normal state, it is useless
to talk of evacuation II may be quite true. says
this journal, that a couple of years ago majority
|
British force in Egypt, but that was ,jn the life
time of 1ewfik Pacha and long before the es-
capade of his exceedingly youthful son. Sir
Charles Dilkes action has thus done his friends
in Paris little service beyond afording them
another text on which TO preach about the per-
fdes Of British statesmen
1t is not often that the House of Lords is so
deeply rulled as I'VE witnessed last Monday, when
| the debate was raised on the Evicted Tenants
| Commission In place of decorous duness thers
| was something like row. The Government were
pressed over and over again TO say what they
intended doing with the recommendations of their
| dishonored commission, but naturally no definite
answer was given. The ministerial peers were
anxious to have their inquiry left severely alone
They did not want to talk about IT, but the Occa-
sion was too good to be lost by Lord Salisbury for
| having a fling at the Government. He lie. ont
| against his opponents in speech OF exceeding
bitterness but in that part which was Intended
TO be most telling he certainly the most un-
fair. lie sought to lay it down that the Gov
| ernment had interfered in private concern.
| quarrel between Lord Clanrcarde and his Galway
| tenants When he said that the Government had
no rights in regard to that dispute he surely for
got he was himself the author of the bill revising
judicial rents, of measure for dealing with arrears
and other proposals since 1885, intended to amend
| Mr. Gladstones legislation Lord Clanricardc well
knows his own unpopularity, and rarely shows
up among his peers; but he was present during
this debate The high crusted Toryisn Of Lord
Salisbury on questions of property made 1t un-
necessary for Lord Clanricarde to unburdcn HIM
sclf and he sat silent and alone, apart from the
other members. A shabby wizened-looking, i'll
dressed old gentleman, his very unusual appear
ance attracting the attention of those who hap
| ,bo Ouc ho att a
speak to Lord Salisbury and again to Lord CadO-
gan to the evident embarrassment of both.
II is very rarely that members of the London
Stock Exchange trouble themselves about pub
lie affairs. but the Lord Mayors city meeting
last Wednesday brought about remarkable
demonstration of the commercial men and the
Stock Exchange against Mr.. Gladstones Irish
policy The public burning of the Home Rule bill,
tbe march of 1900 of the shrewdest business
mon in the world from Capel
Court to Guildhall, with ilasS, pan
ners and notices the cheering, the singing Kule
britannia and God Save the Queen though
much out Of tune and doubtful as TO verbal ac-
curacy, and the spcechmaking lifted this demon
stration out of the usual category The imanciai
proposals of Mr.. GadstOnes measure came III Tor
rough handling
Among such an audience and this branch
) better speech delivered than of Mr.. Chamber
lain in the city. The opinion of bankers, mer-
chants. underwriters stockholders, and shippers,
WAS never more clearly expressed but all these
are properted classes and are less numerous at
the polling booth than those who have no prop
erty: hence they have little weight in the opinion
of Mr. Gladstone
The May Day demonstration in favor of so
called rinhts of labor passed off quietly through
ont Europe There was little animation in Paris
and only the semblance of a row in Marscillcs,
but nowhere there any genuine disturbance
9 The police authorities have now got proper meas
+, IRE of the militant agitators in the European
capitals and make suitable arrangements to re-
strain their ardor. Moreover these people are
themselves learning discretion The lesson OF
broken heads has not been wholly lost upon them.
There was some legitimate ground for celebrating
the recent victory Of the Universal Suffrage party
!, in Belgium, and great harm beyond stomachc
. punishment came of the beer drunk round the
' bust Of Lassalle at Berlin. Madrid was quiet
" hocouse il was overawed by military police.
The only spectacle to be seen in London was
: couple of bcdragelcd PROFESSIONS. made up mostly
Of foreigners, with two or three red flags, the
whole party uniting at Rcformers Tree. Hyde
}. lark. TO hear the usual speeches from the usual
u sneakers about the rights of man and the crimes
- | Of property.
: The London workingmcn, even of advanced
: Democratic type, will demonstrate among them
= selves and by themselves, but never seem to care
y about joining hands with the foreigner Trade
- Unions have taught London workingmcn 10 dis
trust the foreigner not so much for his politics,
but for his competition in the field Of labor The
" foreigner, too, is greatly tanned when he reaches
:, the British capital. 1t may be the climate or il
Il may come of drinking heavy British lccr. The
# stod, unsYmpathcic density Of British working
r men may have something to do with this result,
Il but most probably the chief cause is to be found
"a in the unchecked facilities allowed by the autlori-
A. ties to all and sundry TO let off their froth long