New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-02


sents capital amounting to four hundred millions
OF dollars. They told him that since he introduced
his Home Rule bill, the decrease in value Of
stocks Of seven banks five millions Of dollars,
and that seven railroads have lost the sdnc sum
They expressed 1.-The unanimous conviction of the
properticd classes that Home Rule means ruin TO
Ireland, that the industries of Belfast will be
destroyed that confidence and capital will depart
together
Mr.. Gladstone listened to this and much else
with marked mpa:ience lie had other engage
ments, and neither time nor an open mind for the
most authoritative testimony from the most com
petent witnesses in Ireland. His answer was
that he knew the propcrtied classes were against
him, an answer which the Gracchi or Proudhon,
or Mr. Henry George might have made The
propcrticd classes are against him, because he is
impaing the value and security of property
throughout Ireland Intelligence, education. 60
ciety, the professions. the two great Protestant
Churches of Ireland everything or almost every
thing, in which lies the hope for the future of Ire
iahd--aI these also are against him. Ignorance
ana the priesthood are for him. That ia the
distribution OF forces in Ireland
VII. Gladstone has but one thing to oppose to
ths tremendous array of opinion and of evidence
HIS personal conviction. lie puts aside the Cham-
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lie closes his ears to the warnings of the men who
cohIeSscdly represent the prosperity of Ireland
the men who created great industries and nanac
them. the men en- whom the material welfare Of
Ireland depends. IL think otherwise SAYS tb.
great autocrat. He could not listen with p,ticrcc
nut broke in upon Mr.. Sinclair and other speakers
interrupted them, told them that he h,d heard
all that before. Some of them thought hc was
rude 1t is certain that he did not mean 10 b.,
rude. lie Is courtesy itself. But he WAS deter
mined to abridge their share of those proceed
lngs TO prevent. so far as he could, their wciqhty
statements from reaching the public and to sneak
at length himself
Inc City OF London dcputation was hen led by
such men as Sir John Lubbock and the Goycrnor
OF the Bank of England. The solid men Of
London were there. They told Mr. Gladstone
what the solid men of Belfast had already told
him, adding that Irish loans were being r,fu.cJ
and Irish mortgages called in from mere ammo.
hension OF the possibility of Home Rule Home
kule means TO them and 10 Irish capitalists
bankrupt government from the start. profIgatc
'aNa'lon. ana the unchecked rule of political adj
Veh'urcrs ana Of the Roman Catholic priests
AGAIN Mr. "iadstonc bcwailed the blindncs. of
'he propertled classes To London as to Bcfas.
this was his answer: Il know better th,n van ,
There is anxiety about Egypt The Kbediv.
seems to have learned his lesson Of thc other
day hut i'll, and his Prime Minister is ready 10
back him in mischief SO ignorant il Abb,s
Pacha of England and English opinion that lie
has confided a statement Of his views 10 Mr.
Wilfred Blunt for publication in the April
Nineteenth Century" Mr.. Blunt i. an obicc,
Of general rhicue. 1t may be hoped that he
is an inaccurate reporter, for he makes the Khc-
live tboth ia
advice The English Foreign Minister meets
this manifesto by publishing his dispatch of Feb
ruary 16 10 Lord Croner. a mastery state paper
wherein are laid down with precision the con-
ditions upon which alone the Khedivc can ex-
rect 10 retain his position. The misfortune il
that Abbas Pacha is surrounded by evil nhu-
ences, Riaz Pacha and the French chief among
them. II is possible that some strong step Will
have TO be taken.
President Cleveland delayed appointing an Am
bassador so long that much OF the good effect
of what he curiously calls rcciprocaton was lost
The delay the more regrcttabc because IT
was at Mr. Clcvelands request that the British
Foreign Office postponed announcing Sir Julian
.paupcefote's proutotion The President
notified Of the settled intention 10 promote hdn
more than fortnight ago. on Thursday M'lch
l6 lie was notified on MONDAY. March -''
that the promotion had actually been MADE lh'n
he waits ten DAYS and finally names Mr.. BaSai"
as Ambassador
am afraid that Mr.. Bayard is chiefly KNOWN
TO the British public as the Secretary OF H'a''
who sent Lord Sackvile his passports. ii' h"'
to share with Mr. Cleveland the respoIsipiii'y iol
an act which the English have always pr'1s'"
i'm thinking an act Of rudencSs lh'y sun '''""
So Mr. Bayard, however, is liked ana rcslf'lcu
i'm
Tb. two objections 10 his fitness for the post
affect neither his character nor his apili'ics' anu
they lie without the pale OF public discussion.
They are so obvious that II Is as
sumed that the reasons for choosing
him mus, have been very strong. Indeed. they
arc known TO b. strong, and Americans abroad
may rejoice that the first American Ambassador
IN Iondon is q man Of such distinction ana
capacity. with SO many personal qualifications for
this great post
There is another point. Mr.. Cleveland not
only delayed Mr.. Bayard's nomination, but he
leaves Minister to represent the United states
in London for some weeks while England mas
AN Ambassador in Washington. His PERCEPTION
OF diplomatic civilitics seems dull IN TOOK MN
some months after the Sackville incident 10
understand that he ought not to keep an Aiheri-
can Minister here when no British Minister was
sent nor intended TO be scnt TO Washington
The present error is the converse OF the former
Why should not the President have made the
son OF President lincoln Ambassador I'LL MI
Dov,rd could arrive? The American people
would probably have been capable OF under
standing an act of pohtic generosity 10 en-
nect Mr.. Cleveland to be capable of performing
such an act is apparently to expect 100 much
g. w. 5.
roI,R THOUSAND HOUSES Burned.