The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-13
Mr.. Gladstone Is Without
Mercy.
EVERY POINT ELABORATED.
He Keeps Parliament Until the
Home Rule Bill Has Been
Thoroughly Discussed.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

Grouse uay comes like an oasis in the
desert IN this baked and parboled year
1893. Ordinarily it finds London already
emptied Of lis social rulers and is of use
in The calendar as marking the stage of
summer at which those who are not quite
rulers. but are on visiting terms with
them, now in turn quit the metropolis and
thus enable the chronclers to declare alb
solutely that nobody is left in London
except. OF course. the mere 100000 or so
who have no gun licenses. But this
summer of phenomenal heat ana
WEAKNESS to flesh and nerves.
which seems tn have been already ten
times too long, finds London still unable
to begin the holidays. Everlasting home
rule still chains the Commons to their
sweItering task at Westminster and holds
the Lords in leash for their share of labor
in September. Such a thing never hap
pened to the peers before and they regard
it with amazed wrath as an insufferahlt
added indignity from Gladstone and his
Irish rabble.
Nor are the magnates this year in better
case. With values still shriveling out of
shape and the whole world wide net OF
British markets and investments menaced
Uy SILVER CIlNtS III ASIA anu fAtDcllCd tHcy
don't dare turn their backs on London.
Legislators and fnanciers alike this year
are driven to snatch hasty journey north
ward to the moors, hurriedly burn few
boxes Of cartridges and race back again TO
town. Nobody Will get real vacation till
September, If even then. and by that time
everybody will be too faint and weak to
move.
1t mas now been summer since the be-
ginning of April. and it gets hotter and
hotter as the weary months draw on. The
past week has seen the mercury rise above
so degrees every day, with the sultriest
nights anybody can remember IN London
We unders and that it is due to the sun
spots, which Professor Chambers says
have not been so big before in thirty
years. He has measured the largest group
of these spots, and finds that it extends
10000 miles. This seems really too bad.
Nobody has been struck in Parliament
this week. either by fists or by brilliancy
of intellectual Performance. 1t is noted
languidiy that the opposition has rather
gone to pieces in point of discipline and
that Balfour'S leadership has lost much in
intelligence and grip since his bimetalic
IL III WeIo uUJ IOI u
stones unfiagging zest in having every
tiny point deliberately discussed and
tnrashed out, debates wnuld now be
summarily closured by united majority
and the whole nauseOusly prolonged
session brought to an abrupt masterful
stop. but he is incorrigibIe, and so we are
in for at least a fortnight more of it.
and possibly three weeks.
The Parnelltes have decided to vote for
the third reading of the home-rule bill,
which removes any possibility OF hi Oh
in the last stages. Gladstone calculates
nat the bill will leave the Commons two
weeks from next FRIDAY. The Premi-r'S
decision TO mold an autumn session is meet
ing with the liveiest satisfaction u the
country and the programme is to deal
with popular measures.
If the public nerve were not in such a
washed out and f1abby state, owing to those
wicked sun spots. there would be bitter
cutlery to-day against the jobbing appoint
ment of the Duke of Connaught to the
Aldershot command. There are nothing
but amicabe feelings toward the Duke
himself. He is very nice fellow
indeed. as Guelph Princes 60. and
always attended diligently to his
military duties. But he is neither
able nor strong. and is at the utmost
rather q common place brigade Cum
mander. To jump him. therefore, into the
most important post In the English miitar,
organization, one where there is plenty Of
urgent work for the biggest genius going
has created frank disgust. What makes
things douby grievous is the knowledge
that Lord Roberts was willing 10 waive
the fact that Adershot is inferior in Off
cial dignity to his recent post and under
take lts work himself.
The Russo Germs tariff war continues
to opoliZe attention on the Continent.
There has been an oblivious change in the
tone Of the more conservative ST. Peters
burg papers, which, at first sight, induced
the notion that the Russians had discov-
cred the damaging character of their mis-
take and were disposed to come to an
arrangement, but it Is seen now that the
Pan-Slavic organs remain eager for the
fight to go on. and they speak for Witte.
the Russian Finance Minister. 1t becomes
a question, therefore. whether he will keep
his present influence with the Car, and
thus far there are no indications that he
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