New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-12

""cnuHlcnt as q party move. NO dOIDt II was
party move, and there was to be seen the whole
Gladstonian party trooping into the lobby to vote
1t down and to condonc, if not to approve, the
clerical domination which hdd cost both mem
bers for Meath their seats. If there is anything
which English Nonconformists hate. il is the poti-
cal ascendency Of the Church of Rome. They
voted in body last night to maintain it. Such
are the eXigcnces of party politics. and such the
incidental effects of the proposal to give Ireland
Home Rule.
The artisan and the agricultural laborer have
each had their inning this week, and neither has
made much Of score. Mr.. Keir lIardic was cap
tain of the artisan team, Mr.. Jesse Ceilings o'
the agricultural laborcr. 1t was Mr. Keir llardics
first appearance in debate. Heretofore inc has
been thought mere agitator with taste for
cccentricity in dress. His speech changed that.
1t was clever as a speech and shrcwd in tactics.
Mr.. Gladstone, alive to the importance Of the
labor vote, treated him and his speech with re-
sprct and paid him some Of those compliments
which flow easily from the lips of the great
rhetorlcian. 1t is not for want of ciNIllticS or
promises that this ministry its leader Will
ever come to wreck.
The case of Mr.. Jesse Ceilings is different. lie
Is one of those abandoned beings who abandoned
Mr. Gladstone in 1856 rather than abandon the
principles he and they had alike proesscd, ana 10
some extent practiscd down TO that date lie Is q
follower of Mr.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. rather.
Nothing is to be hoped for from him, and Mr.
Gladstone fell upon HIM as if he were IA tire" to
he cut down. lie has never liked him. nor ever
forgiven him for taking up Hodges cause when
Hodges present champion pooh-poohcd him ana MS
grievances. Ii was pretty piece OF parliamentary
| practice and made Mr.. Ceilings uncomfortable
angered his friend Mr.. Chamberlain delighted
the good Gladsonians all round, and produced
| majority Of eghty-fOur for the Government; +;
| after which the Prime Minister went TO Mar-
! borough House and dincd on the steps oil the
| throne with the heir to IT. and with great COM
| pnny of other loyal subjects
Down to Thursday the byc-ccctions in Eng
land all told the same story, a Unionist victory,
or n diminished Gadstonian majority Iuddcrs
| field Is an example Of the first and Bdrnlcy 81
! the second Sir Joseph Crosland, CniOni>t, wins
| the seat for which he was beaten at the Genera
! Election by Mr.. Summers. powerful ana amiapic
| Radical. whose death made new contest neccs-
sary. 1t turned In measure upon labor queS-
tions The Gadstonan candidate, to his honor,
refused to pledge himself for an Eight-hours bill
in which lac does not believe Therefore the
| Gladstonian labor leaders ordered their men 70
| vote Unonist. They for labor first and for
Mr. Gladstone second. BY their help Unionsm
turned IL Gladstonian majority of 23l into IA
| Cnionist majority of 81. Without their help 1t
cut down the Gladstonan majority in Burnley
from .4l5 to 603.
The flowing tide seemed 10 be on the ebb, but
il turned again at Wasall and Halifax Sir
Arthur Hayter regaincd Walsal an old Radical
borough, for his party hy 20 majority out Of
10000 votes At Halifax a labor candidate
poled 5000 votes, but Mr.. Shaw. Gladstonian-
nevertheless beat his UnoHist opponent by 800
and the Radical son enters into the Radical
fathers seat Walsall just balances IIuddcrsiiell
and the majority in the HOUSE Is unchanged
Two other sources Of comfort have not been
lacking to f1ome Rulers during the week: First
the obviously increasing youthfuncss Of Their
venerable leader Mr.. Gladstone has with occa
SIGNAL exceptions shown himself both PLAY full am
forcble in debate and with him these two mood
ale alike sigus IF physical vgor. Second, The
maiorItics in tho ,ousc of Commons. These have
never fallen below the normal figure Of forty. and
have four times exceeded it. The cXulting Glad
stonian bids the world note the fact thar out o
five divisions which have been taken. Minister
have scored ma Ortics once Of %, once OF 40
once of l61 once Of -, and Of ~. 1ru"
| only one of these was a test vote, and perhaps
two altogether were party divisions They do
none the less insprit the Ministerial forces and t'
some extent irrita:c the Opposition.
There are complaints Of the Conservative whips
The Conservative organ expresses that loudly, an'
not altogether unjus'ly. These chance votes tnri
unon various Issues: but the figures depend, not
or opinion, but on discipline
H. is remarked that the Parncllit" phaanN, 4
phalanx consisting Of nine, has voted one" VIII
the Ministry and once has marched III -"o'
or,or ont Of the House. The meeting among th
| nf hn
portant political facts of the week. They have
held n meeting ana passed a resolution wlicl
was thought momentous enough 10 be kept srcr''
Ito nature NAV be inferred from its proposcr
mono other than that unqucnclc1 frcbrahd, VII
Jlovd George one Of the leaders of the r"Vol
.ga,nst Mr. Gladstone last session. Whatever -
resolution be, these choerc Wclshmcn make u
socrct of their discomfort of their resolve I
! have their own way. They have con""'ved
susnicion that Welsh DlscstablIsbmont Is 10
, nos,norcd 20 Scotch Discstablishmcnt. That the
ru not stand They reluctantly allow tina
Hama Rule must come first and they hercrI
e insist that next after the break mp of the Elnpr
: INNS, con,e the overthrow Of the Establish"
Churob in Wales If that he not granted ti"r
b. A. Gladstone must take the consequences
{ .Lu .ra twenty-cieht Welsh Gladstonians, IN
n oonseoucnces if the Welsh blood was up woui
ho simpIy fatal. They could turn out thei
reyered leader any day.
4 Never. rerh,ps, did Lord Roschery more kcenI
. regret not being in the House OF Commons ina
y last Friday, when Uganda was under discus'lor
yUs leader and bis colleagues were pressed I" -
: what authority or instructions sir "eraiu Io'''
. had for such emergencies as iish' occur oeo"''
n rho retirement of the East ATTIC" 'o,"p'a
, anI thn establishment of Imperial rule. Leaoe
and colleagues fenced with this plain question: AN
h evaded it. Sir William har"onr' ""H ,. ., :,
J. ~" so,.rl that ne did no, know what the II
h .S,.aI ,,,uId he. which may have been meant .