, 1894-06-06

congratulate themselves that they are not III
India. We shall not have tong TO wait, for
the rising, if there is to be one, will take
place this month-the hottest throughout
the Peninsula.
Lord RoSehery spoke 1T Manchester on
Wednesday, and the tone Of his speech is to
our ears, one Of Encouragement. not to say
almost despondency. He was discouraged BY
Inc difficulty Of getting any measure passed
BY the House Of Commons; he was discouraged
by the attitude Of the Independent Labour
party; he was evidently a good deal dIScourag-
ed by the recent murder iii Ireland, though
he family ho, ed that it was not agrarian, and
the { " bright spot apparently in the pollti-
cal prospect was for him Sir William
Harcouyt's Budget, which, he SAID, had
lifted Sir William Harcourt at Il single
bound to the front rank Of the financieIs of
the country. Probably his most serious
discouragrment is due TO his peerage He
frets more and more, we imagine, over his
exile from the House OF Commons, where the
whole plot Of the political drama is laid. and
feels like a man who is expected to direct a
great series Of Operations from a distance,
without perhaps even the advantage Of IL
Becond-in-commanJ willing and eager to con
suit his views and to give effect to his sug-
&6SAl'nlS. he II 46Il6Ctl1 well aware THAI
the Liberal Ministry will effect nothing till it
can obtain a much larger majority in the
House Of Commons than it now commands;
and we infer Qerhaps mistakenly from his
tone that in his heart he feels very faint
hopes of obtaining that inc eased majority at
the next General Election.
An agreement has been arrived at between
the Panama liquldators, the, heirs Of Baron
Reinach, and NJ. Cornelius Herr, by which,
In consideration Of 100000 to be paid by
each of the two latter all proceedings are to
be stopped. NJ. Herr may therefore return
to Paris. We cannot congratulate France.
there can be no doubt whatever that funds
belonging to the Canal shareholder were
used to corrupt politicians but after a fright
tul amount of scandal and a ~pretence Of full
investigation, nearly everybody except M.
Baihait, who confessed, and NJ. Cltmenceau,
who was turned out without evidence VI any
misconduct except Friendship with NJ. Herr,
nobody has been punished. Tie "Panamists"
are all rising to power again, and the affair
ends in What in England would be called a
heavy payment of hushmoney. The whole
transaction is singularly discreditable to the
Opportunist party, and to it's reputation for
the virtues it claims, probity, austerity, and
pau OlioH NCtbLtl III AiiC I ~ u '"N~N
does tile Democracy appear to have any
genuine hatred of corruption, though it some
times Furnishes it when detected. It's feeling
seems to be that of the old ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
in England, that bribery is like a revoke at
whist, sufficiently punished, if detected by
the forfeiture laid down in the rules of tho
game.
The arrangements for the march Of the
mise, able on Washington have for the present
broken down. The decision of the national
Government has prevented any further
seizure Of trains; ana though many 're-
giments' are still in motion, they cannot
reach he capital in time for any great display.
Mr.. Coxey, with about four hundred and
fifty followers, presented himself on May Lst
before the Capitol, bnt was met by the police,
who hustled him from the steps of the Senate
to the outskirts of the city, where, his army
having been declared to be legally a circus, he
collected gate money. Ills next assistant, a
man named Browne, offered some resistance,
but was severely dubbed by the police and
then arrested. Mr.. Coxey will wait the arss
rival of larger bodies of followers; but it is
believed that when they arrive, they will be
treated as a public nuisance and dispersed by
force. 1t is not questioned that the movement
has / Zen an annoyance in most of the States,