The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-06
ROSEBERY'S ROAD ROCKY.
The Overthrow Of the Liberals Apt to
Occur at ANY Time.

on the New Estates proposals IN InS
Budget Bill Among the Probabili-
ties.
London. May 5.-The reduction of the
governments majority IN the House Of
Commons on nearly every important di-
vision must be accepted from any but the
most extreme partisan point Of view as
an omen OF an early dissolution, and few
persons are to be found who regard the
situation in any other light. The
conservatives, however, have too
hurriedly reached the conclusion
that the defeat of the government is inc
vitable within month. Such an event
is barely possible, to be sure, but is not
at all probable, within the short space of
time mentioned. The liberals, while adj
hitting the possibility of crisis, con-
tend that they will be able to hold the
ministry together and weather the storm.
The truth of the position is that the
government counts on continuing till after
the divisions on all the contentious
clauses Of the registration bill have been
taken in committee, and no longer
ANOTHER WEAK SPOT.
II is also possible that the government
NAV be defeated on the new estates pro
posals in the budget bill. indeedit IS more
likely that the government viii be turned
down on that measure than in a division
on the registration bill. A ministry
starting out with a composite majority of
thirty-siX and descending rapidly to four
teen cannot be expected to sur
vive long, nor do they expect
to. Though the liberal newspapers
keep a bold front, they are merely bluff
Ing out the situation, and this fact is
perfectly plain The weakness of the
government lies in the difficulty 1t has
in keeping together the rag-tag coalition
of the sections constituting their original
majority The division of the House last
night on Sir Edward Clark's amendment
to the registration bill showed the
absence of seven McCarthyites,
five radicals and eight Parnellites,
all of whom were originally supporters of
the government. As several of the lib
erals who voted with the maority yes
terday threaten TO oppose the govern
ment on some of the clauses of the bill,
the ministerial whips are very much in
doubt as to their ability to find a sufficient
force of voters to carry the bill through.
Altogether, the government is skating on
thin ice.
PLANS OF THE UNIoNIsTs.
The unionist leaders, recognizing how
rapidly the strength of the government is
crumbling away through internal causes,
prefer to remain in inactivity rather than
make an attack upon the government of
such violence as to cause the dissenting
members of the government party 10 re-
unite against the common enemy, which
they unquestionably would do.a
At a recent meeting at which Lord
Salisbury, Mr. Balfour, MIR. Goschen and
other conservative leaders discussed the
line of tactics to be followed by the oppo
sition. il was decided not to oppose the
second reading of the budget bill, but
rather to watch the bill closely
in its subsequent stages, and when
the discord among the govern
ment supporters should give the
unionists chance to deal the death blow
the axe would fall. Therefore it is not
likely that the uniouists will do any
fighting along the line. but they will CON
centrate their force for a final attack
whenever they can on a weak spot in the
enemy's ranks.
WHIPS HARD WORKED.
The liberal whips are finding a des-
perate task in their endeavors to keep
their party together. The radical NAL
contents are insisting on the acceptance
by the government of a number of i'm
practicable amendments to the registra-
tion bill, and are more than likely 10 de-
sert the government if they are not &C
cepted.
The Welsh members are demanding
that a place be given to the bill for the
establishment of the church in Wales, a
demand to which the government cannot
accede.
The Irish members are getting FESTIVE
over the dubious prospects Of the evicted
tenants bill and the setting back of home
rule, and their disposition to kick over
the traces has already been made mani
fest.
In the face of all this the unionists
present the most compact and unanimous
body ever seen in parliament.
HARCOURT's RETIREMENT.
The revival of the rumors of the retire
ment of Sir William Harcourt has crested
good deal of talk, but nobody can be
found who can say how much, if any, re-
lance may be placed in the statements,
but the story seems TO have arisen from
Sir Williams occasional outspoken re-
marks in the lobby of the House of Com
mons respecting his WEAKNESS at the in
cesSant work which his official duties
impose upon him. He has frequently
been heard to say he would be glad to
retire, and IN conversation with his init
mates he has repeatedly said: Il mean
10 see the session through and then 60
He frankly refers to the state of his
health, which he says will not permit
of the EXchequer any longer. In spite oi
this, however, his friends persist on the
contention that the chancellor does
not intend to resign and say that
his withdrawal would lead to a still
further disiutegration of the party. TIT
possible retirement of the liberal leader
has been almost the sole topic of discus
sion in the lobby to-day, and mucl
speculation has been INDUCED in as to hi
possible successor. John Morley is gen
orally accepted as the man, but a con
siderable section CT the party prefer II
Campbell-Bannerman, the secretary o
state for war.
FEARS OF AN UPRISING IN INDIA
During the past month frequent men
ton has been make in the telegram, fror
India of the discovery of inexplicbl
signs in the native shlInes. 1t has beer
alphabetically explained that thes
signs relate to a plot for a general up
rising of the natives. Private letter
from India say there is strong curren
of uneasinesS among the natives
and some writer's predict a
outbreak similar to the Sepoy mutiny il
1857, the anniversary of which viii occu
on Thursday next. For sometime past
small cakes of plaster have been passe,
from hand TO hand by means of runners
ana similar cakes have been made I
adhere TO many trees. The purpose @
these IL is SlDDOSp0 was fO rive notice I