New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-11
picions and this open avowal Of an angry jealousy
very grave results may flow.

troons on the frontier Of Sierra Leone has
Cured. The English endure these accidents pa
uently enough. but 1t is suggested to the French
Government that two such blunders are enough
The Ttnbuctoo calamity divetts attention from
Sierra Leone, Colonel Bonniers column seems to
have been completely SURPRISED at night by the
Touaregs and destroyed. The French Govern
ment are said to have more news than they
pubKeh but what is published is to be made an
excuse for holding Timbucoo, which otherwise
would have been abandoned. But for these
African troubles the French Government might
be said to have had good week
The execution of valiant strengthened both
Ministers and President yet the Paris papers
continue to show a morbid interest In everything
relating to him. his family his burial his VIII
and his associates
Next week in England ought to be interesting
Mr. Gladstone will be back The House OF Com
mons resumes. The Liberal Federation Will be
in session, and some idea of what the year IS
to bring forth may then be formed. The attack
on what THE Daily News calls the "obsequious
horde Of nonentities,' the House of Lords TO w.t.
seems to be rather rapidly developing. II Is de-
veloping I mean. If not in the country or among
the people Of England whose political future Is
concerned among the professional politicians
The Caucus is going to try fall with the Second
Chamber
The Liberal Federation, which Is the great
Caucus of all, meets on, Tuesday at Portsmouth,
and the doom OF the House of Lords as leglsa-
tive body is then to be announced. Such. at any
rate; is the prophecy of the party organ 1T Is
certain" says this inspired oracle. with rather
appalling soemnity. that the Federation VIII
take a very pronounced line on the supJect
Sir William Harcourt is to appear as the dis
penser of damnation and "will address the great
meeting in the drill hall I.
A menace Of this sort is by no means to be
despsed! 1t Is fair warning TO the Lords that
all that can be done for their Destruction by
the machine will be done. There remains the
very interesting question how far the country
will respond to the. invitation from portsmouth
That also is. to some extent. question or the
future II II he in truth Mr. Gladstone VINO
sanctions the announcement OF the caucus" II ne
means to draw the sword and throw away the
scabbard any agitation which he leads musn
be formidable. Short Of that there Is not as
yet very much to show that 1t would be formi-
dabe.
The experiment was tried last autumn upon
the rejection of the Home Rule bill. and failed
ienoniniously Not much has happened since.
The Lords have amended the Employers LA
bility blu and the Parish Councils bill Both
are questions of detail. There Is hardly a broad
visible issue on either which TO rouse the
country But there is nothing else when Is no.
more or less ancient history. Mr.. Chamberlain
In a speech this week at birmingham, makes
light Of the menace Of the caucus. In his pres
ent capacity Of defender Of the House which ne
formerly attacked, it Is his business 10 make
light of the danger; and he does 1t very We'll
But I imagine that IL a serious attack Is to be
made it will not be so much on spec'ho as OH
general grounds: two above all. First. on the
ohov ,bo hereditary,
ond. because II stands in the way OF certain
measures which a large section, though not q
majority Of the people Of Great Britain wish 10
hecor,e law But Mr.. Chamberlain again puts
his finger on a weak spot The Lords at present.
though not elective, are representative. lhey
do give effect to the wishes Of the majority Oh
the people OF Great Britain. They are the legis-
lative allies of the majority Of British representa-
tves in me House Of corrmons II is only when
you count IN the Irish that there Is majority
the other way on any of the three bills now al
stake The Irish have right to be counted H.
but whether the British majority VIII not stand
by its own champions is the real question 10 oe
answered.
Mr. Gladstone arrives tonight from Biarr1tZ 10
take command of his party. which during his
months absence seems to have got little out
Of hand 1t was thought he would find time en-
route 10 telegraph denial of the Deloncle inter
view but none appears this morning. M De
;oncle Is a man of some position. and has prob
ably had. some sort of intercourse. direct or
indirect. with Mr.. Gladstone. But the language
nut into the Prime Minister'S mouth is totally
unlike in substance and in manner, anything ne
ever said There are good many people VINO
think he Is coming back to precipitate an issue
with the upper house, dissolve Parliament ana go
To the country with the cry, Down with the
60. 70 hn
state of public opinion not accessible 10 others'
1t would be policy full Of peril
What the plaintive Radical calls sometimes the
mauling, and sometimes the mutilauon. ana
occasionally the mangling. of the Parish Coun-
ellis bill has come to an end The bill has passed
through committee in the Lords. 1t energies shorn
of much Of it's Radcalism and Agrarianism
London is put back into the hands Of the Ves-
tries Ecclesiastical charities restored to the
trustees designated by the founders. Allotfnents
are granted, with restrictions conceived IN the
interest of the farmer quite much as of the
landlord. The principle Of the bill remains
Probably some amendments have been intro
duced with view TO that compromise between
the two houses to which both look forward.
Some are extreme. some illiberal. some certainly
unwise. Lord Salisbury gave way To the Duke
OF Devonshire on the question Of compromising
rates, which involved, salu Inc ItauicaiS' "'9-
franchisement OF large class of voters lie
gave way TO other colleagues on other points.
Forthwith the Radical organs who have been
tAunting the Duke Of Devonshire with subser-
viency TO Lord Salisbury. out that Lord Sails
bur, has surrendered TO the Duke. They have
been saving for years that Lord Salisbury was
the House Of Lords. They now say the Lords
do not know politics enough to follow their
leader But inconsistency has no terrors for the
Radical mind. The Radical. however. on this as
on some other matters. will have to submit FOR
the present 10 Mr.. Gladstones authority.
A little squirt Of Socialistc Anarchy has broken
out on Tower Hill, Williams announcing
that If the police nterfered with his next pro-
cession he proposed to send them to Heaven by
chemical parcel post" II turns out that this