New-York tribune., 1894-04-08
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
HARMONY IN BEHRING SEA.
NO ESPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE RE-
SUITS OF THE ELECTIONS.
LIBERALS AND LABOR AT oDDs-MR. REDMoNDS
DECLARATION Oh WAR AGAINST THE MIN.
IsTRY - SCOTCH HOME RULE - MRS.
HUMPHREY WARDS NEW
NOVEL "MARCELLA."
lBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE
(copvrien: 1891: By TIE Tribune AssociationJ

! London April lit is understood that tn,
! British and American Governments are working
! in concert with reference to Behring Sea, ana
that the bill read second time in the House Of
! Commons Thursday like the bill passed at
Washington. Is satisfactory to both. and also to
both sides of the House The two members who
criticised 1t. Sir George Baden-Powell and Mr..
Gibson Bowles, accept the principle. but hnd
fault with details. The Attorney-General, Sir
Charles Russell moved it, Sir Richard Webster
supported it. Both were OF the counsel before
| the Arbitration Mr. Balfour told the House
! that the Government in doing this act OF inter-
! national Justice would have the hearty support
Of himself and all his friends. The Attorney
| General described 1t as bill to give loyal ana
thorough effect to the award. Sir Richard Weo-
ster described the award as monument OF what
could be done by fair argument toward setting
| international disputes, and declared that ne was
proud of his own share in It, He thought II
needful TO assure the Canadians that the regua-
tons would not be worked unjusty to them.
No doubt the Canadians sore. Their irri-
tation makes itself felt here, and there Is every
! wish to soothe it. But the good Will between
two great nations is not to be sacrificed or im-
perired out OF consideration for poachers, nor
even for the sake OF the Dominion, which itself
showed none too great activity in discouragng
The miniature general election is over, and the
result may be summed up accurately enough IN
the phrase "as you were" This is more pleas
| ing to the party in power than to the party OUT
Romford and Wisbech and Mid Lanark have re-
dressed or nearly redressed, the balance ds-
turbed by Leith. Berwickshre and Montgomery.
The Unionist majority in Romford decreased 300.
owing say the apologsts. to a block on the Great
| Tha iha-al ma iOfifV
bech is increased by fourteen votes. Mid Lanark
witnessed a triangular contest between Liberals.
Jnionists and Labor. The Labor vote doubled
The Liberals lost what Labor gained, and the
Unionsts gained $50.
This last election, however, may be omitted
from those calculations which concerned
with the balance of power between the Liberals
and Unionists Omtting it. the status quo Is
not much altered by the bye elections. That Is
consoling to the Ministeriasts, nasmuch as
general election conducted on similar lines would
leave them in power. II is disappointing TO the
same party because 10 dissolve and return from
the country with majority no larger than the
| present would neither promise them long lease
OF power nor probably enable them TO carry any
of their great measures through or over the
House of Lords.
The seven elections which have occurred dur
version of England, which Lord Rosebery prays
FOR and even predicts, is proceeding rapidly II
It is proceeding at all. Home Rule is no nearer.
1t remains on the shelf. Abolition Of the House
Of Lords or of its so-called veto, Is no nearer.
From no one Of these widely varying constitu-
encies. nor from all OF them together comes any
thing like that popular summons or that in
spration OF a great popular feeling without
which, as Lord Rosebery said at Edinburgh.
Ministers are impotent to deal with the second
chamber Perhaps none was TO be expected
quite so soon.
More serious from the party point OF view Is
the unheaed wound between the Liberal ana
Labor parties Which of them was in fault Is
disputed. Such matters are always disputed.
Labor thought it had a claim on Mid Lanark.
which the Liberal managers in London and on
the spot would not concede. The Liberal man
ayers thought they could win by themselves.
and they did with majority reduced from l.122
two years ago to $50 Thursday. The re-
ductlon does not make a good impression. The
wrangle makes a worse. Is this the answer Of
Labor to Lord Rosebery's appeal only fort
night since in st. Jamess Hall? Is this the
method by which the Liberal Caucus expects to
give effect to Lord Roseberys policy and TO reap
where he has sown?
better omen. An Irish storm. long threatened,
has broken. Mr.. Redmond has declared
the Ministry. He held a convention in Dublin
on Tuesday There was a numerous attendance.
The Lord Mayor OF Dublin. the Mayor Of Cork.
and half dozen Irish Members Of Parliament
were present Mr. Redmond presided. and made
one Of those speeches characteristic OF him
singularly frank. strong, violent even, and from
the English party point OF view. 80 impohtic.
He defined the present position OF Ireland as a
position OF disunion. squalid and humiliating
personal alterations and petty vanities." He as
serted that the men who 10 unite Ireland
are themselves presenting to the world spectacle
which must degrade Ireland in the eyes OF every
nation" The reference is TO the public alterca-
tions between Mr.. Heay and Mr.. Dillon touching
The Freemans Journal" between Mr. OBrien
and Mr.. Knox on some private matters and be-
tween the two sections OF the Anti-Parnellites
as to the control of that larger wing OF the Irish
Natonalists.
He attacked Lord Rosebery's policy as one Of
concession to the Unionst party. He was positive
that Home Rule had more chance next year
than this He renewed his demand for an am
nesty to the dynamters in British dungeons
He denounced Mr.. Morleys administration Of
Ireland as no better than Mr.. Bafours. He met
the argument against turning out the Liberal
Ministry by a plump declaration that, IL the gen.
eral election restored the Tories to power. Ire
land would be no off than now. He an
nounced again his adhesion. once and for all. -
Mr. Parnelrs fundamental principle Of resoluts
independence OF the English parties.
The convention followed this bold lead The
Mayor OF Cork proposed and the convention
unanimously adopted resolution that the pres
ent Government has forfeited all claims to the
confidence Of Irish Nationaiists isand that II h
the duty OF the Irish Members to- strive for n
early dissolution in other words to put this
Ministry in minority as soon as they can ThlD
belligerent attitude is not without some effect o.
.ha AMI pa rnellifes Who know that they