Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-16
ENGLISH POLITICS Continues to Be Interesting in a
 Marked Degree.
THE SOCIAL PURITY CLIQUE
Makes Startling Revelations. The Great Racer Throstle.
 Victoria Invited to Russia.

LONDON, Sept. 15.-U nderneath seem- ing stagnation of politics two highly im- portant movements are progressing. The movement of first importance is the initia- tive step of Chamberlain unionists who are about to merge with the conservative party with view of consolidating the anti home rule forces in the coming gem eral elections. The mere reform of the mechanism of elections is not by any means the biggest change intended to be brought about through this movement.
 The Duke of Devonshite, the arch unionist. and his scarcely less astute CO., adjutor, Mir. Chamberlain, propose a programme marking the entire absorption of the unionists by the conservatives, the chief features of the movement being the revision of MT. Chamberlain's Irish local government scheme to the extent of ere- ating co-councis with the ,cen- tral legislature located in Dublin. The Duke of Devonshire is also credited with having urged Lord Salisbury to accede to a reform of the house of lords by decreasing the hereditary element and increasing the representative element. Obviously 1t is the desire of the liberal element of the election with platform containing tue most attractive blanks of the elections manifesto of their opponents.
 The other movement, which originated with the wire pullers of the National Liberal federation, aims to recast the Newcastle programme, putting in the foreground the proposals for the abolition of the veto power of the lords, and the English labor questions, and keeping in the background the questions of home rule and church dis establishment. The executive committee of the National Liberal federation are con- hQf rul Ia io r,r, l0n O party cry and believe it necessary that the electorate should be agitated upon other grounds.
 Lord Rosebery will announce the pro- gramme of the government in speech in Glasgow in November, and in view of this which was to be convened in Edin bureh in October, has been postponed. section of the Irish party, which has admitted the necessity of controlling the house of lords by extracting their fangs before the qnes- tion of home rule is again submitted, nave been convinced of their error and practi- cally sidetracked. r
 The latest development in the coutro- versy over the Irish circular, to which MT. Gladstone, Lord Tweedmouth and oth3r eminent liberals responded, is Mir. Francls Xavier O'Brien's communication on tile subject to the newspapers. @
 MT. O'Brien at first declared that he knew nothing whatever about the Irish circular. Next he ssseverated that he did not sign the circular, though he might says: ''I find to my surprise that not only did sign the circular, but l made some alterations in the wording of it.''
 MT. Healy has taken full advantage of this admission. He has his opponents on the hip, and means to throw them. A Healyite deputation is about to start for America to cultivate support of MT. Healy,s opinions and obtain funds to back them. MT. E. r. V. Knox, member of parliament for Cavan, contributes to the controversy statement that the election expenses of the anti Parnellites in 1892 were largely paid by the National Liberal club of Great Britain.
 The social purity clique. probably be- cause Lady Somerset, Rev. Price Hughes and other shining lights are taking holi- day, remain silent under the attacks of med ical journals and other publications, which are furnishing new revelations of the ef- fects of the order of Lord Ripon, secretary Of state for the colonies, abolishing the registration of women in India.
 The Lancet, in an article on the subject, gives an instance of young Catonese girl who tried to commit suicide because one of her brothers, a speculator in slaves, threat ened to sell her to another brother, also a speculator in the human commodity. ! In speaking of this case the Lancet says that since the system of state protection has been abandoned the only possible release of these poor creatures is death.
 MT. Labouchere, taking up the case in Truth as an illustration of the folly of well m eaning and eilly men, says an officer high in command in the army in India gave him data of a most startling character, the conclusion of which is that out of 71 ,OOO British troops in India over 33 1000 are reg ularly rendered useless from one cause alone. The effective strength of the army is thus reduced in numbers below 36. GOO, his article, MT. Labouchere asks:
 "Could those whose opinions have al- lowed disease full play and consequently di the ts engirs ic peril suggest any
 The defeat of Lord Rossbery's derby win :, ner, Ladas, in the St. Leger race is the event of the week to a great majority of British race e-goers, but the greatest surprise to the sporting world is the record of the winner of the St. Leger. She started at 50 to and was unknow6 outside the privats club of which her owner IS d The joint sharers in Throstis,s are Lord Allngton and Sir Frsd- erick Johnstone, who backed her heavily and won immense sums.
 The czar has sent an autograph lettof to the queen reinviting her majesty tosztRs Alix of Hesse, in which he urges thatshim- Self and his whole family are anxioussfor the presence of the queen op that occasion. The queen is desirous of going to st. and is taking the advice ofsher and physicians on the subject.
 A now British trade dollar is being coined for use in the east in the Calcutta hints. It is of the same weight and hnes ness of the Mexican peso. This will help the Indian authorities to use some of their surplus silver. VT