The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-07
CHANGE OF THE PREM1ERs.
The Duke of Devonshire Makes a
Speech on Gladstone's Retirement.

London, March 6-Sir William Har-
court, the leader of the liberal party in
the House of Commons. has issued a cir
cular letter to his supporters, requesting
full attendance of the liberal members
in the House on Monday next, March 70,
when matters of great importance will be
considered.
Lord Rosebery attended the queens S
drawing room to-day The wea her was
cold and windy. The Countess of Craven,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs BradIey-M
Of New York, was presented to her ma
jesty by Ambassador and Mrs Bayard,
and was afterwards granted an audience
by Prince apd Princess Christian
The drawing room was the smallest, so
far as attendance is concerned, which the
queen has held in years. This is remark,
able from the fact that the queen will not
hold another one until 1898. There were
only l42 people present and the ceremony
only lasted an hour
All the great officers of state were in
attendance, however; Lord Rosebery oc-
cupied conspicous place near the queen
and the other cabinet ministers who
were present.
ROsEBERY TAKES POSSESSION.
The Offices occupied by Mr. Gladstone
as premier were formally taken posses
sion of by Lord Rosebery this afternoon.
The new premier was cordially greeted
by the retiring prime minister upon his
arrival at the rooms in the official resi-
dence in Downing street.
DEvoNsHRE ON THE RESIGNATION.
The Duke of Devonshire, in the course
OF his speech at Yeovil this evening. re-
ferring to MIR, Gladstone's retirement,
SAID that 1t was a source of great salts
faction that, in spite of his age and in
trinity, Mr.. Gladstone had not Outstayed
ms parliamentary reputation. The
image presented by Mr.. Gladstone would
never be impaired; his picture would
| never be effaced. He had passed from
the scene in the plentitude of his
strength and greatness, and neither for
good nor for evil could his place be filled.
he had left to his successors a legacy of
unsettled questions. One of these cues
tions was home rule, which would hang
as mill stone around the neck of his
party for many years, and in his last
| speech he had imposed a new burden
upon his party-the quarrel with the
House of Lords.
HOME RULE AT THE BOTTOM OF IT.
The only real ground for the quarrel
with the lords was the re ectiou of the
| home rule bill. The other grounds alleged
were absurd, and the Earl of Rosebery
would not take them. If the government
were inclined to hang up home rule. con
tinued the speaker, the liberal unionists
would be in no hurry to displact
| them. But the liberal uniOusts
would be uncompromising in their
| opposition to home rule, and especially il
| the go ernment attempted to pass a ger
| rymandering registration bill Otherwise
| they contemplated no factious opposition
| to Lord Rosebery, who there was no rea
son to believe was Indifferent to the in
| terests, honor and greatness of ENGLAND
at home and abroad.
LABOUCHERE's DISSATISFACTION.
Henry Labouchere, in an article which
| will appear in tOmOrrOws Truth, will
| say: The responsibility for the accept
,ance of peer as prime minister rests
! upon the radicals, unless a clear statement
! is made in the queens speech that we
are to have different policy regarding
! the House of Lords than Lord Rosebery
! is supposed to entertain. Some of the
radicals will make it clear that they will
! decline the tiukering of the pernicious
assembly of the peers, and that the right
| of that body to interfere with the nation
must cease. Lord Rosebery's public
utterances with regard 10 Ireland are not
at all satisfactory. The secrecy with
which Mr.. Gladstones resignation and
| Lord Rosebery's appointment was man
! aged was clever, but most unfair. Had
the proper time been given. at least a
| hundred radicals would have protes ted
| against peer premier,
PEER IN POKE.
eve have not only peer premier, but
| a peer in poke. l do not object to any
| individual peer because he was born il
| the purple and if Lord Rosebery is really
| a radical, the difficulty OF his being a
| peer may be surmOunted by bill allow
| ing peers to renounCe the privilege of the
| peerage in order that they may sit in the
! House of Commons" "
| MIR. Labouchere then proceeds to argue
| that the House of Commons cannot re
main the ruling assembly while the
| premier is in the House Of Lords. IN this
! connection he says: 1--WE will not
/ have the real control over him
/ as we can only turn him out By q
/ hostile vote at the cost of running the
| party. We are also idiots to suppose that
the electors will not perceive the utter
/ absurdity of our position when we appeal
/ to the country with the battle cry of the
| abolition of the lords. -
MIR. Labouchere concludes as follows
| Il am now convinced that the radicals
| dearly love a lord. Love for and subser
viency to the titled is the weak spot il
the Anglo-SaXOn race. We are race OF
snobs and are never happier than wher
indulging in an orgie Of snobbism."