Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
LOTS OF FUN IN SIGHT Salisbury Said to Be Up to His
 Old Tricks. SOME PLANS ARE EXPOSED
The Speakership for a Fayorlte One of
 Them.
WITH FRANCE BEING URGED
By Some of the Rampant Quill Driversl Duke Of Cambridge Knows a Good Thing-Cbamberlain's Po-
 siaion Weak.

1onIOil, July zi.-lopSCldl OdDit Iel- ter.)-The new parliament is now prac- tically completed, only four constituent cies remaining to be polled It is lucky for the liberal-unionists that the minis try was formed before the conservatives had an idea that they would appear in the house with a majority great enough to defy secession on the part of the liberal-unionists of a coalition of all the parties. Already influential conserva- tives arc urging the leaders of that party to reconstruct the government, giving the conservatives increased representa- tion therein. Il would be difficult to re- shuffle the cards so recently dealt out, but at the Carlston club it is thought that Lord Salisbury will try to do it. The cabinet will meet on Tuesday. when the question of removing MT. William Court Gully from the speakership of the house of commons and the substitution in his stead Sir Matthew White Ridley, d present secretary of state for the home department, will be discussed. MT. Gully stands to win, no matter what action the cabinet may take. Should he be allowed 10 retain the office he vii, of course. have all the honors and emoluments attaching thereto. Should he be removed to make room for a member of the government party he will receive a pension of f4000 annually and perhaps be made a peer. though this latter is by no menas a cer- tainty. His salary is now f5000 year. and in addition he is furnished resi- dence in the palace at Westminster
 The refusal to re-elect speaker is a rare event in the history of parliament. There has been only one such refusal within century, but the conservatives are arrogant in their success and threaten to oppose MT. Gullys nomination, even if the government should be willing that he remain in office. With Sir Matthew White Ridley as speaker, room would be made in thehome office for that -staunch tory. J. w. Lowther, who is the husbafid of a niece of Lord Salisbury.
 Another post. that of chairman of conn mittees of the house, awaits another of Lord Salisbury's proteges. It is not yet deemed prudent to eject any Cham berlainite from office. Though the lib- eral-unionists claim a party vote of TO, the conservatives know that MT. Cham berlain's position is weaker than it seems. A majority of his apparent following is composed of old whigs, who are actually tories If they would prefer they would remain with the conservatives, MT. Chamberlain'S steadfaSt adherentS really consist of the Birmingham group, with about fifteen other members. It is to his interest therefore, to continue in har- mony with the tories on any terms.
 Another certain result of the tory vic tory will be the postponement of the re- tirement of the Duke of Cambridge from commander-in-chief of the army until 1S9G. when he will be succeeded by the Duke of Connaught. According to a re- port at the Horse Guards, as the place where the army officers are located is called, the Duke of Cambridge will not retire until November 13, 1897, when he will complete sixty years of service. Then he will draw a large pension for his ser vices as commander-in-chief and will re- tain the f2200 he receives yearly as colonel of the Grenadier Guards. The country will not make cheap bargain in getting rid of him.
 MT. Walter Hume Long, president of the board of agriculture, has made an important statement relative to a home rule scheme. Speaking to the electors at Devices he said that the conservatives were willing to give Ireland power to govern her own local affairs as the Eng fish countries governed theirs. They were willing to go further and to give Ireland | some machinery by which she would be | relieved from coming to England for lesser local legislation.
 The defense in the case of the 13-year- | old boy. Coombes, who is held to answer | the charge of having murdered his moth | CT by stabbing her with a dagger, will td that he is sufferer from an abnormal | brain condition. His cranium is mis- | shapen and his physique is unusually | developed. He has history of eXtraor- | dinary depravity. Years ago he obtained | money by forging statements that his | mother was ill He did not betray a | trace of emotion while in the dock He | is keen, clever and resolute and has been | liar and thief from an early ge. His | home surroundings were blameless, but | he is a born monster.
 Since large conservative majority in | the house of commons is seen to be as- sured, there is a reSurgence of Jingoism | in the press and from te platform. This | condition of affairs heralds stormy | time if Prime Minister Salisbury should | seek to satisfy the aspirations of his, fol- lowers. The foreign papers are all alert to the situation. The French papers are | assiduously advocating the use of the Franco Russian alliance to drive Great | Britain out of Egypt and to meet her | intrigues with the porte. The Italian pa- pers claim that the change of govern ment here will result in a revival of the | Salisbury Crispi entente, while the Ber- | lin and Vienna journals hail the restora- | tion of a conservative policy declaring | that it is almost tantamount to the incor- | poration of Great Britain into the triple | alliance.
 The Globe of this city today strikes F keynote, advocating the boldest attack by |, Great Britain on France on every point | where their interest might come in colli- | sion. France, the paper says, must be made to understand that there is no hope of evacuation of Egypt until Great Britain deems the time fitting. It adds that the ridiculous claims of France to | an extension of her sphere of interference in the tSoudan must be met by British advance from Uganda and from Egypt l simultaneously. The Mahdi should bel suppress d by a campaign from Egypt and Great Britain should hold sway in the upper Nile to Alexandria. Tn Siam the French claims to the eastern bank of the Mekong river must not be allowed Siam 1t declares, is ripe for a British protectorate.
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