The morning times., 1895-09-01

30 Salisbury win Keep Friendly
with the Porte-Meeting OF Trades
Union Congress-A Growing Senti-
mem I'm Favor OF Conscription.
Lonioa. Aug 81 Independent action,
cocrriye or Otherwise on the part of Great
Britain against the Porte in connection with
the troul.e ir Armenia, can definitely be
declared to have been abandoned, and,
furiGclnlore. il can be said that 1t is
doubtful II such action was ever intended.
The reports concerning the action that
Great Britaln proposes 10 take had their
origin in Vienna, in notoriously unre-
liable source, and from that city stories
continued to be sent out TO the effect
that rime Minister Salisbury was pre-
pariug 10 use force against the Sultan TO
enfor,-p iIis demands that reforms be estab-
lisheai-s The administration ofthe Armenian
provinces These stories iucited the
lingo papers TO publish laudations Of the
eonso oryatve policy in favor OF oppressed
na3eHaiities.
Suddenly the tone OF the inspired Tory
press was entirely altered The belief
In BRITISH intervention was too thoroughly
pervading the public mind, SO the Globe,
the ST James Gazette and other papers
have been set 10 work 20 counleTact this
impression The Globe now states that
the continuity OF the Rosebery policy con
ecrniuE a Tmcnia cannot be expected Until
the in8e OF Mr Gladstune's atrocity cru
sade il lad been the settled policy OF Great
Britain To conserve and strengthen Turkey
II would be a violent breach OF policy 10
suddenly throw overheard the lonE-esrab-
lished liberation Of Turkey, and commit
the bluuder of helping Russia and weaken
ing thc Porte.
OPPOSE INTERyE -ION-
The ST. James Gazeus pr -.ats UEa inst
armed coercion being employed against
Turkey. rs playing into Eus-ia's hands.
It says that while the neat Of Great
Britain was engaged In knocking Turk
i-h forts. Russian sTalc-I-t- would Ind
q good uppartunity for military operations
/ m Armenia and ROumela. which would
! lead TO the greatest disasters 20 British in
teresls Iu the East.
The whole tenor uf the articles plainly in
I di1ate that Lord Salisbury is renewing his
old Alliance with the Porte, and implies
+ that there win bs no genuine Intervention
! in Armeu an affairs.
The trades union congress which viii
/ open in The Park Hotel, Cardiff, un Monday
/ next. remaining in session for the five fol-
! lowing days viii be lhe lyeliest meeting
4 OF the kind In recent years ThroUghuu'
/ the present week the parliamentary com
4 mittee of the trades unions has been sit
4 ting al Cardiff examining The credentials
! 0C The delegates, cZcisiug-the names OF
those who no longer follow the trades
4 they are alleged TO represent, and gencr-
ally preparing by force OF strategy to
weaken socialist representation,
Tn decisions arrived at 10y the committee
exclude Kier Hardie, who could not be pres
ent anyway, as he is al present in America,
+ Tom Hauu, John Burns, sam Woods, Ben
/ Tule,5. Feuwick and Brnadhurst
Tie programme OF The congress Includes
The quest ions OF a general eight-h0ur work
ing day. employers libiluy. the House o,
Lords. 1he law Of conspiracy, a poor law
4 amendment. factory legislation, the un-
emrl, yed. The payment Of members Of the
house 0f commons, and alien Immigration
FAVOR CONsCRIPTION.
Af- Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of
state for the colonies. repudiates the re-
Dor. that was started by the Rev Hugh
/ Pre. Hughes. tlthc cffectthat headvocated
in ihe cabinet scheme OF military con
scriYiion ana fines in lieu Of service, the
fines g0iug 10 float an old-age pension fund
Though Mt Chamberlain is known as an
advocate Of voluntary enlistment, some
influence inside and outside the cabinet
favor ihe ConscTiptiGn system.
Field Marshal Lord Wolsely, who sue
ceeds The Duke Of Cambridge as commander
in-chieT Of tier ma5csty's forces, advocates
ths system as being necessary TO the ex
istencc OF Great Britain, and The Duke OF
Revcushire, Lord president OF the council
sympathtzes with it. The triumph or con
seryatism AT the polls has been followed by
clamoR0n the part Of the military press
for The assimilation of the British 10 the
continental systems The Rev Mr. Hughes
was wrong in fathering the scheme on Nj
Chamberlain. but the question pervades
the air.
Dr. Thacberay, erstwhile Mr. Henry
Georges right hand in the United States,
who is now a curate in South London, pro-
poses TO ask the coming church congress,
which VIII be held at Norwich, to assist
in the formation Of a curate's union There
is no doubt that DIT Thackeray has a case,
but he win find weak backing among
the superior clergyInen who hold fat lvings
and pay their CIrates starvation wages
TO DO their work
sir Joseph Renals the lord mayor Of Lon
don is about to visit Paris While there
he win invite Mr Felix Faure president
ofthe French republic, to attend q reception
TO be given by the corporation Of London.
Prior TO his departure for New York,
Lord Dunraven. the principal member Of
tile syndicate that built the cup challenger
VaIkyrie III, visited Sumner Payne at
southampton and ordered the building
Of big cruiser
PERSONAL CHAT
W. 6. Gilbert has sent the completed
Hbretto OF a new opera to Sir Arthur
sullivan. Until a contract is formally
signed. Sir Arthur VIII not compose the
music FOR the new work
Miss Ada Rehan, Of BaIy's company, is
resting al a retreat in Cumberland. She
viii visit London and Paris during the
coming week.
Sir Augustus Harris has engaged the
American artists, Dudley Buck Dews, Of
Boston: Goff, OF New Bedford, Mass; Bis
pam, Nine Lillian Tree, and Miss Strong,
for the production of Wagner's Die Wal
kure at the Covent Garden Theater. II viii
be the strongest American cDmpany ever