Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-24
Sees the Necessity of His Presence -zs in the House of Commons
TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK
On the Speakership-Rose- bery'S Condition Not
 Much Improved.

LONDON, March 23.-AIr. Gladstone's return to London has been hastened by the ds adiock in the house over the succession to the speakership and the still more se- rious differences in regard to the dissolu- ton of parliament, upon which question there does not seem to be any feeling of unanimity. It is certain that the advice of the ex- premier will guide the ministers in deciding both questions, and until he has arrived and the leaders have had the ben- eft Of consulting with him nothing will be done. Al the cabinet council which was convened week ago last Tuesday it seemed very mpro bable that there would be dis solution until the ministerial programme fixed at the beginning of the session had been carried out. The executive committee of the liberal party had told the election agents that there would be no general elec- ton until November. The change is due to Lord Rosebery's increasing desire to withdraw from the premiership, and there is general realization now that somel hing must be done to make change in the state of affairs existing. The squab- bles over the speakership aud the threat ened assertions from the ministerial ranks on the question of local veto have also had
 
 other ministers are becoming disgusted over the tension caused by their working with a small and uncertain majority, which is liable at any unexpected moment to become minority.
 RosABERY's CONDITION.
 Lord Rosebery is gaining strength slowly, but he has prolonged periods Of insomnia and symptoms of serious nervous disorder Nevertheless he will not withdraw from office until he sees the end of the present parliament. Throughout the ten oays he has not had a single nights sleep and his water, which ne has found valuable upon previous occasions when similarly at tackled, has not been efficacious. Only drugs have given him relief, and these only temporarily. His condition is such that his physicians have again urged him to take a sea voyage as the only thing that would give him permanent benefit.
 THE QUEEN WANTS HIM TO REMAIN.
 The queen has been informed of Lord Rosebery's condition and desire to retire from office and has declared herself most unwilling to accept his resignation. Her Majesty has expressed hope that his col. leagues will allow the premier to recover from his ailments before taking action which would embBrrass him, and this course may be pursued. However, there IS an activity of ministers, among whom Sir William Harcourt is the most prominent, who think that the easiest way out of a seenii 2ly impossible road IS an early dis solution.
 THE LIBERALS CHOICE.
 The choice of the liberals for the speaker ship now lies between Rt. Hon. Leonard Courtney and Mir. William Court Gully, and the latter will probably be the minis teriaI nominee. MT. Gully, who Is mem Der of the house for Carlstat, is grandson of the famous light weight champion pugi- Hist, John Gntly, who alter retiring from ha member of narllameQt for Pontefract. MT. Guliy's father, James Nancy Gully, Esq.,, NJ. D., was a noted nydrapothic pnysician, whose reputa- tiop, however,. was not enhanced by hls connection with the notorious Brave pois- oning case. MT. Gully is highbred, courtly, dignifed and clever gentleman, and a queen s counsel. He would unques- tionaoiy make good figure in the chair, but is so seldom in his seat that Sir Charles Dike was recently moved to ask in connec- ton with his candidacy, "Would you make a man speaker who has been ten wears member and ten min utes in the house?'
 GLAD OF THE sHRINKAGE.
 The set back which the radicals received in the house of commons last night ln the vote on the question of paying salaries to members has given great satisfaction to the conservatives. who greeted the announce ment of tue division with prolonged cheers. In 1898, when the question was voted on, 1t was caTIleo Uy A mdJoSitJ VI Aofty -ooSous Last night the majority in its favor was only eighteen, and the opposition went nearly frantic in their expression of de- light at the shrinkage.
 aRoss APPROPRIATIONS.
 The Turkish embassies in London and Paris give absolutely wholesale denials of the stories that 25O0 Armeniaus are In prison aud many of them dying from the fiaors of confinement. The Giobe'B core. epondent in Consta D tinople quotes 8 state- ment made by European commercial man who was travelling in sBitlis and Moosh last fall. This gentleman ayers that he was passing through Djellyeguzan on and about February 8, when it is related that the one incident being the massacre oi S60 Ar menians, of all ages and both sexes, by the Turkish troops. It was alleged, too, that these persons had been induced to surren. der by promises of protection, and that the dead and dying were thrown Into an 1In- mense pit together.
 In refutation of this story he says that he neither saw nor heard anything of the massacre, although he admits that the viI- lage was attacked in consequence of the hostile attitude of its inhabitants towards the government. He saw ruins here and there as the result of the fighting, but de. ciares that the accounts published in the newspapers in Great Britain were gross ex- agerations, and that-the so-called details were pure fiction. This he declares is es- psJGily 1rus of the stories of the brutal usage o. women and giflsAnd tue torture of ''lssssh In snsthss atser sir Eliss Mssds Bart lett deuouncss ss md2&trous itas the stste' ments that in conseQuedes ot tne grave re, ports of outrages from tho 0ussasn c9ssnis