The Washington times., 1901-07-21
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

LONDON. July eo-LiberaIism has been
showered this week with an avalanche Of
manifestoes and manifestoes
which succeed beyond question in proving
that in no one of the manifestants, Sir
III. Zimmerman, Lord Rosebery, Sir Ed
ward Grey. or Mr.. II. Asquith. is to be
found the one man for whose coming
Liberalism waits. The Spectator
charges Lord Rosebery with having. by
his restlessness. sensitiveness, and politi-
cal fastidiousness. ruined the Liberal
party. That Is ludicrous. Those who move
among the rank and file OF the Liberals
UP and down the country agree that LIB
eralism Is far from ruined, but remains
as potent force in the constituencies as
in Mr. Gladstone's heyday. What Lord
Rosebery and Sir W. Harcourt have done
between them is. by accentuating minor
differences and personal jealousies. to de-
prfve that force for the moment Of its
proper parliamentary striking power
Lord Rosebery awaits a call from a new
Liberal Imperialist party, which shall
have no dealings with Laboucherism,
Lloyd-Georgeism. Morleyism, or Home
Rule. but English parties are not made by
diffidence. petulance and excIusiveness.
III, as Mr.. Steyns captured correspond
ence suggests. the Boer surrender must
soon close the war. Liberalism may find in
nome problems wide enough platform
for united action and regain some meas
ure OF the confidence and self-respeet that
seems Its only hope.
The Presbyterians of Ireland are, OF
course. the bulwark OF the Tory Govern
ment, and the Presbyterians are very
near revolt. being provoked by the Lord
Lieutenant's slight of the Presbyterian
Church in his appointment of Protestant
assistant commissioner of intermediate
education and by Arthur Balfour's fiout-
ing OF Ulster opinion in the constitution
OF the Royal Commission on University
Education manifesto of the Presby-
terian Unionist Voters Association shows
that during the Governments previous
term Of Office 1t appointed to positions of
emolument thirty-three Episcopalians
and five Presbyterians. The manifesto
declares that in Ireland there are 5s1, ,3s5
Episcopalians and H3.44 Presbyterians.
A carefully compiled table of the paid
Government appointments in the various
departments shows that 1s2 have been
given to Episcopalians and % to Presby-
terians. If" the manifesto adds the
Government desire to treat Presbyterians
w.::a insult and contempt. II is hard to
see how they could do SO more effectual-
ly." Mr.. T. W. Russell and his Presby-
terian land reformers were sore enough
with the Government without this added
grievance
The progress of the Wellsville strike is
being watched with the keenest interest
here The comment of the Manchester
Guardian is. perhaps, the best worth
quoting 1t says: Suppose it should
hnr. -,
strong for the State. Less unlikely things
have happened. A few great organizers
with multitude of sn all investors at
their back may, with the means of in
fiuencing opinion at the disposal of the
modern financier. play very pretty game
with stupid, honest. half-informed de-
mocracy. AS to this, the future will de-
eide. In the meantime, the probable out
come of these vast consultations of cap
ital is the counter organization of labor.
and We may look forward il not on this
occasion. at no remote future, to conflicts
on that scale of vastness which the Amer
lean loves"
The cable will, no doubt. have carried
across the Atlantic the news Of the de-
feat of the Government in the House Of
Lords this week. No political significance
attaches to the defeat. for, as has been
said, the Lords Is little more than cool
Ing chamber for political passions. where
the rivalries of great men are lost In the
slumbers Of Indifference. This Government
defeat was at the hands Of Lord Wemyss,
one of England's amiable aristocratic
cranks. He discovered that there were no
models of the new Government buildings
which are about to transform Whitehall
and Parliament Street. The Government
spokesman unwisely tried to be facetious
at Lord Wemyss' expense and suggested
that he had models on the brain. and car
ried them about in his pocket, which, in
deed. is quite probable. Other peers joined
in the pursuit. and the motion for models
was carried against the Ministry by Al
votes to 20.
The trust deed by which Mr.. Carnegie
makes a gift of 100000 to the Scotch
and constitutes the first body
Of trustees has been recorded this week
IN the books of the Council and session
1t Edinburgh. The British Treasury took
rs, 600 as stamp duty.
The following true story with a moral
Is related this week: Long ago a certain
poet and critic attacked a poet. The at
tack was violent and rseudonymous, and
the result on the unfortunate subject was
that his health distinctly deteriorated,
his spirits sank, and his life. according
TO credible evidence. was shortened. The
poet-critic was sorry afterward for what
he had done, and made apology, but he
abated nothing in the severity of his
criticisms of authors. Occasionally he
got much as he gave. One day he read
an attack made upon him by certain
critic. and was so violently excited that
ne was struck by an Illness from v hich
ne never recovered. Thus the weapons
If criticism may be deadly weapons, and