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PALL MALL GAZETTE. MAY 31' lS! CONSERVATIVES ON GOVERNMENT POLICY. the League would answer for that. They would take care of the future course of the Irish race. At the same time he would point out that intervention of the kind in question was very apt to propagate and renew itself.

He believed he spoke the mind of the Irish people when he said that Ireland as one man would resent and resist any attempt from any quarter whatever to limit or abolish the power and the right of agitation which, maimed and debilitated as it was by repressive laws, was the only, power they now possessed. The Marquis of sausbuk. i- hi; speaking at a Conservative demonstration in Bermondsey nrd Sail' olirnaf zt Immf-wns I-ilnrV with Hnnlc ,1 iririii (......... saw ui distinct intimation of the policy which 'the Government no from hat tW to pUMUC. was iieiu- fmm vrineus members of the Cabinet con.

um.v.-.. .1 wntrn fnp pntprfmnprf In or me interests abroad. He proceeded the proio-uu- 1 -i more cheerful prospect to look at when we turn from foreign countries iVt'i, jrc "nJl will not speak much of India. The subject is a delicate and o-r ooBi' nsscinn for setting classes arainst each other Liberal Liovernmem ui utjjAuiiuto iwunnuiittvrjH .,...0 I 'h rhrSle antj UlUlClUUa lll.ll. UI UWWav.

alc united under the Government of the Queen. I believe there has never g( viceroyatty of India being held by one who had served in been an q(. thfi first expcriraent has been to throw India into a uTitwI WJ- Bn stoppage, a complete paralysis of government, is they will tell you that the cause is the alleged obstruction of the LORD CARNARVON ON CO-OPERATION. A few friends of co-operative industry met at Grosvenor House yesterday, the object of promoting co-operative production among the working classes. Lord Carnarvon occupied the chair, and was supported by the Earl of Morley, Sir Thomas Brassey, Mr.

Balfour, Mr. Albert Grey, M.P., Lord Sudeley, Mr. Lioyd Jones, and Mr. Fowler, M.P. The promoters of the movement have started a Decorative Co-operators' Association, which has already obtained success, but more capital is required.

Lord Carnarvon said that the co-operation of decorators seemed particularly 3uited to carrying out the principle of co-operation. M. Leclaire, a Frenchman, had carried out co-operation successfully in Paris, and six hundred of the workmen attended his funeral. What M. Leclaire did in France we ought not to despair of doing in England.

The old antagonism of master and servant and capital and labour was one of the great difficulties and dangers of the present day. He believed by admitting the workmen to a share in the profits they got work quickly done, instead of slowly they got it well done, instead of badly, because the credit of the house became a matter of interest to every workman, and the amount of business which came in was so much gain to him. They got economy, instead of waste; and lastly, they needed no superintendence at all, or comparatively little, because each man was the superintendent, and felt that bad or careless or wasteful work was so much taken from himself. But there was something even beyond that. Just as men became more thrifty, more provident, better workmen, in fact, so they became better members of society, and indirectly the moral and mental tone of the workmen was raised.

And they were doing something for the master. The more the master could feel that he might trust men that he might deal with them on equal terms without fear of being robbed or defrauded, or unjustly treated the better they made the relations between the master and the men, the more likely they wereto take from the master that sourness of feeling which naturally crept in when there were those abuses. From both points of view, therefore, they were raising the tone of the master and man morally, if not intellectually. i 1 Government nave aispiayca in any ou.er ui nave ncfiru suggested uiai uusuutuuu, really looked upon by 'the Government with disfavour- at i 'the are rather glad that anything should happen which should -nore distant date those measures on which the most united Cabinet in the n' -bw'tttciy agreed. The Government at each stage of their programme have Yvhrn trier wanted to legislate jor uiiconiem.

ncnu.u, my When thev wanted to legislate for crime Ireland, tnty Argyll. -lie Duke of yx, iho thon Mr. Rnfht. Now. a ir t'l tl-1l'-J rnlloamii" evrrv vrar.

as a seroent sheds its T-ZfmnA cannot go on "shedding 1 1 cmi easily fancy that in their difficulties, whether about tne mumcipa.ity ot Lady Harberton on Rational Dress. Lady Harberton lectured last night at a conversazione of the London Literary and Artistic Society, held at St. James's Hall, upon the subject of "Rational Dress." Dealing first with the question of form, Lady Harberton urged that by the present niode of women's dress the true lines of nature were not only not followed, but were actually Every inch of drapery below the knees caused fatigue and loss of power, and she ventured to believe that if the strongest man were requited to climb a mountain or walk over a breezy moor in the dress of a woman, or even what was called tne short skirt, what would otherwise be pleasant exercise would be turned into unpleasant toil. Drapery was beautiful, it was true, but when it was allowed to leave its proper place it was robbed of its greatest charm. She believed the first step towards rational dress would not be taken until women could wear some form of a divided skirt, having for its object perfect freedom of movement of the most impoitant limbs of the body.

It had been urged that tuts dress would be unwomanly but she maintained that nothing could be un woman which had for its object what was necessary and true. The idea of sex was entirely conveyed by the association in our own minds. Whatever change women chose to make in their dress that form of dress would, of course, be exclusively worn by the sex, and they had to remember that it was necessary order to through life successfully to have that which enabled the sex to perform then" duties and enjoy their pleasures in the best possible manner. Speaking on the question of stays, Lady Harberton said that medical experience showed that 77 per cent, of the internal ailments of women weie caused by tight and improper clothing. Lady Harberton was repeatedly applauded by the large company present.

The London Government Bill. At a meeting of the executive committee of the London Municipal Reform League, held last night, Mr. J. F. B.

Firth, M.P. in the chair, the abandonment of the London Government Bill was taken into cons.dera ion It wa resolved to proceed with the preparations for the great meeting to be held at St Tames's Hall on June 5 and the attention of the meeting will no-v be directed to the present condition of the question, and to the recent action of tne Government, with a view to renewed and extended efforts to secure the introduction of the measure at the commencement of next session. any other ouestion, the Government, or some members ot it, wouia look absolute rejret at those veiled or unveiled obstructions hich had hindered their Hcouldnot but believe that the difficulty of passing measures through Parlia-r'n- ose from the fact that the measures presented to Parliament were not hwh which the people took the greatest interest. What they needed was teUikva which would be beneficial to the people, and directed to meet the which they suffered, and which would reduce to as small a degree is'traiHe that dangerous antagonism of classes the desire for which ccnsti-rii tb modem Radical The Government wholly neglected legislation for th p'-eveution of overcrowding, for a fairer distribution of local burdens, and for the relief of agriculturists, through pursuing a Radical policy of creating antagonism between classes and gratifying ambition. One have thought (he said) that the first object of a Government in dealing ui-h oy a'Ticultural question would have been to have dealt with the important question rjilieili-ease in cattle.

Cut not a bit of it. That would furnish no political capital no one class against another. The chance of getting up a row between lana-kt-Js ana tenants on the question of tenants' compensation was a great oeal more rwhaive. and therefore it is that the Government have been pressed, and forced by feir teHwl adherents to take up this Tenants' Compensation Bill, which is a matter of small importance compared with the question of enormous interest w.uch tney have ik'liiicratcly neglected. rc-itics, the noble Marquis said, were, under Radical guidance, becoming more and more a species of civil war, and he held that it was for the constituencies to feist that public time should not be thrown away upon the quarrels of classes, that the work of useful legislation should be pursued.

Mr. W. H. Smith. Mr.

W. H. Smith, M.P., presided at a Conservative meeting at Hackney last night, and contended that the Government had conspicuously failed to "itry out its promises on taking office, having instead heaped up a store of and unfulfilled obligations. It was, he said, monstrous political wicked-s to hold out expectations to the multitude which every intelligent, educated Politician knew could not be fulfilled. Their charge against the Liberal party and toe Liberal Got ernmcnt was that they had sought to debauch the constituencies.

litis counirv bv holding out false hoDes and by denouncing evils, which, if existed, they had proved themselves unabie to remedy. Speaking of Ireland lle Mid that the Liberal party and the Liberal Government had put back the condition of Iceland many, many years, and had rendered the hope ot complete union of mind, of heart, of feeling, and of sentiment wnich ought 10 cmstiiute the Union of England and Ireland almost impossible during the tCMr of the present generation. The Liberal party was not a party the sense of the It was a combination of many parties, the great object to retain the government of this country. Was it possible that feists and Christians, that Royalists and Republicans, that Communists and 'cal Economists could agree It was not. MR.

'aTON, M.P., AND THE PAPAL CIRCULAR. Mr. SextoM n-'-W -esterday at a meeting of the National League ubnn. Said in Tr was of imprtance as con" af. to Pop.

the Irish peopie, next as cacernin and fortunes of the the Irish people -er a character of the organized movement alleled and" irSt' and finally and chiefly as indicating an of Jerable of intervention with the future political co. People. One of those wise persons who knew mUld of the Holy Father before it was declared had announced the day or tW0 Aat he PPe was Perfectiy satisfied with the results (v a tr, tb tpstimnmal to Mr. Parneil. Electric Lighting in Westminster.

At a special meeting of the Westminster district board of works yesterday the Parliamentary Committee presented a correspondence with the Board 0 the applications for provisional orders on the part ot several e'ectri tin? companies, and they recommended the Board to continue their oppos'tioS to the present introduction of electricity in their district, and to maintain such opposi ion throughout this session of Parliament. After a long debate it was resolved, by a two to one majority, "That the Board of Hade be informed that they (the 'district board) did not think that the present requirements of the district justified them in negotiating with the promoters of Drov sional orders for the. supply of electricity and that they think no orders LTneces sary at the present time." The Parliamentary Committee were instructed to oppose the schemes mentioned in Major Manndin's report. Tricycles in the Pajks. Union waited upon her Majesty's Commis-A deputation from the -w t0 obtain the privilege for tncyclists sionerof Works on Monday with aw.

are n0w open to hackney-of usin" those roads in the public parks malter his con-carriage traffic. Mr. Shaw Lefevre promised to sideration. snee.ri ,1. trebled since the issue the -i.

t- iii is I i iLiiiwiia iinu i hi me contriDutions iidu a ti tVi p- won ot lrelancl circular. "'ere iic cnaracter or me inovciiit.ii. t. nf the. now ens ljlshori5 lle ws satisfied to leave iu1 niovl Piests of Ireland, who had been themselves the leaders that Zl tTe biops and priests to whom the circular was addressed and UT3 tQ rpsnectmH' it.

would. tne silence respects he beW a Present preserved a dignified both IS whn they did think fit tobreak that silence use. language aj th urd rjoint the NOSOTTIand CO. have P' ffiA SX. House, including some choice Plans for Painting, Decorating, ana ith Verms Martin Pan um, to OXFORD-STREET.

Est. iAnvT. Fuinishins completely most moderate clurscs. 10 'Ofluence i If memorable. etiective uce of die circular on the future course of the Irish people-he said.