Our London Letter.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2845, 10 June 1879, Page 2

Our London Letter.

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' Lohdos, A^ril 22. fIECJ-ININGi POPULARITY'iDji DJSr, KAiWS; ADMINISTRATION^ ■:,»,-. Most people ire1 looking forward — the :with delight, tho .Conservatives with terror—to a collapse of the Toxy. Cabinet. Parliament has re-opened in a ■cross humour. Lord Beaconsfield* has had lno jzopd lucksißce ilieyearbegan. Every thing has gone wrong in allparts 6f "the world, and.his Government is perishing beneath a-weight bf disasters, . t byjqught v on| by his crazy policy 6i "imbecQity atßome ;and bullying abroad," (as Mr Bright puts : it). Jingoism is bringing forth its fruit, and the Jingoes are dismayed. They have"; sown the Tyind and are beginning to reap the whirlwind. Nothing is turning out well, and-in,every direction we find some | fresh evidence of folly. The most' rabid of the Government journals are beginning I to admit that prospects are not as healthy as could,be wished, and that. Ministers 'are losing the confidence of the nation. . " THE BERLIN TREATY. The " Pall Mall Gazette "has long seen through, the flimsy absurdities perpetrated by Lords üßeaconsfield and. Salisbury at Berlin. It says that the Ministerial apologists are " dulling the senses of the country by smooth pretences and Soothing lies,"1 that Government moves only, as "the ox moves when "it is being driven to market," | and that Ministers are being dragged hopei lessly forward " in concurrence with plots, in condonation of the treacheries and1 in advancement to "the traps of our enemjes.* '■•DISRAELI'S LAUREL GROWK. , I ■ The other day a Mr Turn erelli announced that 'the •working' men of England' Wpre i going to present the. Premier with a, ;lajjrel Wreath of gold, and that 58,000 p_ersons~had .subscribed a penny each to do it. I may .remark en passant that 58,000 put of 32,000,000 is npt a very large 'pronwtiSifT. Mr Turnerelli's pJari -Sot Menaefmmring 'toride into a,-buronetcy'oh fool's pence is rathe,r ingenious, but this' time he has .been a Mle 'thy-ifilSagd | recipient piJI soon be; feinging^iJb adapt^thij

I 01 workmen twlne-ao-wreath for me, What with the Afghan war, the Zulu war, ■ the, Egyptian ; rdiffic6l^ ttfot ihre*tened Burmese trouble,- atid so on; we feel that we ! are jrathw in a horne.t>,, Jpes L The i" siffifiard"" "haW actually daf^d to 1 declare that the Egyptian policy of the Government •was b. mischievous mistake-.whiqh will hava to be abandoned forthwith, or much mipr§ serious evils ,wjll result, y It, j exhorts the I Governmentto * shave the moral courage to admit' that they-made a mistake, and that they ought never to have interfered iin Egypt. All of which is to a certain extent consoling because it proves that the Jingoes are beginning to'''«&tile to ;t|ieir senses. The 1 mperialism ,of '/ jiHe , '£,Tory " conjurer is becoming ridiculous. Undertaking to act as the World's Police," to? tiow Russia, to regenerate Europe','to,'onnek a cpntinent, they; stand forth, to ridicule iaa. unable to coerce an effete Pasha, to thrash the Zulus or-to manage-Afghanistan.- When Conservative editors even fail to find an excuse or a plea for their party, than }udeed, the s'pringl of inspiration' mu^t he running very dry", '

LORD DERBY'S WITHDRAWAL. -~Th,e! mopMntereitfing .pnd,. from; a paifor point of view, the most important piece of intelligence1 brtraptr t6toVn 6n theop'enitf|' day of Parliament (this day week) xtwaa the' announcement pi Lord. Derby's withdrawal from the. Conservative "party, lu'tbJe''weß't en£,clubs.and,t^ made a most profound sensation and formed the main topiff'»fr(donvi6rß&tion,!l- cThtere^an* 1 be no doubt (though, the conservative^ profess carelessness abo'utit) tK ra| the secestloV from their ranks of a Statesman so exaltea, and who has played so prominent a part in the present Government ia an event kit thel Vpry highest political significance. It is at.auy *a'?e',reg&rdei[£as such in Liberal circles here.. Politicians declare the moral effect of auch ati1 ipCiflent -will be rndst disastrous tb'thie GoYerinnient, prospects at the next ele_ctiori arid cannothe rated toohighly by the Liberal leaders. The disastrous, news received from South Africa (since ajpended by the news of the relief ofEkowe) the withering deriunciations of "its domestici s?.nd foreign policy by Mr Bright and Sir W. Harconrt, and Lord Derby's'tfecession, all.'coming at the reas?enibling of Parliament, was indeed a'bitter ciip. Conversing with a junibr. niember of the odvernment that evening I gathered that the day/was regartLed ;as' "Black Thursday" in Dotvniag-street. Lord Beaconsfield's juniors^are, of all men in thoir position, the least inclined rto take a' pessimist view, of the situa,tio% tsijtl can assure you.that "even these gay spirits are beginning ito suffer under'.{fye depression which for so long has hung1 over political life, a Ministers frankly confess that- they haVenowgot the?r• hands very full and a very he»vy load of trouble to bear-^in fact the trouble of two-.thir4s of the world. 'Mr Bright's attack seems to have been keenly felt, and the phrase describing the Government as " imbecile at home and turbulent

and wicked abroad" seems to have coUeT, •deep. . : rt^^, B , . Doatvery,, v , t^gpVMifilfGE OF STRIKES -' Bfenoble BritishVorkman is onc P 'n, n to the %e;-^ntfis Mattering out th 12?" of t&ioae Who' decUne to think as ftST" lfhb even thinks at all. IntheNnflvT Englandlthere isi^huge Btrike^SSM' coUlers and partiS of them aregoin| ab *? trying io cqerce thte few decent men 22* andm.urder the police who endeavon/* discharge theis duties. All lessons seem ♦ KeaM,up<Ji3ittQese stupid ruffians whTaw? we h«ar, threatening to tar and feather thL editors of some of the northern provhipiai papers, who have dared to tell them th f their conduct is wrong. Then the SonS <3oUiers,wJh^h^ pick up their strength again alter their lorn, and terrible experience of last year a» actually threatening to strike again in'mrll pathy^with the 60,000 lunatics in thelS' However, I believer, large number of N<ir them miners of thebette* sort, foieseeino the coming, evil, days, ,aie emigratuig S your colony, where I am glad ,<»] see yon appear to be pushing your coal^JnVj^ . operations.: And so we are iScoS?I peUed to see the trade slippC.' away from the old country and the folly 0 ( her i^ons fltiUi. remaining i/miabatt&a ftji r Julius Vogel contributed this month a rather smart paper to "Time," Edmund Yft^s"s n<s w, magaziqe, pn Becipipcify, aJ , a strong party is coming to the front^reS that the only method to save our trade 'isto revert to limited : pro.tection, r, r ,