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OUR LONDON LETTER; [FROM OUR LONDON CORKKSPONB,.NTS.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. MR. MORLEY'S PREDICAMRNT. The announcement thatltbe Lord Chancellor Ðf Ireland had released a man who had been imprisoned for contempt of court in defying the decision of Judge Boyd in a question of eviction has created an uneasy feeling. As the man had been imprisoned several months, importance need not he attached to the fact cf his release, inasmuch as he had been suffi- ciently punished. The incident is only aotable as adding to the difficulties of Mr. Moriey. He has not dared to refuse the aid of the police to carry out evictions, ijccause he is bound by eommon law to do so. Evic- tions are carried out by the sheriff, who is the Queen's representative. As such he can call on any of her A'ajest-y's subjects to assist him, first calling in the armed civil and military forces. If Mr. Morley were to refuse the assistance of the police he would certainly be indicted. There are men in Ireland prepared to indict him if he committed that grave fault, and the high-minded Irish judges would Hot scruple to commit him if he proved recalcitrant, for the law in Ireland, as in Kngland, has no respect for persons. The awkwardness of Mr. Moriey's position may be imagined. The Nationalists fully expect him to stop evictions, and, with the fear of the law before his eyes, he is obliged to dis- appoint them. THE UNIONIST ATTITUDE. The Unionist leaders have arrived at the determination that there shall be no autumn campaign this year. That is the correct atti- tude under the circumstances. I trust none of our friends in the country will misunder- stand the policy of wise restraint that is re- solved on. The circumstances are peculiar. We have in power a Government on suffe- rance, without a policy, and so feeble that no one would insure its existence for longer than six months. When I say that it has no policy I should have said that its only policy is a policy to say nothing. It is surrounded by pitfalls and dangers. If the Unionists took the field this autumn, and swept the country in full attack on this stop-gap Government of nerveless mediocrities, it would merely point out the dangers and pitfalls, and thereby prolong the agony. It is, therefore, resolved ';0 wait until a responsible Ministerialist has Aiade a speech which can be discussed. Then the exultant Unionists, stronger In their policy, in their record, and in their debating power, will go for the Government with honour to themselves and profit to the country. This policy of masterly patience Will be also a policy of vigilant watchfulness. Every blunder, folly, and freak of incapacity frill be noted as it occurs and ruthlessly Exposed. UNIONIST ORGANISATION. In the meantime the Unionists are concen- hating their energies on the important work Qf registration and organisation. Tory orga- nisation being as nearly perfect as it can be '•hade, registration is the great thing, and important results may flow from the efforts that are now being made, Mr. R. W. E. Middieton, the chief agent of the party, has fully recovered from his iilness. Although the has been ordered a long holiday, fie comes up to town for two days fevery week from his house in the country, where he is resting and recruiting. At the liberal Unionist headquarters in Great George-street Mr. Powell Williams has been vigorously overhauling the organisation of j&e party. It has been by no means perfect in working, but it is hoped that the Birming- fcamising of the machine will produce some- thing like the splendid results achieved under Mr. Chamberlain's direct Iea.d in the Birming- ham district. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. The debates of the Trades Unionists in Congress are being watched with keen interest. it is observed with satisfaction that President Hodge's declaration against the introduction kf party politics into the Union is loyally accepted by the congress—in spirit, at any rate. Thus the delegates refusedfto ensure the independent action of Mr. Fen- frick and members of the Parliamentary com- mittee. Nor does the action taken yesterday go behind the president's dictum. The reso- lutions in favour of labour representation in Parliament, indeed, strengthen the position, because of the introduction of the important word" independent." Tories rejoice at rather than regret measures for the establishment of -an independent Labour party. They have always done more for labour than the Liberals, And if either party suffers by the assumption -of an independent attitude by labour, that party will not; be the Tories. TELEGRAPH MARVELS. Another interesting invention brought ,r'der the notice of the Railway Congress by J.h, Harry Polliti ia that of telegraphio com- munication with running trains. This is a *host important invention, both for con- tinence, saving of time, safety of passen- gers, and the working of the train. Several Mtempis have been made to establish com- munication with running trains. The one ^bich Mr. Pollitt regards as the practical action of the difficulty is the indnotive 5lrouit system invented by Messrs. Edison *^d Phelps. This is fairy-like in its results. H literally annihilates space, Without JlJy contact, the electric current leaps from flying train to the wire running "y the railway side, or vice versa, and carries /Messages from train to town. Messages have keen successfully taken from a train running i jO miles an hour 60ft. away from the wire, Wid without any contact at all. This is cer- I:1:\inly the most wonderful development of Metric telegraphy, and Mr. Pollitt rightly hrmises that it is only the pressure of ^numerable calls on their capital and revenue frhich will prevent railway companies univer- fcUy adopting it. But it will arrive, and all the I tj°oner because men of light and leading like ?'. Pollitt have taken it up. ELECTIONEEKING CANARDS. It is amusing to read the ridiculous stories ijM about by angry Gladstonians as to the jfibery of their unhappy supporters with ?°ry beer. The gentlemen who disperse &ese clumsy mendacities have no sense of ,b,1j humorous. They do not see that if their Importers can be bribed away at the cost of jtalf a pint they are not worth much. But W is only by sheer impudence that they dare Mat their charges. An the foundation they fcn offer is that the Associated Brewers sub- bribed £100,000 to assist in keeping out of lite House candidates who are pledged to phfigoation. I presume that if the Gladstonians had had a hundred thousand at disposal they would have spent it-in beer, told that they measure the Tory strike by |heir own bushel. As a matter of fact, the "'ewers spent their election fund far more "Orioyrably and lawfully than did the Glad- ^onians. Immense sams were spent in jHbery and corruption by the Gladstonians. wore than one cf their candidates swam in ^t). beer, and if a true record could be obtained $ £ the way in which the money was spent by r^ocal Optionisfc and electoral temperance 'ksociations it would be an eye-opener. THB KoCHWbTlR AND WAISAI,D PhTITIONS. The decision of the Gladstonians not to jjfoceed with the Rochester petition is •ftunently satisfactory. Kven had it proved ISuccessful, the defeated Liberal candidate j^ould not have hoped to take possession of he Sea^ for certain reasons which need not ho enumerated here. There would have been •.J^ther bye-election, and much ill-will would «ave resulted therefrom. It is to be hoped hat the petition agp.inst Mr. Jamc?s, M.P. fJr Walsall, will also be abandoned. Mr. f anies, who won the seat, it will be recollected, op,th«* Unionists, is a man of great personal local popularity, and he has taken for pasta great pari :n all important !wal

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