Show TilE SALISBURY MINISTRY I acin ai2The internal situation in England has lually reached a point which absorbs the attention and energies of its statesmen states-men The Salisbury ministry is today confronted with a crisis which must lead to dangerous complications whatever may be the issues presented In the present condition of Europe England may well dread any contingency compromising com-promising her interests abroad for whatever may happen she will necessarily neces-sarily be forced to divert her atttention from external affairs to concentrate hem exclusively upon events which are now in fermentation within the boun aries of her own horizon Everything surrounding the Salisbury Government Govern-ment is in a state of the highest uncertainty The position of the cabinet is i so dubious and precarious that no foreign power nor even England herself her-self could venture a reliable prognosis upon the immediate future The colossal colos-sal danger at this moment suspended over the British Government is the Irish question more menacing more imperi 6us than ever before The Parliamentary Parliament-ary debate upon the bill authorizing fresh coercive measures must of necessity result in a crisis to bo alike dreaded whether favorable or inimical to the ministry It is inevitable that it will be contested with passionate energy From its very nature the bill betrays the extreme ex-treme anxiety of the Government It surpasses in its oppressive rigor all the measures for Ireland hitherto introduced These measures indeed are the most astounding conception which could have entered into the brain of a British statesman when it is considered that tho trial by jury is universally regarded as the fundamental basis of the liberties of the United Kingdom It would seem impossible they should be sustained by any other party than one of the most advanced Toryism And yet it i appears certain according to Lord Hart ingtons declarations that they will be defended to the last by LiberalUnionists who it would seem prefer rather to sacrifice sac-rifice the principles of constitutional liberty lib-erty to which their policy has been consecrated con-secrated than to restore Mr Gladstone to power upon the ruins of the Salsbury ministry If the Crimes bill becomes a law and there is little room left indeed for a saving doubt on the subject no one can foresee the extent of the calamities which would be given birth to for it has already been demonstrated to all but the selfdeluded Salsbury Ministry that Ireland Ire-land will not submit to a regime so arbitrary arbi-trary and oppressive |