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VOLUME LXXIX.—JULY TO DECEMBER, 1880.
THE GLADSTONE CABINET.—1880.
First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Chancellor .... ..
Lord President of the Council.
Lord Privy Seal.
Home Office.. .
Foreign Office.•
Colonial Office..
War Secretary .............
Indian Secretary'.; .
Admiralty ..............
Chief Secretary for Ireland.
President of the Board of Trade.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .........
President of the Local Government Board.
POLITICAL SUMMARY.
several Home Rule Members of Parliament, commenced in
Dublin a few days before the year closed. (It came to
nought, as the jury could not agree.)
The Conference of representatives of the European
Powers which assembled at Berlin in June to settle the
question of the Graeco-Turkish frontier, unanimously
adopted a border-line between Turkey and Greece which
gave an increase of territory to Greece (see “Cartoon,”
p. 7). But diplomacy, though active with “ Notes,” inter-
views, and consultations, could not induce Turkey to accept
the boundary laid down by the Conference. Greece grew
impatient at the delay and began to arm, but no war broke
out between the two countries.
Another frontier question, the Montenegrin, was at last
settled, but not without wearisome negotiations between the
European Powers acting in conjunction—the “European
Concert”—and the Porte. The presence of the Allied
Eleets—the “Naval Demonstration” so often noticed in
this volume—which, under the command of Sir Beauchamp
Seymour, assembled in the autumn in the Adriatic, to
enforce the settlement of the question, had probably more
influence on the Turkish Government than all the efforts
of the Ambassadors. Even when the Sultan had issued a
decree ordering the cession of Dulcigno—the town and
district of Albania (European Turkey) on the Adriatic de-
manded by the Powers—many difficulties arose to delay
the surrender. At length, at the end of October, Dekvish
Pasha was despached from Constantinople to compel the
Albanians to submit to the cession of Dulcigno to the
Montenegrins. The Albanians resisted at first, and there
was a sharp engagement between them and the Turkish
PARLIAMENT was notprorogued until September. This,
unusually protracted session was owing to the interrup-
tion of public business caused by the General Election, and
to the determination of Mr. Gladstone’s Government to see
certain measures of importance, which they had felt bound
to introduce, carried through Parliament before it rose.
The chief of these measures have been mentioned in the
“ Introduction ” to the last volume; and as the “Essence”
fully records the other business of the Session, nothing more
need be said in this place, except to notice the ‘ ‘ curious inci-
dent ” of “ the rise of a small body of Conservative ‘ free
lances’ below the gangway, of whom Lord Randolph
Chuechill, and Mr. Goest are the chiefs, with the half-
serious nickname of the ‘ Eourth Party ’ ” (Times).
All through the autumn and into the winter, a large part
of Ireland was in a disturbed state, and additional troops
were despatched to that country from England. Agrarian
crimes and outrages, riots, illegal combinations and threat-
ening notices were rife, while at Land League Meetings
violent speeches were delivered, denouncing landlords, and
urging tenants to pay, as rent, certainly not more than
“ Griffith’s valuation, which was at least 25 per cent, under
the letting value of ordinary land when the basis of rating
was fixed according to the low standard of agricultural
prices ruling a generation ago.” (Times.) Perhaps of all
the acts of lawless violence which darkened this time, none
excited such painful feelings as the murder of Lord Mount-
MOEEES in September, on the borders of Galway and Mayo.
(See “ Cartoons,” pp. 103, 187, 211.) The Government at
last decided to prosecute some of the leading Land League
agitators, and the trial of fourteen of them, including
Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
Lord Selborne.
Earl Spencer, K.G.
Duke of Argyll.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt.
Earl Granville, K.G.
Earl of Kimberley.
Bight Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers.
Marquis of Hartington.
Earl of Northbrook.
Bight Hon. W. E. Forster.
Bight Hon. J. Chamberlain.
Bight Hon. J. Bright.
Bight Hon. J. G. Dodson.
VOLUME LXXIX.—JULY TO DECEMBER, 1880.
THE GLADSTONE CABINET.—1880.
First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Chancellor .... ..
Lord President of the Council.
Lord Privy Seal.
Home Office.. .
Foreign Office.•
Colonial Office..
War Secretary .............
Indian Secretary'.; .
Admiralty ..............
Chief Secretary for Ireland.
President of the Board of Trade.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .........
President of the Local Government Board.
POLITICAL SUMMARY.
several Home Rule Members of Parliament, commenced in
Dublin a few days before the year closed. (It came to
nought, as the jury could not agree.)
The Conference of representatives of the European
Powers which assembled at Berlin in June to settle the
question of the Graeco-Turkish frontier, unanimously
adopted a border-line between Turkey and Greece which
gave an increase of territory to Greece (see “Cartoon,”
p. 7). But diplomacy, though active with “ Notes,” inter-
views, and consultations, could not induce Turkey to accept
the boundary laid down by the Conference. Greece grew
impatient at the delay and began to arm, but no war broke
out between the two countries.
Another frontier question, the Montenegrin, was at last
settled, but not without wearisome negotiations between the
European Powers acting in conjunction—the “European
Concert”—and the Porte. The presence of the Allied
Eleets—the “Naval Demonstration” so often noticed in
this volume—which, under the command of Sir Beauchamp
Seymour, assembled in the autumn in the Adriatic, to
enforce the settlement of the question, had probably more
influence on the Turkish Government than all the efforts
of the Ambassadors. Even when the Sultan had issued a
decree ordering the cession of Dulcigno—the town and
district of Albania (European Turkey) on the Adriatic de-
manded by the Powers—many difficulties arose to delay
the surrender. At length, at the end of October, Dekvish
Pasha was despached from Constantinople to compel the
Albanians to submit to the cession of Dulcigno to the
Montenegrins. The Albanians resisted at first, and there
was a sharp engagement between them and the Turkish
PARLIAMENT was notprorogued until September. This,
unusually protracted session was owing to the interrup-
tion of public business caused by the General Election, and
to the determination of Mr. Gladstone’s Government to see
certain measures of importance, which they had felt bound
to introduce, carried through Parliament before it rose.
The chief of these measures have been mentioned in the
“ Introduction ” to the last volume; and as the “Essence”
fully records the other business of the Session, nothing more
need be said in this place, except to notice the ‘ ‘ curious inci-
dent ” of “ the rise of a small body of Conservative ‘ free
lances’ below the gangway, of whom Lord Randolph
Chuechill, and Mr. Goest are the chiefs, with the half-
serious nickname of the ‘ Eourth Party ’ ” (Times).
All through the autumn and into the winter, a large part
of Ireland was in a disturbed state, and additional troops
were despatched to that country from England. Agrarian
crimes and outrages, riots, illegal combinations and threat-
ening notices were rife, while at Land League Meetings
violent speeches were delivered, denouncing landlords, and
urging tenants to pay, as rent, certainly not more than
“ Griffith’s valuation, which was at least 25 per cent, under
the letting value of ordinary land when the basis of rating
was fixed according to the low standard of agricultural
prices ruling a generation ago.” (Times.) Perhaps of all
the acts of lawless violence which darkened this time, none
excited such painful feelings as the murder of Lord Mount-
MOEEES in September, on the borders of Galway and Mayo.
(See “ Cartoons,” pp. 103, 187, 211.) The Government at
last decided to prosecute some of the leading Land League
agitators, and the trial of fourteen of them, including
Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
Lord Selborne.
Earl Spencer, K.G.
Duke of Argyll.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt.
Earl Granville, K.G.
Earl of Kimberley.
Bight Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers.
Marquis of Hartington.
Earl of Northbrook.
Bight Hon. W. E. Forster.
Bight Hon. J. Chamberlain.
Bight Hon. J. Bright.
Bight Hon. J. G. Dodson.