SIR C. DILKE'S FALL.

Kumara Times, Issue 3099, 8 October 1886, Page 3

SIR C. DILKE'S FALL.

In a cable despatch to the New York Herald, Justin M'Cartby, M.P., says of Sir Charles Dilke:—"His fall is like that of a tower. He stood high above every other rising English statesman, and but for what has happened lie must have been Prime Minister after Gladstone. He would have had hardly even a competitor for the position. He had made his whole life one of training for political success. He had aougbt experience of the most varied kind, had travelled all over the world, and knew most European countries aa well as be knew his own. He had worn the Geneva Cross on many a battlefield in order to see something of battle and campaign. He was intimately acquainted with the politics of public men in Europe, America, Australia, and the East. He knew Russia as well as Turkey, India and China, and was to all appearance actually cut out for the part of a Prime Minister, who was also Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He is still what we in English politics consider a young man, only in his forty.third year, and now, as Evelyn says of Chatles I, 'Now is all in the dust.' The whole story of English public life contains no other example of such a career thus cut short, of so splendid a rise and so sudden and terrible a fall."