New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-30

and Bl1sery-Fhe observation-disclosures
Quarrel in all IFS Relations, Pablo,
Private, ond PcrsonnI-Tho Secret
xsi,tery Of DIr. C0bden's Attack ON The
Times Eewspaper--A Greas Onslaught
In be Made on IL ON tho Eseasse.nblinz OF
Pariinment-Hts FIngrant Conception
Anecdoto OF 1owbrny Morris, ITS Di-
rec,or-A Cheap Advertising Paper 80
be Started in London.
Pron Our Special Correspondent
LONDON jan 9, 1904.
Only fortnight ago I began my weekly let
ter to THE TRIBUNE with an account Of the unusual and
almost prepo,terous midness OF the season. which was
then like anything but what are accustomed TO call
old-fsehoned Christmas weather-as If that adjective
necessarily involved severity aud privation. We have
nothing 10 wish for in the way OF frgidiiy The
temperature really too cold to get up and Gscer
1 ain iD Is worthy Of Eew.York Winter--of Ons OF
those days chropiced in The Herald with half column
OF sensational titles including the inevitable ono. "A
Snow Carnival" and row Of etceteras to finish with
I'm London have not had much snow to speak Of but
plenty Of ice, and-barring fog on Wednesday morn
ngbrlglt clear days Of intense cold, sXhiarating aud
enjoyable enough to the well fed end well clad but ter
ribe TO the half naked and hungry and not alone to
them but % the tens or thOusands WDOSo cIhhcts VI
keeping body and soul together a. they would erscy
express IL, mainly depend on "opcn weather"
An the parks are crowded, and so, alas nre toc
work houses and other refuges for the desttuethc
first with persons bent enjoying sports and pasties
proper Winter 10 the utmost the latter Win those 10
whom It but as nggrGyfton to their mis- ny
Costermongers and other sireet.hneren,s ere al
r2en out their ordinary hv0CatiCns labor has been
suspended wholly or Ia part at many Of the numerous
railway and building works in progress 10 London; coal
IL rising in price and The hard weather SHOWS no signs
IA arnnuflg ~ A.
by a Birmingham Merriam. :" for month or two God
help the poor OF this metropolis aud OF England IN gen
ernl AT ell tires then condition Is depoiaoe enough
II must be rendered appalling by rigorous winter
turn 10 other SUBJECTS having given due prominence
20 the local one moet interesting to Lohdoners ana ret
ingly experienced by myself ut present hs SGT with
CRATE, In which burns not the invaluable anthracite
with It's steady furDsoehke hest but the British cub
stitute which gares and ficses cheeIily enough but
produces much white ashes as warmth. and demands
inoessant poking. We have net great variety OF pub
lie topics 30 talk abont this week bat soeat least ono
of them Is Of psraIn0 Impotence meal OF course,
the Scbleswig Holstein diiiculiy about which 1 am
happily enabled TO furDish you few particulars winch
you viii not fnd In the newspapers.
Denmark il arming as you know, and King Christian
has issued beigcrrnt address which breathcs nothing
but re-istonce to Germanic invasion. determination
iBdorsed and sympathizcd with by all except TeutOno
Europe Undoubtedly the first shot fired in Schleswig
will echo throughout the Continent perhaps prove the
ernal OF az tumuuous year lhiS Of revolutionary
God 1t may not be ebortvei Louis
Eapeons expressed sentiments are both pote pacnc
and prudent; shrewdly he throws himself back Oh the
rght Of those concerned In the matter the people
OF the territory In question TO elect their own sovereign
suggestion which cOmmends itself immensely 10 those
o, France who regard tie merely selfish action OF En-
gland in desiring let well aone, and not to inter.
fere with III ut Gny personal cost with stu increasing
dittrust and dislike. r...
Furthermore war with Germany would be more Than
hall popular IN France especially on behalf oil an over
mntcled people with prospect Of contingent terrific
rial advantages In the shape Of that much coveted len
bank Of the Rhine. The sympGtiKeTs with Poland de-
sire II as afcrding them an Opportunity or pattng
Poles TO frsh and still desI crate rtions tow srd
obtaining their nationality. Hear what a French cor
respondent Of nine an intimate Of the imperial Gov
me privately before append the English supplement
to tao question my own proper business which eannoI
however. lie spoken of separately. hou whi ma you
sre concerned Ia the quarrel AZ u may involve The re-
lnqushms Mt 81 Mexico. about which shai have some
thing to add presently, go.
"w. -r- taking the ros8 toward With Germany, or
rather !. O,t.oy which rs taking the road 70 war whn
" N ma a, la her path Tire Emperors TO that straw
Prince Ausu.tenbrg hin' as much am only
Tor France who vii coss Germany whenever she chooses
In circle IL between Italy uns:ry, Poland Sweden and
Denmark without counting oursev.si and Kussh ean 90
1sy =. s.@ % .o"a fooo.y decide to fs, or
Ks against peoples, which would be strictly IN Tho line
poe woeld Tho English Peopr to Utie - griaes
and might probably determine Us to resign aeHie9 70 me
Ssrgas Grz Ear Uai'D In OF need shell keep
good look out IN tina, direction
Now about EngIands position and sentiments The
majority Of the people want peace "a sad. ior pure
and perh aps ustable reasons and hone dcsp.r
ntoy against eyst ncs that some sane sort ofeompro-
mise between the intending belgerents VIII be elected
But Great Bitau must take sides, OF eaye Tue inning
cards in the hands OF France IL Is another hlSdton
of NapoleOn Ill ~ rst fiddle, Say ing to uDuoky and
di,trgstfnl John MIR. Bull, yOn viii please take your
time from MIR Bet observe the cruel dilemma OF our
unnatural old parent" ~ Dickenss Col Diver with
prospective wisdom Justly dcnoniated hin. dis royal
Family s now kaopH ~ be Civ idod the question, one
against tire other. The Queen sympath'aes strongly
with The German inyeson win her II rs rtiision 70
Ierceut that ol smoking 10 which she is said IA be OPP
posed And she hns special regard for his brother
tits Duke OF AugusenbWg who believed 10 nave corr
with her privately ON the subject OF his claim
even before making 1t.
9hc Prince OF Wales ard his party tand ron may
imagine that the edherents Of Crown Prince and iu-
ture King Of England IRE likely 10 be both numerous
aud inuuentiaD hold senuously with Denmark and the
father 81 Princess Alexandra Then there Is the PIN
cess Koya welded 10 the son II the pig headed but
od-iLtcntoncL King " Prussia whose desperate uE
topulari,y among his subjects has apparently melted
and dslpre cd In the beat of German enthusasn for
war and aggression; this young man, hitherto very
careful to follow tie role Of liberalism, IN polite oppo-
son ~ his father cannot venture 10 ran counter 70 me
XcheInent inclnatons OF al "faIherhnd" even II lis
own were contrary 70 them Of which there IS not par
tcle of evidence He end the Princess Royal may,
flies. SO that, altogether the iubrogio Is u terribly
rcrpeied and complicated one ior Mr. BllL
Ii the lntost that Prussia has withdrawn ron
the proposition FOR the occupation OF ScAl.swg made
by Austria aud Prussia conformity at The Federal Diet
Move f,e Us everybody eIpects-lt has aryady been
contradictcd by authority, In Nennahos'iltics WIZ
begin and very shortly. And then England. governed
by men who only respect the popular WI! IN view
oil hazardous contingencies To taemseves-as witness
heir conduct 70 America-may hnd herself pushed Into
neutrality-suspicious. war, side by side with France
I'll. of AZ
present ever likelihood OF It, Already the Initiative IL
tekon Two DAYS ago Lord Painorston recovered from