Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-04
NEW YORK.
The Duehess Of EdinburgI's Posi-
lfon Settled - The Temperance
Movements In LOndOn-Frenen Ex-
IIes-Cubau News.

movements HI llOnUOA--A HehcAf -
IIes-Cuban News.
. New YoRK, June "A London letter
saws that the position Of the Duchess Of
Edinburgh at Court has been settled,
She is to be called Her Royal Imperial,
or Imperial Royal Highness, and is to
rank next to the Princess OF Wales, ex-
cept when the Princess Royal Crown
Princess Of Russia happens to visit Eng
land. 1t has hitherto been that the
daughters of sovereigns took precedence
over the wives of sons except in case OF
the Princess of Wales. The Duchess Of
| Edinburgh, however, is not only royal
by marriage but imperial by birth, and
it is on this ground that higher place has
been assigned her in Russia. She was,
after her neither, who is an invalid and
lives in retirement, the first lady in the
land, and is raised high above all the no.
bility. Here she is only one among
many princesses, and has, apparently,
few striking qualities of her own to win
the commanding position. The Duchess
is deficient in dignity and STYLE and
her sex are cruel enough to say that she
does not know how to dress; however, in
some other ways she may strike out
line for herself.
At a recent meeting of the friends of
temperance in London John Bright made
a speech in which he said the friends
asked for things to be done by Parlia-
ment which they knew and all knew at
the present time, with the present state
of public opinion, were impossible to DE
done. If Parliament were to pass such
laws as those proposed by the many
friends of temperance legislation the very
next week they would have to repeal
them, and the whole city Of London
would be in riot, revolt and instruction.
The question of intempersnce is one of
the great evils they have TO overcome.
He had come to the opinion that unless
the religious portion Of the country
would take up this question there was no
hope for it whatever. At present, &C.
cording to custom, wines must be upon
our tables to ornament them. He
bright had not bought any wine or
spirituous liquors whatever since 1889,
when he took to housekeeping. 1t had
cost him some inconvenience and trouble
but he had had no occasion to regret the
steps he had taken. He believed it
would be an advantage which no words
in the English language would be at all
adequate to describe if those who tried
to do anything for their fellow-citizens
would try to bring about current of
public opinion in favor Of abstinence
from a source of SO much evil.
The German malt liquor dealers of
this city have pledged themselves not to
renew their licenses, and have raised
funds to resist in the courts any action
that may be taken by the excise COM
missioners.
The Police Commissioners are investi-
eating the charge contained in an anony-
nous letter that an officer of the eighth
precinct was the person who stole $4,000
worth of diamonds from jeweler in
Brooklyn in 1866. The officer, the letter
states, was at that time known as Dan,
the saatcher." He remains on duty
pending the investigation. The jeweler
poiated out the accused from batch Of
sixteen officers as one looking like the
man who robbed him.
Messrs. Paschal, Groussett and Jourde,
the Communists leaders who escaped
from the penal colony of New Caledonia
with Rochefort and Paine, have arrived |
in this city.
The following is an extract of a pri-
yate letter from Havana, received by
prominent Cuban, and bearing date Of
May 18th: Bayonne has been in the
possession Of the Cuban forces since the
10Th instant. In the neighborhood of
Cienfuegos the fight took place, when
Colonel Santalis, in charge of the Span
ish forces, was killed and his column cut |
TO pieces. The Cuban forces are at
the gates Of Manzanillo, and will proba-
bly, soon attack that place. The Span
iards in Havana are much depressed,
but are angered against Concha, aud say |
he is making money out of the islands |
misfortunes, but add that he shall not
leave the place alive"
The State line steamship State Of
Georgia arrived this morning from Glas-
gov on schedule time. The statement
made some time ago on the strength of
a private cable dispatch thst this steamer
had eollided with another vessel about
the 9th of May proves entirely erro
peous.