Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-08-14
SOME EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
THE UNWILLING OF THE BURNS
MONUMENT.
Two Robberies at Windsor Cast1e.-A
Brilliant Social Week.--The ChOl-
era.--PoIitieal Gossip.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
LONDON, July 22.-Mr. Parnell,
who had announced his intention of
being present at the National League
Convention at Boston next month,
now says he is not strong enough to
stand the fatigue of an ocean voyage
and an appearance almost Immediately
afterward at the Boston demonstra-
ton. Messrs Thomas Sexton, M. P,
and VIM. Redmond, NJ. p, will there
fore be deputed to represent the Ma
tional party, and will sail for Ameri-
ca August 2nd. Mr.. Sexton offered
to attend the Boston Convention on
his way to Australia, and is instructed
with a special message from the home
leaders of the party. He will also
address meetings of the local branches
of the League on his way from New
York to San Francisco, and will
spend several months in Australia.
visiting all the colonies. Mr. Red
mond only goes to America to attend
the Convention and will Immediately
return to England.
In London we talk of the cholera
in the same light and mocking style
principally amusing ourselves with
discussing the various infallible RENE
dies, while hotel keepers in the native
spas, seaside resorts, and above all
things the Scottish Highlands. exult
in the splendid accessions of their
trade which the compulsory staying
at home of the aristocracy promises.
Yesterday witnessed the garden
party at Marlborough House, and this
event is regarded as SO emphatically
marking the close of the season that
it is standing joke that nobody who
has any respect for himself will be
seen in London after that date.
Lord Roseberry to-day officially
unveiled the statue to Robert Burns,
the poet, which was recently presented
to the city of London by Mr.. Craw-
ford, the Scotch Croesus. The statue
occupies a prominent site on the
Thames Embankment, where the GER
emonies took place. An enormous
crowd assembled, twithsta n d.
ing the inclemency of the weather
Rain fell in torrents and Lord Rose
berry was obliged to deliver his ora
ton protected by large umbrella
held aloft by friendly hand. The
shelter afforded was slight, however,
and his lordship was completely
drenched. He said that Robert Burns
fame as poet need hardly be dwelt
upon. 1t was worldwide. It was not
his wonderful genius for verse-making
which made him beloved of men so
much as the fact that he was essen
TALLY man of the people, who knew
better than all others how to express
in his own inimitable way the thoughts
of his own fellow men.
Some alarm has been created by
the occurrence of two robberies at
Windsor Castle in rapid succession,
and the society papers take advantage
of the occasion to correct the reports
in the newspapers that Francis Clark,
the victim of one of these robberies, is
John Browns successor. Clark at
tends the Queen in her rides and
walks, and performs some of the other
functions Of gillie, but he has not j.
BIS perquisites and privileges. The
chamber where the great lamented
died is sealed up, and bears a brass
plate recording the date Of his death
and the many virtues ascribed to
him by the Queen.
The week has been even more
brilliant socially than those which
preceded it during the last month.
There were several fashionable mar.
riages and many balls, but the CHIEF
and surprising event was the fete al
the Healtheries for the benefit of the
London hospitals. The Imagination i:
appalled, by the list of devices for the
entertainment of the guests. A prin-
cess served at the counter, countesses
as shopwomen abounded, and young
ladies rendered more attractive by
bare heads and the thinnest of gar
ments fitted about the terraces anc
sold cigarettes to deluded dudes al
exorbitant prices.
OLD NORTH STATE