The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-08-10
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
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Versailles Cowventien-Seciai Intelligence.
LONDON, Aug. 0.-The Conservatives con-
Nlnue their competition with the Liberals for
The favor Of the mob. To-day Lord Salisbury
goes down TO Manchester to attend big OPEN
cir meeting and to contest with John Bright
and Mr.. Chamberlain for tho palm OF popular
eratory. He IL accompanied By Lord Randolph
Churchill. and the reconciliation between tho
two is regarded as marking the final success OF
Churchili's efforts to be taken seriously us one
Of the Conservative leaders. Everybody is
prSising tho acutonrss and self- restraint OF the
young aspirant in allowing Dir Michael Hicks
Beach To bs elected the nominal head Of tho
National Conservative Committee after he him
self had boen elected to the position by an
overwhelming majority OF tho party, and 1t is
now taken as established that he Is the aecond
in command to Lord Salisbury. and that when
tho Tories come into power no will he the
leader OF the House Of Commons. Present ap.
pearances still favor the idea that the Liberals
have IN the cry against the House OF Lords n
platform that will SECURE them q big majority.
The doubtful point IL whether the people can
BE- got to pay any attention to the affairs Of
Egypt The feeling is that Egypt has been talked
" death and that Gordon has been so overdone
"a to have loft the almost universal conviction
that he Is an exaggerated fanatic with . dash
Of tho rogue and the charlatan. The break.
down Of the conference is generally hailed by
the English press as relieving England from
position OF intolerable restraint She 10 de-
elared by all the English papers to have re-
gained her freedom Of hand. but cool people
interpret the mission Of Lord Northbrook as
meaning that Gladstone has not tho least idea
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A curious result OF the nasco is to combine
France and Germany for the moment In
common hostility to England. The articles In
the French and German offcal journals vie
with each other in the bitterness Of their In
vectives against England The journals OF
Paris call England fatty o pickpocket with q
face OF PharIsaical severity. and the journals
Of Berlin speak OF her African policy as dog
1n-the-mangerish.
The scenes at the Convention in Versailles
have astonished and scandalized all Europe.
France is nut down as incorriRibly impractical
and revolutionary in her political reforms.
Tho amount Of bad language used has been
appalling and IL one were to judge OF France
BY the parliamentary invectlves. her leaders OF
parties are the next worst thing In political life
10 tho candidates. as described In party litera-
ture. for the American Presidency. The vio-
lenco Of the French legislators was not con-
fined to words. 1t Is reported that Monsieur
Ranc Monsieur Andrieux and other prom-
mont men came to the Convention with fully
loaded six-shootsrs. and decent people looked
forward to an encounter which. after the his
toric manner OF tho Kilkenny cats. would have
rid France OF some OF her turbulent and dis
tracing agitators.
The effort OF the English Radicals to turn the
present agitation to account against the House
Of Lords Is not prospering. The only members
even OF the Radical party in Parliament
who have joined in tho business are men
like rrohlbitiontst Sir Wilfrid Lawson and
Henry Labouchere. who are not taken serious
ly by anybody. 1t is thought that the agitation
will become hotter when the weather grows
cooler. but up to the present there Is no sign OF
any violence Of feeling. The Government are
credited with the intention OF winding I'D the
session Of Parliament with the creation OF
some new peers out Of their faithful hacks In
tho House Of Commons. The man chiefly mem
toned Ia Samuel Morley. o millionaire Of psalm
singing and blue-ribbon eminence. His for
tune has boen nude In hosiery. and the society
Journals accordingly make the proposal that
his title should be Lord Half Hose or Viscount
Angola.
The great social rendezvous OF the week has
boon tho regatta at Cowes. where there was
tremendous gathering OF swells and still moro
Of would-be swslls. The eccentricities OF Co.'S
tunes were bewilderjng and as an instance 1t
may be mentioned that several gentlemen
varied the monotony Of white flannel trousers
with black seams.
: Labby Is responsible for the statement that
tho Queen has made new will. She has GER
tainly plenty OF money to give away. and AZ
certainly plenty OF people to grab for It. Prince
Albert left at least three million dollars. A
miser named Naald bsaueathed to her Majesty
two million and half OF dollars. and all her
life she has bson saving the greater part OF hor
annual income. The demands on her will come
from her numerous grandchildren. Her family
has a curious kRaok OF making poor marriage
and the only wealthy members are the Duke Of
Cambridge. the Duke Of Cumberland. and her
son. the Duke Of Edinburgh. who inherts In
an exaggerated form the psrsimony Of his
father and mother. Tho children Of the Prince
Of Wales will be- provided for By Parliament
and his eldest sOn Is to get grant next year.
drowning accident has deprived Gilbert A.
Beckett. wel-know nand highly popular
comic wrter. OF his only son. He was lost In
pond belonging TO a Catholic school under tho
charge OF Lord Pstre. who is a priest and has
just become a peer. He takes his seat In the
House OF Lords during the autumn session. and
will be tho first Catholic priest who has sat
there since the Reformation.
The grants which have been lately made from
tho fund at the disposal OF tho Grown for i'm
pecunous litterateurs have been very freely
criticised. A son OF the poet Southsy has got
GlO0 year. and people are asking II the hered-
ltary prncipleis to DO brought into poetry since
Tennyson has bsen raised to the peerage. The
pension which has excited the most scandal is
that given to Matthew Arnold. who has already
IN excellent salary as an inspector OF schools.
aud who IL able to command his own forms In
the literary market for any literature he may
deign to contribute.
Mr.. Burdstt Coutts. the husband Of tho octo-.
EenArian millionaire. has recently attracted
great attention by his attendance at the pop
ular sermons OF distinguished dlvines. and is
aow on leaving church. surrounded By an ad-
hiring mob. His elderly wife dresses In the
auietest black while he sports suit Of the