New-York tribune., 1885-02-24


audience insisted, the applause was general ana
| stubborn. An English audience does not ol'eh
take so much trouble to express its good opinion.
The deaouemeat Of the third act the killing OF ne
| Foudetie and the unexplained reconciliation between
| Prince and Princess, were not much better iiheu
than the previous evening, and there were hsseS
| followed by another recall of Mrs. Langtry and Alr
| Coghlan and a greeting of unbroken coidiallty
| when they presented themselves. The distinction
| between dsapproval of the piece and approval Oh
the two chief actors in it marked as clearly as
possible 1t is evident that the present ending VIII
never answer and it is likely to DO altered to SUIT
| the taste of the nuhlic G. W. 5.
| THE SOCIAL QUESTION-NEW SfIlPS-MME.
HADING-A DEAR BIBLE.
| rrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TrIRuNEl J
LONDoN. January 2s
There is one thing for which believe even Irish
men would admit that the English have genius,
and that is c.um siness of nomenclature. The titles
| to their Acts of Parliament are among their most
brilliant efforts in this direction but they do almost
as we'll in private life. The other day was writing
about an insignificant little squad OF Socialists no
| call themselves a Social-Democratic Federation.
with Social al-Democratic-Federa Council; with
more letters to their name than names of members.
This week we are beginning to hear something
about an Industrial Remuneration Conference.
EXcept in this infelicy of name. il Is not clear that
the Conference has any connection with MI VIII
lam Morris's commInistic clique. Actual official
relation there is certainly none. The Conference is
the effect of gift of $1,000 By an Fdlnbnrgh
Scotchman who prefers to be ANONYMOUS, ior the
discussion of question propounded by him in these
curious terms: a" Is the present system or manner
whereby the products of industry are distributed
between the various persons and classes oil the COM
munity satisfactory Or if not are there any
means By which that system could be improvedT y
No less man than Sir Charles Dixie presides over
this Conference and other eminent persons are on
the committee who organized it. Nor IS there the
least faint of political socialism on any OF those
members of the committee whose names are recog-
nizable The Earl of DalhOusic Sir Thomas
Brassey Mr. Robert Glen. who s Statistician to
the Board of Trade. Mr. Frederic Harrison, whose
claims to distinction are many. Mr. Burt, NJ f anu
Others have accepted the duty of carrying ont the
wishes of the anonymous donor. Lord BrainweiI
himself, pillar of legal conservatism and Mr.
Arthur Balfour. NJ r.. who is Lord Salsburys
nephew are to read papers. They. at least are not
likely to lend hand to any scheme OF general
| pilage disguised under matter what specious
| vretexts On the other hand Professor Francis
| Newman one of the clt verest and st-balanced
bca in England. ard Mr.. A. X. Wallace are {"
argnc the cause of robbery in the form of land
| naturalization" Whether it will be much pro
NOTED by the advocacy of conscientious vegetarian
| and a credulous spiritualist. remains TO he seen.
| The Conference seems to BE- sort of free platform ;
an arena open to the freest lances. But papers
to be limited to twenty minutes and no vote is to be
| taken The average Engshman Will probably say
| to himself in advance that it will take morc than
twenty minutes to convince him that everything Is
for the worst in this worst of all possible worlds :;
n tisf, isl
| ing this and creating a better
The experiment. however, deserves note as one
| more sign of the times. If practical politician
| like Sir Charles Dixie takes a conspicuous place in
| such an inquiry, it may be that he shares Mr.
| Chamberlains opinion and expects the politics of
the near future TO sink INTO Sociaistic scramble.
Sir Charles Dixie has of late seemed TO cOncede 10
his friend the leadership of their wing Of the party
on dome tic questions He is President of the Local
Government Board, but the public has not foI-
gotten his brilliant career as Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs and somehow looks to him for advice
OH Egypt rather than on home affairs. And yet
AN disposed to think that Sir Charles Dixie has
really at least as profound knowledge of class
0uestOns as his more fiery colleague. Mr. Cham
berain's recent speeches had but hollow ring.
Sir Charles Dixie would never make the mstakcIoi
discussing in public subject which he had not
| mastered. He would have the facts and the liter
ature of It at his fingers epds Whatever he says
at this Conference will be wcIghtily said. II may
not Il hope it will mott produce such a sensation as
Mr.. Cbamberan's recent harangues at Birmingham
and at Ipswich 1t is likely to be cautious and
certain to be less narrow. Whatever else il be- il
will be useful index to the present state of
Radical opinion on the questions which Mr. Cham
berain handled So rashly.
A list has been published of what the Cnnard
Company call their "extended sailingsp for the
| spring and summer of 1885 Beginning with April
they haul OF their slow ships from the Now York
| line and transfer them to Boston. for which latter
port they sail every Tuesday from Liverpool All
the. ships for New-York are to be new and fast
ships. the Servia, Etruria Aurania and Umbria.
sailing from Liverpool on Saturdays 1t is to be
noted that four vessels are now deemed sufficient
to maintain a weekly service instead of five az in
the old days. Besides the fast Saturday service 70
New-York. the same company intends dspatcbing
a vessel from Liverpool for the same port on alter
nate Wednesdays. The two ships for this extra
service are the Gallia, a moderately fast steamer.
and the Oregon, which is thus far at the head of
every thing 1t might not be rash to conjecture that
this Wednesday arrangement is a first step 10 ward
a serious competition with the Thursday service OF
the North German Lloyd from Southampton. The
jealousy with which the English companies regard
their German rivals is notorious. They have sue.
ceeded in elbOwing them out of the regular mail
carrying business to America, which they were in q
position to do OH Thursdays moro regularly and
rapidly than any Liverpool company. The fast
Thursday ships Of the North German Lloyd which
had been laid up for a few weeks are again adver
tised and are 1t would seem, to run weekly as here
tofore. Their long exclusion from the list of ship.
favored by the English Government was effected
, by help of Heaven knows what influences or what
Grass stupidity at the British Posollice- Will,
there no pretence of supplying an equally good