The Osceola times., 1885-07-18
FOREIGN NEWS.

Tory Iyes.
LONDON, July I2.-We are having a
pretty lively time of it. Each morning
furnishes scorching sensations. The
latest crop includes fresh society ex-
posures, a threatened Irish revolt and
foreign Office surprise. 1t has trans
pired that the failure of the attempt
TO make public inquiry into the
Pail Nall Gdzeue revelations result
ed from the Intervention of the high
est authorities in the land. The
mention of the Prince OF Wales and
members of the royal family at once
brought to light a food of new scandals,
which must be stopped at all hazards. 1t
is customory to print tle movements OF
royalty. Wherever the heir apparent
goes his departure and arrival are
supposed to be minutely chroni-
cled. The same rule applies TO
the other Princes. But it
now appears that orders have been given
for long time to suppress intelligence
of frequent princely visits to the con-
tinent, respecting which absolute secrecy
is enioiued. The Pal MqH Gazette has
found out all about the establishments
removed from London to Paris and else
where, and this Is the whip it holds over
the heads of the authorities. Since the
Princess of Wales left Marlborough
house, on the occasion of one of the trips
referred to, and made scene which
compelled the Queen to interfere, her
royal husband has appeared more in public
with his spouse and has given less fire.
quent cause for complaint on the grounds
hnted at by the Gd@cttc; but Younger
brothers with more tolerant consorts are
now asccrtained to have furnished the
gazette all the material it is likely to re-
quire to justify the exposures made. The
singularity of the whole affair is that
only facts generally known have been
printed. The worst the Gazette has pub
lshed shadows but family what every
public man in London is thoroughly ac-
quainted with. There is nothing new in
what now for the first time sees the light.
Society is perfectly well aware that 1t Is
rotten to the core. The new thing is that
a newspaper has been found willing to
state the facts plainly.
A DIPLOMATIC SURPRISE.
Lord Salisbury is concentrating his en-
ergies on a surprise with which the for
elgn office purposes to astonish the
country If Russia can be made to see
things in the right light. The Marquis
has presented what may be termed
an informal ultimatum to the Russian
Government, offering the alternative of a
,iy ra pf nanptia.
tions. The memorandum presented by
Salisbury summarily disposes of Persia
and the Ameer's territory within his new
boundaries as beyond the sphere OF diplo-
matte action, and inviolable by either
power; defines the Russian boundary,
roughly speaking, as north of Zul-
fear in the west to point
south of Penideh to the east;
the British boundary as the line marked
on the English war Office maps during
the administration of the late Lord
Beaconsheld, and known as the scientific
frontier, including CLndahar and com
prising the rugged mountain ranges run
ming in northeasterly direction toward
Peshawur. This practically concedes to
Russia line well advanced beyond tine
new boundaries marked on the military
maps OF 1873, and to England the only
frontier she has ever seriously claimed,
leaving large territory between the two.
1t is stated that Germany favors this solu-
tion of the dispute, as disposlnc, once
and for all, of the pretensons OF the
Ameer and contending factions in Af-
ghanistan, on the one hand, and the dis
turbing elements on the Persian side, on
the other. The Foreign Office regards
the memorandum as the only practical
scheme dealing definitely with the claims
OF both countries represented. III ac-
cepted in principle by Russia, the memo
raudum will take the form of an official
note, and In that shape be communicated
to Parliament early enough to influence
the general election. II Russia re-
fuses, the Cabinet will simply
allow the negotiations to be indeh-
nitely postponed, declining to pledge it.
self one way or the other, and content
ing itself with such arrangements with
the Ameer, peaceful or otherwise. as will
ensure the occupation of the Candahar
boundary when ever railway communica-
tion with the strategic points selected
can be completed.
In the meantime both powers are
pushing forward railway aud telegraphic
communications, and establishing camps,
posts of observation and supply depots
at points within their own territories and
nearest 10 practicable routes capable of
being most rapidly turned to account in
case of war.
FAIR TRADE WITH AMERICA.
American industries will form one of
the leading subjects of inquiry by the
new commission to make inquiries into
the depression of trade. The Tory party
is committed to the doctrine that modi-
fed protection in the shape of fair trade
tariff is legitimate subject Of discus
sion. In the nature of things any change
in this direction must strike first and
most of all at American products i'm
ported into England which have reached
the almost incredible sum of say four
hundred millions annual value, as
compared with imports of English
products into the United States OF say
one hundred and fifty millions. Fully
three hundred millions of this vast Amer
lean importation into Great Britain con-
sists of articles entering into direct com
petition with British products, reducing
the prices realized by British producers
and destroying the home markets, ad-
mitted for the greater part free of duty.
The same articles, II imported into the
United States from Great Britain, would
be required to pay duties aggregatng
quite S so, 900, 000 Lord Salisbury in
tends that his commission shall find iu
this state of affairs good cry to 20 to
the polls with in November next.
The New Cruisers.
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