The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-16
THE TALK OF THE TOWN.
THE GAZETTE AND THE GIRLS.
Presented Ia Parliament, Considered ir
Conference, Gabbed OF BY Gossips.
and Read OF by Aii-Gen-
eral Foreign News.
England

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LONDON, July 1.-THE editor of tn,
Pail Mall Gazette has received letter.
from the Queen and Mr.. Gladstone
In which they heartily thank him fol
exposures OF the traffic In young grill
Tor immoral purposes, and assure,
him OF their full sympathy In the
matter.
DRSIAL.
IL is now denied that the Queen and
Mr.. Gladstone have written 10 the edI,
tor OF the Pail Mall Gazette, thanking
him for his recent exposures of the
traffic In young girls.
LOUIS JENNINGS RUNNING FOR PAR
LAMENT.
Louis J. jennings, formerly editor OF
The Now York Times, has consented
u contest one OF tho parliamentary
districts OF Stockport, In cheshire, In
the Tory interest In the coming gon.
eral election. Stockport In at present
represented by two radicals. In his
address accepting the candidacy, Jen-
nings advocates local self-goyern-
ment for Ireland and an import tax on
finished manufactured goods.
THE COMMITTEE FORMED.
The Pail Mall Gazette announces
that tho Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop OF London, Cardinal Nam
ming and Hon. Samuel Morley have
consented TO act as a committee Of In
auiry in tho charges OF aristocratlc
iniquity made by the Gazette In It's
revelations during tho past week,
The committee, which Is looked upon
as ono of the most extraordinary in
the high character of its members,
ever organized, will begin work to.
morrow evening. Tho Gazette
will place in confidence before
the committee every detail OF the
evidence gathered by tho paper, tho
reportoriai commission on which 10 re-
lies TO prove the existence of tho wick
edness unvailed. Every reporter en-
gagged on the Gazette will appear under
oath beiore tho committee and ogch
viii produce ell niemofanda gathered
during the several wooks OF the in
quiry, together with all addresses, let
ters, portsits, descriptions and identiti-
cations OF persons, and certificates and
agreements collected and referring In
any way TO persons directly or indi-
rectly implicated in the discoveries
made. The committee will treat con
tdentislly all information before 1t,
but will make general report as To
the truth or the Gazette's revelations.
THE CONFERENCE MEETS.
The Conference for tho Protection OF
Young Girls opened this afternoon in
Princess Hall, this city. The chief pro-
moter Of the conference is the Saliva
zion Army. Hon. Samuel Morley,
Liberal Member of Parliament for
Bristol, presided, and made an ad-
dress on the subject of the iniquity as
exposed by the Pail Mall Gazette. He
declared that the condition
of things In London as reveal cd
by that paper was a scandal to Chris.
tian nation. The people must speak
out, exclaimed the orator, if their
homes are to be kept sacred from this
surrounding pollution. think there
Is one law for the rich and the poor In
these matters. 1t should be felony to
steal apoor PERSONS child.
Professor James Stuart proposed a
vete OF thanks to the proprletors and
editors of the Pail Mall Gazette for the
work. 1t has rendered to the cause OF
Christian morality great good, This
proposal was unanimously adopted, as
was also a resolution urging Parlia-
ment to raise the age Of consent from
13 to is years.
a. Mrs. Booth addressed the confer
ence and referring to the Queen, SAID: :
"Her Majesty's heart beats on the
right side OF this question"
Mrs. Booth announced that she had
received letters from the Marquis of
Salisbury, and Mr.. Gladstone, en-
couraging the work of the conference.
WISE CONCLUSION.
Sir Richard Ashton Cross, home
secretary, announced in the house OF
commons this afternoon that the gov
ernment had concluded it was not ad-
visable to prosecute the Pail Mall
Gazette for its recent publication.
THE AMEER's AID IDEA.
Lord Randolph Churchill stated in
the House of Commons this afternoon
that the government had no intention
of negotiating with Abdarhman Khan,
the Ameer of Afghanistan, for the
defense of Candahar. England had,
he 2said, given certain pledges
to assist the Ameer, If any emergency
arose, and the Ameer asks for assist
ance. Whatever government might
the course of England was clear, if the
Ameer should ask for this assistance.
A HIGH,ToNED WEDDING.
One of the most brilliant affairs of
the season took place to-day at st.
Georges Church. The event was the
marriage Of Lord Vernon, OF Sudbury
Park, Derbyshire, to Miss Fannie
Lawrence, daughter of Mr.. Francis
Lawrence, of New York. The church
was crowded with numbers of
the nobility and prominent per-
sons Of the United States.
United States Minister Phelps and
Mrs. Phelps; the Duke and
Duchess OF Buccleugh the Earls OF
Hardwick, Granville, Wemyss, Cork,
Litchfield, Kingston and Stanhope
and their wives, and Sir William Har-
court and the Marquis of Harrington
were present ut the ceremonies.
Mr.. Stah editor of tho Pail Mall Ga
zette, this freQing denied that he had
received lei E6f sympathy from the
Queen and @ + Gladstone