Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-18
MAX O'RELL'S LETTER.
England la The Hands of The Arfst0c-
 racy-Wen Paid Public Servants The Red Prince-M. Olivier Pafn-

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 l LONDON, July 4. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 l England is now entirely in the hands O
 the aristocracy. rd'Salisbury tells us tha his cabinet of peers and peers' sons was al most forced upon the nation by the active | interference of the Queen. It is true that with the exception of Mr. Smith, the grea bookseller, who is now war minister, all th' men in office are Lord Somebody or Sir So
 and-so. In the new cabinet MT. Smith an6
 Sir Richard Cross,S Home Minister, may bt l regarded as the only practical men Of busi 1 ness. But their influence will probably bt I very small, if one may judge by the manner 1 in which they are treated by their noble col leagues, who sneeringly compared them the other day to Marshall and Snelgrove. the l great drapers, and regard it as monstrous
 that they should be obliged to admit them l into their counseIs.
 The Tory party sustained an irreparable loss when Lord Cairns died a few months 1 ago. The only available lawyer in the party 1 that could succeed him to the Woolsack was l Sir Hardinge Gifard, now Lord Halsbury, g I third or fourth rate lawyer According to Truth, John Gifard, grandfather of Lord ! AesASNu1y, noS aA O1dAkG dpObAoCaEy Ol OuU- I lin, of whom Sir Jonah Burlington writes His detestation of the Pope and his admira- | tion of King William he carried to an excess quite ridiculous" If so, the Irish National l ists will hardly find 8 friend in the new lord chancellor. But this appointment did not cause much surprise, compared with that mixed with amusement, caused by the ap- pointment of Lord Randolph Churchill to the Secretaryship of State for India To see Lord Dufferin, the greatest English diploma tist, and Lord Randy Churchy, the platform mountebank, together at the head of the gov ernment of India is really highly comic. John Bull ought to De served well for he is generous enough toward his servants It is fact that all ex-lord chancellors, however short their tenure of office may have been, enjoy pension of 95, 900 year for the rest of their lives. Accordingly, if MT. Naish, who has just retired from the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, after service of thirty-fve days, and MT. Gibson, the newly appointed chancellor to whom about 8 hun dIed days of office should be awarded, were to live to be seventy years of age, they would receive together e204 900 for what would in all probability be 700 hours labor To work at the rate of e29O an hour, is what I call
 fine, and if it is true that John Bull only ap-
 preciates that which he has paid for, and paid for properly, he ought to appreciate the services of his Lord Chancellor.
 Lord Randolph Churchill having been sp-
 pointed Secretary of State for India, had to reappear before the electors of Woodstock, [,
 and his pretty wife (a country woman of yours) has been working hard for him
 Everyone has heard of the lovely Georgiana,
 Duchess of Devonshire and how she won votes for Foxs l imagine that Lady Ran dolph Churchill has scarcely gone such lengths as to buy the votes of the Woodstock
 electors with kisses; but at all events, so
 persuasive hes bseh hsr eanvassing that the ayy rfYtitt s.f ss, 4T.x I candidate, have thought proper to enlist ths services 6f two fair giftoh graduates to try and e6tihtstaet 1t. In fact ladies are alto
 gsthsf in request fur this kind gf work, for see that tie combined political committee ef the Ghetsss Radical eiabs have passed q resolution "that the assistance ef women agfseihg te GUT pistfeFm be gladly accepted ahA that the influence If ths committee be
 aasa te get thsm ea the borough eeua= eiis@
 Germany has lest i've of her greatest war
 fiars, Prince Frederick Charles, snFnAaed
 the red prince, and General Von Manteuffsl
 There Ia q somewhat sensational rumor cur
 rent about the death of the former echoed by
 the Faris teiegraphs. The fed prince had
 married tha Princess of Analt- Dassen, but the union had been anything but a happy one. The princess was several times on the eve of leaving her husband; and but for the energetic interference of the Emperor Vii liam, she would have obtained a. divorce After she had married her daughter Marga- ret to the Duke of Connaught, however, she
 lived apart from her husband, until few days before his death the Emperor exactad an apparent reconciliation between them Then the princess went to live with the prince at Klein Gleinicke, where each day witnessed fresh quarrels between the pair. It is related that the red prince several timee forgot himself so far as to strike his wife, and it is now rumored that, after the alter cation, followed by threats and blows, the princess in evaporation took pistol from the panoply and shot her husband dead on the spot. The Telegraphe, which is responsible for this startling piece of news, adds that this is the true account of the sudden death of the prince, announced in the papers. If this incredible story should be true, there is a curious coincidence in the fact that Prince Frederick Charles, the bitter enemy of France, died at the hands of woman like Gambet- ta, the irreconciliable enemy of Germany.
 Madame Ledru, whose house near Paris the red prince had chosen for his temporary headquarters general during the war of 1870, said that her heart sunk when she was in his presence. She saw a bloated, surly officer, without ray of human sympathy in his round, prosaic face. She told the follow ing anecdote to the Paris correspondent of Truth. The prince wanted to know what there was in the cellar, and warned the lady that as he was pressed for time, she would do well to show his orderly her best vintages
 He sat in speaking to her, with his cap riv- cited on his head, and his legs stretched out.
 When she was speaking to him, he had oc- casion to get up, and stood. in doing so, on an Angora cat. The animal protested in cat cries. Prince Frederick Charles was exasperated at the noise it made, and. taking her up by the tail, dashed her through the glass doors of buffst where choice DOT eelain was piled up. Pussy behaved like hI11l in a china SbnT1 which aauSa1 al O gleam of mirth to pass over the countenance of the prince, who was tickled at the destruc- ton that was going on. This aneedote shows that he was Hohenzoliern of the old fashioned, hard grained, rough, and sensual type. Requieseat in pace.
 Everybody knows that the Mahdi's foreign minister was M Olivier Pain, the French Communist who escaped from New Caledo- mia some twelve years since. News of this gentleman's death reached Europe a few days ago, and good many French journal ists intimsted that he was assassinated by the Arabs at the instigation of certain Colonel Smith on suspicion of being the bearer of some paper compromising England, Fore most among Colonel Smiths accusers is M. Henri Rochefort, the we'll known editor of the 1ntransigeant. Now NJ. Rochefort is bitter Anglo -phobist, and I will tell you why. He and M. Pain were companions in misfor- tune in the Oceanica Island, but escaped to- gether in an open boat, and were picked up and taken to Sydney From Sydney they came to London, where M Rochefort resumed the publication of his Lanterne which had been,interrupted by his departure for New Caledonia. But in vain did he offer the British public his weekly pamphlet, written in French and translated into English Neither in French nor ;n English would they properly patronizesit So M. Rochefort left England, and went to reside in Geneva From that time, he had been the bitter enemy of England and her people. At all events, an interesting trial may be looked for sometime after the long vacation, if we are to credit the Syndicate of the Profes- sional Association of French Republican Journalists" portentous title, as remarks the Globe. The syndicate announce that they are going to Institute proceedings in English courts against Col. Smith and Lord Wo1seley for setting price on M Olivier Pains head. I do hope that this gentleman will not turn up one of these days with his head comfortably on his shoulders, and make his friends highly ridiculous
 The Municipal Council of Paris is doing it's utmost to laicize the names of Paris streets. The word saint is everywhere to disappear. At meeting held the other day member proposed that the names of the heroes of antiquity should adorn the walls of the metropolis, and among others named that of Cincinnatus suitable. M. Mesureur, of the extreme left, rose and strongly objected. He would have no saints at all not even saints of antiquity The worthy edile had heard Saint Cincinnatus.
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