The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-31

ing walked from st James along the Mall. he
| went up the stairs leading to the Long Gallery
and to the west side Of the palace. In the Horn
held the warrant Then he passed on to the
Cabinet Chamber, looking upon the garden
The scaffold not being ready, he prayed and con-
| versed with Bishop Juxon ate some bread and
drank little claret., Several of the
| the room and offered to pray with
him, but he replied that they had prayed against
| him too often for him to wish to pray with them
in his last moments. Meanwhile, Cromwell in
| another room was signing the order of the exc
cutioner and men were at work breaking pass
| age through the west wall of the Banqueting
| House. that the warrant for the execution might
| be carried out which ordained it to be held In
| the open street before Whitehall. Queen Vic
toria, no doubt. glances at the world-known spot
where in this same month of January, the Both
| day of the then new year, 1649, her predecessor
| barred his neck to the headsman. II it has q
| fascination for the humblest OF her subjects,
| this last scene of a national tragedy, how much
more must it appeal to her imagination She
| has, however, her own sad memories These
are emphasized in public life by the fact that
| she enters Parliament through the Peers door
| and not by way of the Victoria Tower, where she
was won't to alight in the days when she went to
open Parliament during the Prince Consorts
| lifetime
NEWSPAPER PERSONALS.
One had hoped for the sake OF his own peace,
that Mr. Edmund Yates had really resolved to
| dedicate his declining years to higher and bet
ter form of journalism than that for which he
suffered Imprisonment in Holloway Jail. But
| the leopard does not change his spots. A would
be society man." he chafes beyond endurance
at the general snub which the best Of even mems
society has administered to him. He is no
longer seen at any dinner reception in Bohemia
or Mo yfo ~ D.: - uT,foc ;a
ed. mere imam of the world" if not tuft-
hunter, Mr. Yates cannot endure this But he
has his revenge. He ''goes for" royalty in the
World. This week he has repeated what he
processes are familiar stories, charging the
Duke of Edinburgh with selling his royal moth
er's portraits in Australia at ten shill-
lngs each, and with sending in an account
OF something that was supposed to be a
Gift. This is the worst possible taste; not that
one expects good taste from such source but
am assured the statements are wholly untrue.
That one may find il the World apocryphal
stories, and. to speak in the vernacular, even
downright, humping lies Mr. Yates has had
| to demonstrate in his own person by an enforced
| sojourn in what he calls northern latitudes."
One can well imagine that not oversweet ma
ture might be considerably soured by imprison-
ment for criminal libel on a lady, but Yatess
| friends hoped that he would have come through
the fire chastened spirit if not purified in dis
position. And 1 think it was so until Mr.. Archi-
bald Forbes and one or two other friends had
''got up" supposed whitewashng banquet TO
| him. which las New York gamin would say)
"has not whitewashed worth cent" Poor
Yates in mis- social sufferings does not spare in
the columns Of his social paper ''the noble army
of the martyrs" who consented to allow their
names to be advertised as his hosts on that never
to obe-forgotten occasion when he was welcomed
back to his little world from the sombre retreat
of Holloway Jail.
Until one day last week Mr. Frank Hill had
| been edtor-in chief of the Daily News since the
| year 1870. Last Friday he either resigned of his
own accord or was asked to do so. The propre-
tors, In addition to years salary of S., 900 and
[ upward, handed him, with their letter accepting
| his resignation, solatium of So, 900, which he
| returned to them. Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, NJ. p,
prominent member of the staff, thinks Mr..
| Hill has been badly treated, and has resigned
with him. Mr.. Hill ceased to edit the paper on
Saturday. On Monday the new editor was in
| took Mr.. Mudford from the reportorial staff and
placed him in the editorial chair, so have the
| proprietors of the Daily News exalted MIR. II. w.
Lucy, who was the chief of its parliamentary
in literature and journalism which Mr..
Mudford had not when he suddenly found
| himself editor of the Standard. Mr.. Lucy
had written IA Handbook of Parliamentary
Procedure, Men and Manners in Parliament
| Gideon Fleyce" Ia novel): had written the "Es-
| sence of Parliament" in Punch had contributed
| to Harper's Magazine and was the author of a
London letter for provincial newspapers; and
was a bright busy, prosperous man of letters
| and journalism. Although only forty-one, he
| has had career, and he will bring to bear upon
| the Daily News great deal of shrewd knowl-
| edge of the world and of trained journalistic
| experience. Mr.. Robinson, the capable manager
of the paper. will be at his elbow, and Mr.. Rob
inson, in early life, was the London correspond
ent of the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Ad-
vertiser. Already Mr. Lucy has given the paper
more ''newsy' grip than it had heretofore. Mr.
| Hill is looked upon by mis- contemporaries as
one Of the most scholarly and capable
journalists of his time Lucy was born at
Crosby, near Liverpool, Dec. 5, 1s45;
6, 1850. The two chief proprietors of the Daily
News are Mr.. Labouchere, member of Parla-
ment, of Truth and Mr.. Sam Morley member
of Parliament, both members of the Radical
party, but both as opposite in character, taste.
| feeling and sentiment as 'the sundered poles. I"
Some years ago Truth was very hostile toward
| Lucy in respect of bis London. letter writing,
and even went 80 far as to sneer at Lucys per-
sonal appearance But the editor of Truth is a
| ter of finance and banking, daring politician,
| and big enough to be the best friend of his hot
test journalistic political enemy. 1t is under
stood that his hand is in the elevation of Lucy
| to the editorship of the Daily News Mr.. Sam
Morley is friend of Mr.. Stead, of the Pail Mall
Gazette, and it is reported that he had leaning
! in that quarter Mr. Lucy is of physique that
recalls that of Mr.: John Foord, formerly the
editor Of the New York Times, and now editor
| They are both as tall, or rather as short, in
| stature, and equally industrious.
JOSEPH HATToN