Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-13
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 LONDON, Jan. 30.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The Conservatives are about to place their resignation in the hands of Her Majesty, and MT Gladstone will be called upon to form Cabinet Now the Wings, headed by the Marquis of Harrington, will probably refuse to follow their former leader in his desire to grant Ireland parliament of her own. So that, properly speaking, the opponents of Conservatism will in future be composed of Liberals, Wings, Radicals and Irish Nation alists. The prospect is not a brilliant one for the cause of government. Ministerial crises will follow one another as in France, and it is not improbable that the new Parlia- ment may before long be dissolved.
 Strange to say, Lord Salisbury's govern ment has fallen on the day of the anniversa- " of General Gordon's death. It is som bre coincidence. Poor Gordon, he is almost forgotten by this time. On, on, people want something new every day. Serve man whatever dish it may be, he has no sooner tasted it than he says to the waiter, King Time: "What next have you gots"
 The Burmah scandal is true after all.
 There have been proceedings in that country which ought to bring the blush of shame to every honest British check. No doubt the rule of King Theebaw was marked by great many horrible acts of cruelty, but he was only Burmese king acting according to his own barbarous lights, and l anticipated lief for his poor, suffering people. But aots have been committed in the name of the British force of occupation sent to open up the country to Christianity, civilization and commerce; acts which make one shudder. Extorting evidence under leveled rifles is ad mitted here; drum head executions ad- mitted only the photograpning of the dying struggles of executed Burmese is denied It appears, however, that the photographic ex- periments described by the Times correspon- dent were witnessed by MT. Melton Prior, the talented artist of the Illustrated Loli- don News" He read his telegram to this gentleman before sending it to the Times of flee The poor natives who witnessed the new British "operations" will have strange opinion of the justice of British rule. In spite of all this circumstantial evidence 1 still hope to hear that the report is untrue, or at least exaggerated.
 Editor Hill has left the Daily News. and the paper, whose circulation is larger than any other Liberal paper in the world, is S5o ing to be more lively, for the new editor, MT. Lucy, is no other than the witty writer who contributes "Essence of Parliament" to Punch every week l understand that the new editor owes his appointment to Mr. La bouchere, editor of Truth and member of Parliament for Northampton. The Daily Telegraph is still the most popular morning paper, but the leading paper among the in teligent and enlightened classes is the Standard. Who knows that, with MT. Lucy, the Daily News will not take the leada The Times is and will remain the great organ of the city, John Bulls official gazette and the hue sheet of advertisements that 1t IS. A little comedy enacted at the opening of Parliament by the Queen was not without it's purpose. It was probably intended to con vey that an allowance is to be shortly de- manded for the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, the future King of England, Prince 1 Albert Victor, known in society by the name of Prince Edward. Attention was particu- larly called to the Prince by prominent po sition being given him. This was one of those arrangements for which the fertile brain of the Queen is unequaled. Prince | Albert Victor had been instructed in his du- ties but he grievously ignored them, and his aunt, the Princess Beatrice of England-and of Batteaberg, had more than once to recall | him to sense of what was required Of him. After handing Her Majesty up the steps or the throne he slyly retreated in search of ob- scurity, as if ashamed of his smart Hussar l uniform; but his tactics were observed and he was brought hack iato full prominence. | By the time his re kal grandmother was ready to descend from the throne he had again for gotten his duty; his eyes were r-gazing So Princess Beatrice once more brought him to his senses, whereupon he took hold of the Queens hand and conducted her. It is evil dent, says Radical society weekly, that the Queen wished to remind everybody present 1 that he is our future king, and that as yet he has not penny to bless himself with.
 The merry King of Bavaria is in Paris on business His freaks are expensive and he | is trying to raise money. When this mon l arch is gone to rest volumes of anecdotes will immediately come out on the subject of | his extravagances. The following one de- serves to be recorded: High up and out of i sight over the prodigious stage of the Court Theater, at Munich, is maze of interlacing
 water pipes so pierced that, in case of fire, | innumerable little thread-lik streams of wa l ter can be caused to descend; and in cases
 of need this discharge can be augmented to
 8 pouring flood. One night the opera was goiny on. It was piece with storm in it.;