Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-29

cess has done it's work and the home rule bill has been killed by it. Lord Wolseley, that | "only" general, who fills the hearts of Her | Majesty's enemies with terror and his pock-
 cts with his compatriots' guineas, has al l lowed it to be said that in the event of home 1 rule being granted to the Irish, he, an Irish l man, would be glad to throw up his commis- sion to put himself at the head of the Loyal | ists of Ulster. All this sounds like civil war
 and I believe the Irish question is at the | present moment as far from solution as it was many months ago.
 To my mind the hardest problem to be
 solved is that of Irish representation. Mr. | Gladstone excludes Irish members from 1 Westminster, which of course amounts to a | repeal of the union and makes Ireland per | fectly independent State. But I do not 1 see how the opposers of this clause can mend
 matters by proposing that Irish members | should sit in London well as in Dublin. 1 They would be giving Irish members control | over English and Scotch affairs, while Eng
 lishmen and Scotchmen would have none | over she affairs of Ireland. This I consider l would be the most monstrous of constitu- l tional anomalies. Radicals and Tories have
 united to fight this anomaly tooth and nail. 1 Necessity makes strange bed-fellows.
 | Madame Astie de Valsayre is at her tricks | again. I had occasion to speak to you some 1 time since of this lady. She had then just I set every body talking about her by fighting l duel the field of Waterloo with Miss Selby, compatriot of yours, who was act l ing as her colleague in a women's-righting campaign. At almost regular intervals Madame de Valsayre is seized with an ire | sistible desire to be talked about by the pa l pers Her latest sensation is challenge to Miss Booth to meet her in single combat. 1 suppose the mission of the Salvation army | has not the sympathies of Madame de Val sayre, who wrote to a young and pretty mar shal: "Leave off holding your meetings I kill you" Miss Booth, though she can wage war with her tongue against the world, | the flesh and the devil, did not feel inclined l to cross swords with her bellicose correspon- dent and sent back word that she would re- | ply to the challenge at the next meeting of | the army. At the appointed time there was ! an unusually large attendance and an evident expectation of lively proceedings But nothing particularly diverting occurred as Madame de Valsayre was not of the party l and Miss Booth had her say without inter ! ruption. The enemy did present herself at the gate when the meeting was already well | under weigh, but though she had come armed with a grey parasol and in a great l state of ire, to judge by the noise she seems | to have made outside, she had neglected to provide herself with the usual entrance fee of two francs and no iady's battle took place after all, for she was refused admittance. It was this lady who some time back asked M. Pasteur to inoculate her in the interest of humanity. The great savant refused proba- ply on the ground that it was quite unneces- sary.
 The Queen having turned over new leaf | seems inclined to keep it turned, for she con- tinues to show herself to enthusiastic crowds of loyal Britons, even going so far as to make the journey to Liverpool last Monday in order to open in person the Shipping eX- hibition. Thanks to the increased gracious
 ness and activity of Her Majesty and the use he is able to make of his eldest son as a sub- Gti itJ1ta fnT Prince of Wales will be able to take things
 little more easily. Up to now he has had the reputation of being one of the hardest worked men in the kingdom. The activity of His Royal Highness' life has always been a source of wonder to me. To look at him one would not imagine him to be a very hard worked man. His face is always beam | iug with health and happiness and no signs of fatigue are ever to be seen about him. Yet few men could stand the wearing whirl of his life, the ceaseless round of museum opening, foundation stone laying, levee and l drawing room holding, hospital visiting, to l say nothing of the public dinners, the balls, | the fetes of all kinds which he attends as a l duty, but always with the same good grace | and radiant affability. It is no wonder that I in spite of the faults he is generally credited with, everyone has a good word for the Prince of Wales. His good-natured and open handed way of doing things is greatly appreciated by the people. Part of the se- cret of the Princes keeping up well under his work may no doubt be put down to the
 rule he has formed and never breaks through,
 of reserving to himself one evening of the
 week in which to enjoy freedom from the
 trammels of formality. This particular
 evening is generally spent at the house of
 friend, who being duly informed of the
 Princes intention to visit him, does his best
 to entertain his royal guest in the fashion he
 likes. Delightful little parties are the re-
 l1n pIIf1 in hor0 E
 finds bright little gathering of clever and
 amusing people, and a congenial atmosphere
 in which to spend his richly earned might
 off," There is tempting, but simple supper
 without any toasts or prosy speech-making,
 but often enlivened by good story and al
 ways with wit and fun. Riddles and puns,
 chat and chaff are the order of the night.
 Around the table are guests of many grades,
 but all capital company. Here the comedi-
 an Toole with his laughter moving anecdotes
 ,lnd his mirthful face, there noble duke,
 one of the best reciters in London, opposite
 Lady Randolph Churchill, who will present
 ly take her turn at the piano which she han dles like professional of great talent; next Lady Vaudeville another nlusicienne of mean order. Now Marie Roze, who will fla vor the company with a grand song, and George Grossmith, who is always ready with a droll one. So passes gaily the Princes ''night off, and he is refreshed for another weeks work.
 A few days ago at two in the afternoon the somewhat low parish of Islington was inva- ded by crowd of long haired men and short haired, limp-robed women bound for the theater. The busy cockney population of this commonplace corner of the metropo- lis seemed to be at loss to know what man ner of beings these were, and why their chief thoroughfare was thronged with them. Only those Gin the know" were aware that the Shelley society had taken it into their noddles to give q performance of Shelby's drama of fsThe Cenci," and that the lord chamberlain having refused to allow the piece to be performed in public, the Isling- ton Theater had been hired for private per formance. The Shelley society may take
 praise to themse Ives if they please for having revived a great piece of literature little known, but outsiders look upon their under taking as something much better left un- done. It is not playable play, and besides such revolting pictures of unnatural crimes are not fit for the entertainment of an audi ence half composed of women. It is strange, upon my word, to see the places that Eng lishwomen will go to. There were girls in that theater who could scarcely have been long out of the nursery, and their presence at Islington Theater was 8 disgrace to their
 parents or guardians. The different parts in
 the drama were well played, but the ''Cenci'
 is not fit for the stage; as play it is dull
 and disagreeable. MAX ORELL.