Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-06

Special Correspondence of the JocRNAr AND CoUR
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 LONDON, Feb. 20.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 John Bull is prosecuting the Socialist lead CTS who were the instigators of the London riots which occurred last week, but although he would not acknowledge that misery exist ed in his metropolis, the unemployed work men had no sooner broken his windows than he subscribed the sum of forty-two thousand pounds sterling in two days to appease them John Bull is an opportunist par cellence. He has the shrewduess to acknowl- edge an accomplished fact. If his door must give way to the burglars he does not wait for them to break it open; he opens it himself. If he cannot save his furniture he saves his door; that is much gained. Ask him for a reform or a concession and he will stare st you astonished and tell you that ell is for the best in the best of worlds. But shake your fist at him, break his window or let crack CT go in his neighborhood and he will smile and say: ''Ohi that's all right, l beg your pardon did not know that you were in earnest" I am not quite sure that John Bull stands alone in this respect It is one of the saddest confessions to make that very seldom have people obtained needed reforms by legal and peaceful means.
 Scandal mongers in London were disap- pointed at the sudden termination of the Crawford -Dilke case tried in the Divorce court last Friday. Not since the famous trial of the Mordaunt divorce case have the portals of the Divorce court been besieged l,x, o1, nyyr6 hQf w filled this tribunal for the redress of marital wrongs. Many ladies wrestled with the members of the junior bar for places, and ill the throng of well known figures of society who fought for seats with an apologetic smile might have been seen . third of the new administration. NIT. Crawford's peti- tion for relief from a wedlock which had become intolerable on account of the frailty of his young wife. involving, as 1t did, the reputation of one of the greatest English statesmen constituted one of those sensa- tions which Londoners know so we'll how to appreciate. A great amount of curiosity was also evinced to know how Sir Charles Dilke would come out of the case, as his fu- ture public position seemed to depend on the result. His appearance in the court in com pany with MT. Joseph Chamberlain constitu- ted the first flush of excitement. Both gen | tlemen were faultlessly dressed, and they looked as serene as if they were walking into division where their victory was as- sured Mr Chamberlain smiled behind his inseparable eye glass. The absence of the young and beautiful respondent, and the line taken by the wronged husband, through his counsel, showed the eager, feverish multi tude in the court that little possible was to be made of the case. However, though Mrs. Crawford was not examined, nor proof of the confession attempted by inde- pendent witnesses, enough transpired in the course of the petitioners recital to reward the patience of the crowd. This recital greatly discomposed Sir Charles Dilke, and even rufied the calm of Mir. Chamberlain. But the agony proved to be of short dura-