Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-01
ENGLISH POLITICS.
Both Parties Express Satisfaction
Over the Holb0rn Election.
ROBERT GENT DAVIS SEAT
The Incumbent Is In Jail for Breach OF
Trust. but There win BE Lively
Fight Over 1t just the Same.
Foreign Notes.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The result of the Hol-
born election gives satisfaction to both par
ties, although, of course, in a lesser degree to
the Conservatives than to the Liberals. The
large reduction Of the Tory majority is a
subject for congratulation to the latter.
Lord Compton, however, the Gladstonian
candidate, is extremely popular personally,
and the Liberals used unwonted efforts to
beat up electors for their side. Considering
these things, the government journals affect
TO be satisfied with the reduced majority as
an indication that, other things being equal,
the party of coercion has not lost its hold in
Holborn.
Another close fight will occur over Mr..
Robert Gent Davis seat in the Remington
division of Lambeth when the present in
cumbent is removed as he is sure to be, for
the alleged breach of trust for which he has
been imprisoned. The Conservative major
ity at the last election was only 430, and
reduction of this in the same proportion as
that which the Liberals secured in Holborn
viii serve to turn the election in their favor.
This outlook is specially credible if the vote
be taken upon the new increased register in
January. This explains the anxiety of the
Conservatives to provide money for the pur-
pose of extricating Mr.. Davis from his un-
happy difficulty and enabling him to retain
his seat as member of the house of COM
mons This has failed, and the action of the
court leaves no alternative TO Parliament
The Paris Rothschilds, who recently visited
central Asia, have petitioned the Russian
government for the lease of $1,000 acres of
territory in that region. Their idea is to
grow cotton and erect factories to supply the
markets of central Asia with the fabric. The
Moscow merchants and manufacturers are
much enraged at the proposal of the scheme,
which is likely to interfere very seriously
with their central Asian business. Their anger
is particularly violent and deep rooted, be-
cause there is strong probability that the
concession asked by the Rothschilds viii be
granted them.
The French government, in sanctioning
the arrangement by which the Credit Fon-
cier comes to the assistance of the Panama
Canal company, has averted a political
and financial crisis which would in all prob
ability have followed the bankruptcy of the
Panama company. 1t is reported that the
government has also decided that the divi-
dends or shares shall no longer be paid out of
the capital, SO that all the money raised will
60 to carry on the works on the sthmus, and
not be partly dissipated in keeping up public
confidence in the scheme. The banks, on
their part have agreed to receive subscrip-
tions without charging the company any
commission.
Paris promises to surpass herself in theatri-
cal display next Sunday at the Baudin cele-
bration. A programme has beerissued de-
failing the route of the cortege The recum-
bent statue of Baudin is to be removed from
the tomb and placed in the avenue outside
the cemetery, which nobody will be allowed
to enter. The municipals will form group
around the statue and only the Marseillaise
hymn will be played by the band No dis
tinctly Boulangist music viii be permitted.
The senate has decided to send wreath on
Saturday or early Sunday morning. It will
take no part in the procession or give any
official recognition of it. The Conservative
journals are behaving very badly in relation
to tie demonstration. They do not disguise
their hope that riots viii occur, and are
virtually doing all they can to incite the hot
hlocded Communists to violence.
An important sale of autographs was held
Thursday in Paris. Two love letters of
Henri Quatre to Gabrielle d'Estrees brought
500 francs and 260 francs respectively. The
letter of the English king, Henry II, to the
clergy of Touraine, brought 22j francs
Other epistles, including the hands OF Louis
Philippe, the first Napoleon; v6lraire and
various other celebrities. were sold for lesser
erln1s