Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-01
OLD-WORLD ECHOES.
SACKYILLE'S SKELETON IN THE
CUPBOARD.
A Costly n-Brummagem's
Bride-Cupid VS.. the Cigar
The Peculiar People.
Lwritten for the REooRp UN1oN.l

Written for the RECORD USIoE.l
If Americans only knew the truth, there
is reason far weightier than the one for
which he has been sacrificed, why Lord
Sackville should not be permitted to re-
tain his post longer-nay, which should
have disqualified him from ever holding it
at all. Do Americans know that, owing to
some cloud which rested on Lady Sack
J vile, her daughters, as consequence, are
debarred from appearing at the court of
their Queen? What this cloud is, do
not profess to know. state but the fact,
which doubtless may be verified by apply
ing to the Lord Chamberlain, Stable Yard
st. James Palace, London, VIC. Who
ever Lord Sackville's successor may be, it
is to be hoped that his wife will be pre-
| sentable" In that sense in which the
chaste and unscandalized spouses of the
| commoners are. The wives of our Sena-
tors and Congressman are, as far as The
| maintenance of proprietieS is concerned,
quite as exclusive as Queen Victoria, and
| they thould not be permitted to risk con-
| tact with any lady at the British Legation
| whose presence would not be tolerated in
| the drawing-rooms of Buckingham Palace.
In the Parnell Commission which has
lately opened sympathies will naturally en-
list themselves on the weaker side. The
Times single-handed is fighting a nation,
and TO whichever side the sympathies are
given no one, who has studied the prelim-
inaries of the case, will deny that Mr..
Walters is conducting his fight in man
ner in keeping with the splendid tradi-
| tions of his great newspaper At the
opening of the Commission there was pres
ent the largest and most influential press
gathering that has ever attended public
trial. All the great journals of England
were represented, and many of America,
while there were reporters from France,
Germany and even Russia. Every day
that the Commission sits entails certain
expense on Mr.. Walters of $4,000 for "re-
freshers" to counsel and the cost of feeling
and maintaining the band of 800 witnesses
! which he has subpenaed from Ireland and
America. Eighty of these receive S25
day and their board bill paid at the fash
lonable inns Of Court Hotel Added to
this daily outlay is the cost of working up
the case, the bringing at immense cost of
witnesses from the United States, and the
retaining fees of five thousand guineas and
four thousand guineas with which the
briefs of Sir Richard Webster, @. c., and
Sir Henry James, @. c., were respectively
marked. How the case will end no one
can yet say.
1t is the fate of Irish Chief Secretaries
to be misunderstood, and it is now known
by the recently published biography of
Nh. Forster, that the much maligned buck
shot was one of the most mild-mannered,
wide-hearted men that ever lived This,
however, hardly prepares the reader for
the knowledge that his Tory successor,
Arthur Balfour, or bloody Balfour," as
he is dubbed by the Irish Nationalists, is
one of the most cultured and accomplished
young men who have ever had task con-
tided to them in notorious antipathy with
their tastes. Far from being a Cromwell,
Lord Salisbury's nephew more nearly re-
sembles in character the late Matthew
Arnold, than the iron protector of the
seventeenth century The following ex-
cerpt'is taken from the London Spectator,
journal strenuously opposed to Mr. Bal
four's policy, but which is grudgingly
compelled to do justice to its author in
the following language: Comparatively
few know that the Chief Secretary for Ire
land, who sends members to prison and
faces Fenian knives, and defes Parnellite
orators with the same half humorous, half
scornful determination, is one of the most
accomplished men in the island, with an
organization which enables him to be
scientific critic of music, with a wide
knowledge of science and philosophy"
This much-abused functionary has lately
been delivering himself of sermon on
agnosticism, in which occur passages that
in pathos are hardly surpassed by the
writings of st. Augustine, and in diction,
by the language of Newman himself. In
reading this noble discourse, one can only
express amazement at the turn of the po-
litical wheel which has placed such an
exquisitely rounded peg in such an un-
compromisingly square hole.
And so the Right Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain, in the face of all that the news
papers foretold to the contrary, has stulti-
fed their prophecies by wedding Miss En-
dicott, and at this writing the foiled Fish
Commissioner is on board the steamship
La Bourgogne on her way to Paris. Mus
ing on the checkered history of this extra
ordinary man, how baffled in diplomacy
he was successful in love, and that in
quarter where, according to the best in
formed newspapers, he had not the ghost
of show, Ifell into poetry, after the man
ner of the laureate in the Examiner, and
here are the results:
You that impaled him and jeeringly hailed
him
Prim eyeglassed Punch of meaningless
With the gall of a gherkin he's got his fine
work in,
Eloped with our lassie has Brummagem Joe.
Foiled in his wishes anent factious fishes
Bullied and badgered by statesmen irate
In all this dark tangle he's managed to angle
An helress with nothing but Joseph for bait.
The notorious adventures of forty ali
ases, but described in the Newgate calen-
dar as Mrs. Gordon -Baillie, has at length
reached the end of pretty long tether.
and for the next five years will exercise
her Establishments on beings less suscepti-
bic to their influence than the creduious
British tradesman. Endowed with great
personal attractions, the career of this ex-
traordinary imposter reads like a romance.
Her dupes included editors, Judges, cler-
gymen, British Admiral and a Scottish
Professor, while for twenty years her path
was strewn with the wrecks of ruined
tradesmen and such small deer. OF plaus-
ible address and insinuating manners, Mrs. |
Baillie imposed on everybody with whom
she came in contact. Married to another
swindler like herself, Mrs. Baillie did not
scruple to become the mistress of Sir Rich
ard Duekworth King, on the dsnHse of
which magnate, she had the effrontery to
bring an action against his executors for
defrauding her out of the family estates
at the very time when there were seven
teen indictments waiting service on the
fair prosecutor for felony In Florence
she passed herself off as the widow of an
American General, and being successful in
getting the ear Of the Acting United