Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-07
LARCENY IN HIGH PLACES
USING GREAT BRITAIN'S WORKSHOPS
 FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS.

European Governments stin Worry Over
 Little Bulgaria and Ferdinand-The old Fogy Ideas of London's Corporation and
 of tho Council of Cambridge University.
 LONDON, March 7.-Investigation into the Plymouth dock yard scandal shows the con- nection, direct and indirect, of large num- Der of persons with systematic swindling operations of character usually held in con- tempt by prosperous professional thieves. Many of the persons implicated are of classes far removed from those which peculators of tinware and junk are supposed to descend from, and the methods employed by the con- spirators are found to have been of the sneak thief order. Through the cursory inquiry thus far made it is learned that for some time past enormous quantities of tea kettles, tea pots and other utensils have been snuggled into the government workshops, tin plated and smuggled out again to private parties. The smuggling has been done through one of the residences of the implicated officials, or through one of the ships in the docks. and to conduct the business without detection has required the collusion of large number of persons both within and without the yards. Several Birmingham firms are said to be inn plicated in the swindle, and the number of arrests that must necessarily follow @ thorough exposure of the affair promises to be appalling. Doubtless efforts will be made in behalf of some of the crinilated parties to suppress the matter, but it is difficult to see how they are to be successful.
 The war office has begun a preliminary ex- animation into the case of Maj. Templar, who is accused of selling the secrets of the military balloon department to private parties. Tenn plar, it will be remembered, divulged the secret of the mechanism of the war balloons to Birmingham manufacturer, who sold several balloons constructed after the plans thus obtained to the Italian government for use in the Abyssinian campaign.
 The notification of the porte to Prince Ferdinand that his position in Bulgaria is illegal is generally regarded as a triumph for Russia, since from the first the czar has en- deavored to incite the sultan to such action. Unless it shall transpire that there is in ex- istence an agreement between England and Austria that Turkey shall not be held re- sponsible for her repudiation of Prince Fer dinands pretensions, Austria will certainly resent this new move and at the same time insist upon a full disclosure of the Russian programme before passively permitting Fer dinand to be busted. It is true that Austria has herself admitted that Ferdinand's pres ence in Bulgaria is illegal, but she has not gone 90 far as to commit herself to his expul- aon. All of the powers however, are now agreed that Ferdinand has no right to the Bulgarian throne, and Austria's acquiesence in his withdrawal from the country seems in- evitable, though it will probably be accom- panied by the buster and 'bluff' usual ir such cases It is believed that Prince Nicho las of Leuchtenberg, who resides at St Pc tersburg, will be Russia's candidate for the Bulgarian throne when the inevitable expul ~so of ar1d chal hou hoo oo complished.'
 The London corporation has rejected the proposals of the Brush Electric Light com pany for a contract to igft the city, not ir the interest of any other applicant, but solely through the painfully apparent circumstance that they are not yet alive to the fact tha, any improvement has been made upon the old system of outdoor lighting.
 1 The council of Cambridge university hal reported adversely to the klea of comforting degrees upon women.