Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-11-12


ures that have been taken to prevent and
detect them, and clear account will be de-
manded of them, for neither has much sup
port or popularity. Matthews is regarded
as the sudden creation of Lord Randolph
Churchill, and the other as q court favorite.
Sir Charles Warrens proclamation grant
ing Immunity to any accomplice of the muir
derer who will deliver him up to justice is
ridiculed as totally inadequate and ira
tional. There is no probability that such a
fiend has any accomplice. lie needs none,
and the secret of his escape from detection so
far is that he has none.
The east end is awake and on guard. The
streets arc deserted, except by occasional
patrols of citizens and police. Men even
keep within doors, as if they were afraid of
meeting bloody specter and not woman
is to be seen.
The excitement over this event has ex-
tinguished interest in almost every other
topic The elections in the United States
have disappeared from the papers, and the
Birmingham. conference has fallen fiat.
Lord Salisbury's allusion to the Sackville
affair in his speech at the lord mayors ban
quet satisfies, for the time, the feeling of re-
sentiment which Englishmen entertained.
Although no one knows better that Sack
villes dismissal was due to the demand of
both parties, Lord Salisbury permitted him
self to play off his remarks upon his hearers
with all the sang froid of an American poll
tician to gain point.
The Liberal conference at Birmingham, if
it did not create the sensation that was ex-
pected, gave Mr. Gladstone an opportunity
to present his latest views, and accordingly
attracted the attention of the entire country.
MIR. Gladstones speech in Brigdley hall was
a great effort. 1t showed no decline in clear
ness or power. Not SO radical as was feared,
it satisfied all consciences in the party.
The well worn rumor that the queen is to
abdicate the throne, or will be called to abb
dicate, is revived again in the petty and dis
reputable press, but there is not shadow of
foundation for it. The queen will hold to all
her powers as long as she lives in sane mind,
and the sanity of her majesty, especially in
money matters, is not to be doubted Ac-
cording to the latest reports of her majesty's
health, it will be a long time yet before the
accession of the Prince of Wales
There has been a lull in Irish affairs The
judicial commission drags its slow length
along, losing interest daily The papers de-
cline to publish the proceedings, leaving that
task to The Times, which prints them in full.
Nobody reads them. They are a rehash of
reports familiar to every body when not for
gotten. The attempts to connect the de-
fendants with these stories has already proven
futile The case of The Times is fast becom-
ing mere promoter to make capital for the
political campaign now approaching
PARIS, Nov. 1L-Boulanger is now called
upon to suffer because of his friends He
does not mind that, for the friends are rich.
The presence of a great number of monarch
lists at the wedding of his daughter to Lieut..
1rio orf ic flo ~ oil = l.
that the comte de Paris has given Boulanger
81, ,000, 600 for use in the latter's campaign.
and that his Revision party and the Orlean-
lists are allied The latter is probable so far
as the leaders are concerned but it would not
suit the general to have his Republican fol-
lowers believe it. From Boulanger's point of
view this is ell right. He counts on the mon
archy being an impossibility, and that the
debt he is contracting need never be paid
except in making some arrangement hereaf-
ter by which the OFleanists may inhabit
France in peace. Sooth to say they feel their
exile keenly.
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia has left
Paris but his brother, Vladimir, with the
latter's wife, the Princess Marie, remains be-
hind. They are feted by everybody and go
everywhere.
Sarah Bernhardt is creating great furore
in Vienna with La Tosca," subjugating
another empire, as they say here.
BERLIN, Nov. 1.-The chief event of the
week IS the African agreement among the
powers. For the past half century English
men of war have carried on a solitary and
almost fruitless struggle against slave trad
ing off the African coast Suddenly all has
changed. The lsading powers have been
found to be willing to cooperate. The rea-
sons for the change are not far to seek
Several circumstances combined to bring it
about, but without doubtsthe leading factor.
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