New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
REVIVAL OF CONFIDENCE IN THE SAFETY
OF STANLEY AND EMIN.

WALTER AND THE TIMES"-PRoPERTY
IN poRTRAITs-MR AND MRS.
PHEIPs-sTATUE OF THE GREAT
pUKE-THE MAILS-THEATRICAL-
fBY CABLE TO TIL rRrBUNE.1
Copyright; 1885, BY The Ner- York Tribune.
London Dec. 22.-The news Of Mr. Stanley's
safety which reached London late yesterday after
noon and was hailed at first as conclusive. is
slightly discredited by this mornings critical
ANALYSIS There are discrepancies in dat's difficult
10 reconcile and some stat mentS seem improbable;
but as Lord Salisbury well said. it is at least as
trustworthy as Osman Digna's letter. The de-
tails promised in the telegram to Sir John Pender,
which is the most positive of all, are expected
hourly. The dispatches have at any rate revived
general confidence that both Mr.. Stanley and Emin
Pacha are all right
Mr. Bright is so much better that for the present
no more bulletins issued. The chronic malady
remains, unhappily, a source of danger which may
at any moment become serious.
Lord Dunraven's speech in the House Of Lords
respecting the British Minister at Washington was
conceived in spirit most friendly to America.
He strongly urged Lord Salisbury to send sue
cessor to Lord Sackville without delay. Lord
Salisbury met this appeal, clearly made in the in
terest Of both countries, with q dry, stiff and
purely technical answer 1t would be more ao-
curate to say he refused to answer at all He
seems to be meditating some surprise; whether
agreeable or the reverse is an open question Mr..
Edwsrdes however has said he expects TO return
,oon- His indefinite retention here would be an
sct SO conspicuously resentful and unfrendly that
even Lord Salisbury may not care to risk it.
Lord Salisb ny's Scarborough speeches delight
his friends as proof Of physical endurance hardly
less than Mr.. Gladstones He made three in
one day, all Of some length and Importance
One # them enbodieS a rather elaborate attack
on Mr. Gladstone. lie hints that Mr.. Gladstone
is isrl" screams The Daily News" Cooler
readers will find no such hint. What Lord Sails
bury does is to point out that he never said GER
tain things which Mr. Gladstone imputed TO him.
The strongest word Lord Salisbury uses is mis-
quotation His charges, however, call for reply.
His comment on the black man" incident is
thought even by his own friends ungracious; nor
is his repetition of his previous opinion in favor
of women's suffrage relished by the more sober
minded of his party.
The passage which gives most general salts
faction is the express assurance that no large
operations in the Soudan are to follow the Suakim
success. The victory at Suallim is not popular
with the Home Rulers. if you accept Mr. O'Connor
their spokesman. He calls it in " The Star"
SepSeleSS DQtcnery Wncn UuSb III every uOutSJ
soul with disgust This tone,' observes an
English critic. is but an echo of the Irish cheers
for the Mahdi given before Home Rule was
proposed English Home Rulers, seeing why
they should side with slavetrading dervishes
against their countrymen, rejoice with one
accord over General GreRfelI's success The ex-
ceptions arc just numerous enough to prove the
rule Sir Wilfred Lawson. who puts fanatcism
before patriotism, is one. He protested in the
House against the senseless. shameless slaughter
OF Arabs" Against the slaughter of Enghshmen
by Arabs he does not protest. He thinks the
bowling dervshes who had come hundreds of
miles to attack Suakim and reopen it as slave
trading port had right to the place
The reduction of the Liberal majority at
Stockton from / 200 to 375 is set down by the
Glaastonian organ to local causes. No. say
the Unionists, that will not do Sir Horace
Dsvey actually poled more votes than Mr..
Dodds in 1856, and Mr.. Dodds was a great
local favorite. 1t is an increase in the Unionist
vote, not a decrease in the Home Rule vote,
which has cut down the Home Rule majority.
These new voters must be people who abstained
before from indifference or doubt but now rally
to the Union cause" This may be so. but the
Gladstonians are glad TO get Sir Horace Davey,
who is the leader of the Chancery bar, back
TO the House.
Dr.. Tanners scene in the House Of Commons
last night showed him standing alone resisting
not only the authority OF the Chair but of his
own leader. The Irish members, acting under
Mr.. Parnelps authority, declined to support their
colleague in refusing to withdraw the epithets
liar and coward which he had applied
to Mr.. Balfour. The vote of the House for his
suspension was unanimous. So Dr. Tanner re-
turns to Cork with the gilt on bis aureole OF
planned martyrdom rather tarnished.
Mr. Parnells Scotch action against The Times
has brought out some curious facts relating to the
ownership and management of that journal MIR.
Walter. popularity believed to own the whole or
nearly the whole property swears he owns but
one-sixteenth and half The accuracy OF the re-
port has been questioned, but it is so printed in
" The Times" itself which gives no doubt, most
reluctantly but most fairly the fullest report OF
all The whole paper belonged to Mr. Walters grand
father from whom all the present holders Of shares
derive their interests, whether by deed by sue
cesson or otherwise The number is very
large" said Mr.. Walter. list is 10 be prepared
by Mr.. Soames his solicitor. MIR. Walter de-
scribes himself as the managing proprietor, and
swears he has had sole authority since sl7, the
year OF his fathers death. till lately, when his son
was oined with him. This, though literally true,
is enough TO bring the shade OF Deiane back 10
earth TO protest But though MIR. Walter owns out
this small share in the paper he owns the publish
ing and printing offices, and prints the paper by
contract with the propretors.
Mr.. Justice North's photograph decision dlS-
poses once for all, it may be hoped OF the popu-
lar fallacy respecting property in private photo-
graphs Sundry unscrupulous photographers
have claimed the right to sell and exhibit photo
graphs of their customers against their will and
although they had been paid for taking them
Efforts to prevent this have been met in the past
by legal opinions affirming the legal right of n
photographer TO do what he liked with negatives
or impressions from negatives, which confessedly
r.roafnod bie rronartv Tho court has now blown