The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-03
BALFOUR'S BLARNEY.
His Catholic University Plan to
Win the Irish.
AN ENGLISH LORDS DISGRACE.
Vaudeville Allows His Mistress to Pay His
Debts-She Does 1t for the Sake Of
His Family.
Especial to THE HEnALD.-Examiner Dispatch

Especial TO THE MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-[Cable to the N. Y.
Sun. THE political situation in England
to-day is remarkable in the extreme.
Balfour by one of those theatrical move
ments which Englishmen are accustomed
to consider an imitation of Lord Beacons
field, has fairly divided his opponents.
Without any fuss or ostentation whatever,
he causally announced to the house of COM
mons that the government proposed to
endow a Roman Catholic university in
Ireland The effect was electrical. Irish
men, instead of being bitter opponents of
the government, evinced lively desire to
shake hands with the ministry: the Glad
stonians were glum and evidently irritated
at the jubilation of Parnellites.
Balfour had laid his plans well. He had
had Mr. Parnell sounded under pledge of
secrecy and had got his support. He had
gained the approval of the Liberal Union
list leaders, and he had put the heads of the
Irish church into ecstacies by a hint of
what was coming The only sections he
did not consult were the Gladstonians and
Ulster Tories, whose good opinion he affects
not to value at all.
Balfour believes the priests will be with
him to a man, and in this surmise he is
probably correct. The priests, he con-
cludes, will win over the vote in G r,- up,n
ion that the Irish party will be sufficiently
grateful for what he has done TO render the
Tory party measure of aid occasionally
In this he has probably made a mistake, for
the Irish members are fighting for Ireland
and any combination they can make to fur
Their hel interests they will assuredly enter
into.
For long time past the details of the
scheme have been perfecting. Extensive
alterations have been in progress at the
splendid building of the Royal society, and
doubtless this will become the headquar-
tiers of the university. The knowledge of
the announcement respecting the enuO wei
Catholic university did great deal to
smooth the way for the Propagation of par
lament. Itknocked the fight out of nine
tenths of the Irishmen.
King, the cabman, who ran Lord Mande-
vile to earth in Bessie Bellwoods apart
ments few days ago and was assaulted
and battered by the gentle singer for ask
ing the nobleman to pay his debt, obtained
a measure of revenge on Monday He had
Bessie in the Bow Street police court. with
Vaudeville as witness, and in the end the
pugilistic young woman was fined three
guineas and put under bonds to keep the
peace for six months, and her lordly
protege was branded to the world as a par
ticularly disreputable member of not too
reputable nobility. Vaudeville is an un-
usually callous scamp, but the cabman had
the pleasure of seeing the noble lord blush
from his Ieck to his hair when the concert
singer was asked if she ever paid his debts
and replied, ''Wsell, if do it is for the sake
Of his wife and family" Vaudeville, it
will be remembered, married Miss Yznaga,
an American girl They have three young
children, but he is bankrupt and lives apart
from his family and is supported by Bessie
Bellwood. Anyone can have the pleasure
of seeing her pay for his suppers
in public restaurants after the the
atre. 1t is pleasing to reflect
that as soon as an invalid of sixty-six years
pays the debt of nature Vaudeville will be
the duke of Manchester, the patron of six
livings, with seat in the house of lords,
several landed estates and country seats,
and two or three town residences.
The Times publishes long dispatch from
Montreal announcing the completion of a
complete system of rail and steam navlga-
ton from England to Australia. The Cana
dams claim to be able to save thirty hours
in all western business to Europe. This
competition it is thought will affect New
York as well as San Francisco, and will
apparently temporarily help Chicago.