Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-19
THE TERRIBLE LONDON SCANDAL.
That City a Modern Sodom.
EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE FEARFUL DEVELOP
MESTs-soME OF THE RESULTS THREATENED
ALBERT VICTOR MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM THE
THRONE

London Correspondence New York Times
LONDON, Nov 16.-During the time when
John Bull is not swelling out his chest and re-
turning loud thanks to the Creator who made
him so much better than other people it is his
i'll luck to be engaged in discussing or trying
to suppress the malodorous scandals which
spring up eternal inside his island household.
There is always something peculiarly offensive
or Observation-Disclosures you ike-about a
British scandal.
| 1t has become an axiom that when a bank
! cashier has been particularly pious man his
fight makes a bigger hole in the assets than
| ordinarily. By the same rule when anything
happens in England to shock the prophecies so
| dear to the English bosom these proprieties
| get an astonishing amount of sensation for
their money. Ten days ago it looked as if the
| official pressure was going to succeed i'll hush
| ing up the treme ndous aristocratic scandal to
| which / referred last week. Everybody was
talking about it and passing on distorted YER
sions to his fellows. But there was general
| feeling that il would never get into the courts.
Now the prospect is different.
MIR. Labouchere has said frankly in this
weeks Truth: What If the matter is burked
by the authorities; it will be brought up imme-
dlately when parliament meets and ventilated
to the very dregs in the house of commons"
This threat ominously enough follows para
graph abiding to the costly apartments being
fitted up for Albert Victor in st. James palace
the expense of which the commons will be
asked to meet
No connection between these two paragraphs
Is suggested, but it is obvious to everybody
that there has come to be within the past few
days general conviction that this long necked,
narrow headed young dullard was mixed up in
the scandal, and out of this had sprung a half
whimsical, half-serious notion. which one hears
propounded now about clubland, that matters
will be SO arranged that he will never return
from India.
The most popular idea is that he will be
killed In tiger hunt, but runaway horses or a
fractions elephant might serve as well. What
this really mirrors is public awakening to the
fact that this stupid, perverse boy mas become
a man and has only two highly precarious lives
between him and the English throne and is an
utter blackguard and ruffian.
Heretofore people have not known much
about him. save that he was a dull chan whose
nickname was Prince Collars and Cuffs The
revelation now that he is something besides a
harmless simpleton has created a very painful
feeling everywhere. Although he looks so
strlkinSly like his mother, it turns out that he
gets only his face from the Danish race, and
that morally and mentally he combines the
worst attributes of those sons of George III
at whose mention history still holds her nose.
1t Is not too early to predict that such fellow
Will never be allowed to ascend the British
throne; that Is as clear as anything can well be-
1t is equally clear that the suppression of the
scandal IN which he, with some dozens of Young
and middle-aged samples of the nobility and
gentry OF England, is involved has become I'M
possible and that every day the attempt is fur
ther persisted IN will do enormous damage not
only to the government, but to the aristocratic
social structure generally. Extremely bitter
comments have been made on all sides at the
action OF the authorities in not only permitting
sporting upper ten to have what amounted to a
prize fight in the Pelican club last Sunday
N lv Al
purpose OF taking tickets and keeping the ring
1t Is only natural that the public mind should
associate that with this other outrage of using
legal machinery to suppress proceedings
against titled offenders.
There is more indignation and ruf1inp of the
equanimity of the English mind Just now than
have ever seen before. Very little more re-
preston Will be needed to bring it to fever
heat. but, as have said, the whole scandal is
going to come out. MIR. Labouchere's threat
has been succeeded by a demand in the Pal
Mall GGzette for an exposure of the means bv
which the home office prevented prosecution.
The Paris press for a week has been full of the
most exaggerated and sensational accounts of
the thing, lie Mdfn leading the way with an
OutspOken onslaught on London society under
the suggestive caption of La Sodome Mod
erne. The effects of this terrible revelation,
when sooner or later 1t is forced into daylight
cannot but be prodigious upon the whole
political and social edifice of cotemporary Eng
land. e
From many points of view the necessity of
full exposure will seem most lamentable, but
there will be more than compensation if an
effective blow is dealt to this wretched little
class OF titled young loafers and scoundrels who
have brought the name of English gentleman
down into the mud.
1t Is stated on good authority that the earl of
Euston, the heir OF the duke of Grafton. was
arrested last night. 1t is no surprise to find
him mixed up with the scandal because his
whole life has been one long overture to such
disgrace. He is just over forty and married
music hall singer when ayoungster The woman
is now openly living as the mistress of one of
his sporting companions. Lord Henry and
Lord Arthur Somerset the latter of whom has
been cashiered from the Life Guards; Lord
Beaumont; Lord Seaton and Lord Dudley have
He'd and are now in hiding on the continent.
There Is special interest in the last named, not
on his own account, because he is a most hope
less young fool and knave, but for the sake of
his mother. the countess of Derby, who, next
to the princess of Wales. is probably the most
generally beloved and admirable lady in Eng
land. 1t was her vain effort a while ago to
save her son from his ruinous courses which
led to the police raid on the Turf club.