Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-10
STINGY VIC.
How She Rewards Famous Painter for
Three Years Toll for Her Sake.
Contest In which Sugar il the
Issus-Queen's Drawing Room I'M
usually Brilliant.
The Bristol Contest.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, May 9.-The coming parlia-
mentary election in Bristol VIII be fought
on an issue entirely apart from the ques-
tons which commonly enter into the
contests for seats IN the house of COM
mons, and for this reason the campaign
is exciting a peculiar interest. The vital
question is not land purchase, nor home
rule, but sugar. One of the largest sugar
refineries in the kingdom is To-
. Gated in Bristol and the cleo
ton will be considered test
of public sentiment on the question of
sugar bounties without regard to other
matters OF popular concern. The con-
servatives are confident in the belief the
result VIII enable the revival of the sugar
convention, which strong opposition ind
the absence of any distinct popular ap-
proval caused to be withdrawn.
A COMPROMISE.
If the opponents of the government
proposal TO compensate the keepers OF
public houses for the loss of license
through reduction of their number have
not scored a victory, they at least es-
capped entire defeat, and the probabilities
are that the contest will result in drawn
battle. Everything points to the GER
tainty that the government is now con-
'sidering a scheme whereby the ministry
may gracefully abandon its position in
regard to compensation and adopt the
licensing bill proposed by Lord Randolph
Churchill as q substitute for the measure
introduced by Gosohen. Although Lord
Randolph's bill is open to serious OBJ
jeetions, many of them will prob
ably be removed by amendments If the
measure is accepted by the government
and the government will thereby escape
the antagonism and party detection
which an attempt to pass the original
bill would entail.
= NOT VERY QUEENLY
Another example of the niggardliness
of her majesty, the queen. is furnished
in her dealings with Painter Lockhart,
who has Just finished q piotuEe executed
to her majesty's orders representing the
scene in Westminster abbey on the coca
sion of the queen g jubilee. The picture
contains S87 portraits, and represents
three years labor. The completion
of the work involved several
months travel on the continent in
order to obtain the likenesses, and also
compelled the artist to hire q town
house in which to obtain sittings from
members of the royal family and others
whose portraits could not be otherwise
procured. Hotel expenses to Loekhart
have been many thousand pounds, to
say nothing of his compulsory rejection
of other work while engaged in this
commission, yet the queen has ordered
the payment to him of the paltry sum.of
$1,000 in full settlement Of all obligations
For the sake of appearances, II from no
higher motive, it is probable that some
interested person will see to it that the
painter is not left to mourn the loss of
large sum OF money through his effort to
crafty the vanity of a whimsical old
lady,
GIFT FOR o'BREN's BRIDE.
A movement is on foot by the women
of Ireland, headed by the wife Of the
lord mayor of Dublin, to present beau
tiful and costly wedding gift to the
bride of William o'Brien, NJ, p, on
the occasion of his marriage to Nile.
Raffalsovltch in June.
The queen g drawing room to-day was
unusually brilliant. Several American
ladies and gentlemen were presented to
her majesty by Mr.. and Mrs. White, the
former acting as the representative of
Minister Lincoln in the latter absence.
THREATENS BISMARCK.
The announcement that Prince Bis
marck is about to make public the COM
plete story OF his dismissal from the
CHARACTERISTIC together with the events
whloh led up to it has greatly enraged
the emperor. In order to prevent any
such outburst on the part of the ex=chsn-
cellor, the emperor has sent a per-
sonal letter reminding the prince that
he is liable to severe punishment under
an amendment to the penal code OF his
own making, if he makes public, or
causes to be published, any knowledge
regarding state matters gained by him
during his official career.