New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-21
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
LINGERING ECHOES OF THE BACCARAT
SCANDAL STILL TO BE HEARD.

-rop1os IN PARLIAMEST-rHE LABOR COM
MssIoN-rHE FARADAY CENTENARY
ACADEMIC HoNoRs-THE TEsTI-
MoNIAL TO MRS. GREENWOOD.
rBY CABLE TO THE 1RBUSEI
copyrtsh,: 1891 By The Tribune ASSOCIATION.
London, June 2O.-The answer made on oehalf
. the Prince of Wales by Mr.. Stanhope in the
sorse Of Commons on Monday has sllenced crit-
asn IN Parliament at least for the present. 1t
g here thought that when man owns that he
has committed an error. he also. so far as the
cublic is concerned. atOnes for it. The breach
,f military discipline was not the Princes most
rrous mistake but il is the one which has most
,xposed him to censure abroad. 1t gave, II cur
ant gossin be credited, occasion TO the German
Emperor to get into the pulpit TO preach sermon
n his upcDe which has not been well received
either by his uncle or by the rest OF the royal
family. Since Monday. however. there has been
a peroeptible diminution in the flood OF reoukes
Witch poured In all last week on the unhappy
Prince Time Is on his side. Society Is convinced
that the Princes baccarat days are over. ana one
section of society is certainly that they are
M question was nut more frequently during Ascot
week than whether baccarat was PLAYED at the
mouse where the Prince and Princess were staying
A decisive answer finally came from one OF their
party: No. it is not.
In other quarters his deeds In connection with
The Cumming case are still discussed with solem-
nity. The Nonconformist conscience Will not DO
content with the public penanoe done by the
PRINCE In Parliament Like the German Emperor,
dissenting divines still preach at him, and ne may
we'll be discomposed by the sulphurous rhetoric
of Sunday sermons. ! cannot remember to nave
heard that any Of these divines have ever thought
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heoause he races His connection with the turf
Is public. and gambling on the turf Is thousand
times heavier than gambling with cards But the
tnrf IA a national pastme. n may even he called
n national institution; and baccarat Us not. he
ucious bodies-or perhaps they should be called
church bodies-n various parts OF the country
still testify TO their zeal BY passing resolutions
AGAINST the Prince. Some of them are 1mportahO,
but none of them include among the causes oil
his condemnation his ownership of racehorses,
nor his long patronage of race meetings WIN
every circumstance of publicity Some OF the
resolutions passed are silly enough in terms, but
nobody denies the strength of feeling in the cOun-
trv ar doubts that the Princes prestige has been
for the time seriously impaired. But between
that and the overthrow of the monarchy, which
come enthusiasts predict, the interval is very
wide There is no sign of the existence OF any
powerful republican party in this Kingdom Out
CRY is kept up against the Prince with respect TO
matters of personal discretion wholly beyono pup
lie jurisdiction. There was, for example, otNr
complaint that he should have proposed young
Mr. Wilson as a member of the Marlborough CluD.
Il turns out that he neither proposed nor seconded
him, nor had anything TO do with his electlon'
nor knew of it till 1t was over. MI wilson was
proposed by somebody else two years ago ana
elected by the committee in the usual routine of
I..% %
stood sponsor for him two years ago, what would
there have been wrong in thatp Whose business
was it? Why should the public press read him
one more lecture for an act entirely private as
thatp What has Mr. Wilson done to make him
An unsuitable acquaintance for the Prince OF
Walesp And when and where is this new inqulsl-
tion into the Princes private life 20 stop
Little more has been heard of Sir William Cum-
ming since the grotesque reception OF him IN MS
own county There is however. cynical MINOR
ity of men of the world who 60 about London
declaring their belief that within two years Sir
William will again be received in society How
ask these gentlemen. are you to exclude man WIZ
has married wife with 81 5000 year?
remains true that there has been little pupnc cen
sur on this the latest and basest act of the card
sharper of Tr6nby Croft 1t is condemned pri-
vately by those who do not profess the new
Cumming worship.
By a majority of 100, with 321 members pres
ent the House Of Commons finally on Monday
evening passed the Irish Land Purchase Dill Inc
minority represents perhaps fairly enough tne
strength of the irreconcilable Radicals. OF those
who would reject any boon for Ireland II 1t came
from other hands than their own. That It is a
boon and a great one, the Irish themselves admit
II is a point on which Mr.. Parnell however dis
credited he may be otherwise, is still good Wit
ness-the best Witness indeed, since there is con-
fessedly no other man who knows the land ques-
ton in Ireland as Mr.. Parnell knows it. He
described this bill on Wednesday In Bernondsey
as one which, if properly worked by the Land
Commission and by the Irish Government, would
DO more good TO Ireland and its people than any
measure that had ever proceeded from the I'M
peral Parliament. That is no doubt hard doc
trine for Gladstonian 10 accept, but l know
not why we in America should narrow our minds
10 the purely party criticism prevailing in Eng
land. or accept purely partisan view of meas
ure which deeply concerns the welfare oil Ireland
We may Judge this bill and other bills on theil
merits. and not with reference TO the necessities
Of political warfare In country not our own
The principle of land purchase" said Mr.
Parneu had been in his heart as the ultimate
,olution of the land question ever since he hac
thought aDOut uhe IdHu 4uoSuloH az o4i' @"-'
Is no reason to suspect the sincerity OF that JeS
imony, but it is, of course, unpaiataole 10 una
English party which tried TO pass Lana fur
chase bill and failed.
Mr. Ralfours conduct of the bill in the Hous'
has added TO mis- reputation as a master of busl
ness and debate 1t is one Of the most diff
.ut and complicated measures ever framed. II
lny but the ablest hands it would have gone L
wreck on any one of a dozen points There arr
nearly dozen on which Mr.. Morley in hi
closing speech against the bill pronounced /
still Objectionable; but 70 a Gladstonlan, al
most the greatest objection OF all is that all TIL
good comes out of Nazareth. The Torres, no
the Liberals must have the credit OF 1t, ana MI
Balfour most of all worse objection remalh
behind. 1t viii quiet Irish discomfort 10
degree which lends credit to Archbishop Croke'
assertion only the other day that Home huie