The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-12-26
LONDON GOSSIP.
Joseph Chamberlain VIII Succeed Lor
Harrington as Leader.

Joseph Chamberlain VIII Succeed Lord
Harrington as Leader.
| Copyrighted, 1891, by N. Y. Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 25.-The position of Lord
Harrington as leader of the dissidents
will remain unaltered on his going into
the House of Lords. Joseph Chamber
lain will become the virtual head of the
party, taking the lead in the Commons.
Lord Harrington, on assuming a duke
dom, obtains the garter which Gladstone
obtained for the deceased Duke. and
which is thus inherited in succession.
Such honor is most unusual, but Lord
Salisbury owing the existence of his
ministry to Lord Harrington. and being
unable to otherwise repay his services. is
| DESTROYS that the new Duke shall accept
the garter.
Sir William White, British Embassa-
dor at Constantinople, while passing
through Sofia yesterday, had short in
terview with Premier Stambuloff. 1t is
the belief of a high official of the foreion
office that Lord Salisbury in taking an
isolated course, is urging Premier Siam
buloH to submit to the demands OF
Ribot, the French Minister of FOREIGN
Affairs, although the Berlin Government
is known to be advising an opposite pol
icy. Reports of O'Connor, British agent
| at Sofia, show that it would not be advis-
| able to expose the Stambuloff regime to
the scrutiny which would arise from a
joint deliberation of European powers on
Ribots charge Of a violation of capitula-
tons of wholesale arrests and prolonged
Imprisonment without trial and the saw
age system of torture to compel con-
| feSsion.
Other illegal explosions beside that of
| Chadouine accompany Stambuloff's des-
potic rule, so Lord Salisbury aims to
settle the trouble out of court. Stambu-
loft threatens to resign unless the I'M
stinted support of England be accorded
to him. AS his successor in this event
would be Storloff, who would adopt a pro-
Russian policy, the prospect may compel
Lord Salisbury TO change his position in
the matter. Ribot, wanting to force the
exposure of the new Bulgarian atrocities.
has brought Chadouine to Paris to coach
him.
The disgraced Mrs. Captain Osborne.
who stole and sold the Jewels of Mrs.
! Sargreaves, is now somewhere in the
south of France. But for her being Sir
Henry~James' god-daughter, she would
| now be lying in prison awaiting trial for
perjury and theft.
The next society scandal will be I ord
| Howard de Walden's petition for a di-
vorce from his wife. The case, however.
will be Invested of much of public inter-
est which would otherwise have attended
it by the withdrawal of certain shoclzino
charges which the wife desired to plead
as grounds for separation from her hus-
band. The Earl Russell case operates to
restrain counsel from. permitting scAnda-
| lous allegations to be made in open court
unsupported by sufficient proof Efforts
to have the case heard in camera have
been defeated, and the public will
now be treated to a revelation OF the do
nestle life of the aristocrats. in which
drunken assaults and indeceneies I'M
worthy of the lowest rowdy figure
| largely.
Earl Russell has appeared in new
role. He now reads lessons in the family
church at Wimbledon on SUNDAYS.
| Forsaklng agnostlciSm, of which both his
father and mother were warm advocates,
/ he has become a broad churchman and
an earnest evangelist.
The whole of the Prince of WaIes'
| family are celebrating Christmas at MARI
brough House. The members of the
Princes Sandringham household and
! the tenants OF the estate were given a
| dinner tonight. They will be banoueted
Tomorrow as well, and tomorrow night
a bail Will be given for them, at which
/ the Princess and himself will be present.
| The Duke of Cambridge is credited
with endowing the Princess Victoria
| Mary with the sum of e5, 900 yearly, de-
spite the expenses attached to his NOR
] ganatlc family. His own savings and
| his annual income of $4,000. have en-
abled him to be generous to his favorite
niece. 1t has been decided that the
dresses to be worn by the bridesmaids
OF the Princess will be of white and sill
yer, trimmed with mayblossoms. They
Will wear wells and wreaths. but their
toilets Will have no trains. The corpora
ton of the city of London will present
| the Princess with silver dinner service