Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-02
DENIES POPULAR CONTROL.
A Diplomatic Dispute With Balma-
ceda's Chilean Government.
SYMPATHY FOR HISTORIAN FYFFE
Nay Day Marked by Terrible Socialist
Riots in Lyons and Rome.
GOSSIP OF THE British CAPITAL

COPYRIGHT, 1884, By THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATE
PREss.l
LONDON, Nav 1.-The leading proposal!
OF the Governments free education measure
are gradually leaking out. They confirm
the Liberal expectancy that it will be q
Tory-Clerical measure, against which the
party will fight to the death. The minister:
privately assure their supporters that
the bill will tend to strength
en- the position of denominational
schools. The anxiety of English
church circles has been set at rest by com.
munications through the Bishop of London
and other clerical leaders, that an under-
standing has been arranged with the Govern
meut which preserves intact the vested In
terests of the church. Similar assurances
have also been given privately to Catholic
bishops This understanding is producing a
strong clerico-political combination, against
which the Liberals, who are working for
the popular control of public money given
10 schools, will find it hard to contend.
Won't Assent to Popular Control
1t is now known thatthe Government will
not assent to popular control in any genuine
form. The bill will be strictly denomi-
national. neither rate-payers nor parents
having effective representation on the school
boards. The whole spirit of the measure is
thus antagonistic to Liberal principles. and
will lead to a fierce parliamentary contest
and much bitterness throughout the
country. In spite of the growing
opposition the ministers profess
to believe that they will carry the bill
through the House of Commons within a
fortnight after it is introduced. 1t is
probable, however, that the Government
really does not expect to carry the education
bifi but desires rather to dissolve on some
leading proposal which will strengthen
them in appealing to the country.
The House of Commons Committee on
Spirits has presented a report of general
worldwide interest The evidence pre-
sented weakens the accepted theorys that
new spirits is fagrant poison compared
with old spirits.
The Benefit of Mixed Drinks.
A number of witnesses concurred in the
opinion that new spirits could be taken
with as much impunity as old could. The
committee tended to the opinion that old
spirits is the most wholesome, and that
public taste, iEciining to the use of spirits
blending of matt and raw grain whisky.
seemed to hit the best dietetic medium.
The report refrains from suggesting any
inter erence with existing systems of blend
ing or bending. except forbidding the blend
ing of Hamburg spirits with Jamaica rum.
The report does not advise that spirits be
kept in bond for fixed period. The COM
mittee's deliverances read like a toper's
wade mecur.
Captain Ripen, commanding the British
warship Magicienne, has been appointed
acting consul on the Pungwe river, and has
been instructed to act without waiting for
orders from the Foreign Office in the event of.
further ill-treatment of English subjects.
In Trouble With BaImaceda.
A dispute has arisen between the Balma-
ceda Government and Great Britain, in
volving point Of international law. 1t
seems that two officers, prescribed by Bal
maceda, took 7, fuge in the British Lega-
tion at Santiago; that Chilean troops
promptly surrounded the Legation to cap
ture the officers, and that the British Min
lister refused to surrender the fugitives and
protested against the violation OF the rights
Of residence. The Foreign Office, after con-
sulting precedents, supports the Minister.
Dispatches have been sent to Santiago to
warn Balmaceda of Great BrItain's decision
Among the unsavory scandals engaging
public attention, the position of the his
torian, Fyfe, universally awakeus SYM
pathy. Mr.. Fvffe is man OF the brightest
literary and political attachments, with a
career before him likely to lead 10 the high
est honors in the State. The charge against
him is supposed to have been made ior the
purpose OF blackmail.
General Sentiment in Fyffe's Favor.
The Dean of Westminster expresses the
general sentiment in a letter, in which he
declares his conviction that all who have had
the greatest opportunities TO Judge Mr.
Fyffe's character and habits cannot for a
moment conceive him guilty. The Dean at
tributes the attempt to commit suicide to
the fact that Mr.. Fyffe is of an excitable
nervous organization, and was unable to
face the revolving accusation with the neces-
sary self possession.
An extraordinary letter from Mr.. De
Goblin, in which he defends himself against
the charges against him, after declaring
that local Belfast clique had conspired 10
ruin him politically, financially and
morally, states that three wears ago he ac-
cidentally met a young man who resided
with his agent in Belfast; that he made a
friend of him, and together they took part
in religious demonstrations; that, taking
advantage Of the intimacy, the young man
Asked Him for Considerable Loan,
which was refused; that the man then wrote |
q letter appealing for help, which was
again refused; that the man then wrote a |
letter vaguely limiting that be would bring |
some oh1eetlonaole charge against him (De /
Cobain), if money was not forth |
coming, and that ne (De Cobainl |
placed these letters in the hands of his
brother. Mr.. De Cobaiu proceeds to e,
plain how the blackmailer got money from
his agent, and how the extortiou was re-
ncwed. He says that a section of the Iocal
magistrates, who were his deadly enemies
got hold Of the case to make it weanon m
ruin him, but that the police refused TO obey
them.
Mr.. De Cobain charges that the law NJ
extradition has been used to hunt him down
like common felon. He refers to runors
that four other persons have made sworn
depositions against him, and proceeds 10 de-
scribe them as disreputable characters, uu-
worthy of credence. In conclusion, he de-
clares that be will not be victimized bv his
enemies, and appeals for the ultimate yindi-
cation of heaven. The nature and tone of
Mr.. De Cobain's statement will not preyent
his expulsion from the House of Commons.
Professor Bryce, in article on the legal
and constitutional aspects of the New Or
leans lynching, concludes that Italy is en-
Titled to redress for inj juries lawlessly in
tiicted on its subjects, whether the treaty
grants it or not The redress, he SAYS NAV
be civil, pecuniary compensation or crimi-
nal punishment of the offender. Mr.. Brvce
proceeds TO apply the difficulty to the United
States Constitution, as indicating that the
polnt must be provided for when home rule
is granted to Ireland.
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