New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

Tor the concessions 10 cOuliloIi-sVlhS III
a fresh display Of stubborn intolerance Cl licehs-
/ ing questions meeting was he'd in pursuohce
of directions from the High Court of Justice 10
rehear the two license cases in which certain couh
cillors had formerly acted both as paStles anu
| iudres They )beyed the order of the court Du1
: vpdicated their right TO do wrong by again re-
! iectinr tie two applications for licenses "hcn
Messrs. Lidgett Beachcroft Leon, and the SUN
more notorious McDougall had first opposed. lheS
have also elected successor TO Sir Eyre oha" III
command of the Fire Brigade. Mr. Simonas' MS
first officer, is chosen good man, yet he Is eaiu
to owe his success to the fact that the Sha" parry
wanted another person.
The Cunard Line signifies its desire for American
patronage by once more putting on its regular oat-
urday service the venerable Bothnia This Is the snip
which led one of the iveliest of your contempt
raries to bestow on this line a name more pun
gent than polite. Her reappeaance proves also
how strong is the desire of the Cunard managers
to perform with punctuality that public service
| for which they are heavily paid Inc bothhi"
carries the mail She is a splendid example oi
| that contract system which puts the BRUSH rosV
office at the mercy of two lines which pet"eeh
them, for the execution of the whole mall service
from Liverpool to New-York, possess exactly iour
fast ships The Bothnia sails from LVerpoo
to-day She may be expected in New-1 orN heN'
Wednesday week should the winds ana weather
of the Atlantic be favorable. She makes '"e
voyage in ten, eleven, twelve or thirteen uays'
according to circumstances Modern ships require
six to seven.
The accident to the Germanic at queenstown
brings into strong relief the impolicy of the
present system of dispatchng British nlalls !"
America. She had 900 sacks on board. The
| If~.. on;. Had hol
cident. The 900 sacks will therefore go forward
bv the Bothnia. and after Monday, when the
.nrania is due. you are likely 10 spend ten
bappv days without a single letter from England,
excent tie few specially addressed CITY oi
| PARIS nv merchants and bankers who are PAIN
fully familiar with the eccentricities of the POST
office and it's helplessness against the steamship
| ring. New-York is not helpless why shoulu
London be? Even if the Germanic had not col
| lapsed. her mails would not have been delivered
in New-York before Friday, possibly not ull
Monday week, while the City of Paris Will arrive
| on Wednesday.
The Pcarl case attracted on the whole, as
much attention as if the parties to II
had been ornaments of society or ornaments
| of the stage They belonged, in fact. to those
respectable middle classes from which have come
| heretofore the greater part of the sermons so
| often preached on the profigacy OF the upper
| classes This fact modifes, or rather completely
! alters the tone of the homilies which have been
heard since its conclusion. There was down TO the
| final disclosure strong feeling for Mrs osborne
There is still strong feeling for her husband, VINO
is thought TO have deserved even the eulosies VI
| Sir Charles Russell. Nobody cares about the
| Harrreaves family, whose position IN lorquaS'
- 20 circumstances which came out in the
| yiSl no fria "a
ducl between Sir Charles Russell and the Solicitor
| co.oro1 ,vos a drawn battle Sir Edward Clarke
| come rather nearer than usual 10 holding his own
] ocainst his formidable opponent MIR. Justice
| Denman az il envious of the Lord Chief Justice s
| fame delivered series Of obiter dicta from the
| horcb which have brought down on his Judlclai
| head another series not less pungent What hoh-
| don now asks is whether that mysterious iuhc-
| tionary the Public Prosecutor. means 10 Proceeu
AGAINST Mrs Osborne for theft or perjury OF po'n'
| The odds are that he will do neither. Ills power
Of doing nothing Justify his title or his existence
has never been surpassed.
This has been the worst Christmas week on rec
| ord London has surpassed Itself IN logs. 1t
| had nothing else left to surpass Therc mas peeh
| s;rce Sunday last one continuous log, day
and night, with never an lntermlssoh,
| Fog has cnveloped the whole city, anu
poisoned its whole populatlon-hot all i'.'iS' o"'
| some From Sunday down to this morning,
when something winch looks like the sky Is VIS-
| ible. all work in all parts of London has Deeh
done during every hour of every day entirely py
| artificial light The division between day ana
r;cbt has had an astronomical existence III mas
hardly been perceptible to the human eye Strcet
| ,omns have always been lighted, shops have been
Eghted. and lamps have been lighted on cabs ana
carriages but not on omnibuses, because they
have none. The London tradeSman wrlngs his
| hands over the los opportunity which Christmas
week commonly brings him. Deaths due directly
to the fog have been numerous. single coroner
| renorts seven in his own district in three days,
and there are ten coroners in London. Deaths
bv accidents caused by fog are far more numer'
ous Maladics arising from the same cause ae
more numerous still The time when London OF
Parliament will take steps to prevent all tins pre-
ventable evil. yearly becoming more intoerable is
not yst known. G. W. S.
| A WARRANT OUT FOR MRS osDORNE's ARREST
London Dec. o6-The fact that the thleving ana
fugitive wife of Captain Clarence A. OSBORNE is tne
goddaugher of Sir Henry James has not served to
protect her from prosecution. Il warrant was To-Day
ssued for her arrest the charge OF obtaining uhneI
false pretences the check for $3.50 when she re
celyed from the ewelry firm OF Sphinx son, Tor the
pearls stolen by her from Mrs. Hargreaves MIS- Us
horne is believed TO be in the south Of France IL Il
surmsed that sphinx & son have begun these pfosecu
4on proceedings The stolen Jewels were restored z
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