New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-07

in the press admit it, Some of them Justify 1t,
and none deny it. Yet public sympathy is en-
pected the ground Of the hardships which the
men bore cheerfully long as they were allowed
to embezzle their employers money. These same
hardships become intolerable when honesty is en-
forced upon them by their victims.
The men are unluclSily in bad hands blus-
tering barrster named Sutherst is their leader, who
issues oTTlers in plantation style and lectures the
directors of the company. The directors have
agreed TO meet deputation on Monday morning
which looks as il they prepared for struggle
fixed to begin thirty-six hours before that. The
men say that they will allow no omnibus to leave
the yard. Much, therefore, depends on what the
police may do. If their chief tolerates violence,
as the former chief did during the dock strike the
company and the public will suffer
Nothing has yet been heard of that decaratory
act by which all doubt was TO be removed on the
question whether residence on English soil be
required of Americans as the condition of obtain
ing English copyright There are at least two
opposing currents of English opinion on this mat
ter Authors and publishers agree In desiring
such an act. Printers, paper-makers and the
allied trades agree in not desiring 1t. MI
Marston, a publisher writes on Monday urging
the passage of q measure which shall clear all
difficulties out Of the way before the first OF july
Mr. Besant at one on this point with the pup
lishers whom he opposes many Others says In
The Author" for june
THE least our Government con do Is to take
care that our own laws satisfy the conditions on
which the privileges of the act can be granted
to ourselves"
So far, good but now come the chairman ana
vice-chairman of the Printing and Allied Trades
Association, protesting against the measure which
Mr.. Marston and Mr.. Besant desire. letter
appears at the same time from the secretary to
the Paper makers Association. Both want re-
taliation, and both put the manufacturers OF
books before the writers of them.
Let us grant copyright exactly the same
lines as America, only to works printed from type
set in this country" say Mr.. Cloves and Mr..
Waterlow speaking for the printers The paper
makers hope that the Government will refuse TO
consider the residential question till the elect
Of the American act on English trades has been
fully ascertained Authors a small body.
Workingmen are very large body. The great
est good of the greatest number should be the
primary object of legislation" says the paper
makers secretary. He makes a point likely to
tell. when he adds that the worlIngmen of this
country are fully alive to the injury that the
American Copyright act will infiict on Them
Worxngmen undoubtedly have in this country, as
elsewhere, more votes than all other classes to-
gether, and there will be small chance of passing
any act to which Ministers may think workingmen
as body are opposed.
There are many persons in this country, both
English and Americans who were grieved to hear
of DR.. FOrdyce Barker's death. One of the two
chief organs of his own profession. The British
Medical Journal. says Of him. THE announce
meat of the death of Dr. FOrdyce Barker will
have caused widespread and keen regret. To say
that America has lost one Of her most illnstrious
physicians and distinguished citizens is TO express
but very fmperfectly the extent OF the calamity.
His position as a man honored and beloved in
England and throughout Europe was altogether
exceptional For many years he was regular
visitor TO our shores. At the annual meetines IT
our Association he was often present and always
welcome This feeling found cordial expression in
the titular honors shOwered upon him by our
societies. colleges and universities. His book Oh
puerperal fever charms by its style, whilst it
instructs by the richness of its experience and the
soundness of lis reasoning" That expresses none
too strongly the feeling general among the pro-
fessional and personal friends of DR.. Barker. Few
Americans had more friends abroad. No Ameri-
can physician had for so long a period stood so
high in European estimation or done greater honor
to his own country.
The interest in the baccarat case is not confined
to society or to any class 1t is reported with
fulness in papers of every description, and is dis
cussed keenly in all circles. Sir William Cum
ming, who sues the Wilson family for libel in
saving that he cheated at cards, is of the best
known men in the smartest set of London society
and is a soldier of some distinction. The Arthur
Wilson's are people who by effort and natural
gift and wealth. have made good their place in
the same set Nothing has been wanting to
quicken the general interest in these proceedings.
The Lord Chief Justice elected to preside at
the trial Sir Edwin Clarke, Her Majesty'S So
licitOr1General, leads for the plaintiff. and Sir
Charles Russell for the defendants. The Prince
of Wales is both a witness and spectator
in daily attendance. Fashion crowded the court.
Sir William Cumming went upon the stand to
deny point blank that either of those two now
memorable evenings at Tranby Croft, the coun-
try house of the Wilson's, did he in any manner
cheat at baccarat. Confronted with. Lis written
confession he strove TO explain it away by saying
that he had lost his head. The Prince Of Wales,
who was called in his behalf, did him more harm
than good. He saw cheating, bat he believed
then and plainly believes now that the story
then told him was true. and he has
1ubtQ 10 meeb OH NIllldH slHCV p'hOi"i
Owen Williams and Lord Coventry-bOth his in
innate friends one called by him. the other By his
counsel's wsh--are of the same mind The evil
dence given by young Mr.. Wilson, by Mr.. Lovett.
by Mr.. and Mrs. Lycett Green, and by Mrs. Will
son-the five persons who alleged that they saw
cheating-has been of the most positive, detailed
and explicit kind They each described the way
in which Sir William increased his stake when
winning No real discrepancy is discernible in
their narratives. None of item have been shaken
in cross-examnation. The two ladies, Mrs. Will
son and Mrs. Lycett Green, her daughter, were
most remarkable witnesses, testifying with perfect
clearness and composure. The demeaEor of each
was beyond reproach.
There are those who think that Sir Williams
case was from the beginning. in the face of his
admission Of guilt and of his long hesitation in
bringing this action, desperate There were Others
who sided against the Wilson's because, as was
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