The morning call., 1891-12-26
THE NEW LEADER.
Harrington TO Receive a Royal
Decoration.
Chamberlain Succeeds as the Leader In the
House Of Commons.
The Bulgarian ENHANCEMENT Still Unsettled.
EnSland'S Peaceful Policy Wedding
Presents for Princess Mary.
Copyrighted, 1891. by the New York 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 Chamberlain will
become the virtual head of the party, taking
the lead in the Commons. Lord Harrington,
on as suming the dukedom, obtains the
order of the garter, which Gladstone secured
for the deceased Duke and which is thus
Inherited in succession. Such an honor Is
most unusual, but Lord Salisbury, owing
the existence of his Ministry to Lord Har-
tington and being unable otherwise to
repay his services, is desirous that the new
Duke shall accept the garter
Sir William White, the British Embassa-
dor at Constantlnople. while passing
through Sofia yesterday had short inter
View with Premier Stambouloff. 1t is the be-
lief of high Official of the Foreign Office
that Lord Salisbury, taking an Isolated
course. is urging Premier Stambouloff to
submit to the demands of Ribot, the French
Minister OF Foreign Affairs, although the
Berlin Government is known to be advising
an opposite policy. The reports of O'Con-
nor. the British agent at Sofia. show that
it would not be advisable to expose
the StamboulOff regime to the scrutiny
which would arise from joint de-
liberation of the European powers on
Ribots charge of a violation of the CAPT
tulations, wholesale arrests and prolonged
imprisonment without bail, and a savage
system of torture to compel confession, and
other illegal eXpulsions besides that of
ChadOuine, accompany StamboulOf's des-
pOtic rule. So Lord Salisbury aims to set
tie the trouble out of court. Stamboul off
threatens to resign unless the united sup
port OF England be accorded to him. As his
successor in this event would be StopOff,
who would adopt a ro-RusSlan policy, this
prospect may compel Lord Salisbury to
change his position in the matter RibOt,
wanting to force an exposure of tho new
Bulgarian atrocities, has brought Chadouine
to Paris to coach him.
Mrs. Captain Osborne, who confessed
that she stole and sold the jewels of Mrs.
Hargreaves, 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 tor perjury
and theft.
The next society scandal will te Lord
Howard de Walden's Petition for divorce
from bis wife. The case, however, will be
dgested of much of the public interest
which would otherwise have attended it, by
the withdrawal OF certain shocking charges
which the wife desired TO plead as
grounds for a separation from her husband
The exposures in Earl Russell's case
has operated in restraining counsel from
permitting further scandalOus allegations
n ha madn in tad 1,v
sufficient proof. The efforts to have the
case heard in chambers have been defe ated,
and the public will now be treated to reve-
lation of the domestic life Of two aristo-
Gratis, in which drunken assaults and iude-
cencies unworthy the lowest rowdy figure
largely.
Earl Russell has appeared in a new role
He now reads lessons in the family church
at Wimbledon. Forsaking the agnosticism
of which both his father and mother were
avOwed advocates, he has become broad
Churchman and an earnest evangelist.
The whole of the Prince of Wales family
are celebrating Christmas ut Marlborough
House. The members of the Princes Sand
ringham household and the tenants on the
estate were given dinner at the hall to-
night. They will be banquetted tomorrow
as well, and tomorrow night ball will be
given for them, at which the Prince himself
will be present.
The Duke of Cambridge is credited with
endowing Princess Victoria Mary with the
sum of G5000 yearly. Despite the expenses
attached 10 his morganatic family, his own
savings and his annual income of $50, 600
have enabled 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 silver,
trimmed with May blossoms. They will
wear wells and wreaths, but their toilets
win have no trains. The corporation of
the city of London will present the Princess
with silver dinner service and a diamond
necklace, and the Duke of Buccleugh will
give her diamond bracelet. The members
of the nobility are vieing with each other in
the costliuess of their gifts of jewelry and
plate to the young couple.