Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
NOT INTENDED FOR PEACE,
The Christians in Crete and Gambia Making
Preparations for War.
Lord Harrington and the Duchess of Man
chester-Belgium Denies the Rumor
The Manchester SWitch-A
Boy Acquitted.
Liberal Criticisms.
Copyrighted BY United Press

| The most important speech on the question
| was made this evening by James Bryce,
| Liberal member of parliament for Aberdeen
| city, and who was political secretary for the
| foreign Office III Gladstone ca binet of 1886.
| After dealing with home affairs Bryce re-
| ferred to the report that Salisbury had
| pledged England to the support of the triple
| alliance. He said ''Englishnen were
| courteous to Emperor William during his
| visit to England and cherished warm and
| friendly feelings for him. but they have not
| the slightest idea of sacrificing the per
feet freedom of their country 10
| foreign politics. They are convinced
that the exclusive preponderdnce OF
| any one power in Europe is
bad for Europe and particularly bad for
| England. That is so even when the pre-
| pouderent power happens to be German.
| III Germany were TO crush France for good
| ana for all tomorrow a hypothesis by the
| way, which is an absurdity on the face of il,
| for the days when great nations could
| be crushed for good and all have passed. it
| certainly would not improve our chances Of
| good relations with the conqueror OF
| couse we heartily declare peace in the
| interest of the whole world as well
no means clear that 10 increase the strength
| of Germany by an alliance or other
| wise would be to encourage
peace. The very contrary Is prob
| able. II is commonly assumed in England
| that the triple alliance can under no cir
| cumStanceS take the offensive. \ Vienna cor
! respondent of London paper. was iudis-
Greet enough TO tell Us only few days ago
| that political circles are taking the lead
| of the press in specializing already as to
| whether England'S adherence to the triple
alliance Will insure long peace or bring
events quickly into the sphere Of
| action. The ornaments of continental
powers are SO costly and the governments
are so utterly unable to alleviate the bur
den of that so long as any one power con-
| tinues 10 arm with the object of
making war at some future
time that there is considerable doubt abroad
as to whether the three allied powers will
not soon make it plain that some limit
must be placed to their tolerance of
preparations which are not necessary
fer defense and which must therefore be
recognized as aggressive. This, however,
Is delicate matter which is for the pres
ent more easy to discuss in conversation
than in print. As matter of fact France
has not in any way threatened peace be
tween herself and Germany. Since the year
1870 it has only once been seriously
threatened and then it was by Germany
Englishmen have very good viii to Ger
many as they Tor at least those of them who
are Liberals( have very good will
TO France, but they think that Germany is
quite strong enough already. and they do
not perceive any duty lying upon them TO
make her stronger
SMITHS RETIREMENT.
The strongest doubts are now entertained
in ministerial quarters as 10 whether Will
lam Henry Smith will be able to face
another session, or even part of a session
of parliament as the government leader of
the house of commons. The strain upon his
health in the last two years has
knows he would gladly have escaped from
his labors if he had found it possible. How
ever, as he has held on so long Salisbury
would no doubt have been glad TO avoid any
changes before the general election
but despite the comparative ease with
which business has been carried on during
the last four weeks the first lord of the
treasury has been repeatedly absent, and
on one or two occasions on which he has
felt it his duty TO be in his place,
.he has been present against the doctors
advice and at great personal danger. The
question as to who shall be his successor
remains in much the same position as it was
when Smiths retirement was preached
two or three years ago. There
would probably, however, be no
serious objection on the Conservative
benches to George J. Goschens leading the
house until the general election on the uu-
derstanding that the question of the event
ual disposition of the post was
not ,,, preiqdieed. 1t is Of course
made up their minds to close parliament as
early as next Easter Smith may feel him
self equal to the calls of what
would be very easy spell of
parliamentary work, but that he
will not attempt to face another prolonged
session of heavy legislative work, is said in
quarters likely to be extremely well-in-
"a I,,c a,1 ,I1,- ,1,,.<
certainty.
CHRISTIANS IRRITtTED.
A dispatch from Crete says irritation
among the Christian population is CON
stantly increasing owing to the incapacity
of Vail d. Jevad Pasha and of the governor
of Gambia, Shukri Bey. In consequence
of Oft. kilograms 5 ,h sent cb direct to the
dia complaining of their condition
D'Jevad Pasha went there from Gambia
Having called the leading Christians to-
gether, he demonstrated with them for hav-
ing addressed themselves direct TO
the sultan instead Of to him
self, on which they replied that
they had already addressed him dozens
of times with the only result that things
got worse instead of better. The recent
withdrawal of SIX battalions from the
island on account of an insurrec-
ton in Bemen has left the vail
with less than one thousand effective troops
and the fact that thousand boxes of am
munition had been Struggled into the island
by the Cretons made D. Jevad Pasha more
conciliatory and prevented the Christian
spokesman from being Immediately thrown
into prison. A few more outrageS in Crete |
will undoubtedly cause an insurrection
The Christian population is daily in receipt |
of arms and ammunition now from friends |
abroad, especially in Greece. Photiades |
Pasha, who resides in Athens, has been |
again spoken of governor general of |
Crete but he says that he would not consent |
to accept the position unless it was made |
the subject of a European guar |
8ntee. For various reasons the sui |
tan would be glad to get Photiades |
Pasha back into Turkish territory, but the |
ex-governor general of Crete and ex-ambas- |
sador at Rome is much too shrewd man |
to put himself within reach of |
the autocrat of Gildiz-
WILL NOT BE MARRIED.
The often recurring gossip about the /
the Marquis of Harrington and his inten- /
tons toward the Duchess of Manchester is |
again brought forward by the statement in |
the E'reeman's Journal to the effect that he |
will not be married. The writer in the /
Journal claims 10 have positive information |
of the marriage has been abandoned. Many&
well informed people pronounce the state
ment canard.
CABLE NOTES.
1t is semi. officially confirmed to-day that |
the general elections viii take place in |
1892
Mrs Rowland, aunt of the explorer Stan
ley, has just died. She was found |
dead in bed at her home infk