The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-21
The PRINCE
MAY REFORM.
Public Sentiment Changing in
His Favor.
AbrOsatlOl Of the Coercion Act In Portions
Of Ireland Sir Charles Dilke'S Re-
turn to Public Life Doubted.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

New YORK, June 2o.-Smalley'S special
cabegram to the Tribune from London
says: The answer made on behalf of the
Prince of Wales by Stanhope in the House
of Commons has silenced criticism in Par
lament, at least for the present 1t is here
thought that when a man owns that he
committed an error he also, so far as the
public is concerned, atones for it. Since
Monday there has been perceptible dimin-
utlOn in the food of retukes which poured
in all last week on the unhappy Prince.
The Times is on his side. Society is convinced
that the Princes baccarat days are over,
and one section of society is certainly not
sorry that they are. The n0nc0nformist
conscience will not be content with the pub
lie penance done by the Prince in Parlia-
meDt. Like the German Emperor. the dis
senting divines still preach at him, and he
may well be discOmposed by the vigorous
rhetoric OF the Sunday sermons. / cannot
remember to have heard that any of these
diVines have ever thought it worth while to
demonstrate with the Prince because he at
tends the races. His connection with the
turf is public, and the gambling on the turf
is thousand times heavier than the gam
bling with cards But the turf is the ma
tOnal pastime, and 1t may even be called a
national institution. and baccarat is not
PIoclamationS releasing nearly the whole
OF Ireland from what are known as the CO.
ercion provisions of the Crimes Act have
now been issued. County Clare and certain
barOnies in Galway, Donegal and Tipperdry
are excepted There, as Balfour said in a
recent speech, the ashes of the plan Of
campaign still smolder. Lord Salisbury
thought that twenty years of resolute gov
ernment might stamp out agarlan crime,
while five have almost suficed.
The unlucky notion of limiting the sub
scription for Mrs. Grimwood to the wives of
officers and soldiers has been relinquished.
Any woman may now give any sum which
she thinks adequate to testify her respect
for one of the truest heroines of modern
times, who will likely remain heroine for
all time.
An address, said to number 10000 sigma
lures, was presented Tuesday to Sir Charles
Dixie cOngratnlating him on his return to
public life. The phrase seems premature.
The steps he has thus far taken have at
tracted no great attention, because the
danger of his return is not believed by the
mass of serious people to be great. He aud
his friends do, no doubt, mean business, but
the Liberal party has still to be reckoned
with, and that interesting organism
known as the noncOnformist conscience
may once more wake up. Sir Charles
has profound BELIEF in the guilt
bility of the public, and his assurance
Is perhaps without parallel In his speech
Tuesday he told his willing dupeS that his
conntrymen generally now saw that they
had been misled by the false accusations
against him. There was no evidence for
such an assertion: but il it were true, 1t
would not redeem his pledge never to re-
enter public life until he had proved his
innocence. The English press, as a whole,
have hitherto shown great reluctance to
resume this subject, but matters have now
gone so far that on Wednesday the Times
broke the silence, and told Sir Charles
plainly that he is in precisely tue same posi-
tion as when the verdict was given in the
divorce court. "He has indeed published a
pamphlet for the benefit of his intended
constituency, but he has refuted nothing.
He has prosecuted no one for perjury. lie
has merely reiterated, not upon oath, the
statements which. when he made them upon
oath, the British jury did not believe"
There, for the present, the matter rests.