The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-09
The Autumn Meeting Of Parliament
Discussed.
GLiDST0NE'S FOREIGN POLICY ATTACKED.
The Trouble With the East africa cOmpany-Many
ASpirants for the Position Of Poet
Laureate Of England.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

New YORK. Oct g. The Tribune
cable special from London says: The
attempt to revive the lingo spirit
around tie Uganda business has ludi-
crously failed. The Times and the other
Tory papers trumpeted. but no response
came from the town or country, and the
effort has been abandoned. Perhaps it
would be more accurate to say that the
effort has been diverted in another direc-
ton. The Governments arrangement with
the East Africa Company provides for the
extension of the occupation to March 81,
and as the Times remarks. with its eye
plainly on Mr.. Gadstone's approaching
eighty-third birthday, great deal may
happen by that time.
At any rate. Parliament will be sitting,
and there will be an opportunity to make
things unpleasant for the Government over
the holding of night sessions by way of
preparing the ground. The Times yester-
day dispatched a special commissioner to
Uganda, with instructions TO write up the
country. A regular series of aut umn Cabi-
net councils Will commence at the end of
this month. 1t is expected that the Minis
tiers VIII remain in town for three weeks,
and the whole business Of the new session
will be cut cut This done, Mr.. Gladstone
intends to make real holiday Of such
measure as is cODfrmable with the elabora-
ti0n and general superintendence of the SEES
sion.
He will go TO the south of France, proba-
bly, to Cannes. and remain there a couple Of
months. Before the Cabinet councils work
begins he will 60 down To Oxford to put in
an Incidental days work delivering lee
ture on the university institutions.
That Tennyson should be buried In West
minister Abbey was matter settled by uni
versal consent. The dean happens to be
out OF town, but the sHbdean promptly went
10 Aldworth TO pfofier this final resting
place Tor the great poet, which offer has
been accepted. The last man buried in the
aocey was Browning, and It chances that
ia The narrowly cireumS cri bed space still
available there remains room for Teunyson
to be beside his friend and brother-in. arms
There Is room for not more than sixty add
tonal lntermentS.
Already there is talk Of successor to
Iennyson's poet iaureateship Tie area of
choice is even more limited than is the Sc
lection OF the new burial grounds in West
Minister Abbey. SwInburne stanGs head
and shoulders above the rest fact that
sufficiently marks the ordinary level.
In some quarters it is recommended that
the opportunity should be seized TO abolish
the laureateship. Though it has salary
Of 472 year attached. it is purely honorary
Nevertheless the poet laureate is expected
~ N"4iS oUt WIN SUNG mug vi spcCtdl OCCd-
Sons, but the result is not usually c0ndu-
Give TO his fame.
Three Of the claimants to Tennyson's
laurel crown have made haste TO put them
selves in evidence by writing verses euo-
cystic OF the dead master. Opinion differs
as to which of the three is the worst in mat
ter or style, but the general agreement
Is that II this Is the best or the second best
that prospective poet laureate can ID the
sooner the post is abolished the better
Ii Is not improbable that public esteem
and regret for TennysOn may take the form
Of purchasing his birthplace and preserving
1t through all time al personal memento.