The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-01
the LATEST LONDON GOSSIP
The Sultan Manipulating Affairs
tor epecuIating Purposes.
The Ordering of the Dryad Rack to
saionioa Regarded as Only a Tom
porary Matter-Lord Dunraven and
Albert Edward-Aristoorats OF Irelaud
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Refuses to Pay
Taxes on Leased Property.

LONDON, Nov. ao.-A dispatch from
Constantinople this afternoon which an
nounced the humiliating baokdown of
the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir
Phillip Currie. in his insistance, based
on treaty rights, that Great Britain, and
incidentally Italy and Austria, be al
lowed an extra guerdship in the Ros-
phorus' ia considered to be a jingo.: AL
though the Dryad has been ordered
back to S%alonica, it Is understood in Of
hcakl circles that this is only q temper
ary move taken in order to prevenr
trouble and that the sulusn's obstinsnce
in the matter Is not considered.
Inc suggestion Is published here
to-day that the sultan has a few brokers
operating on the different foreign boards
and that no has been personally
manipulating the recent rapid changes
OF the present situation in the East from
q speculative point of view. If this be
true he must have made huge O "a
within the past few weeks merely on
the fluctuations which attended the
various reports OF the extra g~uardship
situation.
Lord punrsven has been entertaining
o shooting party at his state in Ire.
lana, Adare Manor. county Limerick.
Among his guests vas the Marquis of
Ormade, vice commodore of the ROYAL
Yacht Squadron, of which the Prince of
Wales Is commodore, and w. 81. Dun
raven, challenger OF Americas cup, q
member. This fact has led to the state.
ment that 1t was contemplated to back
Lord D%unraven's protest against his al.
legged tll-treatment in the United States,
with signatures OF all the members of
the Royal Yacht Squadron, but the
Prince OF Wales. as commodore, could
not possibly sign and the idea has been
abandoned.
A howl Of indignation has risen from
certain sections of the aristocraoy, be-
cause the order of st. Patrick, vacant
by the death Of the Marquis of Water.
ford, has been besto we'd upon Sir Ivsgh,
son OF Sir BeDjamin Lee Guinness, of
Stout fame, and the first com
mercial peer" to be admitted to mem
Dership to that order, which is to Ire
land lat the Order of the Garter Is to
Eng!and, only the best kind OF pure
q Knight of st. Patrick. .
W. K. Vanderbilt as lessee OF one of
Lord Lovat's deer forests, refuses to paw
the county tax. Last evening at a meet.
Ing OF the Inverness county council, o
letter from Mr.. Vanderbilt was read in
which he complains that he is oontin-
uslly annoyed by claims for occupancy
tax and that he has resolved to pay no
attention to them in the future. The
letter created muoh amusement in the
council and after the master had been
discussed 1t was resolved to take the
usual steps to bring about recovery of
the amount of tax claimed to be due.
The Truth discussing the matter says:
we presume all delinquent rate pay
ers are continuously annoyed until they
pay"
There was q large assemblage at
Exeter Hill on Tuesday last. when o
purse OF SIS, 600 was raised for DR.. Bar
nard, founder OF the homo for homeless
cnlidren, n who sent many boys and
girls to Canada. The Doctors good
work In founding this home in London
and Canada was highly praised.