The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-27
WAR SCARE IN EUROPE
THE RUSSO.CHTNA TREATY THE
FEATURE OF INTEREST
IN POLITICS.
AND THE VENEZUELAN DISPUTE

hC H hA EA0N+rEn DNNCANpaACANS cAAC
Most Serious, and the End of the
Venezuelan Affair is Not Yet in
Sight-NO Harmony in the Irish
Party-TobaccO Growing in England
Miss Vanderbilt's Bridal Bouquet
II isI2 Feet in circumference.
copyrighted 1885, by the Associated Press.l
LONDON, Oct. 26.-The war scare
caused by the despatch to the Times from
Hong Kong published on Friday morn
ing, making public the concessions said
to have been granted by China to Rus
sia, including the right to build rail
roads which would connect Vladivos-
took with Port Arthur, and the
privilege of anchOring feet at
the latter place, was the main
feature of interest in the political world
during the past week, although the Ven
ezuelan dispute with Great Britain
attracted much attention. The far east
ern developments are most serious, if the
Times correspondent has been we'll in
formed, and the end Of the Venezuelan
affair is not in sight, unless all the pres
The speaker today, alluding to the
Venezuelan question, makes light of the
intervention of the United States ia the
matter and says:
"The bluster of a portion of the Amari-
can press need not be taken very seri-
ously, inasnuch as the press has been
clustering with better cause against us
for the last sixty years. 1t is true that
this buster now derives significance from
the fact that America has navy and
group of naval ohauvinists. She also
has manufactures whom protection has
imulated to over production and who
want a markets for their superfuOus
goods. But these considerations apply
to the case of Cuba with far more sorce
than to Venezuela, and it looks as if the
mass Of Americans thought that in the
latter case at any rate, they did net ap-
ply at all. /"
The special dispatch from London in
regard 70 Venezuela have stirred up the
British foreign Office as we'll as the Uni
| ted States Ambassador, the Hon. Thomas
E. Bayard, as they have been freely re
cabled to the London Times. The Mar
quis of Salisbury, who was at Hatfield
| House, personally sent a contradic
sion of the report that al unpleasant
interview had taken place between him
self and Mr.. Bayard, and it was upon
this that the Times denial OF the report
was based The Marquis of Salisbury's
words in making the denial were:
Lord Salisbury made no such OBJ
servations to Mr. Bayard as are stated,
nor has he yet sent any reply in writing
of any kind to the United States commu
nication."
Mr. Justin McOarthy's rejection Of the
Pluukett scheme to bring about harmony
in the Irish party by calling confer
ence of the members of all shades Of
opinion, to decide upon the measures to
be brought forward for the benefit of
Ireland, is not calculated to inspire be-
lief in the McOarthyites' sincerity to do
their utmost for the country. Mr..
Plunkett's proposal was one which, it
is claimed, might have been accept
ed by every Irish politician, as
he did not ask one of them to
relinquish his own views of the political
question; but he simply wanted to devise
means to help the Irish tenant to get his
produce in market at a remunerative
price The Redmonites were willing to
accept the invitation. The Conservative
newspapers naturally say that the Nc
Carthyites prefer the poverty stricken
Ireland which keeps the home rule ag'-
tation alive to a prosperous country
which would not do so.
The attempts to grow tobacco in Eng
land were still persisted in this year, in
spite of the failure of the crop of 1894,
and have had much improved results
! Mr.. Fiennes s. W. CORVALLIS, of Linton
Park, formerly member of Parliament
for Maidstone, and Mr.. q. H. Brasser.
Preston Hall, have been the leading ex-
perimenters A fine crop has been
grown and is now being dried.
Mr.. Cornwaliis has written a letter
to the newspapers, in which he says
that he expects presentable tobacco
will be produced by this years crop He
adds that as the growth Of tobacco is
legalized in England, there will be a
large reduction in duty, which the home
grower will have made. Then, however
low grade the tobacco, it might easily
be grown on exhausted land and limited
to a suitable area in order to prevent ex-
tensive cultivation.
The bridal bouquet intended for Miss
Oonsuelo Vanderbilt, upon the occasion
of her marriage, November 9th, to the
Duke of Marlborough, will be taken to
New York to-day by steamship sailing
from Liverpool 1t is exceptionally
large and beautiful, and is made up
from the most choice and valuable
flowers ever gathered in the historical
gardens and Conservatives at Blenheim
This magnificent bouquet, which is most
tastily arranged, is twelve feet in circum-
ference.
England and the United States.
LONDON, Oct. 26. The alarmist dis
natch to the Times from Hong Kong,
published yesterday, announcing that
Russia, by the treaty recently secured
with China, ha7 acquired the right to
anchor fleet at Port Arthur and built
railroads which would connect Vladivos-
tock with that port, remains the great
! subject for neWspaper comment. al