The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31
TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.
ENGLAND STILL SUSPICIOUS OF THE
TALES FROM ARMENIA.

spatn's Efforts TO Secure Loan I'm
Paris Prove UnsueccssfuI-The
Country Locked Upon as BEING on
the Verge of InsOIvency-BeR TIL
Ietfs Ltbcl Suit Proves n Sort Of
BOOmerans-Americ COntribut-
ing to the TennyHon Memorial
Fund.
London, March S0.-The report Of the
armenian commission of inquiry Is ex-
pected in May. AS skllfully as the atroo-
ity agitation has been worked the public
greatly distrust the sensational stories,
which are known TO be coming from a
common source. There is no proof. says
the Standard, that these circumstantial
narratives which are being published are
the result OF independent inquiry near the
scenes Of the alleged incident. The liter
airy garnish differs only slightly In each
case and suspicious are aroused from the
appearances Of them all that they are
simply different versions of the same old
Armenian story. The original aim of
the Armenian wire pullers. as developed
in the Speaker, was the formation OF an
Armenian province embracing the vilay-
etes Of Van, Bitlls, Kharpoot, Erzeroum
and siyas under a government appointed
by the European high powers.
Constantinople advices are to the effect
that the British ambassador, Mr. Currie,
the French ambassador. Mr.. Cambon,
and the Russian ambassador. NJ. Nelidon,
have had series Of conferences with
the sultan and found his majesty favora-
BILE TO conference OF the foreign am
bassadors and delegates representing the
porte Immediately upon the submission
of the report of the Armenian commls-
sion Of inquiry.
The negotiations looking to the raising
Of Spanish loan In Paris have coi-
lapsed in the same way that they fell
through in London. The discrediting of
Spanish finances is shown in Paris by
the action Of the Chambre syndicate In
deciding on Thursday last that the bonds
of the North Spain railroad were no
longer a good delivery on the Bourse.
This decision was chiefly due to the an
nouncement that the railway would pay
its coupons next coming due In paper,
instead Of gold. The Statist asks how
Spain Is going to meet her expenditures
in Cuba, being on the verge of insolvency
at home and abroad
The result of the libel suit Of the labor
agitator, Benjamin Tilett, against the
Morning has added to the already large
volume of discredit attaching to profess
sional labor agitators. 1t was shown in
the evidence that out of f6, SOC year re-
ceived from subscribers by the Dockers'
Union of which Tillett Is the editor,
f4225 is swallowed up each year in sal
II
1887 Tillett was earning five shillings a
day, now he gets 600 a year. The judge,
in charging the jury, commented upon
the fact that Tillett complained of the
Mornings asserting that he was living
In ahluence, while the union dock laborers
were starving; yet he CTilletD did not
seem to think it libellous to call his op
ponents liars, Judases, cut-throats, pigots
and the like.
The leading financial houses are an
ticipating the floating Of a large Chinese
indemnity loan with a prior sterling loan
for repayment at the last issue Of the in
demnity loan, so as to enable Japan to
get a first charge on the bonds secured
by the customs revenues Of the treaty
ports.
The committee Of the Tennyson memo
rial of the Isle of Wight send their thanks
for the generous cooperation of Ameri-
cans, through whom the project has be-
come an international one. The numer-
Gus small contributions of half a dollar or
so have testified to the extent and sin
cerity of the American tribute. The COM
mittee especially recognize the efforts of
Mrs. G. 7. Fields of Boston, Mrs. G. w.
Childs, Prof Charles Elliott. Mrs. j. w.
Howe, Mrs. Agassiz, and the members
of the Longfellow and Lowell families.
The American subscriptions promise to
amount to f40O The memorial will be in
scribed Erected by friends in England
and America"
The Princess Of Wales will start for
Copenhagen on Monday TO join her sis
ters, the Dowager Empress of Russia and
the Duchess Of Cumberland The Illness
of her mother, the Queen of Denmark, is
very serious and she is in critical condi-
tion.
The sight Of Mr.. Gladstene's eye which
was operated upon is markedly failing
The general health of the ex-premier Is
good and he Is amazingly spry. An in
stance Of his endurance Is shown in the
manner in which he passed last Thurs
day He paid a visit to the Speaker after
which he spent an hour In the museum Of
natural history, studying fossils. Leaving
the museum he called upon Sir William
Harcourt and in the evening he dined
with a group of friends of his son, Sir
Henry Gladstone.