Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-22
SPECIAL LONDON CABLE The Excitement in England Is
 Dying Out. SYMPATHY IS WITH AMERICA The Locality of the Dispute Is Unknown to the
 Masses. THE QUEEN SHOWS KEEN ANXIETY Lord Salisbury Keeps Her Posted by Wire. The British Press Express Some Very t Curious Views on the t Situation.
THE QUEEN SHOWS KEEN ANxlET'

London, Dec. 21.-No one in the thick of events here and in a position to judge of public feeling can honestly affirm that over the difficulties that have arisen in connection with the Anglo-Venezuelan dispute that some of the newspapers re- port. Whatever partial effervence ex- isted over President Clevelands message is now eyaporating, and if no new sur prise is sprung upon the British people the whole matter will soon become mere newspaper war. Official and diplomatic circles have never shared in the extreme alarmist views that have found express sion in the press, and the placidity pre- vailing at the foreign office may be judged from the fact that the prime min ister, Salisbury, has seen no cause to summon a meeting of the cabinet to con- slder the position. It is expected that no cabinet meeting will be held until the views of the American government, em- bodied in dispatch that MT. Olney, the American secretary of state, is under stood to be about to send in reply to Lord Salisbury's note, has reached the foreign office. Upon making inquiries as to when this reply was likely to be re- ceived the representative of the United Press learned that it was expected to reach here early in January. It depends upon the nature and tone of MT. Olney's communication whether the situation will become really critical. In the mean
 time the policy of the foreign office is to Hay low and say nothing" English jingoism, praying in response to. Ameri- can jingoism, may go on but 1t does not represent genuine public sentiment, nor can newspaper opinion be taken as an absolutely sure guide to the national feel dng.
 The ignorance of the English masses in regard to the real issues between the governments must ere long operate to restrain Lord Salisbury from following America. The Monroe doctrine breaks upon the bulk of the populace like the enigma of the Sphinx. The locality of the dispute is to them a geographical mystery.
 Even the Westminster Gazette, which is an organ of the educated classes, thinks it necessary to inform it's readers that neither British Guiana nor Deme- rara is an island, as is generally sup posed in England. Before the govern ment dares to commit the country the people will want to know what the itrouble is about.
 The queen is showing the keenest anxiety in the difficulty. Lord Salisbury was closeted yesterday at the foreign office not seeing even the diplomats. In the evening he sent long dispatch to her majesty at Osborne house, on the Isle of Wight, where she is at present soiourning The queens remembrance of the fact that the last official act of the Prince Consort was the preparing of a memorandum counselling peaceful settlement of the Trent affair will in cline her to interfere to prevent rupture between the two countries.
 Continuing to collate opinion outside of xls ln,.txy nd l. ton, Constitutional and National Liberal clubs, the representatives of the United Press has essayed to ascertain the feel ing in the workingmen's political clubs, on which feeling the politicians were or ganizing popular demonstrations. These clubs remain concealed from view until there are periods of agitation when the party wire-pullers, finding 1t ad- yisable to foment excitement, sup ply funds to call out the mass es. Funds alone, however, would not evoke processions in Hyde Park. nor enthusiasm in the great halls. The workingmen's clubs can only be ma anipulated on the lines of their own ten .dencies Selecting four of the most mo- table of these clubs, inquiry revealed the fact that there was an entire absence or excitement and only mild interest in athe situation. While keenly alive to home politics, the average intelligence of the workingmen who are members of these clubs does not extend to Great Britain's foreign relations. The Monroe doctrine, especially, is hieroglyph to them but they are sympath1Zers With America, and their belief in the justice of American government is profound. To sum up the result of conversations had with several of the best informed members of the clubs, 1t may be said that the opinion is that the men must learn more about the causes Of the quarrel De- xx,;1I 11a fh.ac their responding to party appeals for a demonstration for or against the gov ernment. The recognition Of the prime necessity for the spread of information on the subject has led the London week Iy papers which have a purely popular circulation to set themselves, in their is- suessof today, to enlighten their readers. OneAof these papers having weekly is- sue of 7O00 900 copies precedes It's article with the admission that many English men. will learn for the first time through President Cleveland's message that Great Britain has a boundary dispute with Venezuela, which 1t then proceeds to explain. The article concludes with an attack on MT. Cleveland's- action as calculated to bring the people of Great Britain into contempt.
 Another of these papers, which has an enormous circle of readers in the opera tive and manufacturing centers, like
 wise expounds the Monroe doctrine, and then upholds President Cleveland as be- ing in the right, insisting upon arbitra- ton. It. however, denounces the .'arro- gant pretensions of the United States that in no part of America shall any one set foot except of the permission of the curious gang of corrupt politicians in Washington"
 The paper adds: Grant Ireland home rule and we shall hear little of the Mon roe doctrine"
 Another radical workingmen's paper holds that 1t is impossible for the public to support war on the question of boundary of British Guiana or of teach ing Uncle Sam better manners. It re- calls how Lord Palmerston played the ''civis romanus sum" doctrine for all 1t