Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-14

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titles. a. ground Tor abuse Of the late
government as conducting it, business
on strictly commercial principles. selling
honors In the dearest market and buying
In the cheapest, Lord Salisbury continues
to illustrate the principle Of family ap-
pointments in filling up the posts OF the
Royal household that have new incum-
bents on a change in the Ministry.
For these sinecures under the Salisbury
regime only heightened aristocrats are
qualified. such as the Duke OF Portland.
the Marquis OF Carmarthen. the Earl OF
Dartmouth. Earl Wa1degrave. the Earl
OF Ranfurly. Lord Churchill, Lord Harris.
Lord Hcnniker. and Lord Ampthill.
SPEAKERSHIP CHANGE.
Mr.. william Court-Gully. the new
Speaker Of the House OF Commons. will.
II Is said be turned out Of the speaker
ship in order 10 make room for w. j.
I.owther, who Is the husband Of a niece
OF Lord Salisbury's. II was the original
intention 10 make Mr.. 1.owther chairman
OF the committees OF the House OF COM
mons. but 1t appears that he does not
want that position. and consequently
the speakership will be made party
question: and Mr. Gully will have 10 go.
Another relative OF Lord Salsbury's will
get the Craftsmanship OF committees.
Though personal scandal Is generally
avoided. II IS not altogether absent In
the present condition OF matters political.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. the new Co
lonial Secretary. has found IL necessary
20 declare that he has no connection with
Kinoch & Co.. WarOffice contractors.
Those persons who know notice. however.
that he refrains from adding that
three ChamberlaIns Herbert, Walter, and
Arthur-bold Loo shares In a Birming-
ham small-arms company that is con-
tracing with the home and foreign gov
ernments.
The Right Hon. John c. Rltchie has
been attacked also. He was charged
with paying his factory-girls such low
wages that they could not live on them.
The right honorable gentleman became
greatly excited when he heard OF this,
and declared that his opponent was a
slanderous falsifer, adding that he ought
TO be thrown into "a horse-pond. lie has
made the charge the basis OF an action
for libel
THE NOTE AND THE BEAM.
All these things and several others have
added 10 the Joy OF those who are
watching the battle from afar. and
who know fun well how given the English
are TO charges that personal politics
are not thing Of Great Britain. but
are only INDUCED I'm I'm other countries.
most notably the United States
Mr.. John Burns the wel-known Social
ist member of the House. was called
"Cough-Drop" by an elector. ObjectinY
TO such a Characterization. Mr.. Burns
knocked the slector into gutter and
blackened his eyes
In the St. Georges Division OF Tower
Uamlets. the Unionist candidate. a He
brew. named Harry Marks. has got In
bad odor by allowing his newspaper Or
gan TO refer to an awful family ca
lamity that happened TO his opponent.
John William Benn. whose insane bro
Their mu. Jere1 his father. A reverend
minister alluded in an East-End paper
to the skeleton in the family-cIoset OF
Mr.. Benn. adding that he did not dare
TO expose II. Mr. Benn did expose it on
the platform, and caused painful scene.
another brother, who was on the plat
form, bursting into tears. The audience
rose to their feet and hurled excavations
at Marks and cheered for Benn
These are instances OF the present cam
paign.
ANOTHER JAPANESE WAR.
According TO the Statist. American sell
ers of silver should not supply the de-
mand for that metal arising from the
Chinese loan. II adds that when the pro-
ceeds are handed to Japan, most OF the
.Japan's Indebtedness. and TO otherwise
prepare anew for war.
All advices from Yokohama confirm
the statements that the people are en-
ragged against the Russia for her inter-
ference with the settlement OF the ia
panese- Chinese war. As the japanese
troops return from the Liao-Tung Pc
ninsula they are hurried north. where
they will be ready 10 quell efforts to land
in Korea. In another month Japan VIII
he ready for war with Russia
London fnanciers rdicuie the cable dis
matches from China announcing that Ger
many and England will be allowed TO ~
sue the second loan of fl6,OW.Go
twenty-five million pounds must stun be
raised. and II Russia and France do not
continue to help her the prospect VIII
not be bright.
The Barring liquidation has been so sue
cessful that II has enabled the partners
IN the firm TO retain their properties.
Lord BarinG's estates at Revelsto1 ana
Menbaird have been Withdrawn from
sale. and so also has been the estate Of
"A. b. Mlldmay, one OF the partners, at
Shoreham.
STATE BALL
The London season will close with q |
~reat state bali at Buckingham Palace
on July 18th. The Princess OF Wales
and her daughters, the Processes VIC
toria and Maud, who are now at San
bingham House. Will he present on the
occasion, and afterwards will go 10 Good
wood. thence TO Cowes, and later TO
Copenhagen
Whatever truth there may have been
IN the oft-repeated stories that cool |
ness existed between the Queen and the |
Princess Alexandra, II is certain that
here Is none now. Her Majesty Is re-
ioicing over the assiduity OF the Prin- |
cess In performing the duties OF long |
md trying season. and is greatly pleased |
that her daughter-n-law and social rep |
-esentative has emerged from her virtual |
retirement and assumed her proper place |
in the royal functions.
The coming ball will be much less ex- |
rusive than such affairs are usually. At |
recent drawing rooms several politicians |
we're privately cancelled. whereupon pro- |
tests were made by interested parties. |
Her Majesty took these protests under |
consideration, and her investigation of |
he matter led to the forwarding OF off, |
,ial expressions OF regret to the party |
iggrieved The Queen has now decided |
not TO allow court officials to act upon |
their own responsibility In dealing with |
politicians and has ruled that persons |
who undertake to present others must |
be held responsible for the ladies or gen.
,lemen they endorse. II a mistake occurs |
in the character OF the politician, the |
offending endorser may be altogether ex- |
cluled from Court.
THE NEW WOMAN"
According TO Vanity Fair, the Queen |
speaks scathingiy of the new woman"
and the advanced" novel. She Is report |
Cd TO have remarked on this subject:
1T Is pity that educated women Will |
allow their pens 20 to run riot, and ii |
"a a ereater nitC that the public Is in a |