The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-08
POLITICS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Lady Henry Somerset Is Accused of
Inconsistency
Serious Charges Against the Bulls Of the
Wheat narket-Bogus Dispatches to
A fleet American Prices

I LONDON, Sept 7.-(Copyrighted by the
Healyite candidate at the parliamentary
election in the south division of Kerry
yesterday has embittered the strife inside
the Irish home rule party. Had the
Healyites been victorious in bis contest it
is stated that Justin Mccarthy would
have resigned the leadership Of the party.
Now, however, both sides are in tenn
per to fight to the death. The jubilation
OF the McCarthyites over their victory is
tenn pered by the evident apathy of the
Irish people, as shown by the smallness
of the poll in Kerry. The government
is highly pleased to observe the weaken
ing of the party which has SO greatly OBJ
stfucted legislation by international dis
cussions. The Liberals thenselvesla admit
that the new parliament has opened most
auspiciously for the Conservatives.
Bernard Shaw, the well known Socialist
and nove!i,t who has been reporting the
Cardiff trades union conference for the
Star, writes of the manner in which the
American delegates were ignored by the
leaders of the congress, upon whose
invitation the Americans mad come.
Their reception, Mr.. Shaw says, compares
very unfavorably with the reception given
Holmes and Burns in America.
''In fact" says Mr.. Shaw. 1--WE do not
do these things we'll in England. And
even when Thursdays formal reception
came, the congress sat up solemnly with
the air of being in chucrh, while the
guests carried off the occasion much bet
ter than the hosts. The visitors must be
consummate actors, for l do not believe
that the human breast could be SO deeply
moved by any moral eve as they were
by medals and demonstr. F..
While Lady Henry SOM rset has been
looking after dlunkard named Jane
Cakebread, who had been arrested for
drnkenness more than three hundred
times, the st. Pancras vestry has been
discussing Lady Henry Somerset's prop
erty. The health commission has recon-
mended the immediate closing of certain
of her houses on Charlton street. Som
erstown, which were unit for human
habitation. One member OF the board as
serted that the LADY was content to do
nothing for the betterment of the proper
ty as long as she received rent, but that
now she was willing to cooperate with
rhe vestry, because the expense would de-
volve upon the vestry. Another member
asserted that Lady Henry Somerset was
sincerely anxious to improve the condi-
ton OF the poor. After considering the
question. the committees recommends
ton was unanimously adopted.
A spirited correspondence has appeared
In the Times during the week on the sub
Ject OF the alleged disastrous effects of
gam bling in wheat agriculture. Several
letters charge that the bulls make ficti-
tious contracts in Liverpool and telegraph
their prices to Chicago, and that Chicago
in turn telegIaphs for the Liverpool mar
ket, and the fictitious prices appear in
the newspapers of the next morning.
The attention of the London Lancet
having been called to report circulated
by the American press that Prince Ed
ward, the. little son Of the duke of York,
is a deaf mute, that journal has been
moved to enter denial. The Lancet
says that 1t is able to state authoritative
" that tho report is absolutely false.
Ihe prince, 1t 10 added, is in every re-