New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07
THE LONDON SEASONS END

DISASTROUS EFFECT OF THE SUDDEN
CHANGE OF GOVERNMENTAL TROP-
1cA1. SUMMERTIME ROYAL WE'D
D1Nc-A QUEER AUCTION SALE.
London June rs.
w. o-a orce more IN the midst Of political
.-,s,. and any one who knows England VIII
y. oware that when that is the case there Is
little else talked about or thought ABOUT III
this country 1t Is not my affair to talk po''.'
In this weekly letter. so I will spare your rea'-
ora any d,souisition about the Ques'io's az
,.sue or even about the curious nature oi 'ne
crisis itself and Of the occasion that gave
birth will only say that when u'he" WIN
some political friends In the House vi VIII"
mons last Thursday and fingered o" 'ne
late into the lovely summer Night ho"ouS ''"-
arined that the fall OF the 'o'e'"e"' ~
ca near or that within twenty-iour n''''
fatal vote would be taken and eVery'h'ne w.
fan bock into that confusion which oeno' "
change Of Government and the Approve" y,
-, election The people most TO be pitied
are the London tradesmen' ana 'nose VI
u.or,,,,c folk who depend upon "a good season
tor their comfort and almost even LOT '"e"
subsistence. They find themselves cut GOWN
reason TO believe that such wouid oe NV.
,,,,,. and this at a time when genera
,v,, ~ trade throughout the country was
-oi-,y beginning, and when the new class oi
South African miliionaires was just se,',"s
6own 70 enjoy Itself in the excitement vi '"e
social whirlpool.
~o,r NJ course there will be an end TO every
thing of the kind; fathers ana oro'"e''
70 run down 20 their constituencies u '''''''
,.o,,.as agreeable TO the sovereign people,
Embellishments are already beginning TO break
nm and blinds TO be drawn down. not Only ~
abr, ont the tropical sun. but to 1huic''e '""'
the socia, world IL resolving itself INTO us
elements and disappearing into the country
A LACK OF LIBERAL CANDIDATES.
7 will allow myself one other selni-pon'iCa'
rernark which is this: The ateence>of any oo"'-
mating question, OF any cause such aS van
mite an attacking party. may be gauseu iio'',
the fact that the list Of Conservative an"
I-nionist candidates has long been iu"' WINE
an extraordinary difficulty IL Beng eApe''-
enced ut the Liberal and Radical hsaup"al'e' =
!, o,d,ry candidates | should Ike 10 dWeil
at length upon this remarkable feature Oh 'He
nresent contest but you are doup'ieSs SUI
fciontIy Informed from other quarters Hs " i''
.,o,,ecance am afraid 1t means that the
nersonaI,tv TO lead It. a cause TO fight FOR ana
(wbat a cynic would say was the most I'M
portant factor of alb money to fight WIN MI
c,.a.,or. has withdrawn from public life: his
a,,.,ao, successors count individually for very
u..,e. tho Irish split has made many potehtiai
Homo Ru,ers hesitate 10 promise Home RuIe'
,a tho dread OF socialistic legislation. anu
foar I must add of temperance leslsia''o'i'
has turned the wealthy Liberals Ike LOru
Rurton-the head OF the brewing mousse Va
Rass-from strong Liberals into bitter oppo-
nents of the Liberal Government lhis oelns
so II is easy 10 understand why cH"r!pouE -
prophesying a majority Of 60 70 loo ior ."e
I-ntorists and n six-years' lease or power Tor
Lord Salisbury.
THE,GREAT DEOrTH IN ENGLAND
1have ,n,n,ioned the tropical sun; and indeed
wbat for a moment interests and affects TIE
CREATOR pa-t of mankind. In these ISLANDS al
all events. Is not politics 50 much as 'n'
weather We are enjoying a repetition oi l''"
We have hadi no rain to speak or al ie"S' ~
the south. since April. and though every ~"
o,d then the sky clouds over and SONS for
,u,atc counties have the benefit of thuhuer
.,au,or tho cr,a-er pert OF southern and cen
49,, r,y,and ,s marched with heat and crying
ror rain. The Icy. which has nearly all Deer
.,hsred by this time Is little more than Z
,b,rd OF q crop: the roots promise badly, ana
though the cereals look WELL they are OF com
psratively little importance In days "he'
wheat sells for pound quarter. All ou'
gardens are being burned up. and II we nave II
rain in July no one knows what VIII happen u
them. while it is quite possible that many I"
orr great towns may have to suner 'h'
miseries Of a water famine. II Is very annoy
ing that II the weather means to do thinee
this kind II cannot be little more coisis'eh
IN ,ts nolicv: that II should visit us with sum
mers like those of 1893 and 1895. not consecu
lively and systematically but with an inter
yening summer like that OF 1894 which was N
summer at ALL but a wretched succession o
r.,nv DAYS. cold winds and forbiddng skies
We ore quite prepared to change our nationa
habits and 10 become a people OF outdoor afnuse
nents taking our pleasure In the cafe or the bier
halle. hut we do not want. imme dlately afte
adopt,ng that type OF existence. 10 be driven bac
., our summer frcsides by frosty Junes and we
Ju!ys
HERO OF THE CRICKET FIELD.
,,o,r,,r,e No are more and more cultivatin
arr national sport OF cricket: we throng Lord
.rd tho Oval In our thousands whenever ther
e. not a fashionable match Ike that betwce
Eton and Harrow. but even struggle pe'"ee
two ordinary counties: we are Indignant Una
D- w. c. Grace should not have been knightc'
and we are getting Up for him. what he doubt
less very much prefers. big national test
u,onial THE Daily Telegraph. ever quick
appreciate the tastes and tendencies OF rhomm
moven sensuel. has invented shilling SUI
.cription. TO which. IL you contribute. you e
YOU name printed for nothing; and about 4oo'
.hi,,ings have already been subscribed for $
good a cause. An institution II possible MOI
national than THE Daily Telegraph, IN
Maryiebone Club has taken the matter o.
hciaily under its protection. and all the count
and town clubs in England are invited to az
:, conjunction with II, SO that our astonishn
CHAMPION. who at forty-seven years OF as
~,.,. With the zeal and with more than I'll
st,u of twenty, and who scores his centuri'