The herald., 1895-04-14
Easter Tide Season in Great
Britain and Germany
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
Rupture Between Conservatives and
LIBERAL UniOnists
A Man Who Has Undertaken a Big Dueling
Contract An Aged r1an's Long Journey
for a Pension

LONDON, April 13.-There was gen.
eral exodus from London on Thursday
last. every body who could hurrying away
to the country or seaside for the Easter
HOLIDAYS. The fashionable houses of the
metropolis are, as rule closed for the
present. and Brighton and other resorts
are crowded with holiday makers.
THE Princess Of Wales has abandoned
her contemplated journey to Denmark,
where she was to visit her parents, and
instead family party, including the
Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke
and Duchess of Fife. has ssembled at
Sandringham for the Easter holidays.
Parliament will not meet again until
April %, which may give time for. a
change in the political atmosphere. The
situation is now charged with electricity,
and rupture between the Conservative
and the Liberal nionists is predicted.
There are growing differences in policy
between the Right Hon. A. j. Balfour,
the Conservative leader in the house of
commons, and the Right Hon. Joseph
Cham erlain. the leader of the Liberal
Unionists. The latter is known to bitterly
resent the recent criticisms upon his con-
duct which have. appeared in differen t
Conservative newspapers, and as result
he has sounded note Of warming in his
newspaper organ at Birmingham, for
which city he has been representative
in parlament since 1878. There is no
doubt that the Liberal Unionists are
becoming alarmed at the leanings OF GER
tain prominent members OF the Conserva-
tive party in what is known here as fair
trade.
The Birmingham Post the other day,
discussing this feature of the Conserva-
tive policy, declared:
If free trade and free coin are to be put
ln1o oiy1gt n r. al L.
ist parliament then we say that the latter
would be an infinitely lesser evil than a
return to protection.
Those who are in charge of the strings
of American horses belonging to Mr..
Croker ana Mr.. Dryer OF New York, which
are now in active training at Newmarket
for number of important events on the
racing season here, are reticent concern
ing the date of their first appearance. in
public. But the American horses are be-
ginning to be looked upon with more res
pect than when they first landed in Eng
land at the end of January last. Conse
ouently the chances Of Stoneneld. Don
Alonzo Banquet, Harry Reed Montauk
and others are bieng quietly discussed by
the sporting fraternity. The Newmarket
correspondent, the man of the world,
of the mid weekly edition of the Sporting
Times, considered by some people to be
the leading sporting paper in England.
referring to the prospects OF the American
horses, says:
The Americans are gradually coming in
to fvvor at Newmarket as their trials pro-
gress. They are certainly fine lot and
there are already several good Judges who
think they may give us trouble. II our
anndicap horses are bad, Stonenell may
cut uas up as easily as Parole and FcxhaH
did some years ago. At any rate have
seen enough to make me regard them as
extremely dangerous.
The English newspapers announce Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt. and Miss Ger
trude Vanderbilt daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, will both be
presented to the queen at the drawing
room which her majesty is expected to
hold in April.
There was Il picturesque scene in
Westminster Abbey on Thursday. when
in the presence of large congregation.
Royal Maundy was distributed to seven
ty-six poor men and to seventy six poor
women selected from the various parishes
to receive the queen bounty. Each
woman received one pound fifteen shill-
ings and each man received two pounds.
In addition both women and men were
given specially coined pennies.
= The Criterion theater is announced to
re open with Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Hus-
band, which has been transferred there
from the Haymarket theater.
An American society has been formed
n London on the lines of the Ohio sOcie-
ty of New York. The inaugural dinner
takes place next week. The United
States ambassador. Mr.. Bayard, the
United States consul-general. b. A. Col
lins, the attaches of the United States
embassy and number OF well-known
Americans are on the committee.
The feeling of alarm which was caused
in the wooden manufacturing di stricts by
the news that an American firm had sold
to Bradford house quantity of goods
> comparing favorably with anything Brad
ford could offer, continues and is wide
iy commented upon. The Pail Mall Ga
Kettle has Investigated the matter and
tries to quiet the alarm, saying the ship
ment is not likely to be repeated and ex-
planning that the American house had a
i quantity Of stuff which it could not dis
pose of in tAmerlca and consequently
offered to Yorkshire at a great sacrifice.
The Armenian agitation has received
fresh impetus by a letter from Mr..
Gladstone, written to Mr.. Atkin. The
conservative newspapers pronounce the
letter another indiscretion" upon the
part of the great Englishman. In the
letter Gladstone says:
s,St.The snare lying ahead is that we may
be tempted to abandon all useful action by
promise of reform. Mere words from the
Turks are not worth the breath in speak
ing them
Mr.. Gladstone today received at Hawar-
ing exhibited in London as a means of
exciting sympathy. The refugees were
persuaded to leave Bitlis by an Armenian
named Hoyadjanz, who arrived there re-
Gently from America. The Armenans of
Bitlis are indignant at the action of Hoy
adjanz and say the refugees were virtually
kidnapped and that they wanted to return
to their own villages.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR