The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13

trouble is that it comes Just at the time
when England is more deeply involved
abroad than it has been for years, and
when the English people are anxlously
discussing their ability to preserve COM
mand of the seas in case OF war, which
makes it all the harder to bear with pa
tience. To cripple the British shlpyards
at such a nervous juncture as this seems
like treason, as well as folly, and even if
nothing grave comes OF 1t, 1t Will be re-
membered against the Belfast operatives
here in England for a long while. They
will hear from it when they next get up
Orange riots to show how superior Nester
is to the rest of Ireland.
The English people know of the Sack
ville-Bayard incident only what has been
reflected back from the American press
No paper here, it seems, has seen the pam
phlet much less printed any of it. Several
members of the foreign embassies here tell
me that they have seen it, and looked it
over, but the idea that it created any ex-
citement in diplomatic circles is not we'll
founded Lord Sackville was never an
intellectual lulninary, but since his return
from America he has developed into a
moody, unpleasant fool, who spends most
of his life in the country wrangling with
tenants and suspiciously scrutinizing his
agents accounts. He rarely comes to town
and is avoided as a nuisance when he does.
Nothing that he could say could possibly
injure Bayard, whose social popularity
here is as great as is his public -epute at
home. Not only his diplomatic colleagues,
but his most influential English friends
will, am told, advise Bayard to pay no
attention whatever to the thing.
Moncure Conway used to enjoy consider
able popularity among a certain class of
Londoners who liked to describe them
selves as ethical, but latterly these have
wandered off after younger and breezier
prophets and he finds himself decidedly a
back number. He is making stout effort
to recover his lost ground by means of the
anti-lynching com mittee, of which he is
the moving spirit, and which he gets to-
gether as often as possible to pass resolu-
tions, which get printed in the papers
along with the fact that he presided. The
latest OF these rather ingeniously utihzes
the prevalent excitement about Armenian
matters to excuse its appearance. 1t says
that the effect OF the American apathy
with the Armenians was greatly weak
ened by the participation of persons of
their own race in the burnings, shootings,
hangings, mutilations fayings and drag
ging by the neck on the ground until
choked to death by the dust of the street,
which are characteristics of torture prac-
ticed in America" quote this rgmarole
verbatim as an illustration Of what Conway
thinks can be useful to him in his business.
Englishmen can hardly be blamed for
their mpertinentignorance about America
when they get this sort OF guidance from
educated Americans.
The marriage of the Marquis of Worces-
ter, Who is nearly so years old, and has al
ways been regarded as a confirmed bach
elor, has futtered all the aristocratic dove
cOtes. If he has a son, it will cut out his
nephew, young Henry Somers Somerset,
author of THE Land OF the Muskeg," and
the son of Lady Henry, who has been
brought up as the eventual heir to the
dukedom of Beaufort, and who is we'll
known in America.
Professor Skeat started a subscription
nearly two years ago to raise fund to en-
dow a lectureship of English literature at
Cam bridge, which that university, though
strong on French, German and other litera-
lures, for some mystic reason never had.
He reports now that he has $500, and
wants to raise the sum of $4,000, which will
suffice to give $3.50 year, which is quar-
ter of what other lectureships paid, but
will, he thinks, be better than nothing
He says that he attributes his comparative
| failure to the fact that English lite rature is
subject which excites no general enthusi-
asm like the classics, science and cricket
1t has been lightly supposed that Colonel
| North had touched the top note of vulgar
! ity, which British navy returned en-
riched from foreign parts could hope to
attain. 1t is recognized now that Barney
! Barnato, with his added touch of Semitic
! genius, makes the colonel seems paltry
with respectabllity by comparison. This
Katfir millionaire is daily giving London
| fresh marvels of barharic boldness to talk
about. He appeared in person on the
stage of Drury Lane the other night in the
mining field scene of "Cheer, Boys,
| Cheer" grinning like John L. Sullivan at
a benefit. Yet, while the Kaffir boom is
on, dukes are glad to have him to dinner,
and even princes find him to their taste.
! There is good deal of difference of opin-
ion as to the result of next weeks settle
ment on African mining shares. A certain
lot OF weak people will be hurt, but some
who ought to know think th at the outcome
will be recovery of prices from the slump
that they underwent.
HAROLD FREDERIC.
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AssdtIed an Editor.