The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-14
A Lull in the Politics Of Eng
land and Germany.
CONSERVATIVE FACTIONS At WAR
Chamberlain Would Accept Home
Rule Rather Than Protection.
american Wooiens In the English Mar
ket- Gladstone stfu Inveighing
Against the Turk The Hunting
Trips Of the German Emperor.

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London. April 15-There was a general
eSopus from London on Thursday last
every yoogy who could do 50 hurrying
away TO the country or seaside for the
Faster holidays. The fashionable houses
or the metropolis are. as rule, closed for
the present. and Brighton and other re-
sorts are crowded with holiday makers
me Princess OF Wales has abandoned
ner contemplated Journey to Denmark
Nnere sne was to visit her parents. and
anstead family party. including the
Duke and Duchess OF York and the Duke
and Duchess OF Fife. has assembled at
Sandringham for the Easter holidays.
Parliament VIII not meet again until
Aprh -. which may give time for a
change IN the political atmosphere. The
situation Is now charged with electricity,
ana rupture between the Conservatives
ana the LIBERAL -Unaonisss is predicted.
There are growing differences In policy
between Right Hon A. j. Balfour. the
Conservative leader in the house of COM
mons. and Right Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain. the leader of the Liberal Cnionists.
The latter Is known to bitterly resent the
recent criticisms upon his conduct which
have appeared in different Conservative
newspapers. and as a result he has sound
cd note of warning 10 his newspaper
organ al Birmingham. for which city he
has been a representative In parliament
since ISIS. There is no doubt that the
Isberal-U L nionists are becoming alarmed
at the leanings of certain prominent MEM
bers OF The Conservative party toward
what Is known here as fair trade" The
Birmingham Post. the other day. dis
cuSsing this feature OF the Conservative
policy. declared: IF free trade and free
corn are TO be put In the balance against
an Irish Nationalist parliament. then We
say that the latter would be an infinitely
lesser evil than return 10 protection.
The English newspapers announce that
Miss Consuela Vanderbilt, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, and Miss
Gertrude 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 a picturesque scene in Nest-
minister Abbey on Thursday, when. In the
presence of large congregation, Royal
Maundy'' was distributed to seventy-six
poor men and 10 seventy-six poor women
selected from the various parishes 10 re-
ceive the queens bounty. Each woman
received I'll 15s. and each man received f.
In addition both men and women were
given specially coined pennies.
The Criterion theater Is announced TO
reopen with Oscar wilde's "An Ideal
Husband" which has been transferred
there from the Haymarket theater.
In the wooden manufacturing districts
by the announcement that an American
firm had sold 10 a Bradford house a
quantity of woolen goods at a price COM
pairing favorably with anything Bradford
could offer. continues and Is widely com
mented on. The Pail Mall Gazette has
Investigated the matter, and tries 20 quiet
the alarm. saying the shipment is not
likely 10 be repeated and explaining that
the American house had quantity OF
stuff II could not dispose OF In America.
and consequently offered II to Yorkshire
at a great sacrifice.
The Armenian agitation has received
a fresh impetus by letter from Mr..
Gladstone written 10 Mr.. Atkin. The
conservative newspapers pronounce the
letter another indscretion'' upon the
part Of the great Englishman. IN the let
ter Gladstone says: 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 I'm speaking them"
/ Mr.. Gladstone today received at Hawar-
den three Armenian refugees who are be
/ ing exhibited In London as a means OF
exciting sympathy. The refugees were
persuaded 10 leave Bitlis by an Armenian
named Hoyadjanz, who arrived there re-
Gently from America. The Armenlans
OF Bitlis are indignant at the action or
I Hoyadjanz and say the refugees were
virtually kidnapped. and that they wanted
TO return 10 their own villages.