Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-25
Exodus Of Fashionable People From
London.
VANITY FAIRSUPREMEIN THECOUNTRY
Progress of the Irish Land
Bill.
WAR IN MATABELELAND

LONDON, July 20.-With the present
week the London season comes to an end.
Indeed, there has already been a large ex-
odus of fashionable people to the country,
where for some time to come Vanity Fair
will have full course. The royal wedding
at buckingham Palace was, Of course, the
chief social event of the week. On that
day all the big houses and clubs in Pcca-
dilly had large luncheon parties to see the
procession. The Bachelors Club, the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs.
smart assemblies.
A society paper says that Queen Victoria
has taken quite fancy to the Duchess of
Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt. According to this high authority
Her majesty is not generally partial to
Americans who capture peers, and her cor
diality in the case of the Duchess of Marl-
borough has been remarked upon in court
circles as quite unusual
Dorothea Bard's marriage to Henry B.
Irving, which took place Monday. quite ri
vailed the wedding two days later of Prn-
cess Maud of Wales and Prince Charles of
Denmark in the public attention, attracting
crowd numbering into the thousands,
which blocked the streets in front of the
church where the ceremony was perform
ed and in the vicinity Of the house, where,
subsequently, a reception given. The
crowd called 'Trilby" until the bride ap
peared upon the balcony and drank glass
of champagne to their health
The South African Association had a din
ner Wednesday at which the Marquis of
Lorne presided. His lordship. who is
son-in-law of the queen, made a remark
able p6ech, in the course of which he said
that he believed that the British WOULD be
just as much masters on the Zambesi be-
fore long IS they would be also masters on
the Nile. He remembere a short time ago
tnI to Gajl aly.
the Nile if YOU will take the Zambesi, to
which Mr.. Rhodes had answered, THAT is
exactly what we mean to do
Monday evening Sir Edward Lawson.
proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. gave a
fete in the Telegraph building similar to
the Paris F'iga1o'5 celebrated parties. The
three Danish princes Crown Prince Fred
erick and his TWO sons. Prince Christian
and Prince Charles, and the Duke of Cam
bridge were among Sir Edwards guests,
who took great interest in the printing
room and saw the paper go to press. All
the rooms We're elaborately decorated with
flowers. and the band OF the Scots Guard
supplied music. The invitations read: ''Mu-
SIC Machinery.'
The Irish Land Bill.
The passage of the Irish land bill in the
house of commons seems now 10 be assur-
ed. While this measure does not complete
ly satisfy any one, there is general dis
pOSliiOll ~ ItJolCt l!idl dIolIeT step mas
been accomplished toward diminishing the
strain in the agrarian situation in Ireland.
There is still considerable anxiety as to the
fate of the bill in the house of lords where
efforts will be made by the landlords to Sc
cure amendments in their own interests.
These efforts may be expected to command
much sympathy among the peers. but the
chances are that the bill will pass in its
present form.
The events of the last week have demon
strated that Mr.. A. j. Balfour is a more
capable pilot than he has recently been
credited with being. His leadership in the
house of commons during the later days
has shown that he possesses a tenacious
grip which has enabled him to recover
much of the ground lost by the failure of
the education bill.
In Matabele1nnd.
The situation in Rhodesia is regarded
here with the gravest anxiety. The force
at the disposition of Sir Frederick Caring
ton is regarded by military men as quite
to cope with the rehelious Mat
abeies. The latest news from Buluwayo, to
the effect that Sir Frederick does not pro-
pose to again enter the Matoppo Hills, but
that 1t is his intention to surround those
hills with a series of forts and so hem in
the Matabeles, is regarded here as an in
direct admission that in the fight of last
Monday the British forces did not achieve
a decided success. II is pointed out that
the Matoppo Hills extend for seventy miles,
which fact shows that the fort idea is one
of a very large order.
The recent attack upon a woman travel
ing in a railway carriage has renewed the
agitation for the substitution of corridor
carriages for the compartment cars now in
use upon the railways of Great Britain.
Questions have been asked in the house of
commons looking toward compelling the
railways to adopt corridor carriages. and
the board Of trade is now communicating
with railway companies on the subject.
The Derby entries for 1898 closed on
Tuesday. The list of colts Is much longer
than usual. The Prince of Wales enters
two, Mr.: August Belmont three. Mr.. Oliver
H. F. Belmont one, Mr.. Richard Croker
two, Mr.. Pierre Lorillard six, and a like
number are entered by Mr.. H. McCalmont,
Lord Rosebery. the Duke of Westminster
and Sir Tatton Sykes.
An agreement was signed Thursday by
which Mr.. Maurice Grau becomes the man.
ager of the ROYAL Opera at Covent Garden,
on salary. Back Of Mr.. Grau is a COM
mittee of subscribers, headed by Earl de
Grey and Mr.. Harry Higgins Both Of
these gentlemen are the real powers behind
the throne. as they were even when Sir
Augustus Harris was alive and managing
the Royal Opera.
English Actors Coming.
E. S. Willard will open his American sea-
son at Boston on November 16. In addition
to tine Rogue's Comedy" Mr. Willard
takes with him new plays by James Barrie
and Hall Caine Mr.. Willard Is just start
ing for a visit to the Black Forest in Ger
many. going thence to Beyreuth.
Henry B. Irving has Cancelled his Amer
lean engs cement, and will remain in Lon
don, having Joined George Alexander's
company at the st. James Theater. Mr.
Irving was led to this step by the fact that
the contract of his bride, Dorothea Baird,
with Mr.. Tree has not yet terminated
Mr.. Tree is considering a proposition
made by Charles Frohman to make a tour
Of the United States, which will extend
from October to February.
May Yohe Qady Francis Hope) has been
remarkably successful from financial
point Of view in her management of the
Court Theater. Robert Hilliard, who ia
spending the summer in London and Paris.
has for the past week been appearing in a
one-act curtain-raiser, entitled THE Lit
tlest Girl" at this house. Lord Francis
Hope, who is devoted to his wife, is nightly
to be seen attending to affairs in the front
Of the theater.
Correct Male Attire.
The correct attire for gentlemen at fash
ionable garden parties consists of the regu-
lation long frock coat of dark gray. The