San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-26
BRITISH BUDGET.
AN AMERICAN BLAST AT BAYARD
RE-EOHOED IN ENGLAND.
How the Queen Spent Christmas Nothing
The Matter With Irvings Leg
Gladstone as Book Collector.

London, Dec 26.-tCopvrighted 1896,
by the Associated Prcss). The
Christmas weather has been of the
mildest description, foggy and with
out snow. But the holiday trade has
been the best in years, especially in
jewelry, fancy articles, books and me-
chanical toys, which formed the chief
attraction of the shoppers. The re-
ceipts of last Monday at one big CO.
operative store alone were f22,50O.
An average of 100000 parcels were
handled daily at the main parcel Of
flee, where 1,40O clerks have been
working night and day. On the 9TH
er hand the distress among the poor
of London, is equally marked. Over
100 persons were relieved out Offunds
of the poor box st Bow Street Police
court in three days, some of the cases
being most pitiful.
Official and diplomatic circles are in
a fiutter over an outspoken article on
Mr.. Thomas f. Bayard, the United
States ambassador, in the Chronicle of
Thursday last Hithertoo it has been
the custom of the English press to
lavishly praise him and hehas beeney-
erywhere hailed as the man who sim
gle banded accomplished the Anglo
American entente. The Chronicle
upon the occasion referred to gave
great prominence to Washington let
ter saying that instead Of rendering
either country service, Mr.. Bayard,
realizing the gravity of President
ClevelanGs Venezuelan message to
Congress, was a most dangerous rep
resentative of the United States dur
ing a great crisis and the Washington
letter adds that it was no thanks to
him that the message did not lead to
the most serious consequences. The
Chronicles correspondent further
claims that he has the highest author
ity for making the statement that
President Cleveland and Secretary Oh
ney were anxious a year ago that Mr..
Bayard should resign, that all the ne
gotiations were taken out Of his hands
and that he has known nothing Of
what has transpired between Wash
) ington and the foreign Office here, but
has been content to be pushed aside
without resenting it.
The government is busily engaged
in making inquiries into the systemat-
ic divulgence of confidential infOrma-
ton by persons employed in the de-
partment Of state, and prosecutions
will probably follow. 1t is stated that
foreign governments are better in
formed regarding secrets of the Brit
ish service than in the case Of the Sc
crets of any other power.
The Car has sent to King Menelik
of Abyssinia a large collection of mu-
steal instruments, including a grand
piano, an organ, a complete set of
wind instruments, as well as band
of musicians who accompany the i'm
perial gifts.
DR.. Frederick Temple, the new arch
bishop of Canterbury and formerly
bishop of London, bid farewell to the
clergy of that diocese on Wednesday,
at st. PauPs cathedral. The arch
bishop in full robes preached an elo-
quent sermon. Mrs. Temple was pres
eted, on behalf of the ladies of the do
cese, with a set of Chippendale furni-
ture.
Mr. Gladstone in a letter just pub
lished on the subject of book collec-
lOIS says. hdtC Dcth d
in my time of about $4,000 books. A
book collector ought to possess six
qaulifications-an appetite, leisure,
knowledge, discrimination and perser-
variance. OF these have only the two
first, and the last is restricted, as my
visual power seriously disables it.
Speaking generally 1 have retired
from the list of purchasers and am
gradually transferring the bulk of
my library to an institution, st. Dan
iels, Hawarden. The book longest in
my possession is Sacred Dramas pre-
scented to me by the authoress, Han
nah Moore inscribed AS you have
just come into the world and l am
just going out of it, allow me, etc."
The British museum has obtained
an important papyrus manuscript of
the first century b. G. It was found
in Egypt and contains lost odes of the
lyric poet Bacchlides, the contem-
porary of Pindar. The manuscript
is finely written, but is much mutila-
ted. Fifteen to twenty poems are in
tact.
Truth, printing letter from r. A.
Lehman, the Oxford coach, in which
he records the progress made by Har-
ward and the anxiety and willingness
of the crew to learn the English style
of rowing, comments on it as follows:
ALREADY we can see the grand chal-
lenge cup sailing across the Atlantic"
A popularity Of the amusement
world here is the large number of
prominent theatres which were closed
this week, and incidentally it has leak
ed out that the real reason Of Sir Hen
~ Irving for closing the Lyceum the
atre until after Christmas is not an
ininrr to hia leg hut hacansa Safur-