The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-22
TORIES FOR THRIFT
OUTBREAK OF THE PROTECTION
FEVER APPARENT IN THE
PARTY.
HIcks-BEAcH MAY YIELD.
PRESSURE ExERTED TO HAVE THE
IDEA ADVANCED IN THE
BUDGET.
THE PACIFIC CABLE CONFERENCE.
Fair Progress Has Been Made With
the Mass of Technical Evidence
Submitted.

the Mass OF Technical Evidence
Submitted.
LONDON, Nov. 21.-The government,
unless the signs of the times fail, will
soon have to deal with a virulent out
break OF protection fever among its
own followers. That the rank and file
of the unionist party have been grow
ing more and more protectionists, has
been evidenced many times recently;
but, especially significant was the
unanimous decision of the Tory caucus
sitting at Rochdale during the week,
to favor reimposing a registration duty
OF one shilling twenty-five cents), on
corn. Great efforts will be made to
induce the chancellor Of the exchequer
to include this proposal in the budget
Of 1897, and while Sir Michael Hicks
Beach is believed to be free trader,
such a chance to swell the receipts by
couple of million pounds sterling
Oslo, ,000), is a great temptation.
The Pacific cable conference, during
the week at the colonial Office, has
made fair progress with the mass of
ICC411lC0l CSIoSuCC UcIOI0 II, 1lIdAlllJ AO-
ferring to the cost of the cables and
yearly cost of maintaining them in
operation. So soon as this is threshed
out, the more important evidence will
be taken-Whether enough commercial
traffic will accrue to bring the annual
cost, to the guaranteeing governments,
within a reasonable sum. The taking
OF evidence is expected to last a
month, the discussion will probably
last another month and the report will
most likely be made in January.
Sir Charles Topper, who is now in
London, in an interview yesterday,
said:
my visit here is purely private;
but l notice on all sides a great in
terest in Canadian matters. The pros
poets of trade were never so good The
election of Mckinley meant much for
Canada, has given her renewed con-
fidence, and will establish more trade
with her nearest neighbor. There is
great interest in London in Canadian
mining prospects and a general in
clination upon the part of capitalists
| to invest in Canada"
COIN COLLECTION SOLD.
| Numismatists have been greatly in
| terested this week in the sale at auc-
| ton of the remarkable COLLECTION OF
| coins knows as the Montague cOllec-
! ton. including the famous JuxOn med
| al, presented by Charles l, to Bishop
Juxon on the schaffold just before the
| formers execution The bidding for
! this relic was Of the liveliest descrlp-
| ton and it was finally sold for tHO
| (SS, $500, said to be the highest price ever
| paid for coin. Several others realized
| fsOO Isl ,O0o) to f400 $4,000. Another
| example of high price reached at an
auction was on Tuesday, last, when
| an old Venetian rose pointed hounce.
under four yards lon Long ,s ana 1asz IA lnches
| The boom of shipbuilding continues.
| During the present month orders for
! SIS 900 tons were placed in the Clyde
| alone. The amount Of work On hand
! is unprecedented in the annals Of ship
| building.
| on Thursday, in order to represent an
| international horse agency at the Ken
! lucky sale on Dec. g. He has commits
| sions for a number Of prominent Brit
! ish horse owners.
The car has purchased from the
Sinclair art gallery magnificent
suite of mother of pearl furniture,
made for the Empress Josephine, wife
|
/ enormous sum.
| A dispute between brokers, which
| was considered by the committee of
the stock exchange during the week,
| disclosed that commission of e, 800
! ($7,500 was paid for securing an earl
| as q company director.
! A telephone has just been placed in
the pulpit in ST. Michael's choir, in
order that Canon Flemings sermons
may be heard by the inmates of the
neighboring hospitals and by invalid
parishioners.
The Pathological library. reputed to be
the finest in the world, of Prince
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, which cost
him 100000, and was offered to the
City of London for $30,000 which sum
| could not be collected for the purpose
has been sold to a bookseller
| The four-masted California, the last OF
the White Star line sailing fleet, was
sold at auction in Liverpool on hurs-
day last, and was purchased by a Ger
| man firm.
| DU MAURIER'S ESTATE.
The estate of the late Geo. Du Maui
rier is valued at f47,SS0 ($230 5000. 1t is
| all left to his widow with a reversior
to their children.
The newspapers here are already spec.
ulating upon the successor of MIR
| Thomas F. Bayard as ambassador OF
the United States to the court of ST
James, and the St. James Gazette
places Mr.. Whitelaw Reid's name al
the head of the list. It also mentions
in this, connection Mr.. NJ. H. De Young
proprietor of the San Francisco
| Chronicle.
At the annual cattle show, at Nor.
| wich, the exhibition included the queen
| the Prince of Wales and the Duke OF
| York. The prince of Wales captured the
| Hrcf for Cfnorc of al
| a short-horned The heir apparent al
so won first and second prizes in South
| down wether class and the first prize
for short wooded ewes.
The attendance at the various thea
tiers continues fairly good, though moi
| so large as during the previous fort
night.
The Strand theaters are doing light
business, and the only suburban play.
houses where popular dramas at popu
lar prices are being played are, with one
or two exceptions, crowded. The music