The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-29

THE SILLY SEASON
London'S Fashionable Folk
Go With the Lawmakers
IS to the Country.
BALFOUR AT HAWARDEN
A Visit Which Sets Gossips Guess
ing--oonciliating the
Beers.
BALFoUR AT HAWARDEN
BIZ Cabs to the United Pres.

BIZ Cable to ths United Press
LONDON, Aug. q, lsss.-rhe Ministers
are resting from their labors. and their
works will not follow them TIL the recess
campaign begins. Mr.. A. j.. Balfour
seems fated to be the first member OF
the Cabinet TO open the campaign by
appearing before his Manchester constit-
uents. Prior thereto, he will visit Mr..
Gladstone at Hawarden. Bis visit VIII
begin tomorrow and he will remain Mr..
Gladstone's guest for several days 0
siderable interest pertains to the meet
ing. and everybody is asking why the
Conservative leader should thus seek out
and be received by the one statesman
who is still regarded as a sort of spiritual
head of Liberalism. Mr.. Balfour's frienas
assert that both statesmen have much
in common in their range of studies apart
from politics, and can certainly point TO
the fact tina Mr.. Gladstone has received
Mr.. Balfour at H~awarden, once already,
after the election of 1874, when metaphys-
les was more likely to be their subject
of discussion han politics. But Mr.. Bal
four has become leader of the House
since then, with a policy on education
which he already has asked Mr.. Glad
stone to support publicly, knowing he
s~ympathizes with it privately. The COM
ference in well informed Liberal quarters
is believedetogrefer to how far Mr.. Glad
stone will give his support to the gov
m proposals in aid of sectarfan edu-
( cation. eeNothing is fixed as to the pro-
m Of the Liberal leaders during
the recess. fsFhe old difficulty continues
- oozR Gov his ouyp hand So
that the party will hear variant voices
of Harcourt, Rosebery and Morley. each
somewhat in unison, but with a note
of discord running through their declara-
tions. N
MI? Joseph chamberlain, Secretary of
State for the Colonies, prior to his de-
parture for America, appointed Mr.. Will
lam C~onyagham Greene, now Secretary
of Legation at Teheran. special agent to
represent Great Britain at Pretoria.
There is a special Significance in this
step. The new Envoy will have direct
relations with the Colonial Office, instead
of acting through the High Commission
er of the Cape, and will have a salary OF
it is said 91,500 per annum, paid from the
Imperial Exchequer. The appointment of
such a Minister is a kind of recognition
of the independence of the Transyaal, and
is obviously designed to conciliate the
Beers.
According to some leading English pa
pers there is really no such party. The
Trensvaai Government comedies in the
maintenance OF thu London Convention
will allow Great Britain to retain its
veto on treaties concluded by the Trans
vaal. and finally the Beers are not arming
and dom want to fight The British
agent, Cloote. at Pretoria. proving him
self a better man than his predecessor.
Sir Jacobus de Wet, sends such details
OF Boer ornaments as imply that they
mean a prolonged campaign wrtn a
strong power. If the British Government
adopts the plan of sending gradual rein
forcements the Beers will strike at once:
Probably within a year the matter will
be settled by British recognition of the
Transvaal as an independent power.
The American business man who wants
e deal with La Hung Chang must get up
betimes. Whilst in England the Chinese
statesman would only see unofficial per-
SONS seeking interviews with him between
SIX and eight O'Clock A. M. Those whom
ne saw had no reason to complains of his
reserve He sintervieWS as freely as, or
rather more freely than, he permits HIM
self to be interviewed. A Scotehman who
mad access to him on business says he
found him full Of curiosity-tHe was eye
sperm He will go into matters in
which, to all seeming, he can have no
practfcai interest, putting questions from
sheer dIveterate habit Since his depart
ure the conviction has grown that prac-
lically little will come of his visit. He has
left a profound impression within and
ability.
But the complicated tariff and general
financial questions he dealt with, must
pc discussed and rediscussed at Pekin be-
fore settlement
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes proposes arriving In
LondonA about the middle of December.
The House of Commons Corumfttee on
South Africa. viii not meet til Parliament
resumes in January. But there will be
2 crisis meeting of the Chartered Com
Rany before Parliament opens and
Hhodes must be present
London clubland is at present a. desert.
Inc Carlton: the Reform, the Conserva-
service clubs Are closed. These of theil
members who remain .in town. and
choose to show themselves in cIubland,
ma -ommodati in kindred clubs that
are thrown open to them. Thus, members
OF the Reform can harbor at the Devon
snlre, o., neNational Liberal, the Travel
lers at the Arthur's Club. and the mem
bers of the Carlton at any of the minor
conservative clubs they may desgn to
Before the Dublin convention meets
tnai attempt will be made to give unity
20 the Nationalist by making Mr.. Sex
tcn Chairman in room Of Mr.. Dillon,
detestation. Mr.. Dillon is ready to re-
Syn, but is doubtful whether Mr.. Healv
Will accept the compromise.
Since the death of his mother, Lady
Wide, the health of Convict Oscar
Wilde has broken down. There appears
20 have been deep affection between Them.
The Home Secretary recently decided
there should be no remission of the SEN
tence. That eecision is now under reyis-
lon, and Wilde's release is probable about
October.
The court will stay in Baimoral till
the end of November when the Queen
will return to Windsor. There has been,
another recovery in the oiU Queens.
health; those who saw her going north
to Baimoral state that she looked sprigot-
lier. and relied less upon assistance in
walking than for years past.
The death of Sir John M1llais imposes a
somewhat difficult duty upon the ROYAL
Academy In the selection Of a successor
Leighton and Millais were. though in
different ways. undoubtedly the chiefs Of
that body, and now that they are gone