The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-06-03

portunity to produce it. If she is unaba
r. find n suitable London theater she WilII
play it during her next provincial tour.
What is announced as the last matinee
of .aThe Physician at the Criterion was
given this afternoon. Charles Wynham,
however. intends to give special after
noon performance of Henry Arthur
Jones' comedy on Thursday week in aid
of the Prince of Wales hospital fund.
About the same date Arthur Bertram
will bring out new farce at the Strand.
1t is by Ralph Lumley and is an adapte-
ton from Bison and Sylyane's lie
! Dsparu."
An international motor car race from
London to Birmingham and back has
been arranged by the proprietor, Endiner,
who has been offering prizes amounting
to 100 guineas. 1t is expected that about
fifty motor cars will take part in the con-
test. and the conditions require that they
must complete the race which begins and
ends at the Crystal Palace, within fifty
hours, the distance being about lis miles.
The suspension of John Redmond.
Parnellte leader in the house of COM
mons, on Friday last for week and his
companions in misfortune, William Red
mond, member for West Claire, and
William Field. member for the st.
Patrick's division of Dublin, who We're
at arms for being grossly disorderly in
calling attention of the committee to
overtaxation of Ireland. which was also
John RedmOnd's crime, can resume their
seats on Monday. The conservative
newspapers ridicule the scene, claiming
it was a put-up job and merely a piece
of theatricals, presented in order to dish
up the Dillonites," the conservative eX-
PLANTATION being that Mr.. Redmond heard
tbn nil1npitoc hol oIpptal
setting forth their reasons for not taking
part in the queens jubilee, whereupon
the Parnellites determined upon the
scheme to get suspended and thus enable
them TO pose as martyrs and take the
wind out of the Dilionites' sails The
plan, supposing the conservative allega-
tons to be well based, was certainly u
partial success, as the aspersions of the
Parnellites have created considerable i'll
terest in the DillOnites' manifesto.
The Times says:
at is interesting to note in connections
with the manifesto that sixty-three outd
of seventy-one ant-Parnellites applied
for seats to view the procession for
Shakers Green. Each member is en-
titled to three"
The Post alludes to President McKin-
ley's message on the queens birthday as
being Il cordial expression of the per-
sohal Soou VIII AnlerlcanS Ieel toward
the queen" and adds: ",rhe eloquent
prayer of the chaplain of the house was
even more remarkable"
Americans are already prominent at
the jubilee festivities. In addition to-
the United States ambassador. Col John
Hay; Mrs. Hay, Mr.. Henry White sec
rotary of the United States embassy, and
Mrs. White and John w. Foster, the
United States seal commissioners, and
Mrs. Foster were present at yesterday
evenings state concert at Buckingham
palace.
The Marquis of Salisbury gave full
dress banquet to the ambassadors and
ministers plenipotentiary at his residence
on Wednesday last in honor of the,
queens birthday. The Prince of Wales
was among those present The banquet
was followed by a reception at the for
eign office, for which more than 5000 in
yitations were issued. 1t was one of
the most brilliant functions of the sea-
ing the long list of festivities which will
be in full swing until after the jubilee.
The display of diamonds was really
magnificent, and the brilliancy of the
scene was heightened by the fact that
all the men were either uniformed or
dressed in court dresses.
Col. John Hay, the United States am
passauoT, accompanied % Mrs. hay, was
among the members of the diplomatic
corps present.
Oscar Wilde has written a three
column letter, published in the Daily
Chronicle. regarding the dismissal of a
warden of Reading for giving biscuits to
a hungry child prisoner. Wilde saws the.
cruelty practiced day and night upon
children in English prisons is incredible
except to those who have witnessed it.
The communicating influence of English
prisons is not hat of the prisoners, it is
that of the whole system-governor, chap
food, the rules of the prison, the COM
missioners, the mode of discipline, etc.
Wilde further declares that at Read.
ing a youthful prisoner is being made
mad by the system, adding: AT pres
ent it is a horrible duel between himself
and the doctor, the doctor fighting for
MS theory and the man fighting for his
life"