The record-union., 1897-03-28
Only Awaiting the Celebration of the
Queens Jubilee,
After Which Sixty Thousand Troops
Will be Sent to the Domains OF
President Kruger The Latter
Forcing the Issue, Relying Upon
German and Possibly French
Sympathy for Support.

LONDON, March Pin spite of the
attention given to Crete as a likely
point from which to expect the crisis
which will bring about an outbreak of
hostilities on the frontier of Greece, in
dinner circles in London, it is seriously
anticipated there viii be fighting in the
Transvaal early in the summer. There
has been certain marked stiffening of
the attitude of Joseph Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the Colonies; to-
ward President Krueger, during the
last few weeks, and it is equally GER
tain that the preparation of regiments,
transports and material. apparently
made in view of possible Turko Greek
blaze, are really designed for South At
RIGA.
However, it is the intention of the
Colonial Office not to force an issue un-
til the celebration of the Queens dia-
mond jubilee is over, when, if the tend
sent to South Africa.
The regiments necessary already have
been secretly warned to prepare for ac-
| tive service. President Kruger appar-
entity is relying upon Germany, and
possibly also upon French sympathy,
and is forcing the issue. If he is able
to make practical alliances on the Con-
tinent, such action would, by the Eng
lish people, if not by the Government,
be regarded as casus belli.
The arrangements for the Queens
diamond jubilee celebration are now
we'll advanced. 1t is proposed to have
the ceremony at the Cathedral take
place in the open air. 1t is probable
that the Queen viii not leave her car
riage; and the exercises Will not occu-
py more than fifteen minutes.
The procession arranged for viii be
unprecedented in splend0r and num-
bers. The military arrangements Will
be under the charge of the Duke of
Conna.ug gilt who will have supreme COM
mand in London that day. He will be
assisted by his two staff officers, Lord
Methuen and Colonel MacKinnOn. The
procession will be a mile long. In it
there will be cOntingents of the Royal
Horse Guards and the First and Sec
ond Life Guards, the Scots Greys, the
Colonial representative troops, some 100
in number, and special escort of In
dian native officers and representatives
of every crack regiment in India.
The Princesses of the royal family
and a splendid cavalcade of Princes on
horseback, win go before the Queens
carriage. In advance Of the royal Prin-
ces' cavalcade viii be the headquar-
ters staff of the army, including Lord
Wolseley, the Commander-inCh Chief.
1t is understood to have been the
Queens desire to show herself to South
| Londoners, especially in the ancient
borough, and to give some comparative
| ly poor neighb0rs some share of the ad-
vantage5 that are gained by the letting
of windows and frontages on great
spectacular occasions.
| Colonel John Hay, the new Embassa-
dor to the Court of st. James, Will pay
| e, 200 (S6,O0W for his house in Carlton
House Terrace for three months time.
A representative of the Associated
Press recently called upon a number of
London fruit brokers and questioned
them regarding their complaints
against the duties which it is proposed
to place on oranges, lemons and lines,
Through the new United States tariff
bill They say that the effect of such
duties will be to prohibit so per cent. of
/ the orange export trade from Liverpool.
These oranges are principally from Va
lencia and the dealers here assert they
cannot possibly compete with American
fruit.
In regard to the proposed system Of
regulating imports of tea, the shippers
and brokers of Mincing Lane do not con-
slider that the new arrangements will
have any appreciabe effect upon Eng
lish tea exporters, as they claim, prac-
ticaly, no impure tea is now received
! in England There are many common
grades but they are merely sweepings,
stalks, etc. and are ready tea.
The new regulations, however, would
directly interfere with the low grades
Of Chinese and Japanese teas, particu
larly green teas, which are artificially
colored with Prussian blue and gypsum.
The visit of Monsignor Merry Del
Val, the Papal Delegate to Canada, to
this city, is still causing considerable
talk in Catholic circles.
A representative of the Associated
Press learns on high authority that
Monsignor Del Val has the fullest eccle-
siastical powers, even to the extent of
deposing Bishops, who refuse to accept
| his decision. A powerful London
churchman said:
Il cannot see how the passage of the
Act of the Manitoba Legislature settles
the case. Certainly M. Laurier's future,
| together with that of his party depends
practically on MOnsignor Del Walls
decision. All the Liberal members
from Quebec, except three (of whom M.
Laurier is one), signed the pledge to
settle the Manitoba question in favor of
the rights of the minority. These men
| cannot act otherwise, or they must re-
! sign or be defeated at the polls next
| time. Then the forty-five Catholic
| members of the Senate and Commons,
| including Laurier and all the Catholic
members of his Government of whom
there are about thirty in the Commons,
just Mr.. Laurier's majority, signed a
petition to the Pope asking him that a
delegate be sent to settle the question
| These men, in signing such a petition,
| practically bound themselves to accept
! their own arbitrator's decision. Should
| they refuse, they must, from the
church standpoint, be held to have vio-
| lated their word to the Pope. 1t was