The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-06
Which It is Claimed Are Likely to
Take Place.
Jubilee Seat Swindiing Rampant
Sharpers Meeting Incoming Steam
ships and Selling to UnSuspiciouS
Exist - Many Americans Victims
of the SwindIe.

LONDON, June 5.-(Copyrighted 1891
by the Associated Press)-It is impossi-
bic to escape the jubilee echoes. AL
ready everything is turning upon the
celebration, dress decoration and enter
tainments, while there is a shrieking
chorus from the press, warning every
body against all imaginable disasters
which, it is claimed, are likely to en-
sue. 1t is even pointed out that the
proposed bonfires are likely to set the
whole country ablaze, while other cor
respondents are SO impressed with the
Importance of the jubilee that they are
not satisfied with the name of England
or Britain, and want England to be-
rechristened Wiseland, the first four
letters being the initials of Wales, Ire
land, Scotland and England. This is
capped by another correspondent who
wants the empire to be called Enwis-
cola, SO as to bring in the colonies Of
England, and that all subjects of the
| Queen be called Enwiscoltans.
Jubilee seats swindling is rampant.
Sharpers are meeting the incoming
steamers at Port Said, Brindisi and
Queenstown and are selling to unsus-
picious passengers unexisting seats to-
view the jubilee procession. Many
Americans have been victimized in this
manner at Queenstown.
Complications in regard to the special
Embassy of Whitelaw Reid, proprietor
of the New York Tribune" are al
ready in the horizon. The Queen will
receive Mr.. Reid alone, following the
same precedent with the other special
ambassadors. The Foreign Office is
prepared to provide quarters for Mr..
Reid and his suit which will embrace
General Nelson A. Miles and Rear Adj
miral j. N. Miller, u. S. N Mr. Reid,
however, proposes to do credit to the
United States, and Ogden Mills, his
brother-in-law, is already here seeking
a large house for the accommodation of
the special embassy. The Foreign
Office officials are glad to have Mr..
Reid do this, but they say they cam
not separate General Miles and Ad-
mirai Miller f.<54ss the rest Of his suit,
and they must provide their own quar-
ters.
Upwards of 1000 signatures have al
ready been obtained for the Scottish
memorial to the Queen, praying that in
State documents the words Great Bri-
tain and British should always be sub
stituted for England and English
John Erskine, a merchant of Belfast,
Ireland, has offered the Lords of the
Treasury, for the Queens acceptance, a
magnificent freehold overlooking Bel
fast Tough, as the site of royal resi-
dence in Ireland. The latter country,
it is claimed in some quarters, has al
ways fretted over the fact that the
Queen does not visit that portion of her
domain, and it has been ascertained her
failure to do so is the refusal of Dublin
in the sixties to grant a site in Phoenix
Park for monument to the late Prince
Consort
The Duchess of Devonshire's historic
cal costume ball on July 9th promises
to be magnificent affair. 1t is under
stood that the Duchess of Marlborough
Qoremrly Miss Wonderfully, will appear
in the character of Columbia, and the
Duke of Marlborough has ordered a
Louis XVI costume with wonderful
jeweled embroidery. The Prince of
Wales will represent one of his ances-
tors.
In spite of the cordiality with which
the United States Monetary Commits
sion has ben received on all sides in
France. it is not believed anything
practical is likely to be accomplished
there Much has been made of the
utterances of NJ. Meline, the French
Premier, at the Paris banquet, but he
carefully pointed out that he spoke in
his own name, and not in behalf of the
Government of France. 1t is also
known that he has declared that France
would not take the initiative unless
Great Britain would take part in the
movement.
Unfortunately for their usefulness to
France, at least two out of the three
American Commissioners do not speak
a word of French and neither does the
official Secretary OF the Commission.
The awkwardness of this was shown at
the banquet when the American Wis
itors could not respond to the toasts.
]. Gublins, the owner of Galtee More,
the Irish colt which won the Derby on
Wednesday last, was poor man work.
ing in America, when he inherited a
great fortune from his uncle, Mr.. Wyse,
the Irish distiller, and Immediately re-
turned to Ireland. Galtee More is prob
ably one of the most valuable hores in
the long list of Derby winners. Several
weeks before the race, Mr.. Gublins re-
ceived f25, 900 for the colt.
Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell widow
of the late Irish leader, is about TO take
up her residence at Trenton Castle,
near Plymouth.