The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02


sanization.
The new Irish organization is spreading
rapidly. Cork. Waterford, Kilkenny, Cal
way, and Wicklow have already started
branches and an active policy on the
financial relations question will be imme-
diately started In the House Of Com
mons by the Parnellites who intend to
resist every vote Of supply on the ground
that Ireland is paying more than her
share.
THE SEASON OPENED.
With the returns Of the Prince OF
Wales end Lis family 10 Marl-
borough House, the opening OF the
Royal Academy and next weeks Draw
ing-foom in sight the season has fairly
begun
The big houses are rapidly opening and
preparations for lavish hospitality are
being made on all sides. The Prince
and Princess of Wales are already busy,
doing the theatres nightly and visiting
the art galleries. etc.
On Thursday they mad a.special, pri-
vate view Of the Academy. fridays
private view attracted the usual crowd.
The cool. rainy weather prevented the
usual display Of Spring toilettes and the
attendance was chiefly composed Of pro-
f0ssional celebrities OF both sexes.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor is making
great preparations to entertain. He has
Jubilee Procession and has already is
sued invitations for two parties in June
and big dinner on the 9Th. to meet
Royalty.
Vanity Fair complains that Mr. Astcr's
invitations are so far ahead that even
for Saturday TO Monday parties he gives
two months notice.
The arrival and departure OF the Queen
TO and from London In jubilee week will
be a matter Of semi-State. on Monday,
June q, the Journey from Paddington
Station TO buckingham Palace Will be
imposing and on June Hth the procession
from the Palace to Paddington station
on the return TO Windsor, will be the oc-
casion for even a finer display. The In
dian and Colonial troops will form the
escort on the latter occasion.
The Queen will hold a special court on on
81. Paul's Cathedral at buckingham
Palace. She will then receive the rep
resentatives Of the foreign Powers, the
Colonies and tho Special Envoys
MR.. BAYARD L1NGERS.
Mr. Thomas f. Bayard continues ms
stay here to the Slight embarrassment
Of The United States Embassy the sltuaSs
tion being complicated by the absence OF
Queen Victoria, as Colonei John nay ~
not really the Ambassador until he pre-
sents his credentials. o.
sistorial Court on Thursday, IN declolng
10 make Mr. Bayard its accredlted aseul
TO convey the so-called Log OF the .,s. Mas-
flower to Boston, was taken III Iosp14mS
TO Mr.. Bayard's personal request, put,
10 some degree, at the expense or ms
successor and the seeming riVary pc
tween the Ambassadors has caused con-
siderable gossip. - .ho
Mr. Bayard says the recovery " " -
log is solely due 20 his personal enorls'
&C the papers he had from America WsIe
~ a nature calculated to cause the ue-
mand 70 be refused; II preseB,teu.,' e., Mon
The situation will be relieved .'se on Nion- III,
day. when by special duties as soSi i0'"''
TO Colonel John Hay. ,,t.,o. m
The Quarterly Review pubnshes IN
interesting article on the <ueen 'u ~ -
~ taste written by soma one W. -
ouainted with her Majesty IlvI AI'o 90
lie novelsts. II appears, are Jane - ~
ten. Charlotte Bronte, MS p,,o','' r,e,'-
George Eliot, and Edna Lyoll no hieH-
tion IS made of Maria CorIell. ,,r,.-rr
THE GREAT CHESS TOVhNAM.I-I--NI - !.
The fifth member Of the House Oh Co,i- ,.r
mons Chess team which Will compele WIZ WIZ
a corresponding number or cneSs pI1s 80
OF the United States House OF iepl loa0"-
tatives viii DO Mr.. +. w. wilson mem
her OF Parliament for the Middle Dlvl-
sion of Norfolk. He is the author OF OUT
National Debt" etc, and was PRESIDENT
~ the Newspaper Society or the Ohleu
1rinqdom I'm 1894 The other members are
tho Hon. Horace Curzon Plunkett, mem
Ter for the South Division OF Dublin
county. Mr.. Atherley Jones, author OF
the "Niiners' Manual" and member LOT
tho Northwest Division OF Durham' MI
Jobn Howard Parnell, elder brother OF lhe
late Charles Stewart Parneli, anu iISin-
her for South Meath, ana MT AIlhur
Strauss, a partner In the nIih Oh a.
Strauss & Company, and member lot the
Camberne Division OF Cornwell.
WASHINGTON
suggests May or May il as suitapie
davs for the match. Postmaster PlKe.
OF the House OF Commons has arranged
for a special wire to Committee Room
No. 12 The telegraph operator detailed
for the service will be a practical chess
nlaver. 1t is suggested that play Desln
al five o'clock Greenwich time, when
would be noon in America.
COST OF MONARCHY.
One Of the most interesting points made
by the Chancellor Of the EXchequer' or
Michael Hicks Beach, in presenting the
budget statement in the House or COM
mons on Thursday last, was that the
monarchy costs less now than in 1881.
In that year the Civil List voted out Of
the taxpayers money was 3s5OoO pounds
sterling 81. .000) a year, I'm return for
which Parliament took the Crown estates.
then producing an income OF 203 900 pounds
sterling G1.0 OILS 0O0.
To-day the same estates produce 4l2,OO
pounds sterling (S2, ,06O O0O a year, and the
result is the Queen now pays the nation
q. 900 pounds sterling Sl35000 If the cost
OF the rest of the Royal family is includ-
ed, il will be found that in 1886 further
sum OF $4,000 pounds sterling G1.700 0O0 a
wear was paid by the taxpayers. while
in 1897 the corresponding vote IS $4,000
nounds sterling n O60 o0O or "a gain Go The
fax-payers of 10000 pounds sterling
100000. The total cost Of the Queen
and the Royal family 20 the nation Is 49,
600 pounds sterling C525 OO0) n year
The position Of the British bicycle in
dustrv is regarded with anxiety. Amer
ican competition Is increasing. while the
general demand IS very duh British eX-
ports have fallen more than quarter
a reduction Of the British output is im-
pendlng and the shares OF the bicycle
companies are dwindling.
The British and German Courts are
agitated over scandal in the family OF
the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
uhe Duke OF Edinburgh). The second
dauchter OF the Duke Princess Victoria
Melita. refuses TO live with her husband
Ernest Louis. Grand Duke OF liesse 10
whom she was married on April l9 1894
in the presence Of Emperor William and
Queen Victoria at Coburg. and remains
with her sister Princess Marie Alexandra
Victoria, wife OF Prince Ferdinand Of Rou-
mania. az Bucharest The Coburgs
Queen Victoria. and others all take the