The morning times., 1897-01-10
THOUSANDS ARE STARVING
British Moving in the Interest
of Famine Stricken India.
SUFFERERS FUND STARTED
Ninety Thousand Persons Have Died
From Want in the District of Jo-
bolpur AlOne-Don Carlos, Spanish
Pretender, to Abdicate in Favor
Of His Son.

London, Jan. 9.-The return OF number
of prominent politicians to London from
the various places where they spent the
Christmas holidays, and the renewed ac-
tiyity at tile several political clubs Incl
cate the ope ming OF the parliamentary
season.
Before the session opens three cabinet
councils will be held. The first meeting
of the ministers will be devoted to settling
tie details of the work of the session At
tile second meeting, which, it is expected,
will be summoned for January IL, the
queens speet!f opening the session VIII be
prepared, and at the third meeting the
general line to be taken by the ministers
on the debatein reply to the queens speech
viii be decided upon. The most important
of a series of amendments to tile address
will directly challenge the government on
the Irish financial reform question.
Dillon and Redmond.
As has before been stated in this cable
correspondence, Mr.. John Dillon and Mr..
John Redmond Will each offer an amend
ment, but under the development of what
is called the ''new unionism,'' the gov
ernment will have to face much more
formidable opponents than the leaders
OF the two sections of the Irish parlia-
mcntary party
The Irish Unionsts, led by Col Saunder-
son, member for North Armagh, who is
celebrated for his bitter opposition to HON
rule, purpose to attack the government
on the taxation question, and If the pend
ing arrangements are carried out, Col
Saunderson willmove an am endment, which
will be seconded by either Mr.. Dillon or Mr..
Timothy Hcaly, showing the strange po-
litical bedfcIlows that have been III ade by
the taxation agitation.
The debate On the address is expected to
last over two weeks, and there is increas.
ing uneasiness among the ministeralsts
as to it's issue. No defeat OF the government
is anticipated, but it is feared there will
be such a depletion of the Unionist ma
with Irish matters with inconvenient
prompt:tude.
Government Designs TO Delay.
The Nationalist Uniouist coalition grows
in strength rapidly. Ireland VIII ot await
q deliverance from the new commission,
through which the government designs
to delay dealing with the Irish demands
for financial redress. II the Irish mem
bers of all political faiths fail to obtain some
better satisfaction OF their demands than
the appointment OF a new commission, they
can make the whole session a campaign
of obstruction, which would blast the
government program.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who is
- A.
liberal party, has intimated to the execu-
tive committee of the National Liberal
Federation, and through that body to the
branches OF the federation in populuus cen
ters, that he is at their disposal for a spring
campaign. He means TO speak q is many
places as his Parliamentary duties will
allow, and to associate with himself in this
new and active propaganda Mr.. Morley,
Mr.. Asquith, Sir Henry Bannerman and
other colleagues. The movement prom
ises to quicken Liberalism throughout the
country, and one of the happicst features
connected with it is the apparently re-
stored unity among the liberal leaders.
Sir william has thrown the weight OF
his influence in the selection OF a successor
to Lord Rosebery as liberal leader in the
House of Lords on the side of Earl Spencer.
Spanish Pretender Don Carlos.
Persistent rumors have been in circula-
tion for some time that 1t is the intention
of Don Carlos, the pretender to the throne
of Spain, to abdicate his claim in favor
OF his son, Don Jaime. This action is said
to be due to the social scandal arising from
the recent elopement of Princess Elvira,
Don Carlos's daughter, with a married
artist
Though the rImors have been denied
in a half-hearted way, they are still re-
peated, and it is now said that Don Carlos
Will give up his claim as soon as certain
matters can be arranged.
1t may not be generally known that Don
Carlos, duke of Madrid, is also one of
the five pretenders to the throne of France.
His pretensOn to the French throne is
based on the claim that he is the head
of the house of Bourbon-Anjou, he having
succeeded his father, Don Juan, who upon
the death of the Comte De Chambord
tHenry W was the nearest male agnate
to the deceased count, and hence, accord
ing to the Salic law, hi S heir.
There is small probability that Don
Carlos or his heirs will ever be called upon
of their some time obt aiming the throne
of Spain are not so hopeless. In the
Carlist war, from S72 TO 1876, Don Carlos
came near making good his claim to the
kingship of Spain, and under certain con-
ditions that may arise at any time he or
Don jaime, should he give way to the lat.
ter, may win the throne which the Duke
of Madrid has SO long claimed as his own
by divine right.
Awakened From Her Apathy.
1t appears that England has awakened
from her apathy regarding the Indian FAM
inc sufferers and that me asures will be
taken to alleviate the distress, notwith-
standing the purblind attitude of the In
dian government, which does not or will
not see that the situation is one of the
worst it has ever had to confront.
districts fail to reveal--may even be said
to conceal-the terrible perspective of
suffering which lies before the natives.
The government mt Of India and the India office
are doing what they can topreventinforma
tion from mindependcntsour from reaching
the public. and in response to inquiries as
to the truth of statements appearing in
the native newspapers of India simply
declare them to be eXaggerations or per-
versions of fact.
The official aim in attempting to min
imize the calamity can only be supposed to