The herald., 1898-03-06
A HEAVY BLOW TO sALISBURY's
GOVERNMENT
LORD RosEBERY AsPIREs
To Resume the Leadership Of the Lib
eral Party-Mark Twain
Out of Debt
Associated Press Special Wire

prlVy council on MONDAY ana clear up
arrears of business before starting for
the Riviera on Wednesday. The Princess
Louise (Princess Henry of Battenberg)
and her children will accompany the
Queen to the South of France. Her
= Majesty now for the first time habitually
uses gold old-age spectacles.
About 100 bills have already been in
troduced in Parliament, of which num-
ber eight are government measures. One
legislative curiosity, introduced by Mr..
Daniel Macales, anti-Parnell member
for North Monaghan. ito enable per-
sons of Irish birth or extraction to adopt
the use of the prefix o. or Mac before
the surnames' was received with shouts
Of laughter and furnished fund Of
paragraphs for the press. The bill, how
ever, Is exciting unexpected and serious
opposition from the Irish and Scotch
members already enjoying these pre-
likes, who claim, according to one state
ment, that lit would be an infringement
Of the dignity of their order"
The bimetallists in the House of Com
mons have secured first place on March
2S. when they will present a resolution
providing for the closing of the Indian
mints and demanding the appointment
OF a royal committee to take up the
whole question Of bimetallism. The BIZ
metallic league has issued long mani
festo reviewing the situation from the
time of Senator Wolcott's mission, pro-
testing against the proposed adoption
of the gold standard in India and urging
the government instead to resume earn
estly the negotiations with France and
the United States.
The result of the London county coun-
Gil elections has been to infiict upon
Salisbury's government the heaviest
blow 1t has yet sustained. The whole
cabinet descended into the arena, and
the Unionist caucus pulled the party
wires. John Burns scented Delilahs," i"
otherwise the Primrose Danes, invaded
the slums like a swarm of locusts. but
London repudiated the attempt to inter-
. fere In her municipal concerns. Lord
Hosebery's admirable Intervention on the
womens side has led to significant re-
vfval of the rumors that he aspires to
resuming the Liberal leadership. 1t is
generally admitted that Sir William Ver-
non Harcourts period Of probation has
oeen unsatisfactory, and many Of the
Liberals are quite willing to shelve him.
THE GREEK KING
After reflection the Saturday Review
concludes that the seriousness of the at
tack upon King George of Greece has
been greatly overrated Indeed, it in
sinuates that the whole affair was en-
gineered with the idea of arousing, as
1t actually did, a revolution of feeling
In favor Of the dynasty.
The. Saturday Review compares the
known power of the Gras rifle bullets.
capable of piercing eighteen inches of
solld oak, with the slight dent in the
metal lamp and the small marks on the
woodwork where the bullets struck the
carriage, notes that the horses had sew
eral slight abrasions and that the har-
ness was cut, and concludes with con-
graduating the king that the horses did
not bolt, in which event there might
have been some danger.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
1t is said in Brussels that when Prince
Albert of Belgium returns home from
the United States he will be raised to the
rank of Major in his grenadier regiment.
and that his betrothal to his cousin. the
Princess Clementine, who was engaged
to the late Prince Badouion, will be an
nounced.
The Times in its annual statement
says the drink bill of the United King
dom is nearly 93,500,0OO in excess of
that of 1896.
The English press has universally
printed praises of the statement that
Mark Twain (Mr. Samuel Clemens) has
paid the last of his Webster & Co. debts.
DR.. McAllister, writing to the Times
on the subject says
with the exception of the historical
case Of Sir Walter Scott do not think
there is to be found in the records of
literature anything quite equal to Mark
Twain's conduct"
Emperor William Is not, as the corre-
spondent of the Daily Chronicle at Ber-
lin telegraphed, having a racing yacht
built for him quietly at Southampton to
enter the regattas in German and Eng
lish waters next summer. The story
arose from the re-christening of the
American schooner yacht Yampa, re-
Gently purchased by Emperor William,
to Iduna.
Large numbers Of people witnessed the
formal opening of the boating season at
Elton on Tuesday, when a procession of
boats under the supervision of young
William Waldorf Astor, who now has
the proud distinction among Etonians of
being captain of boats, was rowed from
Windsor bridge to Beverley Lock. The
fotilla which consisted of ten-oared
monarchs and eight-oared boats, was
. most picturesque sight.
The ladies Dorothea and Estella Hope
sisters of the Earl Of Hopetown, have
established successful breeding farm
Of Jersey cows at Edinburgh.
: The Daily Telegraph in an article re-
cording the enormous increase in the
number of women smokers, says:
1.-THE great middle class is smoking as
unconstrainedly as the aristocracy and
the working woman is fast following.
One well-known woman of title is some
times seen driving in the Ripley road
with a briarwood pipe in her mouth
Inquiries made among doctors show
that the bicycle is responsible for much.
as with wheel perties has arisen free
dom of manner unknown in the pres
ence of a chaperon."
Lieutenant Moser of the cavalry has
created a sensation in Austrian sporting
circles. AS the result of bet he jump
ed, in uniform, into the Danube at Klos-
ternburg and swan to the opposite
shore in ten minutes, ten seconds. The
river there is $50 metres wide and the
, current carried him 800 metres down
stream. The temperature of the water