The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-13
VICTORIES TRIP ABROAD
REGARDED As INDICATION THAT
THE POLITICAL Sky is CLEAR.
Lord Salisbury, However, - Losing
His Grip as n Tory header Because
He Is Not Jfngo Enough.

LONDON, MdFcu 1Z.-Ine departure OF
Queen Victoria for the south of France has
had an effect upon the political and COM
mercial situation, as it is reasonably as
sumed that she would not leave the country
unless the horizon was clear. Club gossip
has it that when her Majesty saw the
French ambassador, Baron De Coucil at
Windsor on Monday last. she expressed the
hope that nothing would interfere with her
visit to the Riviera, to which the ambassa-
dor is said to have replied: ut would be a
misfortune for France, madam At Ports
mouth the Queen was seen to be looking
well though extra precautions were taken
to insure her from disturbance. The royal
yacht on which she stepped wa guarded by
a chain of picket boats. In addition the
royal train was ordered to run at a speed of
only twenty miles hour.
Although the general impression made
upon the country. by the, statement of the
parliamentary secretary of the Foreign Of
flee, Mr.. George N. Curzon, on Thursday in
the House of Commons that Russia had not
sent an utimatum to China, is regarded as
being reassuring and the speech of the first
lord of the admiralty, the Hon. George J.
Goschen, in the House of Commons the
same day when the naval estimates were
presented, helped on the whole to create
a hopeful feeling, the Marquis of Salisbury
continues to be the scapegoat of Conserva-
tive dissatisfaction, and were his lordship
to resign tomorrow many of his parlia-
mentary followers would hear the news
without regret. 1t is this which occasions
much political gossip as to impending Cabi-
net changes. The result of the parliament
tary by election Wednesday ihDthe Step
ney division of the lower hamlets (Lon-
xryba ba CHI I'D and
wiped out a strong Conservative majority,
is charged by the Conservatives to the
Marquis of Salisbury's foreign policy, while
the interference of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
the secretary of state for the colonies, in
the recent London county elections has in
tensified the Cabinet dissensions, Mr.. Cham
berlain's newspaper organs asserting that
he was induced to speak during the CAM
pagn owing to assertions that the govern
ment would proceed with, the premier's bill
for the reform of the London Council which
has now been abandoned. The domestic sit
uation, therefore, is distinctly uncomfort-
able.
The recovery OF the Marquis of Salisbury
from his recent illness is very slow indeed.
He is only allowed to peruse tie most i'm
and no date has been fixed for his going
abroad although Lady Salisbury goes to
the Riviera next week.
Mr. GoScben'S somewhat rhetorical perOra-
ton on the alternative of peace or war,
the first lord of the. Admiralty remarking.
eff peace shall again reign in our centers
of industry and the maritime instincts Of
the nation which called itself the mistress
of the sea reasserts itself by an increase In
it's merchant seamen. then the nation may
look forward with confidence that there is
peace-peace with honor-but, if it is war.
with victory" provoked animated gossip in
the lobby, but it was agreed that his re-
marks have not specifically affected the
fusion to the mailed fist I'VE prefer to
celebrate the homecoming of our ships
rather than their sending off,, was received
t1o1, Inf h faV@a rrdf OH
The sentiment favoring war with some
body which prevails with the 'men in the
street" has attracted the attention OF the
Stock Exchange SPECTATOR, and the Brad
ford Observer reports the formation OF
syndicate to build and speculate in war
ships At present the members or the syn
dictate will confine their operations to cruz
sers gunboats and torpedo boats. The sum
of 95OQ,0OO has already been sunscrlp ned ana
for cruiser. The enterprise really amounts
to the intervention of middlemen between
the foreign powers and British shipbuilders.
During the course of the debate on the
naval estimates in the House of Commons
William Allan, Liberal member for Gates
head and proprietor of the Scotia engine
works and builder of marine engines, made
a bitter attack upon the new Water-tube
boiler in use in the British navy; he calleo
class cruiser Powerful, which, he asserted,
had not travelled to China fast as many
sail ships. Continuing, Mr.. Allan accused
the Admiralty of rapidly running the navy,
adding that they did not dare to run the
ships at full speed, and he invited the hrst
lord of the admiralty George ]. Goschen,
to send the frst-class cruiser Terrible,
when commissioned, across the Atlantic at
full speed in order to test the Belleyille
boilers Mr. Goschen said it was as i'm
possible to return to cylindrical boilers as
it would be to return to muzzle leaders.
The water-tllbe boilers, he further said, had
been adopted by Russia, France, Germany
and Austria In, short, he added, all naval
authorities indorse them.
The iron trade has been considerably
stirred by an article in the Stats pointing
out that the exports and home consumption
of iron have exceeded the whole output of
the United Kingdom by nearly half mill
lion tons and predicting pig-iron famine
before the end of the year. The Stats con-
cludes: StThere is quite a large probability
that we may have to fall back ON America
at no distant future to make good our
deficient supply = on America once our
terial."