The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-25
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London, March, 12.-The departure of
Queen Victoria for the south of France
has had an effect upon the political and
commercial world, as it is reasonably as
sumed that she would not leave the coun-
try unless the horizon was clearer, which
is commonly supposed to be the case,
Club gossip has 1t that when her mai
esty saw the French ambassador, Baron
dc Courcel, ut Windsor on Monday last,
she expressed the hope that nothing
would interfere with her visit to the
Riviera, to which the ambassador is said
to have replied. ut would be IL misfor-
tune for France, madame" At Ports
well, though extra precautions were TAX
en- to secure her from disturbance. The
royal yacht on which she slept was
guarded by chain of picket boats. In
addition the royal train was ordered to
run Mt a speed of only twenty miles an
hour.
Politics at Home.
Although the general impression made
upon the country by the statement of the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign Of
fee, George N. Curzon, on Thursday, in
the House of Commons, that Russia had
not sent an ultimatum to China is regard
ed as being reassuring. and the speech of
the first lord of the admiralty, George J.
Goschen, in the House of Commons the
same day, when the naval estimates were
presented, helped on the whole to create
hopeful feeling. The Marquis of Sails
bury continues to be the scapegoat of
Conservative dissatisfaction and were his
lordship to resign tomorrow many of his
parliamentary followers would hear the
news without regret. It is this which oc-
casiOns much political gossip as to i'm
pending cabinet changes.
The result of the parliamentary bye
elections OIL Wednesday in the Stepney
division of the lower hamlets Uondon),
when the Liberals gained seat and
wiped out a strong Conservative majority
is charged by the Conservatives to the
Marquis of Sailsbury's foreign policy,
while the interference of Joseph Cham
bcrlain, the secretary of state for the
colonies, in the recent London county
council elections has intensified the cab
met dissensions, Mr.. Chamberlain s
newspaper organs asserting that he was
induced to speak during the campaign
owing to assertions that the government
would proceed with the premier's bill for
the reform of the London county council,
which has now been abandoned. The
domestic situation, therefore, is distinct
ly uncomfortable.
The recovery of the Marquis of Sails
bury from his recent illness is very slow
indeed: He is only allowed to peruse
the most important papers, his weakness
is excessive and no date has been fixed
for his going abroad. although Lady
Salisbury will go to the Riviera next
week.
MIR. Goschen's Pero.ation.
MI. Goschen's somewhat rhetorical
peroratiOn on the alternative of peace or
war 1.-THE first lord of the admiralty re-
marking: IF peace shall again reign
III our centers Of industry and the mari
time instincts of the IA ton which calls
itself the mistress of the sea reasscrts it.
self by an increase in its merchant sea-
men, then the nation may look forward
with confidence that if there is peace it
will be peace with honor, but if it is war.
which God forbid. it must be war
crowned with victory') provoked animat-
CD gossip i'll the lobby, but it was agreed
that his remarks have not specifically af-
tected the present international situation,
and his allusion to the ''nailed-fist," 1--WE
prefer to celebrate the home coming of
our ships rather than their sending off. -
was received with much laughter and
cheers.
The sentiment favoring war with some
body which prevails with the imam in
the street. has attracted the attention of
the stock exchange spectators and the
OF syndicate to build and speculate in
Warships. at present the members of
the syndicate will confine their operations
to cruisers. gunbOats and torpedo-b is.
The sum of E50O,OOO (S2,5OO.OOW has al
ready been subscribed and an order has
been placed on the Thames for cruiser.
The enterprise really amounts to the in
III IL
foreign powers and British shipbuilders.
:%~ Trouble il Dncaf Household. .~
The domestic troubles of the Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse have
eliminated in the separation of the cou-
pie, and the Duke Of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha (the Duke Of Edinburgh, father
OF the grand duchess, is going to Cimiez
in order to try, with the help of Queen
Victoria, to heal the troubles in the
grand ducal household, Emperor Will
liam's offer to intervene having proved
fruitless, the grand duchess declaring
that nothing OH earth would induce her to
return to her husband. The result has
been to set OH foot a movement to Sc
cure the succession Of the dukedom to
the grand dukes eldest sister, the Prin-
cess Louise Of Battenberg, an arrange
ment which is favored at Windsor. at st.
Petersburg and not much objected to at
Berlin.
Sir George Lewis, the well-known law
yer, before the House of Commons COM
mittee inquiring into the evils of money
strongest terms, saying it frequently
cost the victims 1000 per cent. He
complained particularly Of the transac-
tons of such men as Sam Lewis. He
said the bulk of them were Jews. "and,
being a Jew he could say of his own
knowledge that "the Jewish community
loathed and despised them, refused to
allow them to hold any position in the
Jewish ranks and the Jewish rabbits
preached against them and their prac-
tees"
Referring to the Lord Nevlle-Spencer
Clay scandal, Sir George Lewis said
Sam Lewis had discounted 100000
$500, OOO at 10 per cent. He added that
the laws of England all favored the
money Lenders, said that in Germany the
usury laws worked WE'LL and added tina
in America there was no usuary at all.
Trouble at Famous savoy's.
All the fashionable people who dine or
sup at the Savoy hotel are greatly ayi
tatcd at a full-fedged revolution which
has taken place there during the pa st
week. The Savoy's restaurant has long
been pre-eminent in London and SO
S1oNueu tlttt IL HtS Deen necessary to
order tables a day ahead. But in spite
Of this the directors! have long been puz-
lied at the diminntion of the profits and
tho result was that IA special meeting
Of the directors was called. Ritz and
Enchenard, the managers, were retired,
and at the same time Escoffier, the ia
nous chef, resigned, taking with him
most Of his French subordiantes and
walters who assembled in such numbers
i'll the vicinity Of the hotel that strong
force of police was necessary, nightly, to
maintain order.
A tlutter in society has been caused
by the Earl Of Rosslyn's big dinner at a
fashionable restaurant on Sunday last to
celebrate his fiftieth night on the stage.
There were. fifty guests at small tables.
each, table having different colored lights
and flowers, Those present included the
Countess Of Essex formerly Miss Adele
Grant of New York;. Lady de Trafford,
Lady Sturt, Lefty Lind, Marie Tempest,
Ethel Barrymore, Cissy Lotus and the
entire Court theater company. The news
papers comment severely upon the din
ner in view of the earl's bankruptcy.
Theatrical Noes,