Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
SUNSHINE IN LONDON
Marked Contrast Between Weather
Here and in England.
QUEEN VICTORIA TO VISIT FRANCE
Interesting Engagements in Lon
don's Swell Social Set.
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP


! Copyright. 1899. by the Associated Press.l
| LONDON February 1S.-The mild wealth
| er prevailing here contrasts forcibly with
the coll weather in the United States For
| some days past the sunshine in London
| has been Summertime, and the reports OF
the terrible weather experienced in America
have been read with amazement. The tenn
perature over the greater part of Europe is
| fairly high.
The Daily Chronicle epi,omizes the gen.
| eral feeling with the cry: God bless the
gulf stream
The sudden death of NJ. Felix Faure
! president of the French republic, has not
affected the program drawn up for Queen
| Victoria's trip to the south Of France. She
| will go to Cimiez unless civil discord breaks
| out
| The attitude of the people in the south
| ern part of the French republic toward
| British subjects, however. is still far from
| cordial, and considerable Indignation mas
| been aroused here by the anti-British
demonstrations which have been occurring
| there recently. An English visitor at Nice
| writes that twice when he attended an en-
| tertainment at one of the chief pleasure
| resorts, on the Jetee promenade, where an
| actress gives limitations of well-knoUn
women. when the curtain was raised dis
| playing Queen Victoria and the band played
| God Save the Queen there was an out
| burst of Kisses and grOans and shouts of
| Down with the English from the we'll
dressed audience, one man, it further APP
pears, breaking forth into volley of in
| vectives against her majesty.
! Attnci>ed by the Gutter Press.
| There is little doubt that the Dreyfus
| crisis and the scurrilous attacks of por-
ton of the Partisan press are largely ac-
countable for President Faures sad end.
| The gutter papers have been constantly
| raking up certain incidents rejecting upon
| members of President Faure's family.
though not affecting the honor of President
! Faure personally. Only Thursday last
! the Libre Parole attacked the mother of
! NJ. Faures Son-in-law, with reference to
| house which. it is claimed, she wants to
| force the city of Paris to purchase at her
| own price in order to prolong the Rue
! Mogdar. The city officials. it further APP
| pears. found the price eXOrbitant and de-
| termined, rather than pay the sum demand
| ed. to make bend in the street. after
| Offering her a larger and more valuable
| house few doors off. which she refused.
| The matter was taken before the council
| of state which decided against the propo-
| sition to make bend in the street. There
upon the Libre Parole denounced the de-
! csion as ''jobbery.' implying that NJ.
Faure exercised his influence in the in
| terest of his son-in-laws mother The
president was much upset by this attack,
| foreseeing in it only the opening of cam
| paign against him.
| Love Letters of the BrOwnines.
| The book of the week, Love Letters Of
the Brownings" published on Wednesday.
makes interesting reading, although the
story is simple and there is little variety
| in the sentiment. There are no lovers
quarrels. Browning. writing in 1885,
! speaks thus of the late James Russell
| Lowell:
He has refined fancy and is graceful for
| an American critic; but the truth is. he
| knows nothing Of English poetry, or next
| to nothing. and has merely had a dream
| of the early dramatsts
| About the same time she had 4 proposal
| from a firm Of Boston publishers TO collect
| and edit certain letters. She asked Brown
| ing's opinion the subject and he re-
plying. advised her to accept, characterize
| ing the offer as a good. straightforward
un-American thing" at the same time in
Inmates that American publishers are given
! to printing incorrect copies and "eking out
with suppos1itioUs matter. as they did with
! the book of Dickens" But, he adds;
II like the progress of these Americans
| in taste, their amazing leaps, like grass
hopperS uD to the sun"
Mrs. Bradley Martin, it is now asserted,
! has decided finally to take up her residence
! altogether in England and sell her New
! y ork establishment. She intends to enter
tain layIshly during the coming London
| season.
| Chamberlain Has the Govt.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. the secretary Of
state for the colonies has not yet recov-
cred from an attack of govt which
| tinues painful. and he. whose proud public
boast was that he never took physical eX-
elcise, is ordered 10y his doctors to
change his habits and indulge in moderate
cycling.
The engagement of the Earl of Crewe to
Lady Margaret, youngest daughter of Lord
Rnsebery, is of exceptional interest in
social and political circles where both of
them enjoys unusual popularity. The
fiancee is known to her friends as Peggy"
She only recently came out and has great
personal charm and many accomplish
! ments- She will inherit great wealth. On
the other hand the Earl Of Crewe Is one
of the ablest, best looking and richest of
the liberal peers, with distinguished po-
Itical future. He has beautiful houses
great estates owns race horses, writes
poetry and has grown-up daughter.
Another interesting engagement is that
of the Hon. Mary Hughes to Lord Edward
Pelham-Clinton. The latter is a widower
and is uncle of the Duke of Newcastle,
whom he will also probable succeed, as
both The duke and Lord Francis Hope,
who married the American actress May
" (. are childless. Lady Mary is
granddaughter of the first Earl Ravens
| worth. is maid or honor and is great
favorite Of Queen Victoria, who presents
her maids of honor on their marrying with
the traditional dowry of fl,000 and cash
mere shawl
Memorial to Gladstone.
The Prince of Wales on Thursday pre-
sided at a meeting of the committee having
charge of the national memorial to the
late William Il. Gladstone, at which it was
announced that the subscriptions had
reached the sum of f2J,9DS. During the
course of the proceedings the Prince of
Wales made a very graceful reference TO
Mr.. Gladstone saying:
Il am sure that my wish will he that of the
country generally, that the statue memorial
may be worthy of him and worthy of our
country Nobody had a higher admiration
for the great statesmanlike qualities of Mr.
Gladstone than ], and | may add that |
bore him great personal friendship"
A sensation was caused in financial cir
cles by the extraordinary announcement
that the Milwall Dock Company would
pass its dividend, owing to the discovery
of a deficit of over f2eo,99o fsl 600 oo0
The chairman of the company has disap-
peared and the shares have dropped about
twenty points. 1t does not appear that
there has been an actual embezzlement of
money, but the accounts have been so ma
nipnlated that the directors y-ers la -