The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-13


tion to having the English privy council
as a final court Of appeal for local cases.
No compromise has yet been reached and
Mr.. Chamberlain will shortly introduce the
subject of federation in the House of Com
mons. advocating that the bill be passed
as forwarded to Australia with the excep-
ton of an amendment granting the privy
council the power mentioned above. Pre-
sumably the Commons will follow the gov
ernment's lead. What Australia will do re-
mains to be seen. The obligation subordi-
mating the highest colonial courts 10 the
privy council, under which Canada now
labors, may wreck the whole scheme of
federation.
The dispute In the potteries trade now
involves 10000 men, many of whom belong
to no union and are therefore dependent
upon charity. The manufacturers insist
upon closing down their works rather than
give in to the demands for increased
wages. Meanwhile, as the Speaker points
out, there are already signs of pottery
making in the United States being greatly
stimulated. and If the dispute keeps up
much longer England will be in danger
of losing her best customer by reason OF
the American potteries getting such a
grip that English goods will not be wanted.
Such sweeping changes have occurred in
the legal branch of the government this
week as have had no parallel in many
of appeal in ordinary. with a brogue as rich
as any in all Erin and strikingly like the
late Lord Tennyson, has resigned at the
age of seventy-two years and after thirty
three years judicial service. Into the
shoes of this brilliant jurist has stepped
the Right Hon. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, who
has resigned the mastership of the rolls.
There is nothing against Sir Nathaniel ex-
| cept that he is an Englishman, which has
caused the bar of Ireland at a public meet
| ing to fiercely denounce Lord Salisbury for
breaking a precedent by not letting Ireland
| be represented among the three lords of
| appeal. The legal Conservative members
| from Ireland are just as bitter as the Ma
| tionalists against the letting of England
| have two representatives and Scotland one
on the highest court, while Ireland has
none.
In resigning the attorneyship to become
| master of the rolls Sir Richard Webster
| gives up an income OF over f15,000 for one
| of $4,000 with peerage thrown in. This
popular lawyer, so well known in the
| United States through his connection with
| international matters, ranging from the
| Venezuela boundary dispute to inter-
varsity sports, apparently tired of waiting
| for the woolsack, and having money and
! finding the work of attorney general too
| trying, decided to settle down a law
| lord after holding office in the House of
Commons for ten years His successor was,
naturally. Solicitor General Finlay, a
| Scotch Liberal Unonist, who will not allow
| Conservatives to come on the platform in
his onTgs dnd meyer b goes R,s on
| Hon. Edward Henry Carson once again be-
| comes solicitor general Mr.. Carson was
| recently frank in criticising the govern
ment, and the appointment of this brilliant
| Irishman has created some surprise.
| XXX
| A curious incident connected with the
parade with the Ladysmith naval brigade
/ of the British cruiser Powerful was that
| the decorating authorities almost smoth-
cred the officers of Lord Strathcona and
Mount Royal. the Canadian high commits
sioner, with the stars and stripes, while on
| the outside of the United States embassy
| in the same street there sign of
an American flag. Lord Strathcona point
ed out the unsuitability of the predomi-
nance of the stars and stripes and the
| number of these emblems was reduced.
The latest display of British ingenuity is
a new Bible. Mr. ]. X. Starley, who de-
scribes himself as bicycle director of
| Coventry, has issued, under the auspices
| of the Sunday school Supply Company, a
| Bible in which the New Testament pre-
| cedes the old. In the preface. Mr.. Starley
justifes his action by saying the Old Tesla
| ment was meant to be "candlestick on
which the new should stand" adding: yet
| we have largely made the old an extin-
| guisher which puts out its light"
|
Much sympathy is felt for Charles Day
! Rose, formerly of Montreal and once a
| challenger for the Americas cup His two
| oldest sons have been killed in the war. A
4 third son, Adrian Rose, has just been
gazetted and started for South Africa,
4 Thursday. 49,.
|
Great Britain continues to be bewildered
| by the continual success of the American
4 nd oiplxy
| One of the leading authorities on English
| racing matters, however, puts this in a
nutshell in an article In the Man of the
| World. saying: Our English jockeys ap-
| pear TO have relinquished all efforts at
| competing with the interchangeable team of
| transatlantic horsemen now with us. Had
some of our young aspirants the energy
| and determination 10 get to the front pos
sessed by Sloan, Martin. Reiff and COM
| pany their chances of success would be
considerably improved. AT present they.
with some half dozen exceptions, appear
| absolutely paralyzed at the turn things
| have taken. 1t was a noticeable fact that
1 the brothers Reiff were first or second in
1 every race and only first and second. re-
| spectively, at Hurst Park last Saturday
| Each won two races and the younger was
| thrice and the elder once second. This was
a really remarkable afternoons perform
ance. 1t will surely be some time before
| either 1engthen their stirrup feathers
| The youngest of these gifted. industrious
| yet quiet and unassuming Jockeys is an
| example to some of our own school, who
no sooner get to the front than, like the
| frog, they swell to bursting These two
! young American horsemen are really fine
| examples for the great majority of our
| jockeys, who are gradually allowing them
| selves to be snuffed out
| xxx
| The Gazette publishes a royal proclama-
| ton establishing a new Indian decoration,
| the Kaiserinhind medal, to be awarded for
| public service in India. The distinction is
| similar to the Victorian Order of Great
| Britain and Is eligible to natives and wom-
| en-. "Kaiserinhind" is tine vernacular for
| Empress of India.
| XXX
The publication of the will of the late
John Ruskin shows his personal estate was
| only 10000, all that was left of his fathers
| bequest of 100000. In a codicil, Ruskin re-
| voked the bequest Of his art treasures to
| the Bodlean library, at Oxford The treas
| ures will remain at Brentwood.