Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-08
FAMOUS DEBATES
Will Mark This Session of
 Parliament.
WILL OUTDO GLADSTONE TIMES
The Government Attacked On the Very Opening Days-General De Wet Is Giving War Office Much Trouble-Richard Harding Davis Severely Criticised-London Theatri cal Season Very Quiet

cal Season Very Quiet. London. Dec S.-The assembling of parliament has supplied much needed zCSt to hfe in England. The mere handful of members known as the opposition started the attack on the government with such q united front that the session, short as it will be. promises tU rival those famous debates which marked the days when Mir Gladstone tried to force home rule through the house. The spectacle of tle entire liberal party c0ncentratin" every personal and political energy against one man keeps the nation keyed up to a high pitch. awaiting the next move in the dramatic clicOuilI- CT. If Mir Chamberlain comes through Unscathpi il will be nothing ShoIt of marvellous.
 No less interesting to the foreign ob- servers are signs of the dawn of unani- nifty among the liberals Sir Henry Campbell -Bannaiman arraignment of the government which is admitted to have been the best effort Uf his fife, was almost identical with that of Lord RG>;-ivrry. Each of these speakers adopted the same tone and fwelt on the same topics. Mr Balfour and the 1IIk,A of .EpVOnShire taultpl the Op- position leaders with their inability It speak for their party as whole: bat these UtteranceS passed nnNOticcd and from the benches behind Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman the constant hearty applause betokened the birth of better concord among his follow CTS. Only once during Campbell Ban neI mans speech was note of inter- nal diScurtl heard. 1t Was when he announced that the liberals unrc- Seryctily accepted the necessity for the annexation of the Boer republics. Then enc. solitary liberal loudly shouted No. No Turning around Campbell Zimmerman dismissed the ohjcctOr as being of no importance. with one of the most Scathing retorts ever dealt out by a leader to q follower
 The War office officials are greatly disturbed by the successful guerrilla tactics of General De. Wet. but they cherish the idea that he must soon cease to be dangerous. owing to, his inability to secure new horses. Efforts are being made to keep De Wet away Iron1 the Cape Colony frontier for the war office believes he is getting the hulk of his supplies from Cape Colony. and to prevent him from securing food men and horses. orders have been issued that the Bber farmers be allowed to buy only small quantities
 
 immediate needs.
 Some very frank opinions concern ing Richard Harding Davis have been appearing in the English papers this week They were called out by a let tel. ill the London Times signed by q representative body of ladies of vari- Ous natiOnalitieS, resident at Pretoria throughout the war, in which they emphaticaIly repudiate MT Davis's x.l,,, ,.nfn fn 1n hal q vii of the imprisoned British officers towards women. The Daily News comments on the subject as follows:
 Several months have elapsed since IF DaviSS amazingly untruthful ale gationS were published. but the requi- site contradiction. though long delayed has come to hand at last. Mir Davis presumably wrote for the anti-EngliSh section of the Americans. though we should hardly have expected to ind Ghe name of a prominent American magazine is here mentionedD-useda as vehicle for this vulgar and cowardly abuse"
 Trouble threatens IondOn's new tube-road. Many residents under whose houses the electric trains run have combined to sue for damages, al legged to be caused by the vibration. They have subscribed f10.0O0 to fight in the courts. They maintain that though the tube is at an average of fifty feet below the surface the win dowS of the houses are rattled. Tlie occupants awakened and ornaments shaken every time a train passes under. If-any degree of success meets their efforts it will seriously retard thd attempt to give London decent rapid transit
 An extra ordinary reversal of the usual conditions appears in the Eng fish meat market and it is likely that English beef will soon be palmed off as American. Hitherto the opposite has always been the case. But, by clever manipulation the American salesmen have obtained control of the market until American beef costs as much as English beef. Hence the like lihood of substitutions. Commenting on this situation an English papel says:
 '.Fhe American salesmen now make prices almost what they like. In tlt English trade there was no organiZa ton to oppose them. The farmers have been in the hands of the butchers whose cupidity led them into the arms of the Americans. The only active opposition the Americans had to mee lay in the prejudice of the consumer It has taken twenty years to beat tha prejudice
 In London theatrical work is some what at a standstill pending the pan tomimes, the rehearsals of which art already in full swing. The stir thesi elaborate performances create in Lon don may always be relied on to create q sufficient tide of prosperity to carr. ordinary theatrical pieces with them Thus few changes are likely to b. made in ..The, Casino GirT' and simila pieces till after the New Year. Drur! Lane departs from it's usual custom this year by casting an American girl Miss Rayensberg, ill the principa part. made famous in recent years b. Nellie Stuart.
 Countess Russell has arranged fO an early re-appearance on the Ameri ran stage. under the direction 0 Charles kiralfy
 While George Edwards will proba bly carry the appeal against Wednes day's decision in the suit for the cor trol of Daly's theater here to the hons 1T lords, there is no interruption of tn 1Eisffxg control of the theater. or th