Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-08
STRANGE SCENES IN LONDON
The British Capital Wild With
Delight Last Week.
A DELUGE OF PUBLIC REJOICING
Waterloo Celebration Nothing
in Comparison.
A Dukedom For Roberts, an Earldom For
Kitchener and Peerage For Butler, Say
the Prophets The Pope's Attitude
Towards Great Britain and the British
catholIcs' Attitude Towards the War.

catholics Attitude Towards the War.
London, Eng, March "a -dukedom
for Roberts, an earldom for Kitchener
and peel age for Butler, thus say the
prophets already busy at this occupa-
tion. If only the marvellous wave of
enthusiastic rejoicing that swept over
the country this week could find its
prototype in material rewards, Lord
Roberts and his fellow heroes Of the
hour would all be made dukes forth
with. The change that has come over
the spirit of Great Britain's war dream
can only be appreciated by those who
passed through thuse long four months
of unequaled gloominess and depres-
sion, and what are now freely admitted
| to be defeats. The scenes accom- pany-
| ing this change equaled the widest
delight that ever gushed through I'M
questionable France. To certain ex-
tent, they were quite uncharacteristio
of the race, and quite put in the shG1e
any demonstrations that occurred in
the United States during the Spanish.
American War. Yet, it must be borne
in mind that Great Britain had been
sentimentally bottled up SO long that
there was bound to be an outlet Kim
berley was relieved, and scarcely stir
was noticeable in this densely popu-
| lated Kingdom. Lord Roberts, by ex-
cellent strategy, caught Gen. Cronie
in vice, and annihilated him, and the
nation said we'll done with several de-
grees less fervor than it would have
made the same remark had England
beaten Australia al cricket. The bar
riers of British self-restraint and re-
serve were not yet broken down.
| L,,nlrola Of fhn.,co pId uo
about their daily business apparently
complacent, in their hearts they were
diving for chance to cheer and yell In
sheer delight, and it was still Napol-
cons race of shopkeepers, placid and
eminently proper. Ladysmith was re.
lieyed Then came the deluge OF de-
sire to publicly exhibit rejoicing,
which would no longer be denied. The
mad forms it took have already been
describe Some of the demonstrations
quite outdid those of the people OF
Paris. 1t takes an effort of imagina
tion to picture the ordinary middle
class English girl marching Eareheaded
through the streets, singing and,shout-
ing and waving flags, but this is what
occurred. About 1000 male aud female
students of the Kensington Art Schools,
the girls hatless and wearing their
|
alls, marched, singing and cheering, to
the Albert Memorial, and thence to
Joseph Chamberlain's, where Mrs.
! Chamberlain smilingly acknowledged
the ovation, and j. Austen Chamter-
, lain, the Colonial Secretary's eldest
son, made a speech. The sentries re-
fused this strange band admission to
the knights Bridge Barracks, SO they
! had to sing "Rule Britannia" outside.
At Col. Baden -Powell's house. they
J sang "For he is jolly good fellow"
and, passing the French Embassy, to
! indicate their feelings, they maintained
an ominous silence. 1t was a weird
procession for staid old England. A
number of boys of the Westminster
schools demonstrated somewhat SINH
larly in front Of the, offices of the
!. Canadian High Commissioner and the
,, other colonial agents. The scenes after
the battle of Waterloo, as described by
, the writer's of that day, were as moth
ing compared with the scenes witnessed
this week.
The Pnpe's attitude towards Great
Britain and the British Catholics
attitude towards the war were INTEREST,"
inely exhibited at an influential meet
inc of the British Catholic Union this
week, when the president, the Duke of
j Norfolk, read some correspondence ex-
: changed between himself and Cardinal
Rampolla, the papal Secretary of State.
. The union had requested the Duke OF
, Norfolk to interrogate the lioly See In
= relation to the anti British tone taken
!. by the Osservatore Romano IN COM
mentipg on the Boer war. The paper
, is supposed to be the Pope's Official
! organ, receiving financial subsidy
: flom him. The Duke of Norfolk wrote /:
b ITO us, il seems very grievous that
any opportunity should be given to
! any one to persuade the British people
: that the Holy Sea regards them with
. hostility or dislike. | cannot deny that
an impresson of this sort is creeping
: into the public mind. When it is re-
l membered that Catholics are in the
= minority in Great Britain, it will, we
Z think, Ee admitted that in the freedom
= of our religion, in the great question
Il of education and in matters gcf re-
g lipious ministrations to soldiers and
u sailors we need not fear comparison
= = with other countries in which Catholics
= form the great majority. 10 which
= Cardinal Rampolla cordially replied
!, that the Osservatore Romano only
nrinted one column which was official,
and this was devoted to religious news,
adding his refusal to accept response
bility Tor any political views it might
!. express, and declaring that the Holy
s Father always cherished for England
g that lively special interest which he
8 has already found many occasions oi
d Displaying" and that, IS the vicar
y of the God of Peace, he desires nothing
II more earnestly than cessation of the
Il actual state of things which cost the
j English nation so many victims.
il Lord Herries, discussing the cor
e respondence at meeting of the union,
d declared that, in religious matters, the
English Catholics implicitly obeyec
d the Pope; but, when it came to oivi
# government, they took their places sid'
; Ey side with their fellow-countrymen
If The Times, commenting upon thu
/; patriotsm of the many titled persons
n and others who were present at thu
meeting, said: at is pity tha
Cardinal Rampolla did not speak ou
palmer, in view of the fact that tht
;. subsidized Osservatoie Romano, all thu
n world over, is supposed to represent tht
IL Pope's personal opinions.