The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-11
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Comment on Lord SaHsbury's Speech
Mt the Guild Han Banquet.

other SALISBURY biazer,' was distinctl!
heard at the Lord Mayors banquet las
night, when the Premier, who is still For
eign Secretary, went out OF his way. and il
the presence Of the american Ambassador
:, to comment upon the internal politics OF
another country. The Sackville incident
say Lord salisbury's critics, might have
taught British statesmen that it is court
ing Anglo-American friction to express
extreme satisfaction" at the result OF the
election in the United States, and to de-
clare that the cause which a large section
OF American voters endeavored to defeat is
the cause of civilization and commercial
honor embodying principles which lie
at the root Of all prosperity, all progress
in the world
But however indiscreet, Lord Salisbury
expressed undoubtedly the views held by
Englishmen generally, though many do not
believe that Mr.. Bryan, if elected, could
nave done half the evil things imputed to
his intentions. They do not believe that he
could have long been anti-English. for as
the Spectator" says, friends are as use
lul IN politics as in domestic life and the
| United States has no friend in Europe ex-
cept Great Britain.
British opinion, in one sentence, be-
heves that British-American interests,
! political and especially commercial, are
| unalterabiy intertwined in China and
everywhere else, and are SO intertwined
by circumstances beyond the reach of any
passing political outbursts.
Inc ardently anti-imperial Speaker"
Is almost crying in the wilderness. when
| 1t declares that "materialism is riding
mankind in the States as in Europe"
| AS for the rest of Lord Salisbury's
speech. 1t follows the expectations here
tofore expressed in these cable dis
| patches. Lord Salisbury in word, is
pursuing the traditional trend of Tory
ism, and damping down the zeal Of the
reformers Tory and other. who want to
| see radical changes at the War Office and
In the whole administrative machine.
We are getting along all right says
Lord Salisbury, in effect; don't make
such fuss"
But the nation, when It realizes the Of
fetal Tory game, may think that fuss
must and shall be made. 1t has not yet
forgotten last December. Again and again
among Liberals one hears the question
asked: why does not Lord Rosebery
seize this moment of Tory complacence
to force Liberalism into fighting atti-
tude?"
These questionings have this week gain
ed new point by a remarkable letter ap-
pearing in leader type In the Times"
from politician whom the Times" de-
scribes as Correspondent who modest
ly signs himself Spectator" The writer
is the Right Hon. Henry Fowler, ex-sec-
rotary for India, and the man who stands
next to Sir William. Vernon Harcourt and
Mr.. John Morley among Liberal leaders.
The letter declares hatly, that ''If the Lib
eral party is not to be almost a negligible
quantity In politics for years to come, II
cannot too quicklynadjast its differences
and discard its jealousies by placing it.
self unreservedly and disinterestedly I'M
der the lead of one, manY-that is to say,
invite Lord Rosebery back to the lead
ership and let Sir William Vernon Har-
court do his worst But has Lord Rose
berry enough love Of fight, under such un-
pleasant personal conditions, to accept? |
More than once since he threw up the |
Liberal game in October, 1896, he has de- |
clared never again.. and until Harcourt |
retires from politics that declaration may |
have to stand. i a
Next Wednesday nights expected show
er of meteors is awaited with the keenest !
interest in astronomical circles. Astron-
omers say that the group of meteors may
escape actual encounter with the earth by
passing more than one and one-half mil
lions of miles distant from US. on the side
nearest the sun. but there is sufficient
doubt In the matter to encourage strong
hopes that the meteors will reappear and
present one of the most beautiful and
striking phenomena of nature.
An astronomer who writes to the
Times" today says that the comet which
is closely connected with the Leond me-
teor shower and has period of about
thirty-three and one-quarter years, re-
turned to the sun in the spring Of 1899,
but was not seen in consequence of its
unfavorable position. Its orbit and posi-
ton relative to the earth make it OBJ
servable once only In three returns. and
there will be no good opportunity of see
larger meteors of the shower, which
sometimes outshine Jupiter or Venus,
streaks remain for a con-
time after the heads have van
ished, and in some instances remain WISH
BILE for even fifteen minutes and drift |
slowly from their original positions under ,
the influence OF currents high in the at
mosphere: but whether the mcteors of
this particular system shoot to the east
or west, north or south, it will be found
that their flights are directed from COM
mon centre within the stars forming the .
Unknown sickle of Leo. This year the
sickle will appear different from the
usual configuration. for the red planet !
Mars will be situated closely northwest ,
Of the bright star Regulus forming the ,
extremity of the handle of the sickle.
On Tuesday, in a London auction room,
he mummified remains of Daughter of ,,
'haraoh" sold for ten guineas whereupon !;
question has been raised in the public :,
,ress What right have we moderns to
outrage ancient civilization from motives
4 mere curiosity?" Says one writer, most
when We dig up mummy
We unearth a faith; when we sell one we
,arter belief, and deal as sacrilegioasly
With our kind as II We traded in the dead
humanity OF yesterday. Pharaoh's daugh-
er was no savage, but cultured thinking
adv. heir to a creed whose subtleties we
ave not yet fully comprehended. Might
he and her race and subjects not be al
owed to lie decently in the earth where
hey were placed in accordance with faith
nd pety as true to them as ours to us?
We cannot hurt them by selling their num-
HES. but we certainly do not deal rever- ,
ntly with humanity. and thousand years :
lore or less is no excuse in eternity" s.
The Church crisis has by no means .
ONE to an end though 1t has been quite
of late by more urgent ma :
ional affairs The bishops ha ye done the | !,
Utmost that moral suasion can do to dis
lace extreme ritualism, and now are face
o face with a group Of the clergy whom d q,
othing but prosecution will affect. Three II
MEMBERS Of the London clergy. with in u
umbencies in the poor districts Of Step
ey. shoreditch, and Islington. are to be s.
rosecuted for reservation Of the sacra- U
nent, the illegal use of incense. and cell >
bratIons without commandments. Be q
ind these prosecutions is the powerful "
ombiuation of irregulars who charge u
themselves with guarding the Protestant Il
SIN OF the English Church. BY irregu- d
ars is meant chugch reformers outside W
( that staid reforming body, the Church 2
.ssociation. That association does not