New-York tribune., 1901-05-26
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
LONDON.
HONORS To SIR ALFRED MILNER THE
REWARDS OF MERIT.
HE AND MIR. CHAMBERLAIN To FORMULATE
THE RECONSTRUCTION POLICY-THE
KING WILL ATTEND NO MORE
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London. May 25.-Sir Alfred Miners peerage
offers a striking contrast 70 the neglect from
which Sir Bartle Frere suffered. The abandon
ment of the High Commissioner by the govern
ment and was impossible when he re-
manned under fire from the enemies of the en-
pre at home and abroad He has earned by his
arduous labors and by the venomous attacks
to which he has been exposed every honor from
the government. and consequently the Kings
guest of yesterday is Mr.. Chamberlain's to-day
at luncheon with most distinguished company.
Extremists not disarmed by the honors
showered upon him. The Daily News quotes
Mirabeau's line: The silence of the people is
the lesson of kings. and moralizes over procon-
suls. prancing or otherwise. and the silent en-
plre builders who have come and gone without
fishing for applause. Sir Alfred Milner is not
vainglorious man. but true representative of
the imperial civil service. which has governed
the empire enlightened principles. Mr.. John
Morley introduced him to journalism. Mr.. Cos
chen to civil service and Mr.. Chamberlain to
South Africa and this champion OF the con-
servarive colonial policies at the outset
unknown barrister with ingrained Liberal and
Radical convictions. He is invulnerabe against
personal attack, Tor he IS lOVdDlS man, VINO
has never lost friend made enemy; such
foes carping at him are not his. but those
of the empire.
Parliament has adjourned for prolonged hol-
iday, with echoes in whispering gallery and
smoking room of dark rumors that Mr.. Cham
berlain is expecting aid from Sir Alfred Milner
in overcoming the Cabinet resistance to strenu-
Gus measures against the Boer guerilIas and
in siencing the advocates of peace. These are
incredible tales There is no evidence that the
Cabinet has ever been divided on the South AZ
rican policy Since the outbreak of the Mr..
Chamberlain's views have been shared by Lord
Salisbury. and faction the government
side has been advocating unstable peace with
dshonor Such differences of opinion there
have been relate TO methods of financing the
and the reorganization Of the military sys-
tenn. There cabinet feuds respecting the
prosecution of the to the bitter end as the
policy essential to the stability Of the empire
The reconstruction policy is a complex prob
lem but unless all signs fail it will be left in the
hands of the two men most competent TO deal
with it-Mr Chamberlain and Sir Alfred Miner.
who will now have a prolonged opportunity for
going over every detail of the process
The King and Queen will spend Whitsuntide
at Windsor. where their private apartment in
the castle has been refurnished and redecorated
The King is not likely to attend any yacht trials
in the future; though the danger TO which he
was exposed in the Shamrock III accident has
been exaggerated. it has been urged by the Min
listers that while the Duke of Cornwall is out
Of England he ought 10 be more prudent in ac-
cepting invitations 1t is pointed out that there
is no regency act by which emergencies can be
met when the throne becomes vacant and the
new sovereign is over seas; such acts as have
been passed from decade to decade relate to spe-
The subject is, however, one of academic interest
solely since new precedents could be created
and the cable brought into for sancttoning
the acts of Parliament if the heir were TO sue
ceed to the throne when journeying in a remote
quarter of the empire. There has been good
deal of gossip about Sir Thomas j. Liptons
guests on Shamrock II. of which philosophers
like Greville have probably taken note in their
diaries The Kings dinner party is OF
more direct interest to the fashionable world.
since il is a warrant for unrestricted dining dur
ing the remainder of the season. The dances
have stopped almost soon as begun. for the
King has been reported as regarding them with
disfavor this year. There can be dancing after
dinner but it must be an incident not the main
entertainment This will not stand in the way
of good many dinners in different houses with
dancing at one of them. Nothing can avail 70
render it a brilliant season; too many great
houses are closed. and too many fashionable
idlers have gone in despair to the Continent
The stock market has remained stagnant
owing to the unsettled state of the American
market AS some compromise in Northern Pa
cifc based upon community of interest. is ex-
nectea the dull interval is not likely to be pro-
longed A recovery of French exchange is
looked for now that the Russian loan has been
placed and an easy money market is predicted
for June The hotels ringing with echoes OF
exciting tales brought by American Spectators
of the recent Wall Street operations. and Eng
Ish onIookers are more deeply impressed than
ever with the fact that The Land OF the Dol
lar is an extraordinary country. Half-penny
journalism meanwhile bears record daily TO the
Yankee willingness to over here and
age the business of this little island; and the
weekly financial moralists croak dismally about
foreign uenaces 70 British superiority and the
vacuous self-conceit which has led Englishmen
to believe that they could remain indefinitely at
the head of the commercial world without edu-
eating workers. as the Germans do. and without
organizing the forces of capital. as Americans
do There is almost much pessimism about
the revival of British commercial prestige as
there was eighteen months ago about the con-
duct of the war. The croakers complain that
merchants and manufacturers have got into a
rut and are unable to adjust themselves to new
conditions. just as the military critics charged
the Aldershot martinets with lack of hexibility
snd common sense. 1t is not yet clear however
10 men of sober Judgment that England has lost
her grip on commercial affairs
Literary circles are quieter than for a long
period. No great work is in progress except
Mr. John Morley's Life of Gladstone" and that
is coming to the authors satisfaction de-