The Washington times., 1901-07-22
FOREIGN TOPICS.

| y British Parliamentary return has
been published giving statistical tables
relating TO emigration and immigration
| from and into the United Kingdom in 1900
IN regard to the movement of people the
chlef features noted are the practical re-
sumption of normal traffic between the
United Kingdom and South Africa. the
very large increase among foreigners
proceeding from the Kingdom to British
| North America, and the unprecedented
influx of visitors and others from the
United States
In 1909 passengers to the number of 9s7,-
S93 moved outward, 29S .5sI of them to coun-
| tries out of Europe and $50 292 to Europe
| On the other hand, 924,i moved inward,
iio,14f from countries out of Europe and
'aS.'2 from Europe, giving the balance
| outward of 1881. OF last years emf
grants lS9.S9i, or IS per cent, went to the
| United States, 50gO7 to British North
America, 15,723 to Australasia, and 25.5l3
to South Africa and Natal. Compared
| with the preceding year, this is an in
crease of S0,24S in the case of emigrants to
the United States. of 16.33S in the emf
grants to British North America, 3,455 in
| the emigrants to Australasia and 6.655 in
| the emigrants to South Africa Each of
| these divisions of the United Kingdom
| grafton. although the proportionate in
| crease among Irish emigrants over the
| preceding year was not so great as
| among English or Scottish The Englisi,
formed 81 per cent the Scottish Y per
| cent, and the Irish q per cent OF the total
number of natiye emigrants, as against
| go, IL, and % per cent, respectively. in
| 1899.
The result reached after more detailed
analysis of the figures is that the addf-
ton to the foreign population of the
| United Kingdom from the total passen-
ger movement inward and outward in 1900
was about 1900 persons.
President Kruger is living at a villa
| rented by Mr.. Wo1morans one of the
three gentlemen who visited the United
States last winter in the interests of the
Boer cause. The location is desirable and
| delightful, on the edge of one of the grand
old forests that make The Hague the
most beautiful city in Europe, and on the
boulevard that runs between the Dutch
capital and Scheveningen. the famous re-
| sort. 1t is a famous drive There are
| four rows of lindens, whose boughs inter-
twine so closely that in the summer sea-
! son the carriages, street cars equestrians
| and pedestrians travel almost the entire
| distance through a tunnel of foliage so
| dense that the sun never penetrates it
| so heavy that the sky cannot be seen
sions covered with vines and surrounded
by quaint old-fashioned gardens Be
hind them are large grounds, groves of
trees, walks and fountains. and the odd
features OF landscape architecture found
among the richer classes of the Neither
lands Tulips are eut of style Time was
When every Dutchman was as wild over
tulip bulbs New York brokers have
receatly been over stock in the granger
railroads. But the passion seems to have
exhausted itself and no more tulips are
TO be seen in Holland to-day than other
mowers. The business men of this coun-
try, however, give more attention to such
things than elsewhere. A Dutchman
, must have a garden to be happy. and in
n. ms mowers he hnds his greatest satisfac-
tion- IL you give him a pipe and a gar
den he is happy, and a glass of beer will
make existence complete
The attack made by countess on Min
lister Baudin in Paris street a few days
ago calls attention to the fact that Presi
dent Loubet is one of the best guarded
rulers in Europe. A flying brigade of
police agents, in civilian costume, has
been created to follow the President step
by step wherever he goes. When NJ. LOU
bet is about to start from the EIysee the
prefecture of police is apprised by tele-
phone of the place to which he is going,
as well as the route he is to take. Be
fore he has crossed the gate of the palace
a carriage is already in the street with
orders to follow the Presidential convey
ance and not to lose sight of it This
maneuvre is repeated several times daily
King Edward, on the request of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
has inaugurated new decoration, desig-
mated as the Conspicuous Service Cross,
by means Of which distinguished service
before the enemy on the part of warrant
and subordinate officers of the British
navy will be rewarded. The decoration is
d silver cross. with the reverse side plain,
but having on the diverse side in the CEN
tire the Royal-Imperial cypher, '.E. r. L.
surmounted by the imperial crown
The new decoration. which is said to
remedy long-felt grievance, stands be-
tween the Distinguished Service Order
for which only commissioned officers are
eligible, and the medals for Conspicuous
GalIantry," or for Distinguished Conduct
in the Field' which are awarded only TO
petty officers and seamen of the navy and
on-commissioned officers and privates of
the marines and to non-commissioned Of
hcers and privates of the army. respect
lively. 1t is thought probable that when
the royal warrant of September 8, 1856,
instituting the ID. S. o." was drawn up
at the War Office the navy was irad-
vertently ignored, particularly because
among the grades of the army there are
no grades corresponding to those of the
naval warrant officers, which include the
bOdtSWtiiiS ana BulintrS OF the cOmDdtdnt
branch, or the naval subordinate officers,
which include midshipmen and naval
cadets. 1t was not. however, until the
war in South Africa and circumstances in
China brought the omission prominently
forward that the naval authorities took
steps to get the matter remedied.
That King Oscar is immensely popular
with newspaper men is no wonder The
King speeches are for the most part i'm
promptu. Some time ago he was passing
through Gothenburg on his way TO in
augurate new railway. At the station
he was accosted by a Jewish journalist,
who had been sent to the Inauguration
as a reporter to some big Danish paper
The journalist wanted copy of the
speech to telegraph to his paper, because
he had no time TO wait for its delivery, |
II the speech was to appear in his paper |
the next morning. So he asked the King !
to give him copy of the speech which |
he intended to deliver. That is impos-
ii out yet" The journalist was not how
ever. TO be batiled. He explained that it |
was of vital Importance that a copy of /
the speech should appear in his paper;
that he personally. would be in despair /
if he did not get it, and so worked on |
the King feelings that he cried out: oh
Wen, come into my carriage and | will !
tell you what | am going to say. The
newspaper man needed no second bidding
j he King, without the use of any notes
dictated to him the whole of the long
speech which II was his intention TO de-
liver.
Frederick W. Hollis, of New York. late
member of the peace conference and now
a member of the Court of Arbitration at
The Hague. who has returned to Berlin
from st. Petersburg, says that the states
men of the Russian E,mDir.. seem IN ba !