New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-23
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
Continued from First Page.

s,fng mines and building railways in the in
.s-ior These reports are not confirmed from
.,v authentic source, and equally untrust-
o,orthy IS the story that the Portuguese Finance
Minister is anxious for relief from revenue per-
-,exiries by the sale Of colonial properties or
,-tvleges The German Emperor has returned
= his capital, where both the political and
me financial situations are clouded with uncer-
,sinties. Baron ven Thielmann has interviewed
IN the tariff debate with weighty speech, in
,rbich he forecasts the rejection by the feder-
.,ed governments of the minimum duties on
rain and cattle decreed by the Agrarians and
s,,orced the necessity Of covering by increased
+sxation the deficit N current revenues amount
ing 10 So. 10000 Warnings like these ought
70 influence the faction-rent Rechstag, but
there are no signs of enlightened action in
savor Of the tariff scheme which will allow the
government 10 renew the reciprocity treaties
oext year on favorable terms. The government
,+self seems TO have lost the art Of managing
me numerous groups in the Reichstag. Mean
rbile depression has increased In the shipping
mining and iron industries, and the home mar
kets have relapsed into weakness and stagna-
ten
The cold, crisp weather has invigorated the
guests al castles and country houses. and en-
abled women Of fashion to display heavy sabIes
and squirrel coats at the racecourses Jenkins
was excluded from Lowther Castle. where the
German Emperor enjoyed absolute privacy with
guests, mainly German. The King of Portugal
has accepted invitations from Lord Iveagh, at
Elveden. and Lord Amhirst. at DidIington.
where he VIII have unrestricted facilities for
slaughtering birds. but there may be diplomatic
business as well as duck shooting when he Wis
its LORD Lansdowne at Bowood. There have
been large parties at Chatsworth, Cheveley and
many other places
In London there have been q score or more
fashionable weddings and hundreds OF theatre
PARTIES The only change Of programme is the
-oduction OF Carrots" at the Lyric Theatre by
Forbes Robertson. and the only fresh an
rouncement Of Importance is the purchase OF
Count Tolstoy's Resurrection" for the London
sage by Beerbohm Tree, who witnessed It with
delight al the Paris
The Royal College Of Music is producing
"Fideio" next week and there are about twenty
concerts and recitals OF minor Importance. Sir
cuthbert QUilter is exhibiting Romneys Mrs
Jordan" Holman Hunts "Scapegoat" and Mary
Turner's and Constables for charitable purposes.
A series Of bright and sunny water colors by
Claude Spere are shown az the Mclean Cal
leries, and Albert Goodwin's admirers are en-
Outraged by the fine collection Of drawings at
the Dunthorn gallery TO believe that he shares
something Of Turner's inspiration while initial
ing frankly the style Of the great color and i'm
sgtnarive painter.
The Athenaum" reviewer. fatigued by the
labors Of the holiday season, when the book
shelves are overcrowded, charges Captain Ma
han with writing too much. That accusation
was never flung at that most industrious book
writer for boys, c. A Henty. whose friends
have gathered in force to-day 70 bury him at
Brompton Cemetery.
One Of the largest geneaIogies ever under
taken has been partly completed at Oxford in
the history Of the Smith family Investigations
have not been carried back Of the fourteenth
century, although Professor Mahafy discov-
cred q record Of a brewer named Smith in q
Petrie papyrus dating two centuries before the
Christian era I N F