New-York tribune., 1903-03-29
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
AFFAIRS IN LONDON.
Government InUigordted - Kings
Joxrmey-44ntarctic DiscoUeries.

worth between 1nem nave saved OnerlSey iO4
the government and helped Lord Rosebery to
obtain q clean slate. AEr. Harnsworths motives
are plain. He aims at making the halfpen1y
Daily Mali as powerful in politics IS the
threepenny Times" was in Mr.. Delanes best
days, and profits by practical demonstration
that a pro-Boer candidate opposed by him Is
condemned to defeat. although two Liberals
favored by him have been elected in ConSerYa-
tive etrongholds. Mr.. Perks's interest In the
transactions is less obvious- He aspires, eccoro-
ing 10 his own account, to organize British Non
conformity and Professionalism for obtaining
victories as decisive as the Irish Nationalists
have secured in the Land Purchase bill His
mission is not sanctioned, however, by the Non
conformist press, which scouts the Idea OF play
ing of the Free Church political alliance against
the Home Rule alliance. Whether LORD Rose
berry ia grateful for the demonstration against
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Whlcn may
react against himself, is doubtful. The evil
spirit of faction politics must be exercised pc
fore the united Liberal party can be restored
to power.
The government, meanwhile, has been invig-
GRATED by the display Of courage and emciency
in the Irish policy. The text OF the Land Dill
excites controversy over the minor points, and
Mr.. Wyndham needs to explain many Things
hut the measure whole has been received
with equal favor in England and in Ireland, ana
seems destined to be enacted with close ap-
proach TO unaninity. after an exhaustive e1-
animation in committee The Tories are again
exultant and procIairning that, with the Buoget
showing a reduction in income tax and revision
limits and abatement for the relief of smaller
incomes, ell may yet 90 well. As the revenue
returns have been heavy this week, it seems
likely that these reductions Will be possible.
especially as only a small fraction Of the cash
CURED in the next fiscal year.
The deIiverAnce from defeat In Chertsey VIII
be costly X it encourages the wasteful habits
~ a spendthrift government There are no
signs Of retrenchment in any branch OF the pup
lie service. The Boer war has been financed
50 badly that consolS have fallen to ~ and'
with the Transvaal and Irish borrowing in
sight. may drop to IS long before Mr.. Brod-
rick's costly army corps are actually recruited
for imperial defence.
The Kings foreign journey. unlike the Ger
man Emperor's visit to Copenhagen, has no
rolitical significance. He will return the visit
cf the King Of Portugal and probably meet the
king OF Italy at Palermo or Spezzia- The Med1-
rsrranesn cruise may be extended to Malta and
Exvpt but there Is no official warrant for the
statement. The King travels for pleasure, and
announces his plans at the last moment there
l,v aidinR the foreign police in taking precau"
tioua against anarchists. The Kings Journey
to DaIkeith and Holyrood next May will be fol-
lowed. according to current reports by roval
progress through Ireland
Apart from political events. this week there
have been signs OF intellectual activity Inc
Royal Geographical Society has commemorateo
,be 20Otb anniversary of the death Of queen
Ress by q deeply Interesting exhibition OF me-
MORALS and relics Of the heroic period OF mari
has
earljest reports Of the work Of the British
Antarctic expedition. Sir Clements Markham,
while greatly annoyed by the evidence that
there we're defective stores in the expenslVeIy
provisioned but badly constructed ship, and tnat
5he dogs we're lost and the crew was exposed TO
srurvy, has pronounced the results OF the SCI
entifc exploration highly satisfactory. His own
theory that the mysterious ice cliff seen by Sir
lanes Ross and Captain Borchgrevink is the
outward edge OF a glacial mass between two
mountain ranges and fills extensive sound
has been confirmed. Captain Scott has discov-
cred what seemed a range far beyond Erebus
and Terror and has strengthened the current
hypothesis that the South Pole is the centre OF
p mountainous glacial continent. Captain
Scott's determination to proiong the work OF the
expedition for the third year is not regretted
by the officials of the Royal Geographical So
cfety although It will compel them to raise
ing He has made a long dash southwark. has
explored volcanic mountains and has investi-
gated the conditions of the ice barrier which
stretches TO the eastward from Victoria Land.
His remaining work will probably be the ex-
ploration OF the islands to the westward, In
order 70 ascertain whether Wilkes Land has
more substantial foundation than the ice belts
Three other expeditions are at work in the
Antarctic region
Scientific writers are exercising their imagi-
nations in attempting to solve the mysteries or
rsdium Sir william Crookes does not regard
the emission Of heat as anything more than e
fraction Of the energy which is exeTted by
rsdlunn in space when 1t is hurling off material
particles and luminous scintiilatio.G and pour
ing out torrents OF Rontgen rays from few
miIiigrammes Of the salt.
The exhibition organized by the Dickens fe-
lowshiT, at Memorial Hall has been more salts
factory 10 the managers than to the visitors
II has consisted mainly OF collections Of first
editions OF the novelists writings and photo
graphs and drawings OF the scenes and char
acteFs in the books. The best relic is Dickens's
last letter written the day before his death to a
Nonconforrnist minister who had complained of
the fr-everent use made in Edwin brood Of
the scripturai passage containing prophetic
account Of Christ. Many objects once belong
ing 10 Dickens are exhibited, including his writ
ing desk for his American tour, a bottle OF
madeira. a Gun dial. a tea urn and a spoon
warmer from GadshiII. a Latin book presented
10 him by tutor. and faVorite walking
stick. The letter box in which he deposited his
first sketch for publication is also shown, with
the original sign Of the little wooden midshtp-
man in "DUrnbey and Son.; an old chair and
copper boiler from Msypole Inn and other OBJ