New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-10
KING RETURNING TO OPEN
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
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ihent and conduct the usual February functions
The council for registering the Kings speech will
be followed by the usual stately ceremonies
With the first diplomatic official levee with the
attendance limited. two full dress banqUets at
Buckingham Palace and the earliest courts,
there will be a gay fortnight before the King
goes to Biarritz and the Queen to Christiania
There is no lack of Liberal hostesses aud the Gus
tomary dinners will be followed by series of
brilliant parties. This is government that
knows how TO keep secrets. but the Unionst
hostesses have arranged everything over the
tea table. The Prime Minister. they say will
accept a peerage, and leave Mr.. Asquth to lead
the House Of Commons, and devote himself TO
the business OF reforming the House of Lords
from the inside. This is an admirable plan to
interest the opposition, but the Liberal min
listers are not likely to do what the enemy wants
them TO do. Unless the Prime Minister'S health
breoks down, and he seems going strong,
he will remain in the Commons where he has
unrivalled influence. He may have TO keep late
hours but he VIII not find it difficult to lead the
Commons when his own personal ascendancy is
unchallenged. He is stronger and more necessary
to-day than he was year ago. The Labor fac
ton is splitting up over woman suffrage and
the power of the Liberal Labor members is in
Creasing.
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The government here Will do what ma
jority OF the Reichstag has been doing. 1t will
take up the social question In a practical way
while the Socialists themselves are chattering
over naturalization, coal supplies and other
impracticable issues The opposition, mean
while, IS dsheartened. Bernard Partridge hits
off the situation in a striking Punch" cartoon,
depicting Mr.. Balfour in a sly attempt to throw
over tariff reform from the ship on a stormy
night when he hopes nobody will see him. The
campaign against the Lords is foreshadowed in
the speeches of the Attorney General Winston
Churchill and Lord Crewe. The Attorney Cen
eral Is more bellicOse than his colleagues in
his forecast Of revolutionary measures and disso-
luton after dissolution, but he was thrown over
IN the Trades Dispute bill and doesn't speak with
authority. Lord Crewe IS a more competent
witness when he assumes that there &in be a
Well considered scheme for restoring the balance
of political power to the upper house. The
budget Will probably be the great event OF the
session Mr. Asquith will have an opportunity
of proving that his radicalism IS not lukewarm.
SPEECHES At BRYCE DINNER
The Spectator" to-day pays the American
Ambassador the compliment of describing his
speech at the Bryce dinner as admirable. The
Morning POST has declared that Mr.. Bryce
could not do better than to have two sentences
from Mr.. Roid's speech engraved above his desk
in Connecticut avenue. Mr.. Bryce was pro-
foundry moved by the unique tribute of re-
spect and affection at the Pilgrims dinner.
Ordinarily a cold speaker, he displayed much
feeling. His brother. Amman Bryce, is giving him
a farewell luncheon tomorrow at Bryanston
Square, Brixton. The ambassador will sail
on Wednesday, but it is not yet announced
whether he has accepted title. without doubt
he have a he u-ap4 g
There is bad weather to-day for the woman
suffrage procession from the Hyde Park corner
to Exeter Hall. The extremists, vino have
courted arrest and Imprisonment, have carried
the conservative leaders into a new plan OF
campaign. Lady Francis Balfour Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, Mrs. Fawcett, Lady Strachey and
many other notable women have joined to-days
demonstration driving in motor
riages behind brass bands and scarlet banners,
while the working suffragists have tramped
on foot. The suffrage movement is now we'll
advertised and receives impetus from the
exceptional tactics of the leaders. The govern
ment is not likely to do more at the present SEES
sion than to enlarge the franchise for women in
local elections
THE BURNS-BENTINCK WEDDING
The weather is also unfavorable for one OF the
smartest weddings of the year. that OF Walter
Margaret's Church was we'll filled with fash
ionable people, and the procession was a very
pretty one. the bride. in a simple but elegant
princess gown of rich satin and old point. being
followed by her cousin and a group OF little
girls In embroidered muslin gowns, with blue
sashes and blue and white hats. There is mag
nifcent display of presents at Richmond Ter
race, from the King, ]. Pierpont Morgan, the
American Ambassador, the Duchess Of Rox-
burghe, Bradley Martin, Lewis Harcourt and
many others.
WHEN HAGUE CONGRESS NAY MEET.
The American Minister at The Hague made a
short stay in London after attending the Bryce
dinner He expects that the Hague congress. in
which he takes lively interest. VIII meet in
June. Government officials here assign a later
date for it and keep it in session about three
months. It IS not likely that Mr.. Bryce will
head the British delegation, and Sir Edward
Grey may do it himself
Patrick Murphy, whose speech at the Pill
grims' dinner was a revelation Of the resources
of American after-dinner oratory IS spending a
fortnight in London. While the newspapers
barely mentioned his name, he received the
compliments of all who heard him for freshness
Of humor and delightful persifage.
The funeral of F. B. Blake highly respected
member Of the American Society. who it's
chairman lOuI years d6O' tOOh pleL~O at ~AS0NN
Church to-day. A small delegation of the Amer
Jean Society joined in the final honors
ART EXHIBITIONS.
There is wonderful exhibition of English
masters of water color at the Agnew Gallery.
There are Turner's of remarkable freshness as
well as brIIlance Of color. and notable drawings
of Lake Lucerne, Zurich and West Cowes. There
are fine groups of the works OF Copley, Field
ing, David Cox and Burne-Jones. More than two