New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
READY FOR HOLIDAYS,
Family Parties at Many English
Greas Country Houses.
Especial by French cabls to The Triounal
fconvr,eht 1907. by The Tribune Association.1

fcopyrtght 1907. BY The Tribune Association1
London Dec. 21-London Is emptyins carry
for the Christmas holidays. There is the usuai
family party at SandrtnSham, after WHICH eie
King has numerous country house engagements
and will open Parliament before going te Shris-
tfania with the Queen. There family par
ties at Dalkeith. Floors. Lilleshan. ElVeooh'
Grimtnorpe and Ruford Abbey. and nearly All
the great country houses and these will be foi-
lowed by the usual round OF hunt ana county
halls. There are many fashionable persons head
ing already for the Continent among them the
Duke and Duchess Of Westminster Marquis and
Marchioness of Hamilton. Princess Henry Oh
Pless Lord and Lady Ampthill. the Earl and the
Countess Of Radnor. Lord and Lady Barrymore
and Sir Ernest Cassel
There was a quiet wedding to-day at St. PauPs
Knightsbridge. where Lady Inchiquin's young
est daughter married to Lord Leices-
ter's eldest son, and the Bischofheins are CIV
ing small dinner party Tomorrow ou' 'i'
House ministers have scattered for the holidays
Now that Sir Edward Grey and Mr.. Asquith nave
offered testimony that Mr.. Birreil does not staho
alone in playing with the cattle raiders IN ire
land, but represents the united Cabinet, ne mas
secured the punishment of Laurence Ginnen
for contempt of court for interference In the
management of estates. is making better
and commands the support of the Roman Cath
olic bishops.
MIR Llcyd-Gcorge exhausted by overwork and
family bereavement. has started across France
In a motor car, and wilf~recruit his health at
villa near Nice There is talk OF raising the
Board Of Trade to the dignity of a Secretaryship
of State.
Winston Churchill. WHO is emerging at Khar-
toun from equatorial Africa. is expected to
speak at Manchester before Parliament meets
It is not probable that any Cabinet changes Will
be made next month. but another Labor mem
Der may be brought in colleague for John
Burns before the general election.
The burial Of Lord Kelvin in Westminster Ab-
bey on Monday will be conducted with extreme
simplicity in music and ritual Science has
never been adequately honored there. for only
four of the first rank have been buried
there. Newton. HerscheI, Darwin and LyeI and
two great engineers, Stephenson and Telford
There are monuments 20 James Watt Adams,
astronomer. and James Prescott JoUie. and WILL
fam Spottiswood one Of Lord Kelvin's predeces-
as president Of the Royal Society, was
buried in the sorth transept. The objections
raised to the burial of Darwin as an agnostic do
not apply TO Lord Kelvin. who had profound re-
ligious faith. There is the usual chatter about
the necessity for an enlarged Abbey. but as this
VIII De tHe lfllTu DuoHc DuFldI IN q dOzen years
haste is not urgent.
The conversion OF the old War once in Pail
Mall into headquarters for the Automobile Club
which has been decided on. is more congenial
work for British architects than experiments
with Gothic architecture. which two Justices
have been co7demning this week.
Mr.. Barrie's peter Pam re-enacted at the
Duke OF York's Theatre. is more popular than
ever. The booking IS remarkably good for jan
uary. Nina Boucicault's activity in a poor mat
inee play THE Tenth OF August" by Alexander
Won Herder. at the New Theatre is extremely
good IN denoting the isolation Of the neglected
sentimental wife,
Jacques Pintel, q pianist with distinction OF
style. has been playing unusual concertos and
Russian music at Queens Hall Adeline Genee
who dances like fairy in the ballet sails for
America at the end OF December She is Lon
don'S most artistic dancer
The Rubens ceiling for the banqctine, hall at
Whitehall IS now exhibition. after the re-
storers have been working fourteen months.
The nine pictures have been brought back to
their original state by the removal of coats OF
discolored varnish and restorers' paint and a
thick lining OF lanineted wood has been SUM-
piled TNE