New-York tribune., 1907-01-11
"p[CKWICK" GASELEE.
Sir 4Fred's Connection rcifh Charles
Dickens's Hero.

General Sir Alfred Gaselee who b,s ius+ h.o.
appointed TO a membership of the Council of India
ir London. bears name familiar to many AmAr,
cars as having commanded the British contingent
If the international force dispatched IN Chino con-,
six years ago Tor the relief of the foreign leya-
tors at Peking If is not generally known that he is
nephew of Charles Dickenss Mr. Justice Stare
leigh" who presided az the celebrated breach ~
rronlise trial of "Bardell vs. PickvvioL ,rt
enslogy between the names of Starelegh and Gsse
lee would be more easily apparent If the latter
name spelled # is pronounced that ,s N
say. with T." Gazeleish. instead of with an
"s" Incidentally, ] may mention that there is a
bona fds case record of Brooke aet pckwick
where the defendant the we'll known coach
proprietor of Bath Mr. PickWick from whom
Dickens avow edly took the name of his immortal !
hero. The action, however. not one for hreac acb
of promise, but to recover damages for the loss
Of a trunk. and the presiding Justice was oddly
enough, Judge Geeelee, the uncle OF the general
The latter was educated at Festel School. which
dates back TO the time of the Reformation and
10 which Oliver Cromwell sent his son Richard 10
be educated. The Great Protector must often have
been in the quaint old Essex village. where the
school has been located for so many hundreds of
years. as his fatherin-lew's home was only short
distance away.
RUsSIA's CIYU.TzTNG INFLUENCE IN ASIA
Russia comes in for much abuse on the part
OF the foreign press through the latter's differences
of opinion with the Car and his leading states
men as TO the best means of governing his en-
pire that it is pieasanter be able occasionally to
draw attention to good work accomplished by her
and concerning the value of which there can he
but opinion. I the spread of civilization
IN Central Asia As illustration thereof, l may
point 10 Bokhara, whose Enr is paying an
official visit 10 st. Petersburg He has accepted
the suzerainty but not the sovereignty Of the
Czar, and since he has come within the sphere of
Nuscov!te Influence has abolished slavery in his
dominions. has done away with torture. has re-
stTicted capital punishment the gravest offences,
has forbidden the of opium and hasheesh, and
has filed in and bricked that terrible Sach
palace grounds into which hundreds had been
thrust TO die of thirst and hunger among the fes-
terinE remains of previous victims. The English
envoys, Stoddart and Connolly. perished in that pit,
their fate being ascertained by the celebrated mis-
sionary and traveller. DR.. Joseph Wolf who braTed
almost certain death By visiting Bokhara in order
TO discover what had become of them. Sir Henry
Drummond Wolf. who British Ambassador
Madrid during The between the United
States and Spain. and such intrusted with the
care Of American interests Madrid during that
conflict. is his son.
Besides accomplishing all these and many other
reforms the Emir of Bokhara. has promoted and
developed the cotton and silk industries in such a
manner 10 render his country the most prosper
Gus state IN Central Asia. To-day life and prop
erty Of foreigners are as safe in Bokhara as they
anywhere in Americas condition brought about
which Russia deserves the sole credit.