Show 10 o HONOR AMERICANS t Great Demonstration When Our Warships Reach England t FLEET WILL MEET THEM + DUKE OF YORK TO EXTEND A WELCOME + English Naval Authorities Discover They Have Much to Learn In the Way of Marksmanship Results of Target PracticeDuke of Marl boroughs Government Position t Copyright 1S09 by the Associated Press London Jan iPeople here seem to have settled in their own minds that an American squadron will visit Portsmouth Ports-mouth in June and it is unhesitatingly announced that the admiralty authorities authori-ties have arranged to have the British channel fleet with the Duke of York at its head assemble in the Solent to meet the American ships One paper presumes to know that the American squadron will consist of all the best types of modern warships The Portsmouth municipality is evi diuly trying to oom the event for all it is wo th and a dispatch from Ports jrnulh today says official information > Jon the subject is only awaited there in o tier to prepare the arrangement to give a fitting welcome to the officers and menThe men-The splendid practice of the American Ameri-can gunners has galvanized the British Brit-ish into a critical interest in the gun firing of their own navy and the re suIts of the inquiries made are not v > ry reassuring The performances of the Mediterranean fleet supposed to be the crack British fleet are far from satisfactory The results of the heavy md light gun prize firing of iS9S just published shows that with heavy guns 2Z i rounds were fired at eight knots and the percentage of hits was 30 With the sixinch quickfirers steaming steam-ing twelve knots the average was also 20 per cent and with the Maxim guns I the > average was 46 per cent The six I inch quickfirers are the most used guns in the British service and the I papers point out that it is evident that even the crack squadron has much to I learn regarding its use In the case of the smaller weapons the results i were still more disadvantageous and this without the disconcerting effect of I hotile fire The papers now ask if it is not time that measures be taken to make gun practice omething more than a perfunctory exercise as is the I case in many of the British ss I The Duke of Northumberla v ho I died on Monday will be interr n St Nicholas chapel Westminster Abbey I here the Percy family have the right of burial Some pressure was put on the family to waive the right of burial I in view of the limited space now remaining re-maining in the abhey but without I avail The income from the estate is nearly 250000 a year I MARLBOROUGHS APPOINTMENT T The Duke of Marlborough by his apt ap-t pomtment as paymaster general in A sue cession to the Earl of Hcpetown I v no was recently made Lord Chamberlain Chamber-lain becomes a member of the government govern-ment The office however is only a stepping stone There is no work and no pay but the duke may occasionally have to answer a question in the house of lords The appointment is a reward for the dukes labors for the Conservative Conserva-tive cause He is an indefatigable i worker in the Primrose League Hardly I Hard-ly a week passes without his having I presided at a meeting of the league somewhere William Astors Pall Mall Gazette says The duke is a young man who has the good sense to take himself and his position seriously and not rest satisfied sat-isfied like a beaumarchais nobleman j with having taken the trouble to be born In the age we live in it is eminently I emi-nently desirable that men of rank and J wealth should throw the influence of their position and personality into the seale of politics The Pogmenay or New Years eve festivities celebrated at Glasgow were marked by the greatest exhibition oft of-t intoxication in the streets peen even in I Glasgow One account of the scene says saysIt I It would need the pen of Zola to describe de-scribe the state of the streets The most astounding feature of the debauchery de-bauchery was the appalling number of young lads rulling about the streets AN EXTRAORDINARY CRIMINAL Harvey the valet who on Wednesday pleaded guilty to stealing the Duchess of Sutherlands jewels which were stolen while the duchess was on her way from Paris to London in October last proves to be an extraordinary character The judge has postponed Mitence in order to enable him to in I T form the police as to what became of i the bulk of the jewels of which only SuO worth out of 25000 ontained in the stolen satchel were recovered the idea being that the prisoner will get a lighter sentence for the information q The prisoner however replied to the judge that he would not split on his pals even if he got a life sentence He appears to be one of the most notorious no-torious criminals of the generation is of genteel appearance and has a grand air and a frank engaging look The prisoner boasts that he has made twenty twen-ty bigger hauls than in the case of the Sutherland jewels and claims he has reduced robbery to a science making mak-ing it his business to know everybody of wealth and consequence in Europe He further says that he rarely made r a mistake owing to his cautious preliminaries pre-liminaries and declared that the only serious mistake of his career was when P he robbed the Duchess of Devonshire some time ago of a jewel case and found to his dismay that he had taken f paste Harvey the Valet appears to have made a great deal of money for he lost several thousand pounds in one f week at a Soho gambling club He had the lordliest tastes and lived at a West End hotel where his bills were over C50 Finally he was betrayed in the f Sutherland affair by his mistress a former actress who informed the police i of the share he had taken in that robbery f rob-bery Otherwise there Is every reason to believe that he would never have been caught as the police had no clue to him He was apparently devoted g i to this woman as while awaiting trial I t he begged her to come to his prison l y end give him one more kiss |