Show GOSSIP FROM ACROSS THE t GREAT POND English Papers Jubilant Over the Prospects of Permanent Peace FINANCES OF IRELAND BIG MEETINGS ASKING FOR JUSTICE ABE HELD Newspapers of Moscow and St i Petersburg Continue Their Appeals Ap-peals For Help For the Famine SufferersUnless Aid is Extended Extend-ed Soon the Calamity Will Prove J to Be One of the Greatest That Has Ever Visited IndiaIt is Bad I Enough AlreadyGreat Britain Following the Example Set by Our Naval Officials rWeekly London Cable London Jan 2 London has been J specially blessed in holiday weather I ths season Yesterday the weather I was singularly mild and springlike and there was a noteworthy absence of the usual dullness and depression of London winter weather I The newspapers of today generally j review the cents of the past year dwelling at length on the more prominent promi-nent of them and all join in a ChOl us of congratulations over the prospects of pea e that everywhere prevails Special stiess is laid upon the relations rela-tions existing l < et eon Great Britain and the United States and comparisons compari-sons are made bfteen the situation rtux and that existing a year ago when there was much anxiety on both 1 sIdes of the Atlantic regarding the outcome out-come of the dispute between England and America in relation to the Venezuela Vene-zuela boundary IRISH QUESTION The vitality and intensity of the popular pop-ular interest in the dominant question in Ireland that of securing financial justice for the countr has been fully fvinued by the grea meetings held in Dublin Limerick and Belfast Despite the holiday season the meetings attracted at-tracted a stronglv inlluential attendance attend-ance composed of men of all shades of political and reiigiour faith all eager to impr s upon the British government gov-ernment their demand for the redress of their financial grievance IOn I-On Tuesday night as was then announced J an-nounced in thr > dispatches of the United i Unit-ed Associated Presses an important meeting was held at Limerick presided 1 presid-ed over by Lord Dunraven who sits In the house of lords as Baron Kenrv r HP is a Conservative apd has heretofore I here-tofore been a staunch supporter of the government but his appearance as chairman at the Limerick meeting is proof that he wil be found opposing I the cabinet on the question of Irish taxation unless the government makes j concessions that will avert an open fghf One of the most prominent II il eakers at the meeting was the Most Rev Edward T ODwyer Roman Catholic bishop of Limerick who made a strong speech setting forth the wrongs under which Ireland suffered in respect to taxation and urging Irishmen Irish-men no niixiier what their politics to J stand together to obtain a lessening of the financial l burdens under whkh the I country labored DALEY THE DYNAMITER John Daley the recently released I j dynamiter also spoke His presence ion i-on tile platform with Lord Dunravpn shows how community of interest has j i taused political animosities r > be laid J I aside Palsy elicited rhvus by l expressing pressing the hope that if Lord Castle j I ton of Upper o ory remained true to j himself and Ireland history v ould 1 proclaim him as the successor ofi Washington Lord Castleton who is a Liberal has taken a prominent part In the present agitation It was he who a short time ago made a speech at Cork in which he denounced the government for its obstinacy in the matter of Irish taxation adding that he hopjd that history might not repeat re-peat itself and the people of Cork follow fol-low the example set by the colonists in Boston when they threw the tea overbiurd in 177C Thursday night a meeting waL held in Belfart under the auspices of the hamber of commerce The purpose of the meeting was to instruct the people on the taxation question awl politics had no plane in the nroceeling ANOTHER COMMISSION Since last week it has been decided to recommend the appointment of another an-other royal commission to investigate > I the taxation question instead of a committee of the house of common as was at first proposed This will enable the government to obtain a commission having a majority free of the alleged home rule bias of the for iier commission whose report in favor of Ireland has afforded ground for the agitation now going on This proceeding proceed-ing will delay any legislative action on the question for the next two sessions ses-sions and until the time arrives for the cabinet to make a grand coup designed de-signed to settle the demand for autonomy auto-nomy for Ireland and to reduce the Irish representatior at Westminster under a regulation of seats scheme It cannot be denied that the last commission left some important points unsettled but the leading witness who i appeared before that commission and i j who will reappear before the next com j J mission has told a representative of j the United Associated Presses that it I j will be impossible to disprove the contention j con-tention thai Ireland pays an annual I excess of of 2500000 I I MAKE THE MOST OF IT I j The Dublin Daily Press the chief organ of conservative opinion in Ireland i Ire-land in a recent article on the taxation i taxa-tion question said If it be rebellious seditious and disloal to demand what I a commission appointed by the imperial im-perial parliament avows is justly due j k us then we are all Protestants and I Roman Catholics Unionists and home I 1a rulersrebels and disloyal men j I This correctly represents the feeling I feel-ing that everywhere exists in Ireland The letter of Chief Justice Good1 I ridge published last week in the Englishman of Calcutta pointing out I I that the means adopted by the government gov-ernment of India to check the famine I in that country were entirely inadequate inade-quate and declaring that thousands of persons are dying of starvation calls attention to the general apathy f on the subject thus far displayed in England The queen some time ago I t sent a telegram to the viceroy of India In-dia expressing sympathy for the suf t feiers and promising that they would c I he assisted but thus far nothing of consequence has been done by the imperial im-perial government to avert the effects I of one of the greatest calanities that has ever threatened India Comparisons Compari-sons are made in the matter on the attitude of Great Britain and Russia which do not redound greatly to the credit of this country It is known that the czar has several times expressed ex-pressed himself as being deeply concerned con-cerned in the outcome of the famine and his interest has taken a practical turn which will undoubtedly result in some alleviation of the widespread distress dis-tress in the Indian empire of Great Britain APPEALS FOR HELP The newsnapers of Moscow and St Petersburg continue their appeals for help for the famine sufferers and in other directions steps are being taken to aid the victims In some English quarters the opinion obtains that this I generous action of the Russians is only I a mask hiding some deep laid political r scheme having for its object the raising rais-ing of disaffection in India against II British rule Some of the tory papers express their approval of declarations that have appeared in certain Indian papers to the effect that aid from such a source should not be accepted But they do not urge the government to extend aid to the sufferers and in the meantime thousands of the natives are dying There is no question in the minds of those who are not blinded by hatred of Russia that the Russian movement had its origin entirely in charitable motives and that it was intended in-tended as a response to the foreign aid given at the time of the great Russian Rus-sian famine some five years ago The opinion is gaining ground that the Indian government is not able to cpye with the situation and that unless imperial im-perial aid is extended the famine will prove one of the most calamitous vIsitations visi-tations of the kind l that has ever affected IndiaN India-N VAL MOVEMENTS A Spanish naval commission consisting con-sisting of the Marquis de Mosa and several officers is at present London I watching the progress of the building of warships and awaiting any orders j I that Spain may give here A member j j of the commission informs the United I i Associated Presses that four torpedo I boat destroyers are now being constructed I con-structed on the Clyde for the Spanish j government and that two other Brit i t I ish built vessels of the same class are j j ready to be placed in commission i Following the example set by the I I American navy department the Brit j ish naval authorities have decided to I use nickel steel instead of Harveyized I steel for the protection of warships I I now under construction I I In response to inquiries as to the reported I I re-ported withdrawal of the yachts Britannia and Ailsa from the Mediter I I ranearr races Viseomte Rochehourt j I president of the Cannes Union writes I to the United Associated Presses that all reports of troubles arising from the new rules are false All the regattas I regat-tas this year will be sailed under the I rules agreed upon in 1892 The Britannia I Britan-nia and Ailsa will certainly take part I I I i in the racing The owners of the other i large English yachts have not yet replied re-plied to the invitation to enter their boats A brilliant gathering is expected II ex-pected O |