| Show MY LORDS BRAIN FAG Worries Englishmen As Much As 1 It Troubles Salisbury < POLITICS AND SHAMROCKS LONDON ADOPTS CUSTOM O3 TAMMANY NEW YORK Even the Lord Chief Justice Appeared On the Bench With a Sprig of Green Pinned to His RobesJohn Hay In GreeceTrouble In Transvaal Trans-vaal Rosslyn Starts a Paper London March 19 Copyright 1S9S by the Associated PressThe Interest of the English political world now cen ttrs in the Marquis of Salisbury health and the city is full of rumors of impending changes in the cabinet In addition to influenza the premier is suffering from depression and a form of brain fag as a friend puts it Which will render it impossible for him to continue his present heavy labors at the foreign office It is believed he will remain premier but the reconstruction recon-struction of the cabinet is possible during the Easter recess The temporary installment of Mr A J Balfour the first lord of the treasury t and government leader in the house ol commons at the head of the foreign office exercises the minds of all parties i par-ties The Liberal Unionists deny it has any significance likely to prejudice their political status and Insist it is nerely a stopgap arrangement Mr Balfour has no special training or liking for foreign affairs but he is warmly in sympathy with his uncles views in regard to the present troubling troub-ling international relations and the fact that he was chosen to direct the foreign office indicates that his policy for the present at least will be conducted con-ducted upon the Marquis of Salis burys lines It is regarded as certain that Mr George N Curzon the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office will be admitted into the cabinet at the first opportunity He has made rapid advances in the estimation of politicians politic-ians especially during the past few weeks Even his political opponents and important weekly papers are I sounding his praises for the skillful manner In which he has handled ticklish I tick-lish auestions in the house of commons I mons I ST PATRICKS DAY St Patricks day was generally celebrated cele-brated on Thursday last here The I shamrock was to be seen on all sides and at the Birmingham assizes the lord chief justice Baron Russell I of Nil I lowen appeared on the bench with a sprig of shamrock pinned to his robes The Duke of Connaught escorting the Duchess of Connaught who opened the Irish Industries sale at Lansdowne House LoncTcin had a bunch of shamrock I sham-rock in his buttonhole and Rear Admiral Ad-miral Charles Beresford and other Irish members of parliament of note all snorted the emblem At Dublin the principal event of the celebration of St Patric s day was the I trooping of the colors in the castle yard Lord Roberts of Kandahar the I commanderinchlef of the forces in I Ireland commanding the troops which Vent through the evolutions brilliantly I before the lord lieutenant of Ireland Earl Cadogan and a distinguished I party including the Duchess of Manchester Man-chester and the Marquis of Ormonde all displaying clusters of shamrock In London the day was observed at St James palace the guard mount at I where the band played Irish airs and I a brilliant crowd attended the Irish industries in-dustries sale at Lansdowne House The list of patronesses contained almost all I of the royal family Lady Lansdowne Dufferin and Blandford were among the I I indefatigable saleswomen Many of the stallholders wore green II IRISH TACTICS Mr John Redmond the Parnellite leader has adopted very clever tactics I to force a hearing of the question of Ireland overtaxation He has put down his motion about the financial relations I between Great Britain and Ireland in which matter he is acting as spokesman spokes-man for all sections of the Irish members I mem-bers for the evening of the budget He obtained priority and by his action ac-tion the budget is blocked and the chancellor of the exchequer Sir Michael Mi-chael HicksBeach will be unable to make his annual financial statement until the Irish debate has first taken place It is generally believed that this action will force the government to provide pro-vide facilities for a discussion of the question which up to the present the ministers have refused to do JOHN HAY IN GREECE Colonel John Hay the United States ambassador to the court of St James who has been traveling in Egypt arrived ar-rived at Athens on March 7 and the next day he was Invited to the palace and had a private conversation of an hours duration with King George ft Greece Colonel Hay left Athens on the 11th with his family and sailed from Patras for Venice He returned to London on Sunday Bishop Hartzell the Methodist Episcopal I Epis-copal bishop of Africa who is now here has a mission from the president of Liberia Li-beria to Great Britain and the United States He will endeavor to obtain a I treaty with those countries and with Liberia guaranteeing the integrity of n i i the little republic against FrancoGer man encroachments He has been well received at the British Brit-ish foreign office where sympathy was I shown toward his plan but It was suggested sug-gested that It would be better considering consid-ering the interests of the United States In Liberia if the suggestion of a treaty came from the United States Bishop Hartzell sails for New York on March 23 and will go Immediately to Washington tell re he hopes to meet with a favorable reception SCOTTISH LIFE The Earl of Rosslyn the peer who has adopted the stage for a profession I Is starting a new penny paper called Scottish Life In an editorial announcement an-nouncement he says My sister the Duchess of Sutherland Suther-land offers you an interesting story and amongst other writers are the Marquis of Lome and Ladies Randolph Ran-dolph Churchill and Warwick The huge surplus of the present financial year and the high price of consols finds the government with more r money on Its hands than it needs and it has been decided to spend 2500000 12500000 In buying sites and erecting po buildings for the great public departments depart-ments including a new war office The premiers brother Lord Sackville Cecil left 350000 1250000 almost entirely of his own earnings Like his brother he had an absorbing interest In electricity He was once chairman of the Exchange Telegraph company and assisted in the development of the Eastern Telegraph company The Daily Mall is publishing letters I I f 1 i iIi A < k I from women demanding that ladies I I have smoking carriages on the railroads rail-roads I roadsTROUBLE IN TRANSVAAL I Private advices from the Transvaal i to the people having large Interests there indicate that serious trouble with I Great Britain Is brewing British troops are already being concentrated con-centrated on the frontier At Johannesburg Johan-nesburg great commercial distress prevails pre-vails Mr Woolf Joel the nephew partner and trustee of the late Barney Barnato who was recently shot and killed in his oflice by a former sollder named Veltheim said to be an American who married Violet Desmonde was of the Gaiety chorus some years ago The marriage was kept a secret as his mother objected to his marriage to anyone any-one but a Jewessgym |
