Show I OUR LONDON LETTER r r I TENDON Aug 29The ministers 3 are resting from their labors and their f 1 works will not foKow them till the re ceps campaign begins Mr A J Baa r four seems fated to bo the first mem jier of the cabinet to open the campaign cam-paign by appearing before his Manchester t Man-chester constituents i Prior thereto he will visit Mr Gladstone Glad-stone at Kawarden His visit will begin c be-gin tomorrow and he will remain with Mr Gladstone for several days Considerable Con-siderable interest pertains to the meeting and everybody is asking why Lthe conservative leader should thus seeIz out and be received by the t ne statesman who is still regarded as a sort of spiritual head of liberalism Mr Balfours friends assert that both k statesmen have much in common m S their range of studies apart from r > li F tics and can certainly point to the fact hut Mr Gladstone has received Mr t UaHour at Hwardien > once already I o ter the election of 1874 when mom 51 nhjslcs was more likely to oe the subject sub-ject of theL disrusston than politics But Mr BaJfour has become leader of the house since with d policy on education edu-cation which he already has asked Mr of Gladstone to suppqirt publicly knowIng know-Ing he sympathize with it privately I Tha conference in well informed cir cles is believed to refer to how far Mr Gladstone will give his open support I 5 L e r 1 to the government proposals in aid of sectarian education I Mr Joseph Chamberlain secretary of state for the colonies prior to hIs departure de-parture for America appointed Mr William Conjngham Greene now secretary sec-retary of legation at Teheran special agent TO REPRESENT GREAT BRITAIN at Pretoria There is special significance signifi-cance in this step The new envoy will have direct relations with the colonial office instead of acting through the high commissioner of the Cape and will have a salary it is said of 1500 per annum paid from the imperial exchequer The appointment of such I a minister is a kind of recognition of the independence of the Transvaal and I is bviously designed to conciliate the Boers The British agent Closte at Pretoria I proving himself a better man than his predecessor Sir Jacobus De Wet sends such details of Boer armaments as imply that they mean a prolonged campaign I cam-paign with a strong power If the British Brit-ish government adopts the plan of sending send-ing gradual reinforcements the Boers wiJl strike at once Probably within the year the matter will be settled by British recognition of the Transvaal as an independent power I Mr Cecil Rhodes proposes arriving in London about the middle of December Decem-ber The house of commons committee I on South Africa will not meet until I parliament resumes in January But I there will be a crisis meeting of the chartered company before parliament I opens and Rhodes must be present LONDON CLUB AND I is at present a desert The Carlton the Reform the Conservative the Travelers with the various service I clubs are closed Those of their members mem-bers who remain in town and choose 1 to show themselves in Clubland find 1 accommodation in kindred clubs that j J are thrown open to them I i Before the Dublin convention meets a final attempt will be made to give unity to the nationalists by making Mr Sexton chairman in room cf Mr j Dillon who is the special object off of-f HeaJys detestation Mr Dillon i ready to resign but is doubtful whether i Mr Healy wllFaccept the compromise I Since the death of his mother Lady Wilde the health of convict Oscar Wide te I Wilde has broken down There appears i ap-pears to have been deep affection between i be-tween them The home secretary recently cently decided there should be no re I mission of the sentence That decision is now under revision and Wildes release I re-lease is probable about October The court will stay in Balmoral till I the end of November when the queen will return to Windsor There has wl rr i been another recovery In the old I queens health Those who saw her gx I > njr north to Balmoral state that she I looked sprightSier and relied less upon I assistance in walking than for years past pat I MILLAIS DEATH The death of Sir John MilJois imposes I a somewhat difficult duty upon the 1 Royal academy in the selection of a i successor The choice would probably fall 0 II Watts but that he is aged and somewhat of a recluse and Sir I Edward BurneJones voluntary separation separa-tion from the academy excludes another other who might have been regarded I a a suitaMe nominee The position is one requiring a manysided man The president cll the academy must b not I only a artist of unquestionable attainments attain-ments bit r man of the world and a man of bu < ice tactful free from I crotchets an able to manage a body of men by no means all possessing tho qualification demanded in their chief The election will not be hurried as it wl I is not likely to lake place before November i No-vember and in the meantime rumor will be busy At present the choice seems to rest between Messrs Alma Tadeona Fildes Orchardson Poynter and Prin sep hut nothing is know any certainty cer-tainty I THE RUNNER r Tommy Conneff the champion mile I runner of the United States will contest con-test his first race against F E Bacon I the English professional runner on i October 3 at Bollslbridge a suburb of I Dublin Conneff is in fine condition I He is training for his coining races under A C Dowling president of the Suffolk Athletic cub of Boston Moss Miss Clara Baron president of the American Red Cross society and her party of aides will sa from Liverpool for New York on the steamer Servio on September 1 The four expeditions sent out by the Redi Cross society covered the distressed territory between be-tween the Mediterranean and the I Black sea visiting about 300 villages and furnishing permanent relief to probably 200 persons in the form of materials ma-terials implements cattle horses and mules The agent of the Red Cross society often purchased cattle from the made raids after Kurds who never mte any rds afer I being visited by representatives of the simply loaned society Everything w loaed f the peasants and each article so loaned bears the red cross stamp S It could be recovered i itshouldi be stolen Kurds by the urs KurdsMISS BARTON directed the work of her agents from Constantinople Sir Philip Currle the British ambassador and all of the ministers called upon Miss Barton who is held in the highest esteem in Turkey Miss Barton has received the decoration decora-tion O an Armenian order founded Ins the twelfth century but has not heard of the decoration conferred upon her by the sultan An interesting scene occurred a Bon Pesh > where Miss Bon stopped OD her way back to London A hundred Turks whb a employed at the exhibition now in progress at that place learning that Miss Barton was in the city sought her out and crowded about her and kissed her hand and raised it to their fore heads Though endeavoring to make her stay in London very quiet Miss Barton i receiving a great deal o attention |