Show I GOSSIP IN LONDOV TOWN David J Jnrdine chairman of the Cu nurd Steamship company has resigned his office ilo will bo succeeded bv George Arbulhnnt Burns Lord Invcrclydc Tho King and Queen surrounded by members of the royal family 1 will spend Christmas at Sandrlngham where a shooting party will gather Monday I Thu Spilth African war and the courts parilil mourning seems In no way to have affected the nations determination to celebrate cel-ebrate the holiday season with more than usual zest London emptying fast of fashionable people who arc hurrying to the country t to hold their festivities and large parties 11 ore gathering nt nearly all the great homes In the Unllejl 1 Kingdom London Globo thinks hie time has not i arrived forcjispusslng ftmncsty and ralacs Its voice Inn tcn against Mr Asqulths j analog vln tho policy pursued rbward the South by the North at the end of the American Civil war The breakdown of Englands telegraphic 1 system which Is still In state of semi chaos a9 tlic result of tho recent severe J storms hun produced a widespread de I 1 nand for underground wires Thin sys lem Is already use between London and Birmingham and Is being extended northward north-ward 1 London weekly reviews Indorse Lord Robberys Chesterfield speech with singular sin-gular unanimity But the Ironclad Liberal Liber-al Speaker piovcu the exception In this Tho Speaker r lgnnntly repudiates the 1 suggestion that anyone Is capable of replacing re-placing Sir Henry OampbcllBannermin In the leadership of the party 1 Patrick A Mcllugh M Pl speaking at a public meeting u Sllgo declared that tho lesson I ho had learned from his recent 1 tour of the United States was simply that the Irish should stay at home This ho added Is the advice of one who bus seen J the dark as well ai the bright bide of I llfoln tho great American cities I I |