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Show SIZINOLITIGS Situation in Great Britain Will Bo Determined the Coming Com-ing Week. PRESENT OUTLOOK CONSIDERABLY MIXED There Is Much Talk Ahout .Compromise, but No Possible Possi-ble Ground for It. BY PAUL LAMBETH. Special Cablo to The Tribune. LONDON, Juno A, When parliament meets next week wo will be ablo to slzo up thc political situation aa it haa been left by tho death of King Edward and the accession of King Goorgc. At present to all, except thoao on the inside, thc situation appears pretty mixed. There ls a good deal of talk of a compromise, but this comes mostly from tho onnosltlon. and I am Inclined to believe It means nothing practical. I have yot to talk with a liberal of Influence In-fluence who believes thero will be the slightest drawing back ho far as tho veto question 1b concerned. Tho lino of cleavage ls so clearly drawn that to tho liberal mind there is no possible ground for compromise. The only real question seems to be as to how much tlmo thc government will allow for things to sottle down beforo forcing tho issue. King George I3 thoroughly posted on tho situation. Feature Recent Debate. Ono of the features of thc recent debates de-bates in the house of commons was tho regularity w-lth which the new king attended, at-tended, and thc close attention with which he followed, thc various speeches. Before he left for Biarritz, tho late king requested his son to furnish hlra regularly regu-larly with his Impressions of thc course and spirit of parliamentary proceedings. Those letters, If thoy were made public, would cxclto profound Interest King George haa. according to all accounts, ac-counts, not the samo faculty of making friends quickly as his predecessor Indeed, In-deed, little is known as to those whom he houors with his closest confidence. But If there ls any eminent man in public pub-lic life to whose opinion he attaches special spe-cial value, and to whoso advice ho might be expected to give a consldcrato hearing. hear-ing. It Is Lord Carrlngton. Thc genial and tactful president of the board of agriculture was a close friend of thc late king In their salad days, and he possesses pos-sesses an abundance of those qualities which go to mako a aago and discreet counselor of kings. King George's arrangement to visit South Africa, lo open Iho union parliament, parlia-ment, has necessarily been canceled by his accession to thc throne. Arrangements Arrange-ments have not yet been made as lo what will ho dono in tho circumstances, but the probability is that his majesty will Belecf some member of thc royal family, possibly thc Duke of Connaught or Prince Arthur, lo porform thc ceremony cere-mony In his stead. There is some talk or having thc young Duke of Cornwall make thc trip as ono of thc party. Emigration to Canada. Something like consternation has boon caused amoug those philanthropists who had, thoy thought, found tho solution of the problem of tho unemployed by shipping ship-ping all those out of work to Canada. Already Al-ready arrangements had been mado to send thousands, but now conies the Canadian Ca-nadian government with a notice that thc bars are up and that emigrants financially assisted out of public or charitable funds will only he- allowed to land In Canada If ho Is "suited for, willing to accept and for whom a position at farm work ha3 beon guaranteed from Canuda," The government of that dominion wants farm workers, not men to swell thc ranks of thc unemployed In the big towns. This order especially strikes at. such organizations organiza-tions as tho London Central Unemployed Body, which has beon arranging to send out large batches of men who cannot find work in London, and who presumably would bo unsuited for farm labor. Strong representations have been made without nfTnt 4n -Mm On rn il l-ili lnVfmnilnf . and a batch of 150 selected emigrants from London for whom passages had already bcoq arranged are unable to salt Another line of emigration to Canada which has romo in for criticism, and may receive a check Is the .sonding of poor children to the dominion to bo bound out to service. It Is alleged that some of those children have not received proper treatment In their ncw homos and steps arc bolng taken lo Insure the exorcise of more caro In thc sending of children abroad and in looking after those who are sent. Pathos in a Story. Thoro is a world of pathos in Ihc story of Francis Harding, a London clerk, who dlod and was burled at sea recently. Harding, being out of work, loft hi:; family fam-ily In London. Although weak and 111 as tho result of long privation, ho volun-1 leered to work as a stoker on a White Star vessel, so .us to reach the United States, where ho had hoard thore was work to be obtained. Ills strength failed him. as might have been expected, and he dlod beforo he could sot his foot on the ncw land, and his wlfo and children wore lofl bereaved and destitute His body had not boon commuted to Iho deep when tho thoughts of the passengers pas-sengers and officers of the ahip turned with svmpaihy to the unknown family, and hi a few minutes $1U00 had boon subscribed sub-scribed lo help llicni In tholr trouble. Played. Many Instruments. It Is often staled that Dr. Hans Itieh-lor, Itieh-lor, who recently 'died here, was on playing play-ing acquaintance with every instrument In thc orchestra. Although this Is prob-ablv prob-ablv un exaggeration. Dr. Riohlcr certainly cer-tainly did know how every lnslrunicnt ought lo bo played. Ills own favorite instrument was the horn. but. ho was ulso an oxcollont. pi-" artist: as a matter of fact at the ago of 10 ho was exploited In that capacity us a prodigy. Of tho instruments Dr. Rich tor has boon known to play at rehearsals, re-hearsals, the oboe, the bassoon, and the (i-iimtinl innv ho 7111M1 1 Iminil : ntifl ill lens! ' on two occasions lie has been known to manipulate tho doublo bass and tiic koi-llo-druius. Equally versatile was Dr. Rlchter as 11 singer. An old schoolfellow of his has told how the Vienna consorvatorlnni once performed a mass In thc Church of In-valldes. In-valldes. The singing was somowlial feeble, and Klchtcr joined In. now helping iho tenors, ten-ors, now tho bassos, and at Intervals helping oven the sopranos over some! difficult pnssago. Children Drink Alcoltol. j F. C Alnckoreth declared a I a recent meeting of tho "Women's Total Abstinence union, at Vauxliall. that thero must be. according to his calculations, about two million children who drank alcohol. In 0:10 school alone, he said, it was found tb.t -10 per cent of the children drank alcohol regularly. If the samo proportion pro-portion obtained all around thero must lie some I'OO.OOO child drinkers In London. This was an enormous danger to the national na-tional life. Of all tho countries In I:'uropi only-Norway only-Norway and Sweden seenied to bo free from tho practice and startling tlguros i came from all over tho world, the proportion pro-portion in New Vork being. It was slated. slat-ed. fiK per coul. lie was convinced lhat a largo number of Inebriates were so as thc result of taking alcohol early In life. Mrs. Servanle said that In a case which came under her uotlco, a child was given a penny by Us mother, and, when asked by a nurse what should be dono with It she said: "I want you to buy mo aoinc boor." Not in Retirement. It was never Intended Hint Lord Flsh-or Flsh-or should be allowed to rust In vol Ironical, Iro-nical, and a sugijesllon In now being orought forward that ho should bo ur.-polnlod ur.-polnlod to organize and co-ordinato the naval defenses of the empire. With tlio growth of the Australian and Canadian navloH. and tho probability of South Africa Af-rica falling Into lino in this direction within a comparatively short time, it Is. felt that one master mind Is necessary lo direct the whole energies of Iho en:- plrc fleet In one channel, and there is: 110 one quite so competent to carry out this worlc as Is Lord Fisher. |