Show JOTTIACS rnOJTACTtOAD The OrlrnuiiU and Ihe CnrCnc lnn < t rnlnr Queen XEW YORK Jan Tt VfiSpHeN special London tablet The Cfafc has givers great otfenso t the French government by granting a commission commis-sion In tbe Russian acmy t Prince Luis Napoleon aniKthe OcJcahl are also much cxasptfaled Kvery cfTort n us inado D Uid eaf t er tt fuss fl the commission and Ihe pro longed absenctrTtfJJariJn ltol Jo hclm from rnris 1 believed t have Ijcea really caused hy I wish to escape vexatious dltcueloaof the ecp subject a when once hGTMnjuty has made up what he Is pleased t clhl mind it js uscles8cvcn dangerous dan-gerous slon t attempfto alter his docl It Is I probable that the Ciars corn placency tOTVard Princo Kttpoleohst itudger Jduliftaily due to his intense in-tense desire tonJminlslcr a snul t tho Orleans family a he I much exasperated that KrtncA Ferdinand aliould still b in Bulgaria and nil eOorU of Princess Waldcmar Denmark mark daughter o the Due Pe Chances Presdcnsboia faifea to oftaa < his IiWety rtntmhjil hclr Sole fcsiill being curt message to the Comta Do Paris on whose be halt U was represented that lie had done his best to Induce Prince Fer dinand to abdicate antI the That much reareted Ito did not exercise a inper control over inemliers of the family of which he was the bead ritlNCE 1USMAKCK has advised Lord tiilfsbury to deal gently with Portugal TbcacOltan r Chancellor I Js eJarrUell by the fctremrUict Uie republican agitation In UlCPeningula and fears tliat the infliction of any humiliation to Use Portugueieeovcmment would she Ibo foundation of the monarchy Prince Bismarck is anxitus t do all he to the of can prevent l spread republican re-publican Idens and therefore IB I un niUn f to Injure or weaken d nion nrUilal government The Prince has not expressed any approval of the Portuguese position AN AKRAUGEMKXT may b made by which at the next session the duties of the leaders of the House will b lightened When Gladstone wa in office from IbSQ t 1SS5 I great deal of the actual duties of leadership wens per edH brmed by Hartlngtoll Mr Gladstone never stopped late except on important nights and In his absence lord Harrington ctod J has been settled that Smith will b assisted by a similar arrangement He will remain re ponsible for Ue conduct of bust neon and Uu the house J f yU but Goschen will on many occasions relieve him and take charge of the business the Commons IX TII iis The formal betrothal of Prince Albert Victor eldest son of HRH thIn Prince of Wales t Princess Mary of Teck l arranged t take place after the Easter holiday L1IVlt VOVbp SEt DCKLJN Jan 7 Charles Lever on of the celebrated Irish novelist and himself scientific electrician o f prominence was found dead In lilt bed tills morning Death was I caused by hen dlwaw Ilrho < onlnllrr Dig Illl E Yonic Jan 7 Gilbert and ulllvans new comic opera The gondolier was produced for the lInt time in America Hto iark TIt this evening The score is full of mu ical gems and has one or two real novelties Gilberts worn < wor-n the libretto I n ihadb e serltorlous than that of his coworker worker The general opinion after tn lC pcrformenie tonight was that the opera was success and good for a long run but that the company with the exception of Miss Esther nil ist cr the only American in the company was composed of inferior It ra1 The opera was very landsomely staged Western rights for this opera have been secured by BasiS Henderson of the Chicago Opera Houec Tbe Standued Oil Tral X EV You Jan TJudge 0 irien today gavejudgment in favor of George hire in his lIght l ho Standard Oil Trust Some mouths ago lllce purchased inopen market five Standard Oil Trust cer firaies JIo also received an additional share a stock dividends On the five shares the certificates remained in the name of the person from Thom Itice purchased them nd Ithstanding repeated efforts to have them transferred t his lame on the books the trust rUt rU-t comply with his demands Then ho began suit in the supreme court agaInst John D Rockefeller ant other tr te The defense was that Rice had not established his title t Uie certificate and was hostile t the defendant hiving mrciiased tho certificates for the the Kirposa trust harassing that like had and annoying instituted cveral suits t annoy defendants and had oflered to drop proceedings l = ifu the trust paid him 350000 for 1 oil refinery at Marietta Ohio Judge OBrIen in giving judgment 111 favor of Ulc said he had c abllshed his right to become trans erred under the trust agreement As t the lt even if I they were unjustifiable that fact should not have been put forth as n reason to deprive plaintifTof ills rights Tbe term Labor Trouble BERLIN Jan 7 The Kreuz idtttng has a article on strikes and labor troubles in which I declares that I believes that In spite of their unwillingness to desert their long held position German employers will be obliged sooner or later t grant t workmen privileges akin t l1ioo which are enjoyed by Site workmen in England They will b compelled t permltpart < culary says the Kreuz Zdiunye forma Uon of trades union and a persist withholding cCthis concessions i concession-s certain to result in canlulslons in I the Industrial world which cannot ail to work Injury t the employers In the long run Kacatla In a Qnaoilarj MADRID Jan7 Premier Sagasta sin 1 quandary which he did not hook fur when he permitted his cabinet t resign and started in t for 1 new one on the bads o liberal lib-eral representation He now finds that it will be possible t obtain the ecessary coalition of liberal parties only by sacnfidns his frt principle and I is a question whether he will give his Up pet ideas en this subject IP for the ike of retaining the premiership Ttir TTr l End Scandal IXJNDON Jan 7The trial of ArthurXewton solicitor Frederick aylorson his clerk and Adolphus i Dc Golia interpreter on the charge lor conspiracy t defeat lustier in connection with the West End conneon scandal was continued before Magistrate Vaughan in the Bow I Street police court today An e postal messenger named Perkins estifled that after he had given testimony to the police Newton tried to induce him I C toAuv t Newton said he knew somebody some-body who would give 20 down and lk week expenses lot three ear t himself < Per kins ana the other toys Wright Swlaerow and or r Barber who Itail given lufonuaUuu tether t the police they would emigrate |