| Show I I MAKING IT PT OT FOR WAR OFFICE Stormy Scones Scenes Preparing for the tho Opening of British Parliament rEM ITEM OF WAIt WAIL h Society and for his tho by G nual 11 Huller lIori i London Jan cable roble letter lotter copyrighted lOO 1900 by tle at d winter O to Great Orent hM down has been somewhat M by the Iso hated latel successes which marked the past week though the seizure of foreign ships hips and unfounded rumors ba bay threatened to bring out outcrop a crop of rumors of European once ence The Th of n nn L un n onel Filcher Pilcher have been made de the most ot of by the correspondents and are ra rathen then ther magnified editorially by the Ish press But Dut anything Is acceptable In these days darB The appointment of th duke duko of Con Connaught Connaught naught to command the tho British forces In Ireland has led to a lot of s specula ula II tion as to whether ho will m succeed Lord whoso term expires In No November vember nil as Lord Roberts Hobert Is tile his logical but un UI lie he was chosen chogen to command In South AfrICa the general Impression was that ho would be too old to be selected for Cor Corthe forthe the when It became camo vacant Gen General General eral Duller Buhler was n a hot bot favorite but his defeat near Colenso seems to have Ir Irrevocably ruined Ills his chances It Is moro more than probable that Roberts Roberta It if success successful ful Cui In South AfrIca will flit fill the of fora short per lod and that he will wili ther be suc aled b by tue tho duke of Connaught whose pop popularity an and 1 knowledge ore are strong enough to overcome the prejudice dice agaInst Q a member of the royal family holding that The Tho abuse of the var office of Lord Lansdowne the secretary of state for forwar war and Lord Wolseley continues un unabated unabated abated In the press hreSs and among amons the 1101 fly By the time parliament bles It promises to have gathered such force orce that It Is more than likely that most storm stormy scenes mark the de bat bates v bile many people declare that unlesS Lord Lor I lansdowne e or r ex cx II h r fIn I I will v c h b d s the criticisms emanate chiefly tom from the patriotic whose pride Is hurt nt at the lie reverses and from tho those whose heart strings have been touched by death But when the solid British tax taxpayer payer begins to be drained to support the WAr then Ihen trul truly the criticism of the military wIll begin to reach I its true volume The Times whIch with the rest Of the British press has been under the Impression that America was supporting Great Britain today prints II a lett letter r from Toronto saying the antl press In the United States Statts Is enjoying Itself over oer the reverses the tho empire Is at present enduring and adds It screams Its delight ht and It speaks sneeringly sneering and ami tauntingly of Great Orent d decadence and the uselessness of her colonial song SOliS The action of the English Insurance companies In charging nn an extra five per cent for or war risks riske already referred to In these dispatches has created no little unfavorable comment and comparison of oC their action with that of the American concerns Today says In answer to the protests the corn com panIcs sly say sentiment cannot enter In Into into to business ss transactions The best answer to the J companies Is that the American officers are arc making no such demand and If the see theIr way to with an ox ex extra tra premium It might be thought that the enormous wealthy English officers could easily do the same Their refusal Is shortsighted from a business point of view as It Is unpatriotic Unfortunately Unfortunately It Is In keeping with the g general trend of English Insurance manage management management ment Much interest Is exhibited In the new duke ot of Westminster who has hns the de to remain at the Cape during the war It appears that he has n a keen taste for racing horses fathers splendid stable Is riot not likely to be broke brok brokon on UJ Don Bon dOr us ns the young oung duke Is nicknamed Is after the famous horse not yet 21 Is said to hMo havo i selected a wife disappoints socie t ty for ho he Is t tho 0 most eligible party In the tho matrimonial The decision of Mr Ir Edward Corrigan to bring over a great greal string ot of can horses is III hailed hallad hone here with interest and Pleasure One sporting authority that Mr Corrigan never nover does things by halves adding that It Is safo aro hatting that such a collection of meers lIS as ho will tend send has haR seldom If over been gathered J t together gether by an American own or cr orSome Some contusion confusion has bee caused by the various reports of the relief of Corn Com Colwell the United States naval and the panie Ome of hits his sue cossor The Ing ig CommAnder It H Clovers appoint con ante dated an Issue of oC Washington arut in some way the admiralty went n In a H 11 was Cor or Corn Com Col wells on the list lIet of attaches The mall began bogan arriving to or cr Clover and ani It took no little trouble and explanation to extricate the tho pres present eat ent incumbent Crom mm the inconveniences It Is understood that Commander Clover Cloy er ci sIll arrive here her several 1110 months n be fore ore he assumes hIs duties From comes the news that Tord Brasser on tile the eve of retirIng from office ollice nB as governor of Victoria mounted In an Episcopal pulpit and preached a sermon to the II tion Lord Drasser Brasser Is II coming coniing homo home on the famous amous old yacht acht Sunbeam Doth the theatrical and book boole worlds are In n a bath bad way on account of the var Not more tItan three theaters In London are making money and the tho publishers are alarmed at the tho absolute stagnation of th their lr business Beerbohm Tree Wednesday replaces I King John A Midsummer Nights Dream which will be treated I as a fairy air play and beautifully staged A feature of the production which is 18 aw awaited with the grea greatest test curiosity and Interest Is the tho appearance of Laue Freear ar as Miss Freear ar Is the tho dwarfish and plain h but t very 1 clever actress whose greatest success was as In The Gay Oay and who is III the tho creator ot the song Mary Janes Topnot She recently up ap In The Man Ian in the Moon rit at atthe the New York New York City Charles Frohman lies has engaged Charles Hawtrey for tor a 11 tour of America In 1900 Hawtrey Is considered the cloy clev crest comedian In london where he I has hns long occupied a unique position Edna May sails for or homo home on the St Paul toda today Do De Wolf Hopper has engaged twenty of The Belle nelle or of New York chorus to remain In London In The Mystical Miss s In III seriously Ill and has been ordered abroad |
