Show BUR LETTER gossip from merry england comment on akstins austins Aus tins poetry TOLSTOI REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS emperor william Is to race his new yacht in the coming events at cowes london feb 29 copyrighted 1896 by the associated press the weather curing the past week has been warm and frosty by turns and is now warm again there has been a number of ministerial dinners but the reception which will herald the opening of the season will be tho prince of yae levee next week it will be the occasion for an enormous gathering of royalty and aristocracy and the duke of york the duke of connaught prince christian and the prince of teck will be among those present the U S ambassador thomas F bayard will present mr edvin M fox and sir lutchie of california the marah ajah promises to be the lion of the season if becomes to england as arranged for he will bring with him a princely suite of natives it is now definitely announced that the prince of wales out of respect for the memory of the late prince henry of battenburg will not race bis cutter britannia in the bievere regattas he will merely take a pleasure cruise in the mediterranean incidentally it nay be added that the bievere is lees favored by Britis hers this year they complain of the anti british feeling and are gravitating to cairo as a rule it is announced that emperor william has decided to visit cowes for the purpose 0 racing his new meteor the cutter being built for him by the llen dersons of glasgow under the shed used tor valkyrie III end under the design of george L watson during the famed regatta week of the royal yacht squadron such being the case it is admitted that he ft ill need much tact in order to avoid unpleasant manifestations alfred A austin the poet laureate is still meeting auch ridicule especially regarding his effusion in regard bons raid so much so that the matter finally reached the house of commons yesterday where mr J parker smith liberal unionist member tor the patrick division of asked the for information regarding the laureateship he suggested abst mr patriotic ballads should be to iho censorship of lord chamberlain or he added some other minister the first lord oi the treasury A J balfour in replying for the government ald be did not think any department of the government was especially qualified for boeti al censorship the united slates ambassador mr thomaa F bayard was ono of the speakers at the meeting at the Sc amens hospital society which was held at the mansion house yesterday replying to the chairman sir donald currie founder of the castle line and an intimate friend of air gladstone alio remarked that the queen the czar and emperor william were supporters of attic society and that it now hid the good will of the president of the united states as expressed by the presence of mr bayard the latter dwelling upon the beneo of brotherhood said at sea there are no euch tiling as troublesome boundary disputes contested speeches or of influence buffer states or other conditions of diplomacy scarcely a day baa pasted without a token of gratitude and good will being bent by america to for heroic rescues on the edae ahen I 1 was att endine to my duties in washington I 1 remember bow there was a constant current of thanks und gratitude from great britain to sailors of the united baates such acts are healing differences and strengthening friendship and bood feeling in the diomes on both sides of the atlantic The arrival in england of dr jameson is the sensation of the week pages in the newspapers are devoted daily to the subject of the invasion of the hand the secret arrangements supposed to have been made to accomplish it and the trial of the lead era of the raiders the charge of warring against a friendly aofter brought against dr jameton when lie was arraigned in the bow street police court on monday last is based on the foreign enlistment act of 1870 which ivaa passed to provide for the fenian raids into canada from the united states A precedent is found in general San dowal and sir W L calls na al expedition tion against venezuela in their vessel the justita was filled out at antwerp and sailed and battled ath a venezuela battle general sandoval was sentenced to a months confinement as a first class prisoner and to pay a fine of pounds dr jameson will be defended by sir edward clarke Q 0 sir F C lockwood Q 0 mr edward M carson Q 0 amro F gill and sir richard webster Q 0 mr R 0 finley Q 0 charles matthew Q 0 and others will prosecute the raider it is understood dr jamesena Jam esona defense will be that he was called upon by the reform committee assist in maintaining order at johannesburg that the committee was acting under the transvaal flag the boer officials having withdrawn and that moreover the men accompanying compa nying him alid not fire until they were attacked tolstoi has replied to the english pros criticisms of his christianity and patriotism riot ism he says that not only is patriotism a bad disposition but he claims it is unreasonable in principle to love in preference to ones own cation above all others he contends that patriotism is counter the first principles of christs teachings and that christianity makes patriotism superfluous and like a lamp in daylight A sensational breach ot promise case is promised it is eaid that a unionist member ot parliament whose name is withheld will shortly be sued for and an important array of counsel has been engaged by the plaintiff the queen invested sir john with the presidency of the royal academy on thursday last at windsor castle and handed him the medal and chain of office the new commander in chief general Wo leley in the address which he made on thursday in this city advocating increasing the navy as great britaina Brit ains line of defense expressed the opinion that in the event of war it would be impossible to sever the food supply of great britain his chief argument was that all the fleets in the world would not prevent our american cousins who arc always looking out for money and who leave an eye to the main chance from running into our harbors with cargoes of wheat and flour the bill of the president of the board of agriculture sir walter long to per the exclusion of ectore cattle ha already been confronted with halt a dozen blocking notices growing out of the move mentin the country against the measure mr herbert gardner formerly president of board ot agrical tu rebas written a letter to the times in which he condemns the irrevocable exclusion of store cattle when there is no danger in their admission he questions the benefit which the british farmer w derive from such conclusion the daily chronicle describes the bill as protection by side wind the british troops which formed part of the ashantee Aeh antee expedition returned tn london on thursday in a dilapidated though not battered condition they were enthusiastically cheered as they marched through the city from the docks where they landed to their barracks in the west part of london colonel lake of the canadian staff has made a favorable reception here and lord wolseley has settled that canada ie ta have magazine rifles with which to arm tue canada militia but although these rifles are to be manufactured in england and dominion government will have to pay for hem the canadian minister ot la now in this in search health the only theatrical novelties of the week were the premiere at the lyceum on thursday of for tho crown which made a hit forbes robertson scoring a great success and mrs patrick campbell not being considered strong in her part and de whedon grossmith pre on wednesday of the romance of a shop walker by and charles marlowe THE chicago feb 29 hogs receipts market fairly active closing weak to shade lowar anan opening cattle receipts SOO quiet unchanged from prices sheep re chipta 1000 market dull baay chicago wheat feb 07 corn feb 29 may soa oats fob 20 may 21 pork feb may lard feb may ribs feb mav barley 2838 rye SO flax 00 timothy land office filings in the salt lake land office saturday the following papers were filed homestead no by mosea E porter of riverside for abo quarter northwest quarter north half of the southwest quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 10 township 12 ranee 3 west final homestead kb by georee D grant of westwater for lots 1 2 5 8 and northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 1 township 20 south range 2 east final desert no 1148 by orrin P rockwell of silver city tor east half of northwest quarter eat half of northeast quarter of ejection 30 township 12 range 5 west desert land certificates were received washington for lincoln carlisle of utah county and robert A snyder of carbon county also mineral certificate to the old jordan and galena minine company for lode known aa jordan cx lode mining claim in west mountain district |