Show tie government calling ont all classes 01 reserves POWERS AGAIN ASSIST TURKEY christians are more indignant turkish gunboat run ashore while belne chased by a greek gunboat marines and soldiers of the powers have been landed at kandaros Kan damos A gunboat wrecked on the coast put ahead new york march 0 A special cable dispatch die patch to the herald from athens says quite a warlike aspect ie visible all over the squares and the streets of the capita the government intends to call out the last two classes of reserves the government will today a reply to the collective note of the powers A turkish warship while attempting to land troops and provisions at douro in the eulf of arta was chased by the greek revenue cotter Afro issa being unable to escape she ashore and only fifteen ot her crew were saved another step to help turks banea canea march 6 the foreign admirals have it is believed taken another step in behalf of the turks and fuel has thereby been added to the ignation of the christians orders have been issued for the british war ships rodney and a russia war ship and the french war ship chanzy to land men to escort sir alfred billiotti the british consul here to kandaros Kan damos whither he proceeds with the ostensible object of rescuing the be sied moslems mo elems the consul is on board the rodney it is thought that the real object in landing the foreign force is to compel the insurgents to rale the biege of kandaros Kan damos if ne cesar v kandaros Kan damos is among the mountains seven miles inland it is reliably stated that there are nine thousand 1 mans in town and that their situation is very grave alie insurgents guns are destroying the fort borka which the turks are now gallantly defending A number ot the combatants on both sides have been killed including acorne of the leader the five hundred toi eien sailors and marines have been landed and will start at once for the town turkish gunboat wrecked athens march A turkish gunboat believed to be lie euphrates has been wrecked on the coast of spirus the fate 0 her crew is not reported AMONG THE POWERS reave not yet conclude a when to commence action against greece london march there still does not seem to be complete accord among the powers especially in the case of great britain as to when the final steps will be taken to coerce greece into complying with the demands that have been made upon her by aliat is called united europe the so far ae foreign allaire Is concerned termed so infallible british prime minister to be in doubt as outcome of hie vigorous policy which lias called forth heartfelt condemnation by every english newe paper and it is said thai he will propose to the other that before blockading the coast of greece that country bd given an extension of time in which to consider her response to the collective note demanding her withdrawal from crete indecision is generally a sign of weakness and it is so believed to be in this cape it is thought that greece does not need any further time to consider what reply shall be made to the powers small and weak as she ie it ie judged from the dispatches from athene that she is thoroughly determined to maintain her attitude and defy the powers to do their coret in the meantime the admirals commanding com mandine the foreign fleets off crete have been ordered to report a plan tor the blockade of the greek coast and this in face of the menacing position evidenced by the mobilization of the greet army and the report that a squadron Equa dron has started for the coast of macedonia A representative of the united associated presses was told at the foreign office today that the there detill had confidence that there would be no armed collision between greece and the powers but if the statements attributed to the greek prime minister M dely anels ie true it is evident that the foreign officials are viewing the tion with an optimism that is not warran led by the situation the statement taid to have been made by M delyannis that greece would prefer to disappear from the map of europe rather than draw bick from the position ehe hai taken does not lead OD prejudiced observers to pin their faith strandy to the opinions of foreign office officials who blindly follow the lead of their chief and before they have been diplomatic victory in circumstances which have impressed outsiders with a strong sense of defeat though the current of british flows strongly Etron gly lu favor of greece in the cretan imbroglio it h apparently parent ly not strong enough to direct the policy of lord salisbury he may pretend to bow to the popular will but really he is taking hie own course acting on the dictum of lord that diplomacy must be guided by statesmen and not by the chatter of irresponsible frivolity following the idea that the mente foreign policy light or wrong should have the support of the country some of the liberal papers are discovering that something can be said ot diplomatic action which though contrary to general sentiment is in official opinion keeping etrope out of a war an opinion which it is feared may shortly receive a sudden shock the gladstone labouchere Libou chere anal general liberal con that crete ought to be united with greece baa led to some public enlightenment lighten ment on the exact justice of the greek claims the position ot king george towards certain of the powers and what might be the results of union upon crete it has transpired that king george since his settlement on the throna las beeb drawing annually from england france and cussia a pension of each power giving him per annum under the understanding that that sum shall continue duriez the good behavior of himself and subjects there are those who look upon the greco cretan trouble aa a prearranged scheme to save the king and his dynasty from a revolution which would embarrass king ors anent tho greek claims racial and religious relie ious here are now voice aheard protesting that the modern greek is the merest mongrel making fraudulent use of tradition 0 most india and ever wanting crete for purpose robbery it certainly can be affirmed with accuracy that the people of the ionian island ceded toa greece through mr gladstone regret the change from property and taxation under britain to diminished trade and heavy imports under greece A letter issued by the geographical commercial society of pais from a that the cretan distrust greece and want autonomy under the turk the cretan christians ha been exempt from military demce paid with much irregularity their imposts and have long bad a quasi independence pen dence annexed to greece they would be liable to military duty be burdened with taxation and a mob of greek functionaries to rule over them and collect the taxes this Is of course ex parte evidence and it does not in any way agree with the statements of the leaders ot the cretan insurgents who that they will fight to alie death to free themselves from every semblance ot turkish rule and alio protest that they desire annexation to greece probably lord salisbury and other european diplomats care little for the cry of crete for the caetans cretans Cre tans but it ie obvious that autonomy similar to that of the island of samos would commend itself to statesmen samoa has a purely christian population and diffene from crete where aboud one fourth of the people are modems samos be it noted though entirely greek has refused to become part of greece preferring autonomy with annual tribute cf pias tres to the sultan to being ruled by christians 0 the same race if the result of the communication between the powers the blockade of the piraeus should be enforced there is still however a prospect ot a settlement of the trouble without resort to arm it is recalled how events developed dev sloped in 1886 when greece made a claim to n section of macedonia to balance the acquisition of eastern roumania by bulgaria gleece at that time mobilized and massed troops on alie frontier and had several encounters with the turks the powers prevented G i bece with an ultimatum and demanded her disarmament after a delay of a week greece answered the ultimatum and the reply being inadequate the ministers left athene and the powers blockaded the greek ports the delyannis Del yannie ministry which was then in power in greece ic signed and attar a diplomatic struggle lasting a month the king with a provisional government gave way to the inevitable this is a matter of history which ia likely to be repeated nevertheless bervia and bulgaria are making every preparation tor possible eventualities sance king alexander of servia returned to belgrade from his visit to sofia orders have been issued by alie servian minister of war general for an immediate men of the servian troops on the southern frontier bulgaria has been making ready t mobilize her army and already has troops between sama koy and while she can i mobilize lize one hundred and forty thousand men at a weeks notice THE IRISH QUESTION belfour condemned by the irlan member for his mistake london march 6 mr arthur J balfour the government leader in the house of commons hag taken advantage of the weakness of the irish leaders to close them out of all effective discussions of abe irish financial grievances the one treat irish question of the is virtually shelved eh elved eo far as it can be made use of against the governments new financial relations commission the blame for this ejup d tactical blunder must be attributed to mr dillion and mr blake who took upon themselves the duty of attacking the government the dispatches of the associated presses have already recorded how when the time was most opportune for eliciting a statement as to the plans of the by moving an amend anent to the address in reply to the queena speech dillon and blake assented to withdraw the amend ment innocently accepting mr balfoura Bal foure assurance that an early day would be riven by the government to discuss the proposed new commission blake and dillon appeared to have thought that this early day would be the following week or at all events before the terms of reference to the commission were published and the commission caneti buted week after week has passed and the irish leaders find the commission and accomplished fact while they and their party are forced to remain muzzled until time as the government thinks fit to allow them voice the irish papers say that the conduct of mr balfour has caused the greatest surprise and dissatisfaction among the irish members mr balfour pledged at the opening of the session to no precise date for the hearing of the cause of ireland he still declines to fix a date mr dillons organs palliate abe futility of bis lead in this matter by referring to a pledge which mr aillon has obtained from mr balfour that abe debate shall come off before abe appointment of abe commission As a matter of commission is appointed though not publicly gazetted since abe announcement the conference of the leaders of all the nationalist factions a new and adverse element has been introduced into the councils of the irish party mr john redmond departing from abe original ori sinal idea of a conference of abe national sections has proposed a general conference to be held march 9 which will include the irich unionists col mr horace plunket mr careon and other bitter opponents of home rule will attend this general conference each irish representative is to be present absolutely unfettered Mr Carsons views of irelands financial position towards england differs entirely from alie national view ajl Saunder sone demands for financial redress by no means tally with mr or mr dillons ideas the irish unionists ure not hostile to the new commission the nationalists resent the commission as an insult and as a dodge to beliy consideration of their demands and claim it is so packed as finally to support abe continued despoiling of ireland obviously this general conference will be a mere empty palaver if its results were merely negative there would be nothing muck to regret ant it will have the regret ably positive effect of spoiling that possibility lity of reunion of abe nationalist factions which a conference free from would undoubtedly have afforded the more the wallace art collection which has been left to the nation ib studied the more priceless the treasures seem to be had they been offered at a single sale by the beira il is the bare fact to aay that the price ol 01 curios all over the world would have been permanently reduced all of abe available money in the world tor art purchases could not have secured all the articles in the collection at the present range of prices hertford house in london auero they mostly are is really a vast museum rather than a private residence rembrandt velasquez murillo ana other areat masters have a lame callery to so fine is the collection of the modern school that it is said to surpass ibe luxemburg in abe mp ortance of its french work in our time there are twenty five by thirteen by delaroca De laroch over by decamps and several by ary chaffer belond all this there is a grand collection of armor gold and silver workmanship rococo furniture porcelain and bronzes although happily none ol 01 these will come under abe auctioneers tio hammer there will be some big art sales in london this season lord rosebery has again the early fiver ite for this years derby in vasquez bayard will give another of his celebrated bachelor parties on the dinst the guest of abe occasion will be the lord mayor and the other queete will comprise many of principal judges und foreign continued on 61 ASPECT continued from page 41 ambassadors to be court of st tame mr oscar wilde who will be liberated next month will settle in passy france and resume hie literary work o 0 assumed name the menacing man acing editor of an important paris paper who wa and remains an admirer of wildes literary work ia ready to accept prose 01 poetry from him lady scott who was imprisonment for li belling her son in law earl examined by a mental specialist assisted by the regular physician of hol goway prison tha report pronounces her to be suffering so much from cor fine meni as permanently to her health her early release is expected the forecasts of the queens jubilee through london which are appearing la tho are ventures on probabilities sone of them has official sanction some of them are absurd toe open ai solemnity in front of st pauls ie to be arranged because of the queena lameness sho is to eit in her carriage so the etory goes while the mighty congregation around her and extending far away through adjoining street join in prayer and praise some features of the royal progress can accurately be foretold the eight cream colored horses cover seen unless at the grandest ceremonials will draw the queena carriage the procession from buckingham palace to st pauls will in elude most of the personages and m tables of the jubilee procession but will be on a vaster scale the london newspapers frequently poked their ponderous tun at the habit of smoking alleged to be prevalent among the ladies of the united and have raised their voices in thankfulness that ladies were not like their american finters sinters sin all thia is amusing in view of the fact that two of the ladies clubs in london writers and the pioneer have pio members smoking the writers club the membership of which is exclusively composed of women journalists or authors taboos tobacco altogether some of the mem bers accustomed to cigarette or cigar openly indulged therin after remonstrance then a hoeting was held and a great majority decided that any lady found emoting must resign membership ber ship there are other ladies clubs where the cigarette is under no bin ie the most select private circles cigarettes for ladies appear with cigars to men mr mcneil secretary of tha bimetallic league has informed a representative of the united associated press that british bimetallists are greatly |