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Pages 9 to 16. PAET TWO. NOVEMBER 2V. 1692-FORTY PAGES. ALL IS IN CONFUSION.

DID NOT SHOW GRIEF. LOE FOR CHANCELLOR. ODD FRENCH METHODS SAEOLD FREDERIC COMMENTS ON THE PEESS BILL DEBATE. DOUBT AS TO HOW THE AEMY BILL WILL BE EE0EIVED. SOME QUEER ACTIONS OP THE NEW DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

COMMANDER OF THE NINTH ARM! 00EPS IS PROMINENT. German Lloyd's, has seen Minister Phelps in regard to the detention of the steamer Weimar Herr Markward urges that it was a great hardship to quarantine without notice a vessel with 2,000 people aboard when a test case could easily have been made with a few emigrants. Herr Prosser, Krupp's agent in New York, is here making arrangements to transport the railway exhibits to Chicago. A new theater was opened tonight. The interior is gorgeous in its decorations.

The theater will be devoted to legitimate drama. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer and their daughters of Washington are here. STILL PRODDING PRINCE BISMARCK.

He 'Was Well Thought Of hy the Old Emperor and Would Be Acceptable to William II. Von Waldersee's Sympathy for Bismarck Slakes Him an Impossibility for the Post Emperor Will-lam Still Enjoying Himself Some Exhibits for the World's Fair. Berlin, Nov. 19. Copyright 1892.

by The Press Publishing Company (N. Y. World). Gen. Loe is now spoken of as Von Caprivi's success He is the chief of the Eighth Army Corps and is in his 6ith year.

He is of commanding presence, and is reported to be sagacious and experienced. He was a favorite of the old Emperor and stands well with the presant Emperor also. It is true that this arrangement of jumping from Gen. Von Caprivi the Tenth Army Corps to Gen. Loe of the-Eighth, passes by the Ninth Army Corps, of which Count von Waldersee has charge, but as the latter is a pronounced sympathizer of the Bismarck-Verdy-Du Verne rs coterie, there is no chance for him.

Problems of the Ministry. Never since the organization of the North German Federation has the country experienced such conflicting days. It is evident that the present Ministry is unable to cope with the daily accumulation of great questions. The present War Minister is a poor substitute for that keen strategist and scholar, Verdy Du Vernei, and his resignation at best can be but a question of few weeks only. Possibly he may leave the Cabinet even before the reassembling of the Reichstag.

Meanwhile, Gen. Blume, said to be a competent mathematician and manager, is supposed to be his possible successor. The Socialists' Congress. The Continental Socialists have just finished their annual powwow here. Herr Craeter, a member of the Reichstag, opened his speech with the words: "Eighty years of jail, over thirty-six years of penitentiary, and 20,000 marks in fines have been imposed on our comrades in the last year.

Where is the new course, etc. A minute later they were quarreling among themselves, the majority criticising Liebknecht's salary of 20,000 mars as chief editor. of. the Vorwaerts, and they finally wound up by appointing May 1 as "-a general socialistic holiday throughout Europe -William at the Hunt. Despite these stirring events the Emperor William continues to be der ZugvogeL He has been hunting with the King of Saxony.

A few days he returned to Berlin to receive the leaving members from the Prussian State Legislature, Austria-Hungary's newly appointed Minister, to send presents to Count Schuvaloff, the Russian Minister here, ana to chat with Prof. Helmselz, and he is making large arrangements for his sister's early marriage He will open the Reichstag the 22d inst. personally, and as William ia fond of ceremony he will appear ia royal purple with the paraphernalia usual to Kings. A prominent Privy Councilor who is in close touch with the court said: "I am absolutely certain that the royal members of the Germanic Confederation ara entirely in touch ith the Emperor, and. as for him of Saxony, why he is a firm admirer of the iSmpress Augusta.

Besides the Emperor has accepted an invitation to hunt with the King at Moritzburg Dec 2." Fraulein von Caprivi Going to Court. Caprivi Is Now Depending? Upon a Collection of Clippings to Damage Hiui. special cable. 1 Beblin, Nov. 19.

Copyright, 1892, by James Gordon Bennett. We are enjoying superb weather here, which is bright, fine, and Cold, with light frosts. Mr. Meitzerleft for southern climes Wednesday night, leaving behind him a black mark on the Caprivi regime which the Chancellor cannot wipe out. be Herald correspondent in Berlin nowadays is to iive under the closest scrutiny, being watched by detectives and subjected all the while to insults from that secvion of the press whose representatives wait outside the doors of the foreign office inside which they never get for crumbs of news disdainfully thrown them, and returning to their offices write meekly, humbly, and flatteringly of tne greatness of Count von Caprivu These flunky sheets publish in many cases long articles intending to instruct tho Herald how its correspondents should write.

The Boersen Courier is a notable example. This paper ingeniously suggests that the Herald prove the authenticity of its news and should divulge the name of its informant. "Otherwise," says this 6heet, it must all be lies. In fact, the Berlin correspondents of the Herald are nothing but highly paid liars who never get any news, but make up as they go." It goes on in this ridiculous strain to the extent of two columns. The Volki Zeitung slashes the government right and left and, after giving an impartial statement of Meltzer's case, continues by remarking, in reference to the offensive observations made by Herr von Kiderlen about Prince Bismarck We are obliged in this matter to take the stand that Mr.

Meltzer did not misunderstand Herr vou Kiderlen, although wo might well believe that this is possible when a diplomatist does not speak directly. He did not mention Prince Bismarck by name, but he might have taken care to have been less rode in his pointed remarks about the Prince. It is for Herr von Kiderlen to come forward with a justification of his conduct iu this matter of an inconvenient foreign journalist just as in the Bismarckian era. His removal from the scene of his activity under an order borders upon expulsion. It is so significant that one cannot have any further doubt that it is an expulsion.

The latest movement of Chancellor von Caprivi is another attempt to damage Prince Bismarck. He has made a collection of all articles and interviews of the late Chancellor which have appeared in Berlin and foreign newspapers of any nature hostile to the Emperor. An army of readers at the Chancellery have been busy on this for some time. This is a collection the effect of which Caprivi holds is of high importance. The same tactics are being pursued against other high personages.

These documents Caprivi is fond of producing, and it must be 6a id they fortify his position, and the result is that the Kaiser renews his promises of personal support. The press cuttings are carefully prepared. They have, without doubt, often prevented the Kaiser from exercising his periodical strong desire to recall the Iron Chancellor. Thus, fenrthe moment; 'Frtnce-fiismarck is much out of favor at court, and further the Empress dislikes him because of the worry he causes the Kaiser. Caprivi would now be happy were it not for the black cloud of the army bill hanging over him.

Notwithstanding all manner of pressure brought to bear there seems every prospect of it being thrown cut or withdrawn. In the latter case can Caprivi stand another set down like the election bill? It is now an open secret that the Kaiser refused the advice offered by the King of Saxony during bis recent visit here and refuses to appreciate the opposition to the Caprivi regime by the Liberals of South Bavaria, Baden. Wurtem-burg, and, above all, that of the Saxony Conservatives, which is mo6t marked. 1 hear that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has exhausted the fund of 50,000 marks placed at his disposal as a secret fund which was largely spent in keeping up pleasant relations with the press. Stanhope.

TOBACCO TAX NOT TO BE INCREASED. reference to the burning question at the tabernacle. I remarked that Thomas Spurgeon is a fine fellow, a good preacher, and that he, being the son of his father, naturally attracted towards himself a large number of people who desired him as a pastor, notwithstanding the fact that he was supposed not to be able to stand the winter in England. In conclusion I said that one thing had tended to make a bitter controversy, and that was what had been 6aid by Dr. McArthur of New York namely: that I was known to my friends to have been a baptist in conviction for years, but with the insinuation that I had not the courage of my convictions.

After that several newspapers said positively that I had been secretly immersed in order to ba available as the successor to Mr. Spurgeon. With regard to Dr. McArthur's statement, I said that it was founded on a want of knowledge of me, and that he had never communicated with me as to whether it was true or not, and that it was either a misrepresentation or a malicious lie. I have never been immersed.

I am a Presbyterian pure and simple, and, I trust, man enough to own up if I should experience any change of mind. This is the truth and all the rest is fabrication. It would have been my preference not to have returned to the tabernacle at all, but inasmuch as I have been not by the officers alone, but by the entire congregation by a rising vote in one of the largest meetings ever held the tabernacle during my stay, I felt that I had been invited by the church as a whole, and that having given my word to return to them for a time, it belonged to them to release me, and I had no right to withdraw. In fact, party could release me but the party who invited me, and even though there might be considerable minority I preferred that the arrangement should be canceled. I had no.

power honorably to withdraw in the absence of action on the part of those who had invited me. I have told you the whole truth, as if you were my own brother, and you are the first man to whom I have intrusted th'S statement." For a Loan Collection. The committee for the Chicago exhibition is working hard trying to get together an art loan collection illustrative of the early history of music, electricity, ethnology, and transportation. The result of the recent elections has stimulated the British manufacturers to make greater exhibitions, and the result will be much better 'and a rcuch bigger showing by English manufacturers than was at first expected. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph is getting up a party of some thirty or more newspaper proprietors to visit tho Exposition.

To Present Mascagnl's Operas. The admirers of Mascagnr will have opportunity to hear two of his operas Monday night. "L'Amico Fritz' and "Cavallera Rusticana" are to be given at the same performance. Mascagni's new opera will be called Ves-titia." and not Radcliffe as had been intended. The score was handed into the publishers this week.

The opera is in three acts and contains the now indispensable intermezzo. It will be produced in Italy early in March. De Manpassant and the Butterflies. The production of Guy de Maupassant's play in Paris has drawn attention to the condition of that unfortunate novelist. The insanity has now taken the form of a chase after his own ideas, and he continually begs that eome one will catch his ideas for him.

Recently these ideas have taken the form tf swarms of butterflies which he sees all around and about hi in. Black buttei flies are to him the sign of mourning for friends that have died those that are pink tell him to cheer up. the yellow bid him to hope for glory, blue assure him that the fount of poesy is not entirely dried up, and green butterflies are regarded as messengers who have come to "tell hint that the springtime has gone and dreary winter has set it. No hope for his recovery is entertained. Biela Causes Nervousness.

Nervous people are stirred up over the announcement which comes from Germany that 'the earth and the comet will come into col-lioi Monday. The periodical comet known as Biela is headed straight for the earth, and for the last five days it has not desisted from this point, but with rapid movement is making straight for us. At the rate it is traveling the two will clasn together Monday. W. H.

Christie of the Greenwich Observatory was interviewed on this subject and says it is not certain that the comet will strike us, and even if it does no harm will be done, as it is only a little comet, and the only way people will know it has hit the earth will be through an unusually heavy meteoric shower and there will be an unusual number of what we call shouting stars. People are accordingly advised to sit up Monday night and watch for them. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin have gone to "Balmacaan, where they are entertaining a large shooting party.

The Cholera Is The cholera is increasing in St. Petersburg, and it still sullenly claims its victim or two in France or Germany. Preparations to fight it next summer are going on everywhere, and the opinion is universal that there will be a serious time when the warm weather comes. Optimistic medical authorities have just discovered that the fogs which shut down on London are disease-killing and are the most healthy things that can happen. The theory is that the fog is full of various strong poisons and that these poisons fall upon the defenseless microbes of the various diseases and choke the life out of them before they have a chance to do any harm.

Still nobody has heard of any endeavor being made to increase the number or density of fogs. Memorial for Theodore Child. Memorial services for the late Theodore Child were held at the American Chapel in Paris Tuesday. Has Injured Hotel Business. The dynamite explosion recently in Paris has had a serious effect upon the hotels, most of them doing only half the business usual at this time of the year.

The following sailed on the Teutonic Wednesday last: Mrs. W. Aster, H. C. Diss-ton, F.

G. Phillips, P. Rhinelanuer. Among the passengers by the City of New York, sailing next Wednesday, are Mrs. Annie Besant and Mgr.

J. M. Farley. CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN REQUIRED Pork Shipped to France from Canada Must Be Certified To." Ottawa. Nov.

19. The Consul-Gener-al for France in Canada has informed the Customs Department that it has come to the knowledge of the French Government that Baited pork is being exported to Europe as a Canadian product when it has only passed in transit through Canada. In view of these facts the French Government will hereafter require that every shipment of Canadian meat to France must be accompanied by a certificate of origin issued by the French Consular authorities in the Dominion. DUKE LOUIS OF BAVARIA MARRIED. on the dollar of valuation, and practically all is paid by those who educate their children elsewhere.

And so the fiercest howl is heard whenever an increase in expenditure is proposed. Illness of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy has been ill unto death within the last fortnight at his home, Max House, Dorchester, but the secret was kept inside a Bmall circle of friends till now it ia known that he is surely convalescent. There were two days in the present week which he was not expected to live, but now he is mending rapidly, though the winter's work is likely to be kept within small com pass, Bjornstjerne is expected to arrive in England within the next few days under promises to a number of friends to spend two or three months here, and already several projects of ceremonial feasting3 are under way. It is probable that he will take a run over to Ireland, too, in his capacity of politician to study on the spot a problem deeply interesting to Norwegian Publicists.

The brothers Healy were surprised to find last summer how far more intimate was the knowledge of Irish affairs in Norway than in Germany, or even France, but despite that I fear the impending Scandinavian home rule Irish will attract no more attention in Dublin than in London, which is none at all. Imperial Federation Project. Here in England the Imperial Federation League has at last formulated the details of a plan for its mighty project, and such few comments as have been passed on it are quite favorable. The difficulty is, however, to get anybody to read the thing, much less to discuss it. There may be a deeD and fervent yearning in the English breast to consolidate the empire, but it is disguised with masterly skilL No other conceivable subject can Bet the average Briton to yawning like imperial federation.

The big national convention of this week in Dublin did not do anything startling, but it at least got together more representative Irishmen from all parts of the island than has been assembled before in our time, and it made clear that there is going to be no return either to the dictat rship of one man or the rule of a little self-chosen group in Irish national affairs. Delegates comparing notes grew alarmed at the evidence of widespread agricultural failure, and separated with a general conviction that this is going to be the worst winter since 1879. Black Outlook for Ireland. The story is very simple. There were excellent crops and the continued rains through harvest destroyed them.

The cry of wolf has been raised so often during other autumns that it requires not more than the ordinary proof to convince the outer world of Ireland's necessity. But I am assured that the outlook is really blacker than anybody dreamed of a month ago. Dr. Joseph Fox 6ails for America tomorrow on behalf of the Parliamentary party. Indications are accumulating that when Parliament assembles in the new year there is going to bo a greater volume of plain talk from tho Radical benches than Westminster ever heard before.

It will be, in any case, impatient talk. A very little imprudence on the part of a minister may easily convert into threatening talk. Whether justifiable or not, the notion is spreading that the new Liberal Government lacks the proper sympathy and spirit to deal with the urgent social reforms that the bulk of voters have at heart. The announcement, for example, that the whole question of the poor law system is to be referred to a Royal commission enrages he Radicals everywhere. They say bitterly that commissions could always be had in the worst days, of Tory misrule and Whig inaction.

There are already vast libraries of blue books of commission reports on scores of crying abuses which have never been read, much less acted upon. The time is now ripe for deeds, not useless' inquiries. Everybody knows what needs be done, that it is simply giving the entire radical position away to begin at this late day the farce of protracted and resultless investigations. The policy of temporizing delay might be defended on strategic grounds, if it could be said that a more active course would alienate the Irish allies. But the truth is that the Irish contingent cordially sympathize with the most advanced section of English Radicals, and are eager to see the whole London program embodied in legislation.

There is really nobody responsible for the timid, halting do-nothingness suspected in the Cabinet outside a small group of titled and landed Whigs and the solid body of members who see everything through coils of red tape. Against Lawyers for Parliament. It is an interesting sign of the times that the Liberal caucus shows that one after another the London constituencies are adopting the rule that no lawyer can be considered as a possible Parliamentary candidate. It has taken the English Democracy a long time to realize that where they have a magnificently salaried appointive judiciary to which every lawyer in politics aspires those lawyers pay vastly more attention to ingratiating themselves with ministerial chiefs than studying the wants of their constituents. So the watchword is passing through London to exclude lawyers and the echoes of it are already heard in the provincial strongholds of liberalism.

It is something' to have shaken to this small extent the strange, rock-rooted, (lingular notion that the whole world sits up nights to envy England its bench and bar. Renewed Interest in Egyptology. Recently Egyptology has taken a new and curious turn. The center of interest in excavations has shifted abruptly from the ancient Pharaohs to discoveries being made ia Upper Egypt of early Christian documents, many of which reveal things supposed to have been irretrievably lost the Moslem conquest. In the Preussische Jarbuch for January Prof.

Harnack prints an exhaustive account of three of these, the most striking of which will be the Gospel according to St. a narrative which the Syria churches were using in the second century as inspired thought and which was afterward condemned as agnostic. It was ascribed to St. Peter, as the other gospels were imputed to his associates, Matthew and Another is the "Revelation of Peter," much resembling the Apocalypse, which was also regarded as scriptural in the second century, and quoted by Clement of Alexandria. These hoery monuments of the earliest Christian period, rejected when the scripture canon was formed and then lost, create the liveliest interest among scholars and historians.

A Kangaroo That Boxes. The British stage has been both enriched and enlivened by the advent of a ooxmg kangaroo, a brute named "John which stands seven feet in its socks and boxes five fierce rounds with its keeper amid the howls of the delighted audience. It pays great attention to shaking hands, stops when time is called, and handles the gloves as if born with them on; however, from time to time it leaps bodily on to its antagonist's chest, which is not ia the rules, but the crowded auditorium enjoys this best of all, except perhaps the way it stiffens its tail and sits erect thereon in its corner during breathing spells. No foreign artist before attracted such attention in London. Harold Frederic rauiem von caprivi, a handsome, tail, and shapely blonde of 18 years of age, is to be presented at court in December, and is to be attached as Lady in Waiting to Princess Ari-bert of Anhalt.

New Opera, "Geneslus. Weingartner's new opera, "Genesius," was produced at the Imperial Opera-House the 16th inst. with great success. Representing Instead of Mourning for His Father He Enjoyed Himself Rumored Action of the Queen as to the Late Duke's Relict Why Mr. Gladstone Could Not Go to See the Queen Many Dinners to Monetary Conference Delegates A Ghost Which Did Not Come on Time.

fSPECIAL London, Nov. 19. Copyright, 1892, by Press Publishing company, New York World. The new Duke of Marlborough, who came of age just in time to step into his father's shoes, is a kind of young man always accustomed to having his own way. He is passionately fond of riding, and does not allow such a little thing as the death of his father to interfere with his amusement.

While the the post-mortem on his father was being held and the doctors were at work over the body he had the late Duke's favorite huntor brought out of the stables and rode all over the place in a suit of tweed, yellow leather boots, and a cricketing cap, rather a curi oub mourning costume for the yet unbaried father. The Duke and his American stepmother are not on the best of terms, and the Duchess will leave Blenheim at once. It is reported that the Queen intends to raise the Marchioness of Blandford, mother of the new Duke, to the rank of Duchess, which will not only deprive the "American Duchess" of her precedence at court, but would also be equivalent to a kind of informal nullification of her marriage by the Queen, thus placing her in an invidious position. The Hamilton family, to which the Marchioness of Bland-ford belongs, has immense influence at court, and every member of it is doing his best to get this done. The "American Duchess is extremely popular with the tenantry on account of her benefactions, whereas the Hamilton family, one and all, have an ineradicable strain of meanness in them, which has for them the nickname of "The Hungry Ham-iltons." Conclusion of the Cabinet The series of Cabinet councils at which the program for next session has been mapped out has come to a successful conclusion.

Ministers have agreed upon the main principles of the Home Rule bill, having surmounted difficulties which even the Liberals themselves feared might cause a ministerial crisis. This has greatly strengthened the party at large, and briehtens the prospect for home rule. Mr. Gladstone will return to Hawarden next week and will remain there until after Christmas. He was invited to Windsor today, but begged the Queen to relieve him of the command to visit her for a few days.

This has greatly angered her Majesty. Mr. Gladstone says that his physicians advise him that tne Thames valley is too damp and relaxing for his constitution. The Queen, however, when she sends a command means it literally, and though she has consented to receive Mr. Gladstone Tuesday his excuse in view cf the indifferent relations already existing between her Majesty and the first minister of the crown is certain to rankle in the royal mind.

Trip of the Queen to Balmoral. The Queen went from Balmoral to Windsor Castle Friday last and the usual precautions for safety on the railway journey were taken. The entire line was cleared and a pilot engine went in front of the special train which bore her Majesty. All the stations were closed to the public as usual, and for half an hour after the passage of the royal train all -tratfie was stopped. The Queen travels in a car lined with light colored satin which contains one bedroom.

During her residence at Windsor Castle her Majesty will entertain a regular series of guests, who will dine and sleep there. The parties will begin tomorrow and continue till Dec 12. Considered the Release of Dynamiters, The most critical question for the consideration of the Cabinet was the release of the dynamiters. Not only is a section of the Cabinet opposed to an amnesty but public feeling England is actively hostile to the proposals. The recent dynamite outrages in Paris have increased this feeling and the only ground on which any of the dynamiters are likely to be released is that of healtn, where the doctors certify that further imprisonment would imperil their lives.

It is believed that this condition will probably include Daly, Egan, and about four others, but that will exclude Dr. Gallagher, AVhitehead, and the other American prisoners. Dinners to Monetary Conference Delegates. If the American members of the International monetary conference should safely run the gantlet of the dinner parties which have hitherto lined their way they will start for Brussels on Monday morning. Sir William Vernon Harcourt started the fashion by giving them a dinner on Thursday night, Mr.

Henry White, the United States Charge d'Affaires, followed it with a dinner at the Savoy last night, and tomorrow CoL North will entertain them. The same people were present at all these dinners. They include Sir William Harcourt. Chancellor of the Exchequer; Senator Jones, Lord Reay, Mr. Snowden, The United States Minister to Spain Sir C.

W. Fremantie, Sir Houldsworth, Sir C. Rivers Wilson, Sir Alfred Lyall. Mr. Bertram Curris, Mr.

H. W. Cannon, Mr. E. O.

Leach, Director of the Mint; Mr. J. C. Nev, Mr. Walter H.

Burns, and Mr. Dana Horton. The general opinion among others than the American contingent is that the conference will result in no definite action being recommended. Senator Jones on being interviewed said that he thought the conference would result in general benefit to America and other nations. Miss Saunders and Her Ghost.

People believing in ghosts had a chance to test their faith Sunday at Clifton. Annie Saunders, a young lady, threw herself down the precipice that skirts the river Avon and Killed herself last Saturday. Several people in the village had been worrying Miss Saunders so she took her own life and determined to get even with them by sending her ghost back to haunt them and make them all very miserable. In her pocket was found a letter in which she said that certain persons were her murderers and that her blood would re3t upon their heads. She went on to say: I firmly believe in a hereafter, and I will make my presence either felt, seen, or heard at the Baptist Chapel, Sunday next, Nov.

13, between 7 and 7:15. If there is a silence for the time specified 1 will haunt and make miserable and bring fearful calamities on those who have so shamefully treated me. At the Baptist church last Sunday night there was absolute 6ilence, coupled with patient expectation, while the congregation waited for the ghost of Miss Saunders to keep its engagement In spite of all these preparations to greet the spirit with proper ceremonies, the young lady failed to keep her ghostly appointment and matters went on as usual. Splitting Up of Church. Speaking of churcnes, the person who has taken charge of Spurgeon's Tabernacle is having an unpleasant siege because he is not what they call an "immersed believer." The church is splitting up into two factions, and it looks as if everybody concerned would have a pleasant time.

In an interview Dr. Arthur T. Pierson, the present pastor of the Tabernacle, said: When my co-pastor, the Rev. S. T.

Low-rie, D. at the Dr. Wyless Church in Philadelphia, requested me to deliver an address on the late Mr. Spurgeon I consented, and at the conclusion of my discourse I made some yhe Way Premier Loubet Won Over a Majority of tlie Deputies Is Quite Amusing In England, Where Such a Thing: Is Cn- known The Imperial Federation League flas a Vast Project That No One Has Ye Had the Courage to Read Suffering of Poor Children in London. SPECIAL CABT.K.1 London.

Not. 19. Copyright, 1892, by the few 'York Times. The circumstances by Mc'i France yesterday escaped a Ministerial collapse prompt one to the feeling that French politics belongs under the heading of Dramatic Causerie," instead of a chronicle of gerious events. The Chamber of Deputies was never more of a play-house than, yester-dnj.

I i9 known to everybody that when the gebsion began there was a clear majority hostile to the Loubet Government resolved to throw out its press bill. The session ended with loud cheers for the government and a majority of ten at its oack. It would have puzzled the observer to explain exactly how this result wa9 brought about. Apparently no one could have changed his mind as to the merits of the bill, because the arguments of the debate hardly touched the measure at all. Such discussion as there was seemed to be going steadily against the ministry all day.

It was understood that the debate was to be adjourned for still another day when the coup de jarnac would be administered to the Cabinet by a victorious opposition. Then at the last moment some obscure member wf this opposition got up and made a maladroit proposition of a general nature which threatened to involve a debate that would interfere with dinner, now already overdue. M. Loubet sprang to his feet and made the air vibrate with a rhetorical appeal to the Chamber to try his nerves no further, end the debate at once, and let him know the worst without delay. It was as if an awkward scene-shifter had caused a mishap on the staee and a clever actor had leaped forward with an impromptu outburst to save the situation.

Everybody applauded Loubet, and while the admiration for his cleverness was at its height he had the intelligence to send voting urus up the aisles, and before the members realized fairly what was happening he had snatched an unexampled majority for he unpopular bill. Here in England, where within the memory of man no speech in Parliament has changed a single vote, proceedings of this sort seem to belong to the realm of opera bouffe. Scenes in England. Perhaps the French, if they took the trouble to read English journals at all, would be quite as contemptuous in judgment upon the processes by which the Parliament elected last summer is now being weeded out by judges strolling about the country in pairs and listening to testimony of swarms of the taproom loafers, barmaids, and village vagabonds, giving decisions having the least possible relation to either evidence or facts. Two of these election petitions are now being tried.

In both it is mada entirely clear that the whole vast brewing interest of England is enlisted actively on the landlord side and literally flooded the recent battlefield with free beer. Indeed, everybody in England knows this, as in New York people know what Davenport's Marshals mean. Nothing could exceed the pompous solemnity with which the Judges looked the other way and never caught even a glimpse of a shadow of this looming fact. They have, however, thrown out one Toty because his son paid for some ribbou badges which were distributed among the voters, and it is likely that other parliamentary heads will roll in the sawdust for scarcely more weighty reasons. But from the first to the last we shall listen in vain for any frank talk about the great free beer abuse.

Thus does the British Chadband play his part in wig and gwn, sniffing meantime at the French polichinelle. Governments Seeking: Loans. It ia computed in the city that during the ensuing twelve months various debtor governments of the world will be seeding loans aggregating over .100 000.000, and it is felt that no matter who succeeds or who fails there will be a heavy demand on London for gold. Bank rate is abnormally low for the moment, simply because Russia has temporarily ceased withdrawing gold, But protests against this dangerous optimism are already heard, and a general stiffening is likely to come before the new year. The Rothschilds estimate Russia's sum of gold on hand at but it is carried, between the Brink of Russia and the Imperial Treasury in such a mystifying way that the figures can always be juggled from one account to the other, and withdrawals may commence any day.

The financial aspect of this arreat armed truce of Europe is indeed overshadowing all other phases. Practically every continental state is kicking its heels in the ante room or hallway of the Rothschild, or, having been warned away, is patrolling the street outside. It seems there is money enough. Even Russia could borrow, I believe, if willing to pay 5 per cent. But she clings doggedly to notions of a lower rate, and in other countries where the budgets are angrily audited by Parliaments, there is a blank dismay at the mounting totals of interest charges.

It is these hopeless, crushing figures which are making social democrats all over Europe much more than the theories of human brotherhood and universal peace. Of specific political interest, aside from the somewhat meaningless squabble in France, there is little to note. Horror of Bismarck's Boasts. The united journalism of Europe is exclaiming with all its accustomed signs of horror and repugnance over Bismarck's cynical boast that he deliberately falsified that momentous Ems telegram which precipitated the Franco-Prussian war. There seems to be hollow ring to this concerted outcry.

It has been suspected for twenty years and publicly known for six that the dispatch WRs fraudulent. Edouard Simon in "L'Empereur Guillaume A Paris, 1886" printed both the original telegram and the bogus. It is no new thought eitner that Bismarck is organized quite without instinct of hame or theory of scruples, but it seems to ve needed this confession of his to arouse the critics to a comprehension of his character. They pillory him now on all sides, yne Liberal weekly today calls him the greatest criminal of his generation. Problem of the Poor.

The tremendous problem of London's poor continues to force itself more and more in evidence as winter approaches. The great meet.ng Sunday in Trafalgar Square was so uninterestingly docile and respectful in demeanor and dress that short-sighted critics talked as if it showed there was no distress, but the School Board reports begin to tell an ominous story of children fainting at desks for want of food, and it is expected that the board will ask Parliament for powers to furbish food and nourishment in the schools to those who need it. As far back as 1886 I38 estlmatsa that 18 Per cea of the children in the board schools of London come "ngry to their tasks, arid it is declared now that there is a sinister increase in the proportion. It should be remembered that there is Do one in the ranks above the poorer artisan 5ss wno dreams of sending his children the board schools. So in the best times nearly the entire attendance Presents poverty and in periods of actual want.

Even with these squalid taadards and miserable accommodation the chool tax levied in London is over four cents Parties In the Reichstag Divided, but the Government Hopes for a Majority Quarrel Between the Kaiser and the King of Saxony People In Baden Warned Against Eating American Pork Unless It Has Been Examined Since Its Importation. rtfivriaht. 189t.bv Wis Associated Pre. Berlin, Nov. 19.

The Reichstag will open Tuesday with the party groups in such a state of variance that it would be futile to attempt to predict how they will ultimately rearrange themselves. The Centrists are in the meantime split into two sections, one of which is uncompromisingly opposed to the army bill, while the other will cpenly support the government if it can obtain concessions widening the Catholic privileges. The Conservatives are lukewarm over the army bill, and they will require skillful ministerial heading to induce them to support it with the whole strength of the group. 'Che Polish group continues to hesitate in its allegiance to the government. Only the Reichstag party will go solid with the whole branch with Chancellor von Caprivu The Emperor's speech opening the Reichstag and the subsequent statement of the Chancellor on the new loans to cover the military expenditures will be the earliest factors in regulating the positions of the groups.

The boerse holds it a forgone conclusion that the loans will be issued at 3 per cent. Whatever adverse criticism the army project may receive in the Reichstag German bankers and members of the boerse are ready to fully cover the loans. The bill is certain to pass its first stage in the House and will then be referred to a coin if tee. In the meantime the opponents of the government circulate endless rumors regarding dissensions in the Bun-desrath. the approaching fall of the Chancellor, etc Chancellor von Caprivi's latest named successor is Gen.

von Loe, commander of the Eighth Army Corps. He certainly is more likely to get the post if Count von Ca-privi is ousted than either Count von Eulen-berg or Herr MiqueL The Saxon King Will Defend Bismarck. A sensation has been caused by the abrupt departure of the King of Saxony from Potsdam, where he was visiting Emperor William. The sudden ending of the visit caused a report to be circulated that the Emperor and the King bad quarreled over the army measure. Some sudden rupture did undoubtedly occur between the sovereigns, but as the Government of Saxony some time ago assented to the military reorganization the rupture could not have happened over the army bilL Members of the diplomatic circle credit another report which has it that the difference arose over the Emperor's proposing to prosecute Prince Bismarck, whose latest revelations as to how he precipitated war with Franca by famous Ems dispatch are felt in official quarters to justify any measure that may be adopted to silence him.

The King of Saxony, it is said, not only opposed Prince Bismarck's prosecution but urged the Emperor to make the first advance towards a reconciliation with Bismarck. Whatever occurred, it is a fact that after the private conference, which lasted two hours, between the monarchs, the King of Saxony cut short his visit, made a brief call on the Chancellor and quitted Berlin without any court official doing the usual honor of accompanying him to the railway station. The Emperor, who had received him at the station in full uniform" and nrroundedr by the officers of his household, entirely ignored his departure. The incident will not abate the determination of the King of Saxony to prevent the Emperor from prosecuting Bis. marck.

Grand Duke Vladimir's Recall. Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia, who has been hunting with the Emperor at Goerhae, was suddenly recalled to Paris tonight by news of the illness of his wife. He did not return to Potsdam to bid farewell to the Emperor, but proceeded by a direct train for Paris. His visit, though it had no special political object, has significance when coupled with the Czarowitz's reception by Emperor Francis Joseph, as it proves that more friendly relations exist between the Imperial families of Germany, Austria, and Russia. Negotiations Not Entirely Off.

The failure of the negotiations" for a commercial treaty with Russia is not final. The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette today says that Russia, thought unable to sacrifice her coal and iron trades in exchange for a reduction in the German corn duties, will resume negotiations on more favorable economic lines. If the German Government did not oppose Russia's obtaining a loan in Germany it would render the St. Petersburg Treasury an essential service.

The Gazette illogically concludes that the loan has nothing to do with the commercial treaty, though everybody knows that improved trade relations are closely associated with facilities for Russian loans. Socialist Congress Actions. The Socialist congress this forenoon quietly disposed, of all the amendments to the party program by passing to the order of the day. Throughout the congress the Reds and the Ai-archists have been unheard. Many of the country delegates seized the occasion to bring their wives to Berlin, and have done much sightseeing with their families.

This probably assisted to make the congress the most peaceful gathering of Socialists ever known. Some of the partisans of the Extremists, Werner and Wildenberger, were among the delegates, but- they seemed overwhelmed by the humdrum character of the debate and kept silent. Today the Frankfort and W7iesbaden delegates asked the congress to establish a central organ of tne party at Frankfort. The rejection of the proposal by a vote of 118 to 110 did not disturb anybody. About half the delegates were absent today, finishing the week in a festive manner.

The reds use strong language concerning the bourgeois' moderation of the members of the congress. The extremists generally are having a bad time with the police. The arrest of Hermann Leimert, editor of an Anarchist journal, has been followed by the arrest of a number of others here and in Weissenau. Entertained by Minister Phelps. Wednesday last William Walter Phelps, the American Minister here, entertained Herr von Mumm, who for many years was Secretary of the German Legation at Washington and who is now on leave from the legation at Bucharest.

Thursday Mr. Phelps gave a breakfast to Baron de Struve, formerly Russian Minister at Washington. Baron de Struve will go to St. Petersburg and thence to his new post at The Hague, whence he will visit Brussels to welcome Senators Allison and Jones and other friends whom he parted from in America three weeks ago. News of the German Metropolis.

Rector Ahlwaerdt will be tried for libel Dec 29. His prosecution arises from his pamphlet in regard to rifles and supplies furnished the War Office by the Jewish manufacturer, Herr Loewe. The War Minister and a number of high officers will be examined. The Government of Baden has publicly warned the people against eating raw American pork and has ordered that all American meat brought into the auchy be reexamined even though accompanied by an American certificate of inspection. Thanksgiving day will be celebrated here by a reception at the American Legation, and the Society of American Doctors will give a dinner at the Kaiserhof.

Herr Markward, the manager of the North as it does chiefly the feature of Christian martyrdom under Diocletian, 286 A. it i3 a strong play, with passionate incidents of religious fanaticism and animal passions wholly subordinate to spiritual exaltations. The play is mounted with scholastic refinement and much historical accuracy. Americans and Thanksgiving. Minister Phelps, who recently gave a dinner' in honor of Director Wiegan of the North German Lloyd, will give a grand reception Thanksgiving day to the entire American colony.

Mr. Phelps is trying to make up for lost time before departing home Mr. Jackson, Second Secretary of the United States Legation here, and his wife have returned from Paris. Mr. Coleman, First Secretary, intends soon going to Italy for a month's vacation.

Exhibit for the Fair. Architect Huffacker is going to Chicago in December to put in shape his great ethnographical exhibition. as tons sends a large number of life-size wax figures, including Herrman, Charles the Great. Barbarossa, the Emperor William L. Bismarck, etc i M.DROUMER WOUNDED BY AN EDITOR Conservatives, Herr Jagow Tells the Landtag, Will Oppose the Reform Bill.

Berlin', Nov. 19. In the Lower House of the Landtag today Herr Jagow said that the Conservatives would oppose the taxation reform bill if the electoral law was amended in a democratic or plutocratic sense. Herr Richter severely criticised the proposed reform, which, he declared, amounted to an increase in the direct taxation. The Prussian ministry, he added, ought to have opposed the introduction of the army bilL Count von Eulenberg, President of the Prussian Ministerial Council, denied that the government had shown weakness in supporting the bill.

It had merely sanctioned what military considerations rendered necessary. He concluded by strongly condemning the agitation against the measure. Dr. Miquel, Prussian Minister of Finance, called upon Herr Richter to formulate definite proposals, as the government did not insist upon the taxation reform measure being passed in its present form. rhe Beichsanzeiger tonight states that measures to cover the increased expenditures involved by the army bill will be submitted to the Bundesrath.

These measures will provide for increased taxation on beer and brandy and will double the present taxation on house transactions; the whole producing an increase of 58,000,000 marks. The tax on tobacco will not be increased. Altercation Begun at the Vaudeville Theater Settled on the Field of Honor. Paris, Nov. 19.

M. Edwards, editor of La Matin, and M. Droumer, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, became involved recently in a personal altercation at the Vaude- villb Theater. The result was a duel that was fought today. M.

Droumer was wounded in the arm. German Anarchist Arrested la Pari. A German Anarchist. Fritz Pescbel, was arrested here today. Many pamphlets, some of, which advocated the use of dynamite, were found is his possession.

At a meeting of French Socialists held in this city too leaders expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the Berlin Socialist Congress in regard to the May day celebrations. They will ask the German Socialists to reconsider their action, and to join in a general cessation of work May day. Will finn A rrlrft. CZECKS BRANDED As TRAITORS. Herr Menger Creates an Uproar In the Lower House of the Reichsrath.

Vienna, Nov. 19. During the debate on the budget in the Lower House of the Reichsrath yesterday Herr Menger. a German Liberal, addressing the young Czechs, shouted: "To speak at the present time of Bohemia's constitution is treason. You are traitors." A scene of indescribable tumult followed.

A number of Czechs crowded around Herr Menger, threatening to strike him. Herr Menger continued to shout, but his voice was drowned in the uproar. The President of the Chamber was compelled to close the silting. OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA IS BLACK. Paderewski, the Russian pianist, sails Dec 1 per Havel from Southampton.

Though his health ia excellent, by the adviee of his physi- -cian he will not give any concerts west of Chicago until spring. He opens his season an. 2 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Americans in Paris. The following Americans registered here today J.

E. Rich, D. Harrington, V. Osborne Ways New York; JU. Wave.

Philadelphia; C. S. Russell. Janesrille; Ed Shewarys, Neenah. Miss F.

Grothjean. Portland; D. Geoghegan. Brooklyn Ed Keep, Buffalo. Paris Weather Bulletin.

Paris weather is fine and colder, the temperature ranging from 41 to 49'. The barometer at 6 p. m. was 29.75 and failing wind east and light. EXCHANGE AND DOCK OFFICES BURN.

Count Tolstoi Calls Attention to the Failure of Crops Again. St. Petebsbubo. Nov. 19.

Count Tolstoi, in the Russian Gazette, calls attention to the continued miserable condition of the peasantry of Russia. He says that famine again threatens the district in which he resides. The rye harvest Is as bad as it was in 1891. Oats are an utter failure. There is a complete dearth of material for fires and the people are exhausted by last winter's miseries.

The outlook. Count Tolstoi declares, is as black as possible. Count de Lesseps Ready to Resign. Pakis. Nov.

19. The Eclair states that XL Ferdinand de Lesseps will resign the chairmanship of the Panama Canal company when the summons in the action of the government against the diA rectors of tne company is served on him. The Eclair adds that M. Leon Bay will succeed M. de Lessepa.

He Weds, Morganatically, Antonie Barth, AVho Is Ennobled a9 Von Bartolf. Mcsich, Nov. 19. Duke Louis of Bavaria, brother of Duke Charles Theodore, the head of the ducal house of Bavaria, today morganatically married Antonie Barth, whom the regent of Bavaria has ennobled under the name of Von Bartolf. This is Duke Louis' second morganaticmarriage, his first being with Hen-riette Mendel, who was created Baroness von Wallersee, and who died Nov.

12, 1891. Of this marriage there was issue a daughter. The Duke was born Jan. 21, 1831. Regency Contemplated in Montenegro.

Vienna. Nov. 19. It is reported in Montenegro that Prince Nicholas is losing his mental faculties and that a regency is contemplated. Valuable Records Destroyed at Cardiff Los, $325,000.

Cabditf, Nov. 19. The Merchant Exchange and the Bute dock offices were burned this morning, together with all the records and drawings gathered since the docks were opened. The fire was discovered in the Merchants' Exchange at 5 o'clock. An alarm was sent in and then the fire brigade was promptly on the scene.

Notwithstanding the efforts of the firemen the flames spread rapidly, and soun the dock offices and Lloyd's register rooms were ablaze. The fire threatened to spread to the adjacent buildings, but the vigorous efforts of the firemen prevented it. Th4 loss amounts to $325,000. Put Poison in a Chalice. Rome.

Nov. 19. The trial is in progress at Palermo of two peasants who wreaked their vengeance- on a priest by pouring a solution of corrosive sublimate into the chalice which the priest used at mass. The priest died on the altar Yield of Sugar in Cuba. Havana.

Nov. 19. According to Ruiz fe statement the Cuban sugar crop will yield 971,735 tons..