NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5158, 29 July 1885, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A special from London, dated Jane 16, says the defeated Premier, whom "the wild mob's million feet" kicked out of office one week ago, on the question of a ninepence tax. on a barrel of beer, is still and more than ever the idol of the mob. He was greeted with applause when h» arose in the House to announce that the Marquis of Salisbury had consented to form a Government, and as he left tbV House, looking pale and worn, he was again loudly applauded. A crowd of several hundred persons ran after his carriage, and cheered at intervals. Mr Gladstone settled back on the cushions and stared straight ahead, but there was a complacent look in his face which seemed to show that the applause of the common people in his hour of supposed defeat was music in bis ear.

Hobarfc Pasha, English Admiral in th« Turkish service, who has been in London for the past twelve months, has suddenly started for Constantinople, with Beorefr

instructions from Lord Salisbury, to waicb the progress of Hup Man intrigues for the information of both the Turkish'and

English Governments. Baker Pasha has also started for Cairo, and he also is said to be charged with a secret mission from the Foreign Ofice. The marriage of the Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Batlenburg will not, after all, be such a quiet affair as'was at first intended. In fact the Queen seems to have made up her uaiud to marry off her last, daughter with a great^ deal of pomp and ceremony. Her Majesty has issued orders to largely increase the invitations (o the wedding, ned the bride cake, which is something quite extraordinary in the confectioner's art, will weigh 250 pounds. This big sweet-piece is to repose upon a pedestal of gold. No member of the royal family of Germany is to be invited to Princess Beatrice's wed* Mr Spurgeon, in his sensational article on the immorality of London society, says : —" Sodom, in its most putrid day, could ■carce exceed London for vice. The names

of the greatest in the land are openly ' mentioned in connection with sthe filthiest Vdebaucbery and the most hideous evil thai drags in the wake of vice. Shall not God be grieved by such a nation as this ? What is coming over us? What clouds are darkening our sky P" The annual dinner of the Cobden Club toot place on June 13. Among the speakers was Sir Charles Dilke, who, efter advocating a guaranteed neutrality for Egypt similar is that established in Bel guim, said he desired for Ireland the same forms of good government as for England. He urged Englishmen to give Ireland the same municipal and imperial franchise as, is enjoyed by them selves. Englishmen have no conception of the imperfection of municipal government or the meaning of the grand jury system, or the grievances imposed on the people of Cork, Limerick, and Belfast. These people are compelled to obtain the sanction of England for every small private Bill affecting their interests. These abuses were a source of weakness and danger to the English connection. Mr Joseph Chamberlain said be coold con ceive of no nobler task of a reformed Parliament than to carry out the legislation exponnded by Sir Charles Mke. It must also deal with the obstruo tion of Parliamentary business, which resulted in saddling the Government with petty details that ought to be referred to other bodies. What was wanted was a remedy for the deep-rooted discontent which is the national result of one nation trying to interfere with and control the domestic life and social economy, of Bnother, whose genius and requirements are not understood. He looked to the new Parliament to accomplish this great work, which was the only hope to pacify Ireland, and maintain the strength and integrity of the Empire. The speeches of Mr Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke will, it is thought, make a great s«nsation. They are regarded as a direct bid by the Eadicals for an Irish alliance against both the Whigs and Tories. The long-continued quarrel between Queen Victoria and her son-in-law, Louis IT., Grand Duke of Hesse. Darmstadt, be> cause of the letter's morganatic marriage to Mme. Kalomine, has, it is said, been amicably ended. The Duke, who, before the discovery of the Kalomine affair, was believed to be a suitor for the hand of the Princess Beatrice, whom, according to report, he was to marry as soon as Parliaa ment passed the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, will now, according to a recent announcement, be soon married to the Princess Hilda, of Hanault-Dessau.