THE ROYAL WEDDING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8534, 14 July 1893, Page 6

THE ROYAL WEDDING.

' i From some of the manufacturers there has I>een secured an account of part of the trousseau of Princess May, placed wiih tjnearly all the larger houses lv various parts the country, ho as to pleasua* wid»* a sucftion aa possible. From the uilkworks at pJßpitaltielda comes a dinner dress, the colour ..ground of which is fleur de peche, the t damask is composed of rosebuds, jasmine and maiden hair, each bouquet connected tvith a silver metal die. From Spitalfiolda comes also the material for an eveuing cos- ■ tume of pale blue and gold. The work of the Winchester makers commends admiration for ft simple home dinner dress. The colour selected is pala green, ornamented with spots, stripes, and daisies. A charming morning robe, composed of thin summer eilk, bears testimouy to the standard of Leeds printed silks. The ground of this dress is myrtle green, white violets partly adorn the design, which is of perfect workmanship. The going-away dress is to be of Irish Poplin of u> particularly pretty shade of ivory white, with relief of gold. Over and above the gifts from members of the Royal family, the Princess May will receive several hundred valuable presents from people ehe has never seen. Scores of men and women of second rate social standing have formed Committees to collect money for buying presents, with the scarcely concealed object of attracting the attention of royalty to themselves; and notoriety hunters, of all ranks and descriptions, are similarly endeavouring to utilise the princely nuptials to further their personal advantage. Even school teachers , have been pressed into the service, and .children's pence have been solicited and accepted without scruple. A Committee, said to be composed of citizens of the United States, has been formed at the Exchange Room, Charing Cross, acd .Americana at the various hotels in the neighbourhood are being badgered for subscriptions towards au American wedding present for the Princess. "Probably, suggests a correspondent writing on June 11th, " the idea is merely part of an advertising scheme, like that of a big dry goods merchant in the West End, who announced i-tliat' With the gracious permission of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of (Teck, it ia my intention to mark this Auspicious occasion by the introduction of a china mug as a Royal wedding memento, following closely upon the lines of that designed by mc and ao universally in demand at the time of her Most Uracioua Majesty's Golden Jubilee. , " TREATIES OF ARBITRATION. Iα the House of Commons on Jane 16th, Mr W. R. Cremer, member for Shoreditch, moved—"That the House, having learned tliat the United States Congress had authorised President Cleveland to conclude treaties of arbitration, expressed the hope that the Government would open negotiations with a view to refer all differences to arbitration." Sir John Lubbock seconded the motion. Mr Gladstone suggested a modification of the resolution by the substitution of the words : — " That the Houaa of Commons cordially sympathise with the purpose in view, and hopes her Majesty's Government will lend ita ready co-operation to the Government of the United States." The Premier renewed the history of the arbitration movement, and aft«r touching upon hi* own idea of a central tribunal of Great Powers, concluded with an eloquent appeal for moderation of claims at the most effective means of preserving peace. CI he resolution as amended by Mr Gladstone VfAs unanimously adopted.

I AMERICAN SUMMARY. , SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. I The Very Rev. Alfred Barry, at i>resent J Cauon of Windsor, but foi-merly Lord Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, arrived ut "New York from London on the steamer Majestic, and is the guest of President Seth Low, of Columbia College. He delivered a baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of the College. J The young Duke of Newcastle aud hie ' friend, GamOier Bolcon, arrived in San ; Francisco on June 11th. They are travelling j around the world, and adding to their collection of photographs of animals en I route. Xheir next objective point is Honolulu. A startling disclosure waa made at the Chicago Fair Grounds on June 10th that thirty pieeee of priceless lace, sent for exhibition by the Queen Margherita of Italy, were missing. Cablegrams were sent to Home apprising the Queen of her loss. j The Compauy is under a bond of 100,000 I dollars for the safe return of all laces to Italy. Thirty thousand acres belonging to the Hesperia Land and Water Company, Los Angeios, California, were sold to an English syndicate for £750,000. The land is situated in San Bernardino County, and is irrigated by water-pipes from the sources of the Mogave River, several miles distant. Tiie famous Blarney stone, which for centuries occupied a place in the walls ot the historic B:arney Castle in Ireland, arrived" at the Chicago World's Fair on June 16th. It was shipped there by Lady Aberdeen, and will form one of the attractions of her Irish village. At the request of the Timber Trades Association of the United States, sent through Frank S. Sharrick, of Marietta, Ohio, Henry White, Charge d'Affairs at London, has obtained from Mr Gladstone as a gift, and has forwarded to the United Stated one of the axes used by him in felling timber at Haw&rden Castle. President Cleveland hae consented to serve as arbitrator in the dispute between Brazil and the Argentine over the possession of Panama. Mr Walter Besant, the English novelist, arrived at New York on June 18th by the steamer Etrnria. With him came Mr S. S. Spriggs, another delegate from the English Society of Authors to the Literary Conference to be held in Chicago on July 10th. Mr Besant will probably gather material for a new novel while in the United States, based on old-fashioned life and manners in New England. Three members of Queen Victoria's Life Guards were sent to the Chicago poorhouse on June 20th at the request of J. H. Burst, United States Inspector of Immigration. Privates How, Coddy and Brooks came to Chicago to take part in the military tournament. They were discharged the other day and had no money, ~so they called on Inspector Burst for a passage to London, and the Inspector thought the Company haying brought them should send them back. Pending a decision of the case at Washington he asked the country to take care of I men, who were entirely penniless. Mr William McEinley, author of the Protective Tariff Bill, has been nominated by the Republican State Convention, of j , Ohio, which met on June Bth, for the Governship of that State. Should he be elected it will be taken for granted he I will be the nominee of the Republican National Convention for the next term of the United States Presidency. j Columbus'a caravels will visit Chicago, ; going to the lakes via the St. Lawrence river. I Mr Leland Stanford, a United States j Senator, ex-Governor >of California, and since 1870 head of the Pacific Coast Railway j ' road, died at Heapplos Alto on June 21st. He was found dead in bed after having retired. Early in the evening he was apparently in his average health. One brother is or has been up till lately doing business in Melbourne. He leaves behind him as a monument the splendid Palo Alto University, endowed with at least 20,000,000 dollars. His estate is estimated as worth 70,000,000 dollars. Mange, representative of the liquidator of the Panama Canal Company, said on June Ist that work on the Isthmiau canal would be resumed at the end of the year. He had already raised 50,000,000 franc* to continue operations. Hβ thinks hydraulic force may i be used in the Calebra cut. Old documeuts were discovered in the city of Mexico on June 7th by which it was learned that, treasure amounting to , £2,000,000 was buried in Perpetui street iin that city. The documents bear official marks, and state that the wealth was secreted by orders of the Emperor Maximilian. The discovery of these documents produced a sensation, and preparations were at once made for unearthing the treasure. Only a small portion was recovered when work was temporarily interrupted by a, flow of water in the cavity. A proposition has been made and is industriously boomed by the San Francisco Chronicle to hold a mid-winter world's fair in thai city, beginning in November next. The articles on show will be made up by contributions from the stock of the Columbia Fair's exhibits in Chicago. The historic old warships Hartford and Kearsage, belonging to the United States Navy, lor some time condemned to " Rotten Row," have been taken from thence, and will be repaired and put into commission on the sentimental grounds of their past services.

The British ship Elmbank, ia port at San Francisco, on June lOcb, from Hankodate, Japan, wilh a cargo of 1100 tone of coal and 2400 tons of sulphur, came very near being destroyed by the sulphur catching fire while ahe wae lying at the wharf discharging cargo. .Hundreds of tons of the stuff were in combustion, and the fume 3 arose in white clouds, nearly asphyxiating those at work ia the vicinity and the firemen. Water was found to be of no avail in quelling the tire, but fortunately by the efforts of a chemist who went at it in a scientific way, the work was accomplished. He used carbonic acid gas, which he pumped into the hold in a steady flow after generating' it in seven large hoesheads by means of muriatic acid and marble dust. - Charles H. Richmond, an aeronaut, made a 3000 ft ascension, at New Jersey, on June sth, and lost his life by the parachute failing to work. * At the Criminal Court of Pittsburg, Pa., on June 3rd, a nolle prosequi was entered in all cases against Carnegie's officials for* complicity in the Homestead troubles of last summer; Later, Jndge White, without a motion being made, issued an order releasing from bail all of the etiikers who had been indicted for offences growing out of the strike. This ends for good the prosecutions in the matter. The genuine lobster of the Eastern Atlantic has made its appearance in Pacific waters. A specimen was taken in Monterey Bay, California, on June 3rd, and pronounced to be of the same kind as some placed there five years ago. [THE WASHINGTON CATASTROPHE. Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., made historic by the assassination of J Abraham Lincoln within its walls, twentyuight years ago, by J. Wilkes Booth, the actor, suddenly collapsed on June 9th, crushing the life out of over a score human beings, and inflicting injnries upon twice as many more. It is a coincidence which will go into history that this second tragedy occurred on the day when the remains of the I tragedian Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin, whose life was so darkened by the crime that he never visited Washington afterwards, were being laid to rest. The building collapsed in the midst of an illjudged effort to remedy nome of its defects. The hour of the disaster was shortly after the departments had settled down for the day's work, about 9.30 o'clock. The workmen's operations under the building were the immediate cauae of the catastrophe. They bad been tinkering on it for two hours or more. Half an hour earlier and but few lives would have been lost An excavation for an electric light plant was being dug in the cellar of the structure, a three-atorey affair, and according to the best information obtainable- the workmen dug beneath the foundation supports in the front of the building, weakening them to such an exteat that the walls gave way before they could be jacked. This explanation of the accident is the ocly one advanced, but it seems somewhat etraage ia view of the fact that the top floor gave way first. Ihe floors fell in as if they had been cards in a card house. Oα each floor there were scores of clerks and others at work, and withoat warning thoy were carried down as if in a cataract. There were 300 clerks employed in the building at the time of the disaster. Referring to it ex-Congreaa-

man Poinsetter Dunn, of Arkansas, made the remark, "It's too bad. I wouldn't have cared so much if they had been pensioners, instead of the poor clerks," a remark that has been dnly circulated through the press all over the country, and on account of his indiscretion Mr Dunn finds himself in very bad odour. RECIPROCITY CONVENTION. An Americo.Canadian Convention met at St. Paul, Minnesota, on June sth. There were between 300 and 400 delegates present, and as many more came next day. The object was commercial. The call recites the advantages of reciprocity with Canada for both countries, and the material development and mutual advantage to be derived from a deep water way to the ocean from Lake Superior. The Hon. James Fisher M.P. of Winnipeg, expressed, on behalf of the Canadian delegates, a wish that the reciprocity treaty of 1854 might be renewed. He gave figures to show that Canada had a far greater market for United States products than for English, and that Canada bought millions more than it sold to the United States. The utmost harmony prevailed between the delegates from tbe United States and Canada, and there is evidently a strong movement to restore just commercial relations between the two countries.