Show EUROPEAN TOPICS the abdication of king milan of servia has somewhat changed the aspect of affairs affail rs in the east at the present moment the influence of russia seems to be in the ascendant throughout the balkan peninsula both in roumania and servia the party control their respective spec tive governments and bulgaria ia is evidently fast escaping from the hands hands of prince ferdinand and his prime minister on the other hand austria seems to have lost influence in the east even her hold on her own province of bosnia besnia is none of the strongest the sword of damocles suspended by a single thread aptly describes the position of affairs in south eastern europe and a serious outbreak may occur there at any moment if there should happily be peace in these volcanic regions for some time longer it is simply pl y because it is the pleasure of russia to res restrain train her numerous partisans and the present moment is deemed unfavorable for letting loose the dogs of war there are those who assert that count Kal kalnosky the austrian minister of foreign affairs has not been equal to the situation but if such be the case it is not the counts policy has collapsed but that of prince bismarck himself it to is well known that ever since the counts accession to cower he has received his foreign polley from berlin and no doubt it is this fact that keeps him in the undisturbed possession of his office the railroad enterprises of austria in the balkan states while greatly benefiting those countries do not seem to be greatly appreciated by the people the serviano ians like the inhabitants of the other balkan states are drawn toward russia not only by the powerful force of religious sympathy but also by the fact that parliamentary institutions among these primitive populations are totally incomprehensible the stern rule of the sabre is what the people of the balkans have been accustomed to for a thousand years the complicated machinery of constitutional government seems as much out of place in bulgaria Roun roumania iania and servia as it would be in the soudan or timbuctoo and therefore it is not to be wondered at that it has turned out an egregious failure everyone has heard of the terrible atrocities committed by the turks against these people but it would seem that the greatest atrocity ever perpetrated on either bul carians ga rians Roum anians or serviano ians was to endow them with constitutional government then again the bulgarians Bulga rians rou mabians and serviano ians want the right to persecute all religious religions except the orthodox greek church russia would willingly grant this and likewise the right to a appropriate the property of the rival roman church to their own purposes to this austria will never accede hence alienation from her however evertee the influence of these new railways and consequent commercial intercourse with other nations are beginning to be felt there are those who believe that in the near future a confederacy of petty states will be formed from what was formerly the northern portion of the turkish empire the first and most distinguished of my royal titles is margrave of brandenburg 11 these words commence a recent speech of the emperor william IL if at a banquet in that province people are not always inclined to look with complacency ency at the small beginnings of their fortune it is therefore all the more to the honor of the german emperor that he puts into the foreground the comparatively humble or origin gin of his race it is a long way from a margrave of brandenburg to a german emperor and even a may well be proud roud of the achievement what it ft may be asked was there in a margrave of brandenburg that he should not only have escaped the fate of so many german princes but should practically rac t lea 11 have absorbed them all the the world asks was it luck or was it genius the new city government of london is beginning to awaken to the agitation for the improvement of its internal affairs since the accession of queen victoria the population of the great metropolis has more than tripled itself and is still augmenting at the rate of more than one hundred thousand souls per annum in proportion as the population has increased the rich nave have become richer and the poor poorer the words of the lord chancellor Chime ellor uttered at the mansion house on a recent occasion are pregnant with truth and common sense there is hardly a more serious danger that any na tion can run than that the poor should be nursing in their minds an envious feeling against those who are more fortunate than themselves and should regard the rich or well to do as enemies against whom they ought to proclaim war five million human eings beings in the limited area of a single city cannot fall fail to be a danger if discontent prevails that feeling cannot but be entertained by a la large p proportion r 0 r alon of tse appl the poorer classes miserably r y toiling for an inadequate pittance in such a city as london rife with startling contrasts of enormous wealth and abject poverty not only is london the largest richest and most populous city in the world but the gloomiest gloo as well evl it is true that broad thoroughfares have been driven through the very heart of london sweeping away many a sordid slum and ric ketty rookery and familiarizing the denizens of these localities with the blessing of light air pure ure water and scientific drainage but ut it surely will not be denied that still greater ogress must be made before lonon Sr can equal some of the other great cities of the world the citizens of the great metropolis seem to be awakening to the necessity of improvements in the streets and alleys as well as many of the buildings if disease and crime are to be prevented in any considerable degree the orient steamship company of london has lately added a now new feature to their business As is well known their steamers ply between london naples and australia now they have established monthly voyages to the various seaports of southern europe touching at gibraltar r genoa noa pisa sa leghorn eg 0 borne naples aal palermo messina venice enic cons constantinople nople jaffa alexandria and intermediate ports the round trip only costs and seems to be a very pleasant way of seeing some of the most famous localities cali ties of the world the first of these tri trips ps started march alth and the tourists are now in italy it may be safely said that nothing has been seen in rome borne equal to it since the days of mark twain and the quaker oily tourists of 1866 1865 much has been said about the ministerial crisis in italy but it is all a mistake it was only a ruse of signor signer francisco crispi to get rid of some disagreeable member of his cabinet crispi is still president of the cabinet minister of the interior and minister of foreign affairs cris pins is trusted friend seismic doda is the e minister of f finance cnance and will work out crispina Cri spins plans the other five ministers remain as they were before of course the crucial test in italy is the department of finance A nation cannot build costly ironclads iron subsidize railroads pay off the debts of the old bourbon governments that are now comprised in the present kingdom of united italy and spend millions each year on the excavations of pompeii and bercu laneum besides all the other expenses of an ambitious nation without incurring vast expenses italy is highly taxed it is true but her government overn ment securities axe are in in good demand amand the united states and england are the only nations whose bonds bring a higher price than those of italy J H WARD EUROPE march A witty frenchman once said our fathers made history we are content with writing an and reading it however much or little truth may be contained in the above quotation one thing is certain that one of the great though quiet movements of the age is a careful inquiry concerning the records of the past the histories of great britain Brita inand and ireland prance france holland germany and italy are being carefully written rewritten re from the correspondence pon dence and journals of the leading actors of those times for example in the last few weeks there have been published in england the journals and correspondence of four of the leading characters who made their impress on society in the earlier part of this century one of these is the correspondence and journals of daniel oconnell by the information given in this work we can perceive not only the great movements of that time but can also better understand the motives of mr gladstone and the influx influences n ces which are at work in the bri british tish isles at the present day another one of these works is that entitled wellington and his times compiled from the diar diary F of the late hon john wilson crocker what a flood of light is thrown upon those great movements of which wellington formed so conspicuous a part here we see in bold relief the actions of canning lyndhurst peel gu guizot 1 zot metternich sir walter scott lockhart lockhart talleyrand fouche etc an anecdote concerning the fall of bonaparte may not be out of place here the dulie duke of wellington was then virtually commandant at paris and was anxious to obtain two things the surrender of napoleon and the possession of the fort of vincennes fouche was evidently anxious that bonaparte should escape at length wellington turned round and asked fouche for the surrender of the fortress of vincennes fouche claimed that he could not compel the commandant at the fortress to surrender and asked the duke what i do you wish me to do I 1 wellington li n agton anaw answered ered it to Is not for me to say what you should do but I 1 will tell you what I 1 will do if the place is not surrendered by ten I 1 will take it by force at noon the duke of wellington had no ho belief in historical accuracy and he laughed at descriptions of battles which he declared had no manner of resemblance to actuality s journal may be a trifle comforting to those who were raw recruits in th the e american army at the disaster of manassas but rather mortifying to those who boast of the cool charges with fixed bay bayonets which we so often read about in history aca A battle is like a ball one remembers his own partner but knows very little what other couples did and if he did remember it would not be quite decorous to tell all he be saw one could not tell the whole truth without giving offense to some one all troops run away but that thai I 1 i dont mind all I 1 eie care about 10 that they should come back bach again I 1 always had a succession of goes for rallying fugitives still another one of these remarkable works is that embodying the be private correspondence of lord lora beaconsfield Beacons field published by nw his brother ralph disraeli it is curious to note that this most conservative of ministers mad made his debut in politics lipics as an ultra radical anso and rejoiced over oer the applause of the multitude in one of his letters he says feeling it was the crisis I 1 jumped jumped upon poo the portico of the red d uon I 1 lo 10 jad anft gave it them for an hour and a quarter u I 1 ca can 11 give you no idea of or the effect I 1 made them all ma mad A great many absolutely cried never made so many friends in illy life and converted so many enemies all the women aria on MY side and wear my colors pj pink juk and an white some of his litoff literary thoughts in this private cor correspond U ence are worthy of remembrance b DJ all americans he says A great works that have formed PA a epoch in the history of the human intellect have been an the of that all A tion of spirit age heroic age produced in the iliad lua heroic poem the foundation ofte of the empire of ze the produced and in III the jeneil a political poe poem M an the reformation and its conse conseruo quO ces produced paradise lost a legious poem since the birth of the american republic a new principle has beeg all au 0 at work in the world to which that occurs on either hemisphere may be traced this is the avac pi loel pie of emancipation and embodies embodo em bodi those thoughts and motives tw make the present age different atoo 0 all that has preceded receded it it is easy to imagine tte the genius of feud and the genius of progress s apy ing before the almighty I 1 iod ale ad and pleading their respective lies lie tle u antagonistic causes here opportunity for some future auber AIO lean ican poet to write the grandest P of the f ages of 0 the fourth and last jut published these works is the life and theeo be of william pitt and should voute read by every american wood or the boy statesman was waa a WOD which the people could not andel tt stand they were quite bewilder twenty en at the ideas of a youth of one years of age defeating wv v the weapons of intellect of the forem foremost ost men of his bis dole wg the first great victory over ov occurred historian gibbon mccot great in and time morally 1 about this the of or w it was like that a youthful david over goliath ith proved ved that a mere strip stripling lingi W 6 aboa a truth u th on his side was more am match for the most learne ww a abow of that age the documents docu mente sn M ing how pitt became prime god ter of england at twenty five ruled england for nearly 11 fifty vc are surely worthy of one of the penalties which WO w pay for this deluge of me memoirs moin etc is that nearly ws Q modern history will have to be itten over again another feature of the present time te is the rage for exhibitions last y there was the great scottish tion at glasgow the irish the danish exhibition exhibition italian exhibition and I 1 know att w how many more NOW we ue mohave to have the great ex exposition at vw a pine fine art exhibition at berlin wun and a little later on agrest tary exhibition in england beady kmead i in rome borne the society called tt arte libertas has opened its bi tion to a large and appreciate aad lence As the name of this ety implies its scope is that ot of wire liberty and originality in art brodu ruction action if the public are to aw judge from the names of the contrib contris mth artists both in sculpture and wang ug some of the most original Ork sWill be found not at berlin t yet y at paris this summer but a the he art galleries of rome borne la 18 IA week the union aana celebrated at turin the ion of the fiftieth year of the gi ft discovery by daguerre and epcie by which the suns rays fall jug ga upon a polished sensitive metal g surface 1 did the painting of por te landscapes etc it is hard to perceive y the name of talbot te to ll 11 others were vere not mentioned in w photographic celebration at tuu of especially so as the invention by which sensitive paper to vlao ite to substituted titu ted for metal has now Pl lArJ more perfect development in in kOphs graphs on paper and has al tai tt lon of entirely daguerre superseded the anven another kl mOther centennial cente noial or quatro tennial is on the tapis this bation tue hiss elenoa noa is to be the place of cele iga in view of the fact that g 0 completes the fourth century Q tile the discovery of america anoa abaft is not satisfied with possess gitig S both acta buste baste y and pedestal so ap Phi cally described by mark b buflo aili 0 but ut she abe has also resolved solved pe to sigfid 4 f first I 1 class ironclad which g be named Ori Oristo dobro foro Colw Ob lumbo sa vessel is to be launched on the aday 04 0 y of october 1892 the day tor A the great genoese gaviga aft handed on san salvador that hald out outpost P ost of the new world bethe by 7 european ro eyes if we axce except ine 5 parts looked upon by thenora the norach 11 ba ila the bays of 3 massachusetts E an A win other anniversaries might tit ah 0 toned one that took place at too can in rome borne a short time the and 2nd of march 1810 in 4 little alue Ap ennian town of ca carpi r i go there bere |