Show EUROPEAN TOPICS the general election in fiance W which must take place within the next six months naturally occue occupies i es a prominent space in the columns colum ns of the french press it il is said that since the last general election four years ago there are more than a million or of new voters and with regard to these nothing can be predicted beyond the likelihood that they will be drawn into the prevailing current of the moment general boulanger Bou langers Is declaration cl in favor of the catholic church has very much annoyed many of his friends and there are am many who declare that Bou langers late speech at tours has wrought him irreparable injury that boulanger to is seeking for the zealous su support aport of the roman itoman clergy there can L be no doubt and that they will work for the restoration of mon archy is reasonable to expect but on the other hand the most popular of all the possible heirs to the throne of france is likewise Bou langers most inveterate foe the return of the duke PA dA to his native country has with few exceptions been cordially welcomed by the french republican press the government of france would probably have left him in exile for many years longer bad he not been wanted for the purpose of drawing off from general boulanger his monarchical adherents the duke can have no love for the general who not only drove him into exile but likewise a short time ago voted against ills his return to france the duke at least will never turn and he may prove a stumbling block in the way of M antoine the deputy from lorraine has at length resigned his seat in the german reichstag which is no doubt what the german government has been trying for a long time to make him do M antoine was born bom at metz mete in 1845 for many years he has been the most popular man in alsace lorraine since 1881 he has been a member of the reichstag and the world looked upon himas him as the living protest of that people peo C I 1 against an act of spoliation reelected to the reichstag in 1887 he has not been permitted to sojourn among for a time he dwelt in brussels but it was intimated to him that he had better leave that city he then went to luxembourg but was waa soon obliged to leave that city at length seeing lie he could no longer serve his electors he be resigned his position in the reichstag in order to become a french citizen the reception of M antoine by the students stu bents of paris on the of march was in fact a national event the reception hall was adorned with french flags also the arms of alsace and lorraine touchingly covered with crape fully twelve hundred students were present antoinet An entrance was greeted with thunders of applause M theas a student from Alsace in a few words thanked their old comrade for coming to see them thein the meeting was not political li it was simply a recognition recognition to one who had once been onel one of their number who had made himself respected by germany and had suffered for the honor of france mes cames cher cama rades said mid antoine we want a france that is strong free and respected not as in in the lays days of the empire when she was weak when she was swindled and as to the future whether the matter is to be settled on the green baize of a congress or upon the battle field we must have prance france whole and entire we do not want conquests con questa but only our france and all our france the speaker sat down amid cheers and cries of vive la france Francel ll and vive ilive P alsace dalsace lorraine 11 mr antoine it is said will be a candidate for deputy of paris in the general election of next october the base ball game that was lately played by the chicago clubs quick ly brought out the latent enthusiasm assof of the american residents in paris the prefect of the seine has given permission for a portion of the bois de boulogne to be used as a playground and visitors to caris this summer will have the opportunity of wit witnessing Dessing the national nations d game the death of the great british statesman john bright has cast a gloom over the social life of england for the moment on march his mortal remains were committed to the tomb to await the res A wreath was sent by the queen and another by the prince and princess of wales the obsequies of Mr Bright as befitted the character of the departed were simple and unpretending in externals but he be must have had indeed a dull imagination agi nation who could ie be present and not feel the moral grandeur of the ceremony it mattered little the number of mourners present or with how much or how little of funereal pomp it was celebrated when a whole nation stood in spirit at the grave side of all the glowing tributes uttered none were grander than that spoken by mr gladstone in the house of parliament march and the fact that the eulogy was true shows the greatness of mr brights character 1 I feel profoundly and I 1 have never ceased to feel what must be the moral elevation of the men who having been nurtured through life in the atmosphere of popular approval and enthusiasm could at a moments notice e consent to part with the whole 0 of f that at faor which they had heretofore enjoyed and which their opponents might have dreamed was as necessary ry as their very breath pa this was sai said d in regard to mr brights conduct at the time of the crimean war he stood alone then now england admits that he was wag right so 80 it alwa always ysis is the heretic of on one eagels age is the hero of the next the words of mr justin mccarthy should not be forgotten as the tribute of a generous people to the memory of the great commoner ireland claims the right to lay her immortelle her mourning wreath on the great en glish mans grave the suppression of the zek ung by the german authorities for a historical article on the events of 1848 has caused quite a commotion among all the political organs not in the employ of the government all the liberal newspapers with one accord blame the government for a straining of the law w which filch does not appear to have the benefit of an adequate motive the incriminated article in itself was purely historical and had no reference to current politics lipics except by inference the Zean however has for a long time had a black mark put against its name on account of itsu its defense e nse of 39 the persons connected with t affe publication li ll of the emperor fr frederick ed ericks diary A few days ago an animated debate took place in the german reichstag Beich stag on the same old question which has occupied previous reich stags since the formation of the german empire the german GernIA 11 minister of war wanted another appropriation for the artillery and there arose an ominous growl frona from two sections of the house the socialists cia lists and the catholics herr windthorst Wind in a furious speech insisted that bismarck was driving the national coach along the road tol to ruin it is in germany itself that the ruinous peace imposed on onafae the world by the is most meet keenly felt the next war will pw put in movement twelve millions of men it will destroy wo tine flower of the nations it wilt will deprive of support hundreds of thousands of wives lind and mothers the people will then ask for whom do we fight and this question will destroy the present system 11 the ultra conservatives or ae action aries who at present govern russia declare that their system has been successful they say that within a period of ten years they have restored internal order but they omit to state that it is the order which comes from the most moat rigid military despotism these reactionaries insist that the finances financed are in order and that russian credit stands high abroad they claim moreover that russia is rapidly building a vast network of railway 8 and steadily advancing in the occupancy of central asia and that at the present moment all is for the best in the best beat of all possible worlds king milan has ha quitted servio servia and has visited successively buds budapest gestand and vienna from the AUS trian capital he went to italy and after a short stay there he will re turn to belgrade and then hiim proceed aeed to constantinople there is an aft a of mystery about h his is traveling which looks as if king milan had bad not altogether abandoned the control tholof of affairs it is quite possible that the kings king Is abdication wei may turn out to be a piece of politics political humbug intended to leave bf and his co regents face to face with a political situation so 00 difficult that they will be ready to accept any policy which may 10 e imposed upon them by the austrian austri government king milan seems to anticipate a conflict between to tho regency and the radical stavy ikuo china in which case sa such 8 t scene of confusion would ensue W that his return to his kingly duties would not be impossible already the radicals declare that mr and his hie colleagues must ma give way to queen natalie who Is now in exile the french prow generally has received the news newsy of the abdication of king milan wn with satisfaction mainly because it affect th the policy acy of p rince prince bismark the T anal national Nat tonal says 1 the consequences of 01 the abdication of king milan are ar is triumph WT considerable it a the policy of russia on the other hand king milan ever faithful falth ful 0 austria who has so ill III treated bam hip has boa nominated to the regency gen m who is the t a statesman warm friend of the policy of the vienna government J H WA WARD europe april fth 1889 |