Show old world news LO ND let ima the queens birthday which oily of course fell on may was intended to haab beatt celebrated by her majesty this year on tile but owing to the whitsuntide holidays and to the inconvenience that would have been caused to our most im by the eastern ary official banquets being hell on the last mentioned date it was subsequently resol veil to celebrate it on the saturday following june and 2nd it is interesting to note that the auspicious occasion will be kept by the british residents in paris on the same date instead of on may as in previous years and it would be well 11 the official custom were adopted by brit ish residents all over the worl so that the hearty birt laday wishes al bays given queen would comp as it were at h one voice at one tinie from every part of the universe the occasion this year Is the more noteworthy because the queen has now entered upon she born in 1819 and her subjects will hope that she will complete it under as happy auspices as it 1 I late been more excellent than it has baen for some period ac to recent information from sti t lie russian prep has suddenly turned upon england and Is attacking the for having adhered to tile alliance of the central european the russian newspapers warn england that isho will be madeko pay for her mistaken policy in central asia aud elsewhere the atianna correspond the russian newspapers say simply reflects the mortification of the czarn government at not having in a little that notice after tho recent settlement of the afghan fr dispute the allus filan papers revolved the mot to advocate a friendly with england within the last ten days it has been reali at st U rg boothe shrewd common sense of the english people saves them from s u ci I 1 ons re 9 as muscovite cun ning puts in their way the popular movement in favor of efficient armaments has opened it eyes any thing but that hussla rould have borne patiently there Is not a more thick skinned government than that of 1118 majesty but when it comes to practical measures for do all designs that may be enter talked agi the british empire at st petersburg or elsewhere Ilus sias conf nilon Is completa for the last coup leof years russia has been arming orr a large scale end building strategic st railways chich have materially re ducca the q a cam laign in central asia the russians were quite ela te d that tile whole time englana herself should be doing noth I 1 her mi resource res oarce s there was a n al story current in n a va circles that at the time bf the bombardment of alexandria the flett in action ex its last grain bf powder and that etwas vera fortunate the bom bard mont took such speedy effect as it it had been necessary to continuo it another day not ark officer on board the english ships could have said w a ebore powder was to come from this natu raiV made us quite popular with the russians they went out of their way to make paradise in which the englishmen English min have been living enchanting as as possible if present appearances are not altogether deceptive russia will before long show her teeth in asia the masked batteries extending along the shore of the black sea from odessa to the langerot langeron lan geron and thence to the fountain are it is reported being rapidly put in working order soldiers are co a laboring there under the su perv islon of government engineers gi ammunition AT etc is b ing secretly conveyed thither under cover 0 f night and there quantities the cs of the yacht club are being used as the central stores whence the v at tons are receiving their ka lPes and the boats of the same club ar put in requisition to convey them lie utmost secrecy Is being observed the russian government has or dered the of the warsaw granica and linea aich are the two a fra roads to the austrian complete their stores of coal as promptly as possible tile directors of the first named line have accordingly ordered ro c t and those of atie second 0 cs t of coal for delivery maybe remarked that the coaling af the austrian lines in galicia was finished last year the 11 correspondent of an hungarian paper report that a treaty hasteen concluded between russia and montenegro by which the latter case a war enter wa WAO men aus tria will thus be compelled to leave of her army in that remote empire rueta promises in case of victory to alyo the part of cattaro the bridging of the straits of dovera thus ni alting a connection beaw eon england and france is a subject which has r been talkea of tile latest pews on this matter however Is effect that a ithema for building such a bridge has been worked out this has been accod by the crenson engineers and 31 herment Her sent ex president of the society of civil engineers Enzi the pro gress of metallurgy makes the con at ruction possible of an immense bridge so kilometres kilo metres long with a platform at a height of oo 00 metres above the sea at full tide and roup ported by piles at distances 7 f boo metres the foiw bridge w aich Is boang i completed in scotland and tin der billich the largest can pass in an advance towards a important structure the hafg it ai lowed for dw bridge over the hatmon steamers an asail to PAN freely it waud four aitay itay RON beside a boad for aw wid ihas 1 I 1 will bd wit factory for choso who the only trouble left them wilt ba that of 09 ing their of loco akion whether by rail way carriage omni bust cab or velocipede ll laces of refugo watch howo and alarm will be peael on each pile ith a powerful light the authors of this gigantic scheme believe that the foundations mav be constructs d by means ol 01 compressed air diving bells the depth of the strait between calais an 1 I dover not being oil an av more than from 23 to 30 metres and in few places exceeding 60 incites the bridge will coat its me callic weight I 1 will amount to 2000 ODO tons and it might be d in aIx yeara the scheme will shortly be for examination to an international technical committee when this examination has been completed tet the channel bridge society will apply for a concession the french and english governments from which ask for no lai under these conditions the concession might easily be granted and tile w arks I 1 romed lately iegan years the commerce bouli be much more than repaid ih tho benefit from the n introduced into their by the I 1 execution of a work which e considered as one of iho most tant of the century the labors of efio will be greatly vacillated facil bar the ad memble compilations of tile commission the coin missioners ners who were appointed t what papers and manuscript belonging to private families would be useful in illustrating constitutional law science and the general history of the country bleir live possessor pos sessom would be willing to give access I 1 1 ave now been at work for nearly 20 years and the volumes they lave issued descriptive of the various collection valuable docu menag examined by the ia already form library nry brein their eleventh report published rea bently however it appears their work is as yet far from bel ag com that work in fact when finished will represent one of the greatest editorial enter mover un der taken the commissioners have recently am stained a heavy lops by the death of sir billiani Wil liani hardy mine years experience as deputy keeper of the pub ic records him to render assistance to his colleagues |