Show EUROPEAN NOTES Bis marcks antipathy antipathy williams thorny path tele celebration bration of odthe the defeat of the armada girls strike in london popes epistle italian reforms proposal for disarmament french affairs eastern alarms the person who above all others commands the attention of germany day dav more of the whole reading of europe at the present moment is the atie youthful emperor william il II and the question which has been asked oy so many thousands during the put week soine with fear and gome yome with hope is simply this has bismarck made a mistake there are thousands who declare deblare be has and even many of his bis friends shake their heads dubiously an impression universally pre prevails vaili that william 11 II has made undue haste in visiting the czar and by that undue haste baste increased rather than lessened the difficulties which surround the bulgarian question it is generally well known that there are two political parties in germany the one finds its best embodiment in bismarck the other found a good rep in the late emperor frederick and the exempress ex empress victoria but it is not generally known that a personal dislike has existed between the exempress ex empress and bismarck for more than man thirty years to begin with bismarck was opposed to the englisis Engli sli alli alliance ande and when the present emperor was born and it was waa found that tits his left arm was somewhat crippled bismarck said this english woman has blotched our noble race of 11 this bitter 1 feeling has continued to increase with the years and so much the more as the exempress empress ex victoria has followed the I 1 example of her noble father prince albert of england and made herself the patron of art culture and all tra truly liberal movements the london truth says when the prince ot of wales was over to the funeral of the late emperor he be tried to arrange matters but failed and the will of the late emperor is to be contested one thing is certain there is a bitter lead feud between the empress and her son and as a consequence the queen of ing ens land is in a high state ox ot indignation though the german chancellor inspires the people and even the german nobility lity and aristocracy with a great deal of respect for the valuable services he be has rendered his country yet among the learned professions the students of the universities and the cultured classes throughout the empire there is a feeling that t the xem exem ex X em aft press is more than halt hal right the german people now begin to realize the loss they nave sustained in the death of emperor frederick fritz our fred is a name almost as sacred to the germans as is to the american respect to parents Is one of the cardinal virtues qi of german character the quarrel of the young emperor william II 11 with his mother the exempress ex empress has by no means endeared him to the hearts of the german people der bund der blatt and many other journals bitterly denounce him his path is al ready strewn with thorns As aa an evidence that the st petersburg meeting his has been to some extent a failure bismarck now proposes to summon a european congress witt the view of inducing the great powers to limit their armaE armaments ments to those thosa already voted by their respective etive parliaments lia liam ments euLs inasmuch abany as any further bur dens dena would be so ruinous as to temp nations to the final and bitter arbitha ment jentof of the sword in england the third centennial of the defeat of the spanish armada was celebrated on the of july it was rather a novel sight to see men and women walking about the streets clothed in the queer collumes cosi COS umes Lumes that prevailed in ane days of queen elizabeth and william shakespeare A at plymouth Plym outa tu the corner stone of a grand memorial was laid amid the booming of numerous cannon another feature of the celebration was a tabt historical procession representing the principal characters and events of the elizabethan age A prom prominent anent theme for english gossip during the past week has been the match factory girls strike in london true strikes have been ate common COMMO for many years yet comparatively seldom have women been engaged in them this strike has the rare merit of ostensibly pleasing all concerned in it it if the facts were carefully sifted it would probably be found that the proprietors prie tors bryant may not able to stand the scathing censure of the public lor for their treatment of the girls were ivere obliged to make very liberal concessions and even seek to conciliate public sentiment by a letter in the standard made up of excuses and explanations pla nations As the debates on the local government bill progress and the people become more thoroughly enlightened on n the subject so also mr gladstone becomes more and more popular As the years roll by he appears more anti and still more prominently before the world as the champion of popular r rights gats with unwavering faith in th the e right and malice toward none he seems to 10 strive to enact those laws which will most moat greatly benefit his fellow men italy also has haa imbibed the idea of reform after an animated debate occupying several sittings the italian chamber of deputies by y votes to 97 07 has passed the communal and provincial reform bill which oves gives nearly one thousand cities and to towns ans the privilege of electia electing their own mayors two million citizens the right to vote in administrative elt elections alious besides introducing other important liberal reforms in local government the passing of this bill which has been brought forward tor for several years past without ever being taken into consideration by parliament is regarded as greatly strengthening the position of M crispi in the cabinet crispi might well be called the gladstone of italy but with this difference that the liberal party pany of italy is in power at present bigfor offered an amendment for universal guffra suffrage e to this M R crispi crisp objected inasmuch as the ignorant masses of men in remote pruvia ces were governed by priests and these in turn were governed by the vatican and hence the libers liberal institutions ol of the country would run ran great risk the female femal le suf sat frage clause was rejected for the asserted cause that lor every man subject j act to the priests at least ten women are under this ghostly despotism on the of august napoleons leons birthday prince amedeo will celebrate his marriage wim bis brothers da daughter water the princess letitia bonaparte chis will be a great social event tor lor the chiy ot of turin as well as geneva where the br brides idelis father resides A auser experience it must be for a man to have a brother for his father la in law the statistics show that annually pope leo XIII grants fully four hun dred for men to marry their own nieces what a dispensation costs I 1 know not but it is said to be very expensive from bagi beginning to end of course the church 0 of rome does not sell indulgences no the fanatical movement of last year that caused the imprisonment of the bible agent mr thomas is now having baving a reaction the bible is now LOW pub linned by italians at milan as a bouey speculation and it is said the italian bibles aria are selling rapidly the letter ot 01 the pope which was read in all the catholic churches of ireland on sunday J july aly Is having without doubt a profound impression in ia many parts of ireland the pontiff shows clearly that his bis former decree respecting irish agitation was based upon accurate information and his attitude is uncompromising as may he be seen from the following extracts I 1 our sources of information are trustworthy we investigated the tae matter in pers personal ozal inte interview view with yourselves further farther last year we sent to you as legate a man of tried prudence and discretion lis with the commission to use the greatest diligence in ascertaining the ti jtb and to mak a faithful report to us can it therefore be asserted without rashness that we vve have iven judgment in a case with which we were not sufficiently acquainted there is also aloo a suspicion not less leas unjust bat to lo us that the present condition of the irish people gives us but little care now on tue the contrary we yield to no one in the intensity of fiur feeling for the irith people and we have no more earnest desire than to see bee them at I 1 alth iu in the went of that thai pe prosperity which they have so well weli deserved we have never opposed them in struggling for a better state ol of 8 out out can it be regarded as admissible ad that in the carrying on ol of that struggle a way should be throws thrown I 1 open which wi liht ht lead to evil deeda I 1 on thib account we I 1 gave to the irish people leopie timely counsels els L to he be mindful of their ob ligat oas alii take part in nolting at vari variance acce man natural ri fiur r r t or foi bidden hy by the divine law such as refusing rel using to discharge just obliga uuna tiu uthera from froma dis et charging theirs inflicting injury on any one either in or property or violently resisting persons er borss in the discharge of public antles nevertheless as the people were being carried away by ever increasing vehemence in the pursuit of the object of their desires and as there was not wanting those who daily fanned the hame flame we perceived that something more was needed the words of the epistle are explicit and it I 1 is s hard bard to see how the catholic cherof clergy of ireland can shirk the responsibility of giving counse counsel in accordance co cor dance I 1 nce with ith its precepts recep ts in prance rance considerable merriment has been excited by marcks Bis pro dosal for a general disarmament la france says the idea of a general disarmament is a gene generous rods utopia of which the inia tive will never come from germany who towers above all others in the way of armament if she proposed to us a measure of that kind we should only ask her to set us the example on th the t her hand germany has bas sever bever ces ceased e d to reproach austria tor for her inertness or italy with a warlike fever germany besides would never dare to make such a proposal to russia scarcely el would she undertake the responsibility ig of such sach an offer to france to urge such a proposition would hie bf equivalent to a declaration of war the boulanger movement which has absorbed so great an of attention in france during the past six months has suffered a crushing defeat it should be remembered that under the guise of a most liberal republican boulanger Boa langer was merely a to take care of the chestnuts of the exiled B partes na the defeat of bou jaegers la egers colleagues in the departments ot dossogne Dos dogne and Ch arante on the of june seemed only to excite the BoulaD gist faction with the energy of despair at the close of a stormy sitting of the chamber of deputies on thursday july 12 boulanger resigned his bis sealand seat and appealed from the chamber to the country he had previously moved for a dissolution of the chamber on the ground that a general election could better take place this season than during the exposition year of am when the taie terms of office will legally expire M broquet Blo glo minister of the interior rose to reply the confusion inthe chamber assumed the proportions of a tumult the hot words ex exchanged chanced caused M floquet to challenge boulanger to a duel which took teok place on july and in which boulanger was seriously wounded on sunday july 22 the election in the department dArd eche took place in which boulanger was defeated gy by a majority of forty thousand and so le gi grand and Boula iwer is relegated to the position of a private citizen it is said that disraeli made the re remark constantinople is the thermometer of europe be that as it may it is evident the sultan of turkey is greatly disturbed at political prospects and well he be may be if ras russia is permitted to annex bulgaria under tile the guise of a russian prote protectorate borate to rate then austria must be compensated by y a fat slice of turkish territory pr probably 0 under the new neat arran arrangement gemen t mit macedonia will be placed under austrian I 1 is tri a protection and the sultans do dominions min I 1 0 no in europe limited to constantinople and its vicinity in that event constantinople stantin ople may seem too tempting a morsel to leave any longer to the sultan who to say the truth has shown himself a tr terrible political bun bungler ler and totally unfitted to be the ru ruler er of a towering empire J H W july 1888 |