| Show EUROPEAN NOTES the manchester canal three unfortunate queens the emperors ars envoys european armac arma monts menis danger for a long time toe the city of manchester england has desired to become a maritime port but how to accomplish this has only lately been answered to dig a ship canal from manchester to the sea may seem a formidable under undertaking laking and that it is already cow corn edmay be known to few the work will by the aid of bf lip improved proved ma chinery be greatly facilitated and we may therefore expect shonto see manchester cl manufactures shipped directly to various parts of the world there was quite a contest among the english F rench french and germans as to what machinery should be used after repeated trials the committee of construction ae edged the superiority of the french mac ninea the schenk the imperial publishers of berlin are endeavoring to sell a translation of the gerhardt report to an english Tab publishing lishing company any and sir more moreal I 1 mackenzie has uen been asked if he had any objections to the issuing of such a word to this question sir bir morell morel made the following reply 1 I am much dobli obliged ed to you for your I 1 courteous letter lam am not surprised to lind find that schenk are offer ing their pro and strictly veracious M publication tiou for sale in the london landon market I 1 do not net think however that any respectable publisher in this country will jump at securing the honor and prone necessarily contingent on tile the reproduction of the edifying document but should any enter enterprising i 1 ai n 9 firm be found to swallow ka the delectable 1 1 t ab bt bait 1 I shall not shrink from a prompt vindication ut of my professional ie reputation through the medium of the law courts A among mong toe other topics that have arrested public attention may be men tinned ohp naval manoeuvres la in the tac irish sea the unveiling of her aisles tys jubilee statue at bristol the onester musical festival the arrest of mr air okelly MP M mathe P the irish exhibition Exhibit iD which still continues to draw vast crowds and last buthot but not least the splendid reception given to mr and mrs gladstone on the ritti eth anniversary of their wedding republican paris has just witnessed t the he remar remarkable kabie spectacle of three queens each with an unhappy and a melancholy history living within its wally wall enese royal ladies were the queen of servia ane queen of naples and the queen of bhain the queen of naples is 16 as is well known the inter filter of the empress of austria the king and qeeen of naples were driven irom from their beautiful palace in the revolution of 1800 then they bought the palazzo farnese Farne ae lu iu rome and remained till 1870 when the troops of victor emanuel emanoel marched into inte the iha since they been veritable wanderers on toe the face ot of me tae earth hpike ike the poor exile ot of erin said to have been written oy by campbell Caco they have been without a home or a country some time ago their cup of misery was filled to 0 o overflowing by the death of their only daughter since then tuey have to live in paris qeeen inalda ila lias has not had so many as either the queen of naples or thu the queen of servia feema nevertheless tier her troublous reign in boaen and her un forced departure in IM also we the death of her son san after be was raised to the throne of his ancestors have been L enough to make any ordinary person long ter for peace and retirement toe queen 0 of servia separated from m her husband deprived deprive ct ot of her boa boand td ex x patria patri atea ted from germany is ii as aa ellees astle f as noahs duve A story is ia going the roped of the french arld and german ge iman press pr ss regard to the rec reception epLion ol of the special G carman erma n envoys sent to Eng sud to anti announce ounce the atie ot of william 11 II to tilt gerwan throne vicoria vic oria is 40 received them with scant OX V and it is also sald said that they q home highly incensed at the r as abruptness although there uy be oo no truth in this story still it is loathe first time lime that just usta a suspicion meriell has been attributed to B victoria victoria many years tt ret prime mint ter lord boo I 1 rt resigned signed sir robert bobert peel was cpr on OB his arrival at st jamess sit ibert rt peel feea proceeded to 10 explain alon and ana demanded certain ael cummin in the female pol portion tion of 0 the 9 ho household this taia the queen refused to submit to and robert peel beel aski asking na w why by lie be was ifor the queen replied it had bad been loas dow without ner her consent and that she noted aub nb tory ministry la tile the pw ut instance it is possible that wily events have rendered queen victorias nerves somewhat irritably irnia ble 11 like amass a moss trooper in in reference to he be late visit ot 01 count and aad his bis reb reception eption by the quell queen le ba vowel pez says they arrived arid in lont london on absolutely bursting nub 0 the idea of vie t be important mission In fulfill Ifill they were the all powerful emperor of camany to notify his advent to the etrone abue to the gracious queen of E eng au I 1 i md there were two of there aidinlis aide the aide de camp was peno natly known to the qeeen tae M tip officers cers were received receive dand and the OUT remark the queen deigned to oue was when are you soing imy any to which the general replied immediately unless your majesty duag order to give giva me 11 the queen no reply the envoys went off in high dudgeon the ische adds this detail ahat when uie te two generals present led themselves it 9 the palace in uniform uni torra they were told that the queen could only receive them in civilian dress whereupon the having hagim the required habali meat were rash about lon feogin order to buy ready made clothes tte Koelin she repeats the and adds the envoys of the 84 emperor bruor did not expect to be treated u thia way the othey other day ao an em bar expelled a queen from his bis aft and nowa queen shows scant respect for kina kings 11 what a lesson lor republicans whatever may be the correctness ot of tilt 4 above it at least indicates the drift ot popular thought the entente between england and ger wes la is not the most excessive then it we recollect the vast armaments continually going on we ial may ine vague idea of the dangers a t Q uk threaten europe russia of comae leads the nations with y cavalry and d of artillery france follo follows ws VT ITO with infantry ak try and lad 2961 cannon italy and each beach making great efforts place at least one million and a half atten in the held field little switzerland w 1114 the infection and has 1 1 0 infantry caval isis pieces or of artillery A bigland igland 90 seems peaceably Ais disposed posed y acts on the defensive ller her amount to a little more wow infantry cavalry and but the marine forces of dt MR iiga aare fe n nearly arly as great as the rest of europe a combined TW thin marine force is absolutely nee i En glands safety england 14 caspo n her colonies and other biuona 14 0 ou tor for her supplies admiral womb in his inte interesting reciting pape paper says U the naval defense should fail to tul ant ts a hostile force from fram aisem g on oil our coasts what would be it is sate safe to say that every importance would lay in a wrise of food this would cause cabie a w re in prices of olevery every food that would keep not only ator r present also wheat kept in store awal aWat tint tins wn ll 11 a loaf of bread cost 4 pence ipe 8 ahe invasion it would probably iwah an live five times moo that amount a week tte invasion with the price of bw wl raised to one ors or two shillings 4 kl would the millions of ef england englana pe The presence of a hostile army in mod md would indicate that she bad mand of the beas seas and hence to her bar export trade would Q PARd likewise the manufacture of 1 WP for export would also stop and t kingmen hitherto empi employed oyed in w manufacture BaBut would be discharged S thus wa increase the ranks of the 1 0 J t starve or pillage and if jitter flatter all ail the troops in london not be sufficient to pro protect hect the hit al eft well to do from frem the despair of 1 wr lit honest starving and the natural bori W of ilie the criminal classes of awe um we ire are told such multitudes are to 0 be found in ia all the poorer parts of w tile mew metropolis polls bot eviey I 1 in n speaking of glands En our enormous growth development makes us as not more mora we out in some respects much B we safe from I 1 foreign ore n invasion Q bas as introduced ducep new dim awes into the fences defences de of eng 1 sa i our connection with our leshaa ae shaa becede much more lati vital than in former tiff tides les S Is 18 now to ner iter colonies what SWirid W country arounds rt it perceived erce ived indeed that the awat 7 england was drawn from pg shurles that it deppa depended ded aft her commer commercial bial connect boft hisiro W tte he tried to starve his bis enemy that connection it if com coin should throw up a new diee be 0 would perhaps devise a gifts more than that ot of NIVOl coinon eoll 1 I and aad for or un an end somewhat different that was devised deviled to stop our trade with the continent this would be to stop atop our oar food supply across the sea pea the source of our very exist nce what a blockade would tha be this is the danger which makes our military and naval men so anxious and which attracts the attention of foreign and military writers writer lu in 1588 we had bad the threatened nerl invasion of the spanish armada in 1088 9 aud and in 1788 9 6 we were are threatened with political convulsions convulsion will the present year and next year repeat the lessels lessees of the past the most obvious dauber of all just at this present morne moment tat is the international dancer the violent international disc discords the gigantic giganti armies carmies lt it to is only too easy to imeone circumstances which might cause the ator st inn in to burst J H W july IM 1888 |
