| Show I 1 EUROPEAN TOPICS in england the inevitable and wearisome home rulo bule struggle is again in full swing owing after the first few weeks of preliminary ing the campaign has been fairly begun the characteristics of the struggle do not show thea the slightest lightest variation the same old well worp arguments have been repeated the same well known replies given but ut nothing new has been liap imported oed into the question the result of the recent election at holborn furnished a slight variety in the course of events but the confirmation of formed vote shows that the constituency remains unaffected by the arguments for or against the irish pro PO josafe the slight additional interest awakened in the question at the of the session by the of inquiry has utterly ed away and the daily progress of the trial is regarded with the irish question has been sa ong before the country that there we are few voters in the country who have not long ago taken sides upon the question and whom the arguments ments of either party are powerless to effect it seems that the nation mud wait until the next general election shall bring up the question for decision mr Glad gladstone stones recent tto to birn birmingham dougham for an instant into life the interest of the nation out but a week after the impression was gone among painters sculptors musj musi cfaft raj architects and those who patronize Pate onize the fine arts arte consider ame interest has been manifest mani in the organization of the national art congress which has just held 1 first arst session at liverpool not abo t least important item is the fad afe that sir frederick leighton b nas be been en elected its ite president in capture QUIP ture as wen well as painting sir has long since proved an expert it to is well known sa he is an enthusiastic lover of tale art ar in the practice of which he v so bright a proficient prof he regards it t not merely as a money making twe ltd but also as a harmonizing and on noling mission sir frederick anais s speech made some very pertinent nt je remarks marks he said our have no adequate con eption of the place of art as an element of national greatness they do not appreciate its vital import gumto ceto certain branches of national prosperity it is uselessly useless lt to is stupid it ja hal to ignore the existence or value the influence of the alo classes of english society there we they are strong nume numerous roup I public spirited upright indus uria but incurably prejudiced they do not like the arts as they axe are ikla ked and appreciated by some other mHo BS the charge is heavy but th tow president proceeds to aade it ik JY by sm an appeal to the example or of the truly artistic nations of the world ond indeed he has uwe little difficult y V ar u proving his point and in show that many so called educated aple apte of are profoundly unconscious abat constitutes a work of art we to is no doubt that england vill aul have to begin another cam laign in the soudan if in fact it IE ic not already begun began the daily skirmishes at juakin have grown more serious and more menacing so much so in fact that the reinforcements ments sent lately have proved none too many the reports from the desert go to show that the dervishes are gathering to the attack and a serious battle may at any time take place as the commanding officer at juakin is only await awaiting lug the arrival of the tenth black regiment from alexandria to make a strong attack on the entrenchments of the enemy that part of upper egypt known as the soudan is perhaps the most disagreeable spot on earth for a permanent residence and it possesses two disreputable seaports masso maaso wah and juakin the first as everyone knows is in the possession of the italians and the second is in held for the egyptians by great britain thus juakin is at the present moment in very great danger it is besieged by the mah dests who by some hocus common enough in regions about which nobody knows contrived to send against the british forces several batteries of krupp guns with a force of well trained artillerymen artilleryman artillery men where these have come from no one seems able to tell but there they are the british government which seems to be in a vacillating mood has resolved to send another battalion of british troops lord randolph Chur churchill hlll very sensibly observed the other night in the house of commons one regiment is either too much or too little it is too much if england intends to abandon egypt it is too little if juakin is to be set free from the Mah diste the german committee for the relief of emin pasha has resolved not to await the result of the A anglo anglo german blockade on the african coast but to 6 proceed with the organization of its relief expedition it is considered quite possible to open a communication by the tana river Biver with emin pasha and perhaps haps with mr stanley the committee consider that the latter is still alive as it seems to them such a large expedition could not perish without leaving any trace that the committee has come to a wise resolve in not delaying action there can be no doubt as the anglo ger mar man blockade promises to be a long and tedious business and more apt to exasperate the arab slave dealers than to disarm their hostility the expedit expedition lon which the committee propose to send is by far too weak it is to consist of two hundred europeans ro when five times that anum number would be too few it is true they will have a kind of military organization and be well supplied with small arms but of artillery they will have none the world moves for all that said gallilee GaU Gal ileo lileo and it might be added spain also at present the question of universal suffrage is agitating the politicians of span spain even the Conserva conservative Uve prime minister senor sagasta is among the advocates of the measure the conservative party being thus divided it remains to be seen what result the liberal party will be able to accomplish or will it end in a revolution russia to excite the uneasiness tf if her western neighbors germany and austria not that there ther e is wore more than the usual marching and countermarching counter marching of troops in russian poland but gen gourko the governor of poland is making an exhibition of bloodthirstiness terrible to behold still after all russia is only doing what au all other nations in europe are doing that Is ia she is preparing for war the austro german allia alliance ce seems to be just a little bit shaken for some time past a newspaper war has been carried on between the leading organs of the german and austrian press the gea germans do not love overmuch the austrian prime minister count and the count complains of a sort of sackville incident at the austrian court the german sackville so to speak is the german ambassador prince reuse reua who count insinuates is leagued with his eno enemies for his destruction A french contemporary has discoverer discover disco verel ei that is an irishman by ie le scent which may account for his umbrageous disposition be this as it may the german newspapers declare that it is all up with austria the day that the triple alliance is broken and austrian organs of public opinion take up the glove thrown down and openly declare that a franco efranco rus sian alliance would suit austria much better than the present alliance with germany and italy however the real enemy of german unity at the present moment is neither her eastern western nor southern neighbour but one within her own gates france has shown pretty often of late that she is not to be roused up that a warlike policy to is one in which she has little sympathy russia on the other hand however much her generate may bluster is ie in no position to make war with allies both active and passive the real danger to german unity proceeds from the socialists whose numbers have increased threefold during the last hist ten years and would have increased much more had it not been for the v ver increasing emigration the there re pre asive measures of prince bismarck have had no perceptible influence over theta them the last election has made their influence felt in the reichstag or parliament should the day of trouble once come to germany her socialist enemies will not want allies among the discontented classes whom prussian preponderance now offends 3 H wb eurbie dee dec IT 1888 |
