| Show LETTER FROM EUROPE the inclement season has now fairly commenced and the sufferings of the poor are thereby greatly intensified thanks to the efforts of such men as john burns and cardinal manning public opinion is beginning to be aroused in their behalf especially those who inhabit the city of london it is now more than thirty four years since parliament passed the law enabling the vestries of the parish churches to abate the overcrowd over crowd ing of houses inhabited by the working classes to improve or demolish tenements unfit for human habitation and to enforce the registration and inspection of lodging houses in order that they shall be kept in a clean and wholesome state the question arises why has nothing been done why have those miserable rookeries rook eries been left standing those relies relics of a barbaric age where for untold generations they have been the abode of filth disease and crime Is it possible that the clergy and vestries of the established church in london have feared to awaken the wrath of the exorbitant and unprincipled landlords can it be that the clergy have so far forgotten for getten their vocation as to turn a deaf ear to the cries of the thousands of poor adults and helpless children who cowering and trembling in misery and fear are calling for relief from the oppressors wrong there are many who believe so in fact the evils under which the poor are suffering have aroused the sampat sympathies hies of even those whom the world de nominates atheists and infidels and a pressure has been brought upon the local government board of london that they should see that the clergy of london shall perform the duties assigned by them by the parliamentary act of 1855 or give way to those who will the world has heard a good deal about despotism but it would seem that a little despotism exercised toward the landlords of the east end of london in behalf of suffering humanity would not be amiss just now it is a little more than eighty years since nal napoleon oleon I 1 ran the plowshare of progress through the darkest and dirtiest slums of paris transforming them into such places as the champs elysee place de IEt IJ Etoile rue de la fayette Fay efte etc no one now doubts the wisdom of napoleons measures in this regard A similar process in london would bring comparative cons comfort fort to untold thousands as well as add beauty and wealth to eng lands great metropolis december and 2nd was the anniversary of the coup of napoleon ill III the day which commemorates the overthrow of the second republic in 1851 when with an adroitness worthy of his great an aestor he seized the reins of power and proclaimed himself napoleon III emperor of fran prance ce 11 this year the anniversary has attracted more attention than usual perhaps owing to the new light thrown upon that event by the j just pu published blushed remi feminis nis bences of gen fleury it seems j now to be generally conceded that fleury was in reality the person rs 0 n who planned the whole achez scheme A As is well known france established a republic in 1848 but frenchmen had not yet learned sufficient mod aeration to be self governing and the republic was fast falling to pieces it was at this juncture that louis napoleon perhaps with true patriotism was anxious concerning the future one day gen fleury said to him why not save our country by making yourself emperor but how said louis napoleon can this be done nothing can be accomplished without a minister of war who is willing to make great sacrifices and take great risks for the support of this measure fleury ury recommended saint arnaud then an obscure brigadier general in africa to be made minister of war accordingly the exploits of saint arnaud were loudly heralded in the paris papers through the influence of general fleury and when a few weeks later saint arnaud was appointed minister of war he was one of the most popular men in fiance had been fixed for the of september but at that time of the year the deputies were mostly at their homes in the country and would surely have inaugurated augu rated an insurrection saint arnauds arnaudo Arna wife was the first to perceive this and advised postponement pon ement saint arnadia thus forewarned and perceiving the dangerous game gama he was about to play asked leave of absence to see his mother for the last time probably general fleury at length became impatient and urged the new minister of war saint arnaud to make greater speed the answer of saint arnaud was characteristic he replied 1 I think when you ask a man to be good enough to fling himself from the top of a five story dwelling you should be good enough to allow him to select the hour for his performance f for orm mance a n C 11 louis napoleon saw the wisdom of this answer and placed the whole management in ia the hands of saint arnaud on the evening of december 1st ast there was a brilliant assemblage at the palais delisee dEl ysee most of the leading statesmen of prance france were j there after the guests had departed napoleon fleury and saint arnaud held a brief consultation the next morning with the dawning light the astonished P people 6 ale read the proc la mation of N napoleon p 0 leo and we uie second empire all opposition was prevented by the artillery and caa alry airy drawn up at every commanding position presently napoleon flury and saint arnaud surrounded by a military escort dashed through the streets on horseback and were acclaimed by the people at one place there were shouts of vive ilive la but flury and saint arthaud argaud replied vive napoleon and the cry was taken wen up by the troops no further th resistance was offered such were tha t 0 PrID principal ciPRI facts in that great historical episode of france the anni berated brt of which has just been cele aften politics becomes so exciting th mat at women participate there Is tene rally a grave issue at stake aich which is likely to make it de interesting especially so when we see german ladies taking alively lively interest in public questions according to the social ethics of prince bismarck woman comans womans a sphere of labor should be restricted to her own anally or al ai most to her immediate frien lends it is therefore with some a surprise that the news is received t hot the ladies of berlin headed by the oe em empress have press organized a series of tableaux td viva or living pictures by which these ladies intend to w represent the horrors of the slave wade trado in africa and thereby arouse the oe rather phlegmatic germans to its oppression suppression by planting colonies in C ventral ey atral africa no doubt german statesmen feel chagrined by the fact that at british valor rescued emin jasha pasha who saw no alternative ex dept pt to vacate his central african dominions or perish in thern them there by y giving great britain a double pretext to claim these ferlie tile territories as her own ger ft lanYs profession of philanthropy thou hough ah it may be insincere on the part of the german govern inglat ent will certainly have a eighty influence with the german PW tropic ale history records numerous stances where sentiment and 1119 igi tous zeal were the motives that to the most important movements we should not forget th nat at the cru crusades were in th the e main the ux result of religious zeal so too motives tives of religion and philan f I 1 thropa py prompted the good queen quee n I 1 a to pledge her jewels in order orde to fit out columbus columbu 8 for his arable or able v voyage 0 aage of discovery likewise wise in 0 our ur own lime we have seen how bow sentiment and romance V oay influence the destiny of a 81 notion slave for or nearly y a century the y question had been before the people pa of the united states they well wel knew that four millions of aipa were in bondage that in malay gny cases little children were sold allo their th their oer mothers and wives from oe husbands yet the nation re boned milded comparatively unmoved suddenly a woman of genius wrote ate uncle toms cabin ad a id the brutality brut lity 0 of f the system was burned arned into int 0 the hearts of the lovers ers of freedom the moral con science ence of the nations was awak belled uel and not only in the united ssta but lse likewise in brazil the death th knell of slavery was rung in this case will rejoice jolce if indeed germany is awak aued f ya to 0 o the great moral and social us she is capable of introduce nn still 1 l there are certain wise on shia who go 80 about shrugging their shoulders and slyly winkling winking their eyes ins and seem to think it is exceed lv v ronny funny for germany sudden to pose as the great missionary power of the earth while many rail HOUS of her people are crushed under a military despotism nearly equal to slavery that bismarck believes that a gross blunder has been made in not dot sending supplies and troops to jemin emin is evident from the address of his hi son count herbert bismarck in the reichstag the past week the rhe speech in itself betrayed great irritability even such men as prince bismarck and signor signer crispi who have rendered great services to their country would scarcely venture to dictate to a national assembly what questions of public policy they should or should not discuss count Her herberts bertIs remark that certain ertain persons cannot be kept silent by any fear of compromising the success of pending negotiations only roused bitter opposition from the liberals eugene richter bichter carried away by his bis feelings flung a poisoned arrow at the count by the remark that there were ministers who hoped to hide bide their incapacity in the confusion caused by parliamentary squabbling A curious light is thrown upon the inner history of by the letter aJ dressed by omar saleh the gene general generalao ralto to emin pasha in its d diction it I 1 is a like a chapter from the koran and every sentence tarns with profound conviction it is strange to find the fierce warrior r of the desert beginning with the reminder that I 1 the worm world is a houe hou e of change and decay and everything in it must one day perish nothing in it is of value to a true servant of god except that which is for his good in a future life it is stranger still to find the absolute confidence of the general in the righteousness of the cause he represents in the very summons com commanding manding emin to surrender occurs a passage which thrills thrill with childlike child like tenderness and affection he says we have found him the mahdi more compassionate than a pitying mother he lives with the great but he has compassion on the poor lie speaks only the truth and brings people to god relieves them in this world and shows the path to the next J such trash as this explains the v valor alor with which the dervishes have fought the best disciplined troops of europe they can look lok back too upon a long list of triumphs in which the annihilation of hicks pashas army the overthrow of gordon at khartoum and the death of gen stewart take a place the withdrawal of emin adds another to the Mah tills triumphs the most zealous partisan of english policy in the east must admit that great britain has undertaken anything dg but a smooth and easy task in egypt and central africa J H WARD EUROPE EuRoP LP december ath 1889 |
