Show CURRENT EVENTS IN EUROPE suffering buttering in italy catholic discontent A russian generals speech sympathy of the slavic principalities russia ready beady affairs in paris I 1 death of general rudes kudos Ri ackes comet britaina Brit ains life boat association the commercial treaty which for several years has existed between france and italy came to un ua end with the close of last year and since then there have been many proposals from each country tor for its renewal or the formation of ef a similar QUO one so far the governments have failed to nome come to a definite under stan dLug each nation wants the lions sharland share and at present italy seems to be the greatest sufferer the vine owners ot of italy have no adequate market for their produce the country Is overflowing with idle laborers from the tact fact that italian emigrants are refused at most american por pora a either of the northern or southern hemisphere the national debt Is increasing and what is worse it is rapidly passing passin 9 into the hands of foreich capitalists especially those of england and france under these circumstances it is not surprising to see the journals of italy de deploring loring the increase ot of population an and advocating the introduction of french customs from to 1870 the births in france averaged twenty eight to every one thousand inhabitants annually since that time it has decreased and now averages less than twenty alve to each thousand on the other hand italy has never averaged less than thirty two to every thousand and from the year 1881 to 1886 the average rose to more than thirty seven to each thousand inhabitants fram the above may be gathered an idea of the comparative morality of these countries at this juncture a great cry Is made by the catholic press of botn both countries to give the pope and the catholic church generally more i v illges than they now enjoy pope rl leo 0 XIII is represented as a poor prisoner pining his sufferings and inhabiting a prison only a little better a bastile the logical deduction of all this is that there is but one remedy vaz vj i t the he restoration of the temporal power of the pope in order that tte tie public may know the real conditions and surroundings roun dings of the pope the italian government has issued a circular stating the law in relation to the vatican and its occupant an abstract of which may not be uninteresting to american re readers adera 69 the person ot of the sovereign pontiff I 1 is 9 held to be as sacred as the king himself the government by the law of guarantees is to render to the holy father toyal royal honor and the holy father has the ri right ht to maintain the customary number of military personnel for his bis person and his bis palaces there is annual annually lv to be set aside as a donation to his bis holiness lio liness the sum of 3 francs equal to the po pope e has likewise a diplomatic corps as and receives all diplomatic agents accredited to him with perfect freedom the sovereign eign pontiff has the right to correspond with the catao alc corid by means of his own telegraph and postoffice post office without any expense to pay for messages or letters sent throughout italian territory and conveyed by the malls mails and telegraphs of the italian government but the vatican feels most sore because its old privileges are taken away and the whole party of the clerical Incorrigible all would perhaps be a better translation reek reck not of a single privilege given by constitutional italy among the privileges taken away is the right to make wills for other men who may be either upon the bed of languishing or toe bed of death the exclusive right of marrying people now substituted in part by the civil code the right to punish any man who worships god in any lay other way than the church prescribes the right to te exercise a complete alete censorship over the press and inflict let punishment for the sale of any books including the bible not author mod by the church in short but tor for the liberal constitution of italy we should see immense properties in th the e shape of lands dy dwelling telling houses and convents become dead capital I 1 in the hand band of the church and intolerance and lack of civil right obtaining wherever the ghostly power prevailed hence these tears rears on the part of these who in many respects are better off now than it if the pope had the temporal power restored in regard to the austro russian political situation at this date the words of the russian general IgRa ignatieff at klef kief the other day may have considerable 8 significance the old general said it 11 anybody wants to understand th the e J european rope n ST situation correctly he be must get acquainted with russia also the russian is not a bad fellow and is by no means what his bis enemies re represent pre him to be this the hungarians Hung arians found out as far back as 1849 we were not in their country long yet the most cordial feeling arose between the russian and hungarian officers As a proof of this I 1 may tell you after the hungarian army had laid down their arms I 1 an and d an arrogant austrian officer insulted insulate d his bis hungarian comrades he was called out by a russian I 1 was one of the seconds I 1 do not know w why by an idea of still exists in hungary dussias Rus sias intervention was a mis mistake a a great mistake but it is a enough adough that that we ourselves deplore ft we russians do not seek conquest we do not intend to go to war tor for the slavs we want to work by means of civilization and not by the bayonet so far as we are concerned the hun garl garian anif scan can live in peace we do not want to annex foreigners wn we are numerous enough already what harm barm can it do any one if all the slavic kingdoms and principalities effect a civilized union what if hungary servia roumelia Bo umelia bosnia besnia montenegro Mente negro etc became a grand confederacy on crossing the russian frontier one may travel for weeks and not see a russian soldier near bear toe the frontier on the other hand just across the frontier may be seen vast battalions of austrian soldiers we will not begin war we do not put troops on our frostier frontier we are not afraid it we are attacked we will be found ready we will advance westward notwithstanding all obstacles and in spite of austria who stands tor for nought la in the european equation we take no acco account ant of austria nor shall we do so in the future from the above it would be seen that the great russian church festival at kiel kief was not exclusively devoted to religious topics it may be somewhat daring to speak of such a thing a as s public opinion in russia where the halt civilized masses have unbounded faith in the czars azars government and yield implicit obedience to it and where intelligence is looked upon by government officials with suspicion nevertheless there is a public opinion even in russia when we recollect that hungarians Hung arians serviano ians bosnians Bosn ians Roum anians etc are all adherents of the so called greek church of which the russian czar is the acknowledged head we shall be the better aule able to perceive the relation that russia holds to the young principalities war in behalf of the great slav cause would have a religious element io in it would make it popular in russia while the antagonism of the hungarians Hung arians who are all adherents of the greek church would be excited against the austrian court and officials who are all staunch adherents of the church of rome it is this state of religious fanaticism and semi civilization that constitutes the great danger the life of a russian peasant is a hard bard one and war could hardly make maie it worse whether he dies of starvation at home or fighting on the battlefield I 1 can make very little difference to him therefore if the semi intelligence of the country told him he be must fight for the honor el 1 I russia and the glorification of mother church he would rattier welcome the summons than ithan otherwise on the other hand if the idea of a grand confederation of all the slav nationalities was f fully ally carried out it would gril only revive in another form tue toe turkia turkish E empire in ire and bar tor for ever dussias Rus sias road t to 0 constantinople constantinople vigorous measures have at length been resolved upon by the french cabinet to put a stop to the disorders disorder which are distracting france it wa indeed time for the old revolutionary symptoms had begun to manifest themselves in paris the epidemic of sti strike akell had reached other important cities and the building of barricades and a umber number n of fierce encounters between the malcontents and the police bring convincing testimony of the vehemence of the revolutionary spirit which characterizes the I 1 vast ast majority ot of french operatives the death of general endes the old communist ae leader ader on august ath has had bad a rather exciting linfitt nee nce on the mal malcontents contents of paris M floquet felt obliged to postpone the f funeral till the populace was somewhat calmed endes it will be remembered was the leader of the communists of 1871 bv his order the great palace of the Tuille ries and palace of the legion dHo neur nour were saturated with petroleum and then set on fire f when the communists tailed failed endes ende g e escaped cap ed to switzerland and from thence by way ol 01 0 germany to england with a large amount 0 of f money he afterwards returned to parts paris but occupied himself with dreams of revolution there is no more lamentable sign of the times limes relative to republican france than the fact that such an aural unmitigated scoundrel as eudes should have been allowed to return to paris enriched with the product of stolen goods the ringleaders ring leaders of social democracy in germany are all exiles irom from their native land without the hope of aga insetting foot upon its soil BABEL MOST HASSELMAN and other vociferous apostles of petroleum and dynamite are only murderers in theory but ades had bad killed men in cold blood with his bia own hand he bad appointed a chief executioner to superintend massacres of his bis own ordering he had pillaged the palace of the leaton d for his bis own benefit be and had permitted his bis mistress at last to sell these the se crets of the commune to the versailles government while he himself escape escaped d beyond the reach of danger yet the government ot of france sanctioned his bis sojourn on the very scene of his bis vilest atrocities and audiences composed of french working men were ever ready to listen to him as a political teacher he died indeed in deel while addressing a public meeting and almost the last words he ever uttered were applauded to the echo one cannot help regretting that eminent french journalists deem themselves under political obligation to speak well of such a ruffian M de rochefort a man of shining abilities describes endes as a soldier dierof of the people 11 M clemenceau who will probably be prime minis Mini ten of the republic one of these days speaks of endes as a courageous re publican 11 compared to the acceptance of such doctrines the evils of a strike are arc insignificant the nati nal mal lifeboat institution of great britain has BBS lately made an application for far a large number of new boats there are now no less than of these vessels stationed on en the coasts of the british islands Islan cs and there are few or none of these but have a brilliant record for their usefulness it is probably not too much to say that the lifeboat is scarcely of less importance than the lightship and the lighthouse the mhd cost of a ully fully f equipped lifeboat is fully 2300 and yet tuese inese sums sams have been raised by public charity the government has me aa yet provided no funds for their cost or their management A movement is now in progress to lay a small scarcely appreciative tax an on the opulent ship owning communities muni ties of the country tor for the furtherance of this most necessary form of humanity the return retura of that heavenly body known as buckes comet within the limit of our solar system has again excited attention ahmoi amanthe othe astronomers astra homers of europe the period of the revolution of this comet is as Is well known about three years and a quarter volumes might mi ht be written on anthis this apparently insignificant object which has bas seldom been visible to the naked eye it has proved of great service ein in ascertaining the destiny of comets and the weight and mass of several of the planets it led to the me discovery of a resisting medium which contracts the orbit and so causes the comet to return near the sun SUB a few hours earlier than if it met no opposition to its progress through space it has also shown that heavenly bodies are capable of dissolution as luring during its repeated returns to co the neighborhood of the sun ban the comet has lost much of its substance and is evidently hastening to decay its motion during the month of september will be watched with intense interest as forming the data for future calculations J H wo W europe aug 18 1888 |