Show old world news LONDON doc approach IB heralded not only by afo change in tho of the to december bat to the appearance of tho to alio sale of stationery cr 0 that collection ot everything ornamental known as fancy binate alala christmas carda anil christmas presents look out at ni from every such window christmas junr bers anil christmas annuals are he ot arery bookstall and criest maa and christinas ft ill abon hie property of nil whether hia is as it boand cynics and would answer the aoi plied question in alia negative glnn la as it n ill be and who will la prepared in his heart to bay that it ought to be it ia eany enough to in cold blood any institution ia widespread and largely sentimental but it is to suggest that could tako its in alio giving of so lucli joy to so many chinea ant once a year truly and when it comes its traditions should be ro opec ted and its practices enjoyed over and over again has it been proved to ba he great season of reconciliation at which feuda have been forgotten and personal grievances laid arnle and aUli ough anoro may be claimed for it by its enthusiasts llian a strict and sober judgment concede very few of us are or ought to bo sorry that christmas is again so near A new commissioner of ho metropolitan police lias this week been appointed and the 0 london once more lias a head in alio person of mr monroe C B the names of sir richard mayne sir edward and stir charles warren will always be identified with the history of the london police and it remains to bo seen whether the new will equally stamp his influenza upon the preat force under his command the position be hai boea called upon to fill is one of the utmost importance I 1 and it entails an amount of anxiety iliou its leolder aich comparatively few men would feel able to bear even the roost careless observer would not imagine it to be a light thaulo bo made responsible for the safeguarding safe guarding of alio llio lives and property of four millions of people and such recent events as in aro only a more striking illustration than usual ot the tremendous difficulties against which our police have to contend there is sometimes a disposition evinced to harshly criticism criticise critic ise tho individual constable when anything eoe wrong hut that disposition ts increased tenfold when tho clinef constable of all is concerned no one therefore who values bis peace of mind would envy the position of of the metropolitan police though it is at once BO honorable and 0 o that any holder of it has to be congratulated upon its possession the difference in the position influence and character of alio empress frederick ho is now on a visit to and the present empress Is one of the most marked german court the influence of llie former over lier husband was unbounded and their sympathy on all subjects n as mutual the frederick is a woman of great culture and intellectual capacity great ambition and wide and liberal views on all matters the present empress is tho wife of the emperor and mother of his children and a kle anecdote told of her is a rood illustration of the difference between the two wo some of the lediea of berlin attended at the the other day to present the empress with A beautifully embroidered broi dered apron which she accepted graciously adding my husband liboa ansa to wear an apron lia thinks that all gerdun nivea should do so and to please liboi I 1 aldays wear one the empress frederick was always supposed to wear another article of attire not of a description tho liberal government of spain tries in vain to enforce atio spirit of toleration among tho authorities and subjects of bis catholic very recently in biscay an of the bible society was attacked and insulted by aft enty young catholic students led by a jesuit father who excited the lads to tadd of ear tin and malce a pious boothe of die bibbea testaments and tracts the spanish judges after care tolly investigating the caso declined to abond the affrin era wore tho tribunal for alie assault and ahe destruction ot the property of the foreign bible Society The students aad not the jesuit f who was alie principal instigator of the outrage will have to appear befaro the muni can only inflict a fine and a few days arrest even i they are convicted whilst this treatment is meted out to foreigners and tho spanish courts of justice send to penal servitude for criticizing criticising critic ising alie beato religion the st petersburg ahoi in an artilo on tho alia belief that the perpetrator of these dreadful crimes is a liue named vassili eff of odst it ha follow who waa born at Tira wan a student at the university abid laving fanatical anarchist be migrated to iaria in the seventies eliere ho shortly attern ards became insane and n as placed under restrain before acine lodged in an asylum however mania appears to have been that fallen women could only atone for their fifis and obtain redemption by being killed murdered several unfortunates iu iaria budor conditions somewhat to of the on hia arrest his insanity laving been proved lie waa placed in a criminal lunatic eix years ago and or the mad simi as lie ws in alio paris until shortly lievore alie airet outrace lien he waa cured he id then kulil to leave pro acceded to london eliere for boino kiino lie willi the of ila fellow countrymen after tho unit murder however was lost bi alit of anil the in tendon lielie vo blut their insane countryman is no other than thu murderer however successful ai a general lins not it been happy in liia iloine relations lie ana by AI 1 l was not lis 0 n wife but an friend alio nursed him liia alio probability cf a vaa often ut lier intensely Out holic feell nir lla daine boulenger lud taken the arst step toft ards reain int iier liberty lib eity and freo ing the gerneral from a tio biad bec filing tu bubli thial look oa otlien lier speared ip eared at glicr attore il a julye in charn abe civil tribunal of the seine abat bound to advice to be reconciled but no good in this ius camo ol 01 lis rood advice there sa to bo another this month in alno Ao bepin alio is to do ilia to brine about a reconciliation but little hope to be entertained of buccola Bucco aa it is said that a widow lad oce of abe richest women in franco alio haa long been ambit toua of playing a loading part in alio llio political world Is not to place lier millions at abe generals service should ho lier au of marriage WARWICK |