Show IN EUROPE A comprehensive glance across tho water THE WAE J affairs in england and the present attitude of several continental powers 1 i the news from southeastern eu rope as summarized by the chica go keus to warrant tho as that for the moment the issues of peace and war rest with king milan of servia he is not popular and he feels it imperatively necessary to appear aa a hero to people who he knows well have a traditional love for the deposed but 15 hardly the man for the occasion and the serviano ians are not the people to take the lead in the slavic movement of southeastern europe it is true that serria fought the turks in 1870 bureus bu tEus eia alone saved her in that struggle tae correspondent of the london standard at present perhaps the best informed english paper on foreign matters save that germany with ahe approval of austria russia and england has proposed in a plan for the settle ment of the bulgarian question the following principles to be observed that the greek and servian demand be rejected that turkey be advised to complete her military preparations to be ready to interfere in the event of greece aud servia moving to enforce their demands that the union of bulgaria and roumelia under prince alexandria the latter avow ing the sovereignty of the sultan be recognized early in the week it was reported that diug milan had informed the howera that he must either go to war or abdicate bis throne and that ho had decided to go to war he was to have issued a manifesto mani feato to his army on the day following that declaration but the manifesto is still held back milan is doubtless anxious to slip froia his leash but then it is held by bismarck and perhaps by austria augland remains passive in the matter the lories have declared that they acre nut going to interfere and the party one its organs batee the deposing of the sultan claiming that it would create a bitter and implacable feud between christians and ro osema the world over As things now stand greece and servia fired by the bulgarian princes audacious initiative are desirous of adding a slice to their territory and macedonia is the joint from which this slice is to be cut this province contains a molly population of wallaces Wal lachs turks creeks albanians to parcel this province out would be a task of political vivisection beyond of all the great the before these powers if the settlement of the dispute is to be left to them is to discover the least amount which will be accepted a sufficient installment to induce turkey to yield that amount peaceably if as i probable turkey is left to defend her territory and to enforce the clauses ef the treaty of can although almost with the aid of her subjects in asia minor inflict a severe defeat upon all the mongrels mon grels that are yelping at her her plevna record shows what fighting stuff there is in the followers of mohammed and inthey do fight there isa prospect of numberless bales viau eara the secondary ballots have been cast in france and they are likely to increase the present republican majority of M henri brisson the french premier has declared himself satisfied with the result so far and has asserted that the mon archilta arch iata desire the overthrow of the republic and would cause a revolution in the attempt to that end he admitted that neither republicans nor monarchists desired war abroad the re public could alone secure peace this latter declaration is a sop to the bucolic cerberus of france and will tell on sunday the electoral campaign 19 waxing hot in england the latest contribution trib ution to it being a forcible manifesto issued by lord randolph churchill to his constituents this manifesto is more royalist than the king and winds up with a peroration worthy of sms days it reads as follows to quote the fiery descendant of john churchill mr bright will direct his unrivaled oratory ins simple borci blo invective hia personal position anahis experience to induce you to the liberals the old dis sention among the liberal which caused the failures of the last five years ia now blazing fiercely mr gladstone in all honesty warns you that his hand will be asked to support a party which even hatred of the torice cannot you cannot bield to this appeal the policy of the doriea ii to regain the friendship powers which prejudice lion and poltroonery almost forfeited and to use that friendship to secure european peace angim aerial for the and commercial purpose afi england and her colonies ta icon ciliate by and firm administration tho arish brethren now irritated aad W Q trang that the union nature as well as policy inay ele mally en duy to place alie ee drabe tho im the rural farming population self government which lias already benefited tho towns fihe tories will o 0 the r the tern pi tier guiski coup cj hea of the bouso of lords the djs M i of the church the use of ita of secular education the wholesale plunder of all who acquired proper ty by inheritance or thrift under the guise of ransom and graduated taxation all mean social ruin and roust be confided to mr chamberlain if the people resto rethe liberals to power the tories will patiently accept the judgment of the people but history will mourn and wonder at the blindness and insanity of a people who de literately libera tely fling away a priceless heritage thereby consigning to the grave a great and glorio usi i empire |