The Archive · 1891

The French Mail Papers

Futt of. work as the young Emperor of Germany. is, and there is no. question that he.is one of the bardest-working wen in Europe,..he found time to s ® couyratulatory.telegram to Oxford on the result of the. beat. race.. Ever since he. visited Oxfordas Prince William he has sent his congratulations to ithe Oxford crew when eon, the wessnge on this occasion vent to' Professor Max Muller, and reading:—"' From.long continued interest and old attachment, 1 send my very late, but obsess: ¢ordial, congratulations. to the University.of, Oxford on the smartly won boat xioe.—Wilhelm,: Imperator et nenity like this often do more: to: make 4 sovereign popular than great acts of policy...

The, murder, of M. Beltcheff, the Bulgariay, Finauge Minister, by a evideutly.intende M. energeti¢: anti-Fussian premier, is general betioved by tie English aid German Presa by the Panalasiate, directly or indirectly into have been.a political crime, instigated ussiqu agents., Ty the French ly x quarrel betiveen Bul M.

While believing that Russian agents inspired. the crime, it is not necessary to conclude that the Czar or his Ministers had anything to cly with it; it is the Panslavist plotters who ate cuistantly endeavouring to forced the hand of the Czar: but the goveriimont must beat the blame fur such acts, if it, allows its people to cunimit them. 'The Times says morally responsible for the proven of the The, Government of the Czar must be held Panslavist plotters, who' want to throw Europe into confusion, and who are as profuse The verdict of eoninicn hi as the trouble between Italy and the Un with Balgaris, has shown herself 20 cynical, 22nd 20 guscrupolous in ber open acts and de: Bates will probably be that both hat, thy ought.. The, Italian clarations, that those who play, her game a lit-to ask for reparation tle more datingly, even if irresponsibly, expect to beblawed by their hmmvers, "Never, irresponsibly, donot of ite citizens without the forms of law; and the United States since Nappleon. got Spain into his possession—have.na means of. punishing the course of fe, has any to lib ultimate rainy an unprecedented where, the, Lovisiaus Courts fai Iided couiltry been treated aa Bulgarian, Italian. Prese. is no doubt... justified since she dared to assert her right to an in: pointing out that when the America dependent existence. Even the intrigues with are the ciffended parties, satisfaction is Godoy and the treachery of Bayonne are par-demanded because the persons concerned alleled by the bullying mission of General are citizens of the Ut but when the Kaulbars, the Kidnapping of Prince Alex-offended parties are igners, the Union ander, and the series of murder plots that has throws the responsibility yn the. offending culminated in the assassination of MIN. Belt State." This, according to the st. Jai che! "ig the radical and inevitable' def of 'The Daily Chronicle takes the popular every.acheme 'That is why this quarrel bearing om our own affaire For unspeakable audacity we commend to the notice of our readers the comments of the Let, us suppose "that: War' had, broken out St, Petersburg Press on the cowardly assasbetween the King of Italy and the Pope of sination of the Bulgarian Minister of Finance.

Rome, the latter appealing to arms in de-'An impartial judgment on the crime was, of fence of his never-abandoned Temporal claims, course, not to be looked for. He would, indeed, be a bold Rassian journalist who would Te is not extravagant to further suppose thut recruiting for the Pope's army might be care dare to even hint at its real origin—and it Hed on among the Remi Catholic péasints would have been'indiscreet to have been quite of Ireland and winked at by a Roman Catho-silent on the subject—but for the brazen lic majority in the Dublin Parliament.. Qui impudence shown by the Muscovite scribes promptly; and without' any circumlocution, we Were certainly not prepared. It is bad the King of Italy' would require the Btitish enough to have the Czar's newspaper apologist, Government' to suppress this unlawful action in this capital calmly dismissing this brutal and to bring the guilty persons to justice, "If murder in a curt note as one more evidence of the unpopularity of M. Stambuloff, but and rightfully held, to be fighting against sven be eld the Italfans, to be told that it must be regarded as a fresh them. If we consented, we should Fai auch Continues tmendarable, and that the Powers proof that the position of affairs in Bulgaria an uproar throughout Ireland that we shot very soon be plunged into a'furions civil wal ought really to put a stop to this anarchical 'The plain lesson is that Federal institu state of thing, passes all bounds. It shows, cannot be worked' by a nation which hu in, however, only too plainly that the abortive terests outside its own boundaries. Théy'are attempt upon the life of M. 3 was worked in Switzerlaid because Switzerland has no*foreign policy. ' But: even''in Switver-Balgaria intro the disorder that the St. Peters-tended by those who instigated it, to piznge land they have not been worked without burg Press would have us believe already friction—witness the Ticino Revolution, Th exists there. The very opposite, of course, have been worked with tolerable success in is the case, so far as the Bulgarians are con-the United States hitherto becawie,'wntil the cerned, the only disturbing element that the last few years, the United States have not Government of the principality has had to had a foreign policy. And they are worked deal with for some time past having been the in Austria-Hungary because all the teal power Did Russian agents and bravoes Who foment is kept in the hands of the' Emperir: the Wsorder and then claim the protection of the tures of the constituent nations ly att Car.

Empire which is called Dual, but is at Teas Sextuple, have nothing to say about Russian red the act, for which, There is no question in Germany that Policy. each ofthe diferent nations w policy ut Prince i of the Bape Souls neb e Aalat edge oat free to play its own game, the disruption louie, Prince Ferdi fers would sit: low more firmly in years. "Sitch being the results of local Home ule, Wwe should be blind indeed if we grafted seats if Germany had agreed with. us them on the Constitution of ail Empire who and persuaded the other members of the Triple Alliance to recognise the Prince, world, and everywhere Ani'eneiny or bral has interesta in every portion of the nba who at present has no official status, "The ready'to: eunt-h'advantages' from ity ethbar-Kélnische Zeitung says 'The' im of the event is enhanced After all the same diffidulfy yduld arise by its coincidence with the new disquieting if the United States were nut federation, station in Bulgaria, which is unquestionably supposing that the lynchers' were, tried by, of Russian origin. Russian pens in the 8 Jory of their téwnsmen in'New Orjeaus, French and English Press have palated to anid cho Jury acquitted them, as they would the 6th of April—the date of the expiry of of course do, The, goverumient could do: the tiandate, of the Constantinople Conference to Prince Alexander as Governor of East Roumelia, an office that has tacitly passed to his snccessor—-as being a critical day, and no have'so fat seen that dues cee naching snare i 4 sineesa The St. Janied's nly, paper, that.are, mipathetically of the late Lord Gran one has yet contradicted them. The Siécle, which is said to have close relations with the It takes pleasures in reminding French Foreign Office, lately stated that the readers that he" was, associated with transference of Prince Alexander's extra-the national disasters an ordinary powers to the young man, put by Gladstone's governunél iglish papers, Stambuloff on the Throne" was utterly do not generally thus carry politics bey: out of the question, and_the Figaro speaks of the grave. "She Standaid "wiites a Note from M. de Gers which may cause new.

Political incidents. "When we further remem By the death of Lord Granville, that, ale in Russia count on seeing the Czat's self-conquest, in bestowing his highest en Order onthe: President of the French Re-' ordinary public, rewarded in the political sphere, and that the massing of Russian troops on the Austrian frontier is desperately like a demon-what sort of spits, he would most 2 for posthumous fame

stration, it cannot be slenied that there are have engraved upon'his tomb,' it rely be the judgment which comes instinctively!to: signs of the approach of critical days,". the lips of all who hear to-day thet considering how strongly the desire for peace is everywhere felt, it would appear that, as in and moutned'by the comparatively narrow fay for ever, That hey wil be mai many cases that have gone before, 20 now circle of his colleagises is a emall thing to say,

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