Most of the papers have a good deal to say about the recent developments and supposed aims of Russian policy in Europe, In the St. James's Budget tie character of previous Czars, and of the two last Chan-cellars are discussed, and the writer is inclined to consider that HI. de Giers does not possess the abilities or skill of immediate predecessors, They were "Watchfal, unacrupulons, and pertinacious never in a hurry to pluck the pear before it was ripe." Are the present rulers, the writer asks, men of the same stamp as their predecessors? And he continues Their latest acts would seem to quite a different conclusion. Mf. de Gi no doubt " mau of much sagacity, dexterity, and quickness, But has he the breadth of view, has he the genius of the old school? Is hie satisfied with the spas Longer of the men? Aboveall, can taster to postpone grat fication of wounded prich popularity, perhaps his personal safety, to the good of his country in some dim and distant future? The Czar is a young man, an his character la not yet fully known to the world; but th wild blood in his house, id many things seem of late to show that tive nature, not altogether easy of control either by others or by himself, His disappointment in the Balkans was no doubt most trying; but the wrathful petulance, he showed himself totally unable to conceal, us to indicate an absence of the prudent self-command that marked both Nicholas Alexander, Then came the Black Sea speech: an utterance which has bad could have had but one definite consequent to put all Europe on the alert againat hi The arrogance of manner and of langu: conspicuous in the Batoum ukase, the os tations announces provinees, to the mil to the point the youthful who feels that the resources of a are at content been personally thwarted a sight of Europe, is rest longs to recover hi honour perla; If to bim, and the apparition liable port in the The vigniyear shows that the late from the meeting vagaries of the Court of St. Petoraburg have been too much for Prince Bismarck and Count Kaluoky. The change of Government in England has made other nees possible 5 and now that Mr. Gladston out of the way, the present summer may well see & now and League of Peace between Powers which honestly intend to keep their word, The political a this week are largely on the prospects of a coalition Government being formed, to which the Saturday and Spectator were both very favourable. A cording to the latter journal, the chief clift culty was supposed to be a fear that the constituencies would not ratify the arrangement, and it concludes its article in: hese terms believe them—the constituencies—to be for it,—the Unionists because t been their hope all along, the Ton they know that to make their party equal the Liberals, with fair chances of continuous power, there must be a modification of ite Nothing would produce thie modifica.
rapidly as the presence in ite centre of Lord Harti who not only Conservatiem and Liberaliem self the best product ion that the governing force of the te future wust be sought. The situation is too dangerous for government by mere party, or even for government by a party relying on promises of friendly support, The Spectator is opposed both to the reteuasthe Capital of India, new seat of government, to be solectet by experts, should be chosen, where a resident is not steaming all day, and yet where India, real India, is at hand, "Of Simla, and the Simla act, and how they sre looked on in India the Spectator say:
Wo fret at the Queen's porferonce for Balmoral; but imagine the Premier, the Com-mauder-in-Chief, the whole Cabinet man important enough to get leave, at Balmoral i coupered with Britain that all officials feel its residents to be out of sympathy with them, grudge them their enjoyments, twil on with a sense that they are but adui men, invisible, neglected, aul unknow: Imagine, too, the feeling—wretchedly unjust, but ati ing—that everything falls to the Simla circle, that the road to promotion isa rush to the bille, that no labour will compensate for being unknown at the Indian Versailles. By all who cannot Simla, for thirty years, and under of Viceroy, has be duced by miseries of could, and did, travel by balloon, 'The Saturday on Another Aryan Mare' Nest" is smart, and deals with Mr,' year's "Aryan Maori," @ pamphlet wh attempts to prove that ti ants of Now Zealand are of the primitive race of nian; on which the Review is severe, but not so much #0 as on certain modern philologists. A proposed "D.C," deyree for Dramatic Critics is clover, There is nothing very attractive in the papers in the Satu day on general subjects; but the bantering article on a letter of Mr. Gladstone's to Sir William Hartovurt, which wasnotpublished, affords an opportunity of going over som of the Premier's remarkable cart pondence with, and concerning, friends id opponents in the course of the election Sir W. Hartcourt said in a speech at Poole that he had received a letter from Mr, Gladstone "Full of such calm ne: iboral party. courage and the chief of such But than Sir to many minor novel undergo from the hands of the scornful criti They tell us that Imogen Hermione was iovelineas ea dzzliog that it really made you wink; but they produce no gignalement of Hermione that in the j ay behind, and thet superior to our own; but the extracts from these works in v is what Sir William singularly inopportune Poole, and appropriately gave a friendly lead When he spoke at the Amity Hall, to Lord Wolve didate, the case of condition dant could spare England
profitable testimony, A letter showing calm ness and quiet undismay (to do Mr. Gladstone that justice which we can afford to opponents, we don't know that ho was ever wanting in a certain kind of courage) would have been rather valuable just then. But Sir William has so scrupulous a regard for the decencies. of private life, and ie so well aware of Mr. Gladstone's own nervous horror of publicity, that he kept the contents of that letter, as the vulgar say, dark, All we can aay in that a great judge of courage and quiet Rudismay assures us that Mr, Gladstone and Mr. Gladatons letters are full of both. To do more, to betray the contenta of confidential
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