The Archive · 1887

THE ENGLISH-MAIL PAPERS

Loxp Randolph Churchill's explanation at the opening of Parliament is similarly estimated by the Saturday and the Spectator. Phe former xeos in it much material for Churchill defection, as of anytl that might turn up to help his Pho debate on the Address ti h fom the 'Thr ion of the Spectator something of a picul party is once again going to take the floor, and not be-jed. It is impossible that European nations can yo on your after year ponding in aums on armaments without inflicting serious' and it may be injury on themseles. They are ufacturying to ful, require that the tal and labour shall be xs light aa possible, and thie cannot be with high taxation, Putting aside the lack of judgment whi Randolph Churchill showed in making his demand when he did,—the outlook in Europe being in Lord Salisbury's words very black, no doubt that as " Tory Democeat he was right. A party which is to rely for ite trongth on democracy cannot increase, it may not ble to maintain, what are called ' burd But Lord Randolph' succeeded by from him on the Address, which the St. James's calla a useful one, praises for ite ness and blames for its want of judg-Te och mocked the Union' ory party, and exp defences of the Emp not 40 much by the strength of their fortifications as by their undying historic memories; he would prefer to repose the defences of the British empire upon a caroful, thrifty and frugal husbanding in time of peace of those national resources, in order that in time of war they may be exuberantly displayed in all thole This Randolph saw sundry political combinations possible, in which there would be no room for him, that to be any. where head and chief was not to be expected, unless he made a party for himself, and as he found it to be impossible to do th in the present Cabinet, he went out of it, Lord Randolph seems to have become even more of @ political personage since Parliament opened than he was last year. atate of Europe and the prospects of though they are dealt with, evidently acc pied less ati at home, domestic cal themes having largely taken their plac: "The Cutting-up of England" in the Saturday is a very clever exposure of the claptrap arguments or rather assertions, that are made at Welch and Scottish meetings.

very piquant and personal, as will be seen from this extract dealing with one of the Scots performers, and the attitude of of Home Rule for i time to ory Holy Ther re are two 81 on American matters, and one on the N Pacific in which, peaking of Port Hamilton, a that it has been obvi Among Englis com to be some who doubt m of another cause of quarrel with ig. If this is not rubbish we should like to know what English traders, so far as we know, have been silent on the Tapa per Saturday remarks in the Far nything of the kind editors of the On foreign altairs the ok, no doubt, to empl little anything that may make for hie favourite project ts. Ibis pleasant for General Boulanger to become " European personage, But nobody supposes that the German Chancellor would willingly provoke real war, and the m ost accurate diagnosis of the French Ger ne cone! own CAPE, charac perhaps lead to trump a Prime Minister for more than an of about six months is very uni tolerant of a get for even si: less be gains continual successes, And Genes 1 Boulanger is quite soldier enough to know that neither ho nor any avy one alto is at all Vi betwoon France and Germany, likely to be able to telegraph Yeni, Vich, Yet'it is this very inconstant and unsettled temper in the French nation which great danger of the situation in the West, just as the capri coat source of danger in the East, It, ect. exemplified in the most curious fashion by the outbreak of French ill-humour The Spectator reads the omens as still nothing new. In the this paper gives sigh Kvictions, founded on the correspondence on the subject in the Times. Every should rei that correspondence, as it gives impeachable evidence of the falsehoods is by the study of natural history that the

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