The nationalists in Ireland will next week hold their great national Congress; but all hopes of the achievement of its purpose—the uniting of the different factions of the Home Rule party in Ireland—have already been dissipated. The Parnellites have determined to hold aloof from the Congress; and it is abundantly evident that the enmity of the Dillonites and Healyites is far too deep to be smoothed away by a Congress. Meanwhile the rejoicings over the release of the four dynamitards have been damped bj the disappearance of one of then White scareely an effort, certainly without the sacrifice of a Russian life, Lobanoff placed head—who shortly after his arrival in Russia at the head of the European Powers Ireland, wandered away in a condition of in the eyes of all nations. To foil Japan mental aberration and has not been heard in reaping the fruits of her victory and of since. The incident unfortunately gives gain an ascendancy in the Far Kast was a colour to the charges made in Ireland of undue severity of the prison treatment triumph for his policy, but when it seemed probable that as the result of his influence and as it is not quite an isolated case, some English Radical M.P.'s have an-ab——e lo, Russia would also appear as the all-powerful arbiter in' the nounced their intention of pressing next break-up of the Turkish Empire, his session for an inquiry into the whole reputation in the making of history would question of the treatment of convicts in have equalled that of Bismarck himself. ingush prisons.
The more Russia asserted herself, the more
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