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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.1, 1836.

THE SITUATION IN BUI.GA.RIA.

POOS Prince Alexander of Battenbarg—no
longer of Bnlg:tria—has ha, 1 to bite the dust
before the power of the Czar. Ho is abdi-
cating, it is true; but that is only because
he has sorrowfully assured himself that he
was already virtually hurled, from the
eminence he has lately occupied. None can
doubt that the hand that banishes Alexancicr
is that of the ruler of Russia. Russian
agents and Russian money brought about
the treachery which culminated in the mid-
night kidnapping of the Prince, and his
seizure by the soldiery and spiriting away
towards Russian soil. In one of those wily
despatches which he so well knows how to
write, M. de Giers, speakinc, for the "holy"
Russia of old international °traditions, gave
"forth that the Czar's Government, benevo-
lently disposed towards Bulgaria, had striven
to render her little neighbourland happy,
and had used all its energies to prevent the
rise and spread of an alleged Bulgarian feel-
ing against Alexander. Russia, it was said,
had protested against the Prince's deposition
to the last; but, come what might, Russia
would stand by as the disinterested and
kindly friend of Bulgaria, and offer her freely
all the priceless assistance of Muscovite
statecraft in her trouble. There are -those
who regarded these remarkable utterances
as altogether at variance with the actual
facts, and alleged that Russian plottings
against the Prince had been deep-laid and
wide-reaching. The Russian semi-official
Note anent Bulgaria was thus set down as
hylocritical and dissembling to a degree.
However the iron hand was hidden by the
ve'vet glove in the action of M. de Giers,
there was no mistaking the attitude of the
Czar when he came to speak concerning the
subject. He sternly rebuked poor Prince
Alexander for returning to the land that
loved him, and showed plainly that he meant
Bulgaria to know her warrior-Prince no
more. In the high-handed Imperial mes-
oll sa the Prince read his doom. He had
looked to Austria and to Germany for adviee
or assistance in his hour of need; but Austria
gave no sign, and Bismarck counselled his
quittance of authority. Turkey was power-
less, Britain sympathetic, but disinclined to
enter into a quarrel concerning affairs which
affected her less than other States, and
France and Italy were silent. So the Prince
could but bow his head before the storm
which was to sweep him away. This he did
with a meekness surprising indeed in one of
such tried valour; and he goes out from the

country he strove so nobly for amid the deep
regrets of all the best of Bulgaria, banished
because his personality had become nnpopa-
lar in the eyes of a mighty Sovereign who
might well and gracefully have left this new
Naboth in peaceful possession of his little
national vineyard. The action of the Czar
has roused in England some of the national
hatred of all that is despicable, and had our
Government thought it wise to have spoken
"a few firm words," as Sir Henry Tyler
phrased it in the Commons, the country
would have acquiesced in the utterance and
any subsequent action consequent thereon.
Bat as the Foreign Under Secretary says,
we have no separate interests in Bulgaria,
and nothing can be done in placing a new
Prince on the throne of that country with-
out the consent and joint action of all the
Great Powers. Still his well-chosen words
showed that Her Majesty's Government do
not at all approve of the "treachery" which
lies at the bottom of all this "revolution," or
whatever the trouble may be called. When
the signatory Powers to tne freaty of Berlin
come to consider the point of who shall be
the new Prince of Bulgaria, England, and,
perhaps, other States also, may possibly then
say a "few firm words" which shall be
understood by Russia. Of course, the whole
thing will come up innocently enough, at
superficial sight. There will be the abdica—
tion of Alexander to take cognizance of, and
there will be the proposal and acceptance of
his successor debate. It will not necessarily
be officially shown by what doubtful means
the "abdication" of Prince Alexander was
encompassed, but English diplomatists have
an awkward way of looking below the sur-
face for causes; and, unless public convic-
tion is far from truth, the ambassadors of
the Czar will have a hard task to put a fair
presentment on the action of their Imperial
master, and clear him from suspicion of
treachery in this affair. How Austria can
see, without being stirred to indignation,
the Russian bear placing his big paw more
firmly down nearer to her borderland we are
at a loss to imagine. It cannot please the
Iron Chancellor of Germany in his heart of
hearts to witness the spread of Russian in-
fluence, either by intrigue or by barefaced
audacity. Poor moribund Turkey, helpless
as she is, has a right to raise yet another
shriek against restless Russian agression ;
and it certainly will be for the well-being
of Europe and for the world's peace if all the
rest of the Powers, in Council assembled,
should unite in speaking a "few firm words"
to the Emperor of All the Russias. For the
sake of avoiding hostilities, much that is
more than questionable has been borne on
Russia's part, and of this she has not been
slow to take advantage. She has got increase
of power, influence, and territory, honestly
when she could, but she has got it. The
getting it has stood first, the honesty has
been a secondary consideration. Now, we
hold, is a favourable opportunity, seeing that
this matter must be considered internation-
ally, for all the Great Powers to warn Russia
against continuance in a policy of combined
tyranny, treachery, and national dishonesty.
She cannot outrage the law of nations, or
do anything in the direction of disturbing
the balance of power, if the rest of the
European States agree to stand fast together
for right and justice.

COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS.

WE are wont to grumble in this country
very much at times about our climate, about
the heat, and the wet, and what not. When,
as it did a week or so back, the thermometer
stands ODC day at over 140 degrees on the
grass at noon, and, '24 hours later, at half
that height, we are inclined to complain
that no amount of care can prevent the
catching ol colds, and to say that an English-
man's constitution ought to stand all the
world over, from Spitzbergen to the tropics
Then when, after the sweltering heat, we
get a tremendous downpour, with lightning
accompaniment, turning the streets for a
while into torrents of water, as we did the
other day, we again inveigh against the
meteorological authorities, and half agree
with the satirical Yankee who, when asked
how he liked the English weather, replied,
"Weather, weather—you have no weather
over here; only samples." Our weather is
trying and most mutable, but we have many
things to be thankful for, notwithstanding.
If there is a wide variation between the
heat of high neon of a September day in
these isles, and the chill, foggy "hop-pick-
ing" nights and raw, misty mornings which
follow and precede it, we do not have such
awful calamities as the Grecian and Charles-
ton earthquakes to fear. Though we can-
not count on the "former and the latter
rain," ad fair weather all between, as th_!
inhabitants W.. some bright Eastern lands
can, nor enjoy such autumn evenings as

those experienced in some Swiss touring
places, which are as blimy and warm as
when the sun is at its height, we aro as free
from the terrible scourge of cholera, which
just now is devastating the banks of the beau-
tiful Bay of Naples, and we do not haVe the
hard cheerless winters of Alpha° regions.
We must bear the heat and the wet, and,
when it comes, the cold, and comfort our-
selves with the reflection that, everything
considered, Britain is as healthy and air-
r mud pleasant a spat to dwell in as any this
mundane sphere can show.

A GOOD IT an. has "gone hence" in the per-
son of the lamented Samuel Morley. A
Liberals of the Liberals, and a Dissenter of -
the Dissenters, he was universally liked. ,
He was a strict party man, and a staunch
sectarian, yet he was broad-minded and large
of heart. As a practical philanthropist,
one who worked hard as well as gave much
for the good of others, Mr. Morley was- a
worthy associate of the benevolent Church-
man who died a year ago—Lord Shaftesbury.
He was one of London's merchant princes,
and he dispensed immense sums annually in
pure charity, as well as doing a noble share
to keep the work of moral and Christian re-
form going. Not so long ago every London
householder received a courteously-worded
appeal, with his signature, in the direction
of keeping the little ones as much as possible
out of hearing of hurtful language. Mr.
Morley's munificence was not confined within
the hounds of Nonconformity nor even re-
stricted by religion itself. In Congregation-
alism he was a great light, but his hand was
extended often to aid Church as well as
Chapel work. One of his daughters is
married to a clergyman of the Establishment,
, and many Episcopalians mourn the loss of a
friend now he has gone. Mr. Morley might
have died a peer, had he not preferred his
own plain name to a title. His life will long
be a pleasant memory.

‘.‘LABOUR is the only capital," is the text
from which Mr. Fred. Maddison preached
an eloquent homily at the Hull Trades'
Union Council the other day, and his thought-
ful presidential address has received consider.
able attention at the hands of the press. It
is at once an evidence of the excellence of
Mr. Maddison's matter and of the importance
which we now attach to every authoritative
utterance affecting industry, that the
morning after the Congress had listened to
its president's address it was reported at
length in all the London and provincial
papers, and that nearly 411 the dailies had
leading articles dealing with the views of
this intelligent working compositor. There
was a dignity about Mr. Maddison's deliver-
ance which is refreshing after the plain,
blunt speeches which one has seen so much
of from the representatives of toil, and the
address will certainly lift the laboar discus-
sion to a higher level, battling bravely, as it
does, with those complex questions which
baffled Adam Smith and Stuart Mill and
many another hard headed political economist
of days gone by. It has a tinge of the com-
mon fault of all honest champions of in-
dustry—that of over-glorification of the
great cause, and there was one or two un-
tenable positioas in Mr. Maddison's advance-
ments, bat on the whole the address is an
able, well-balanced, and thoroughly logical
one. If our workers generally would only
study as he has done all the points at issue,
there would be less violence of speech and
less rancourous feeling between labour and
wealth. It is pleasant to note that here in
Britain capital and labour are not so much
at loggerheads as to prevent a large employer
inviting the trade delegates to luncheon and
a pleasant excursion.

WE have heard a lot of late about Ordnance
scandals and of complaints against high of-
ficials by Colonel Hope, which, it was
expected, would be investigated before an
authoritative tribunal. The desired inquiry,
however, seems now likely to fall to the
ground ; for the War Office people are on
their diginity and plume themselves upon the
position of having nothing definite to answer.
The matter should not be allowed to rest thus
however. For the honour and stability of
the Service if there are any accusations to
make with any ground, let them be fully
met; and if there be corruption in high places,
as is alleged, let it be swept relentlessly away,
whoever has to be sacrificed. The Ordnance
Committee, which has been engaged in an
inquiry into the accident of the heavy gun en
board the Collingwood, has issued its report,
and it contains several very ugly passages.
Though the Committee was so composed as
to be unlikely to bring unnecessarily grave
charges against the makers of the gun, yet
we are told that the mishap was due" to a
want of uniformity in the metal" and to the
absence of annealing after' forging, and oil
hardening " This, as has been pointed out,
is tantamount to saying that the gum was
not only made of bad material, but badly
made also. It had becn tested, but with a
powder which has since been abandoned in
the service " because of its capricious action."
That is another little bit of light as to how
things are sometimes done under the rule of
War Office permanent officials. There was
no" hooping of the chase " when the gun
burst, or it might have been saved, despite
its defects. The Committee can find out all
this now it is too late, but the country has a
right to expect that the discovery should be
made and acted on before a catastrophe
occurs. While we must have munitions of
war, someone should be responsible for their
being delivered and maintained in proper
order. We pay enough in the way of salaries
to inspecting officials, ar d to contractors for
goods supplied, to make it not unnatural for
us to look:for guns that will not go off other-
wise than as desired.

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bla,cksinith, Fust.ir Streat, and there identified the
iron. The prisour hid lodged, at his house on
occa,dons. Prisoner sail he hal not had
the bar of iron, and knew nothing about it.
Cht.r:es W;tld, bhck3niith, Foi,tur StreA, said
about a week More Chris:inns a man b-ou ;lit a
p7e2e of iron to him which he bought. lie eoull
not swear that prisoner was the mm. Walter
Soott, Coventry Sirect, said he saw the prisoner
wit, a I n.:4- jam bar on his shoulder at Mr. Ward's.
H;ii ard hi:n offer the iron fio.! sal... P.S. Chare
s lii h:3 arrested tie prison-r on a warren, and on
real:n4 it, over to him he said "I know nothing
about it." Prisoner was committed to take his trial
at th., next Wor_e3t*.r Satlsions.

DIZUNICriNNES.3. Baker was charged
with b,ting drunk at Netherm Cradley. on the
30th nit. Fined 5 nue, cots. .

DRIVEN TD it, BY STAIWATION.—Naboth Dunn,
chain maker, Cradley, was charged wida stealing a
quantity of potatoe,, at Cradl-y, on the 6th inst..
and he was further charged with wilfully and
maliciously ditnaging some potatoes with iltent to
steal. Benjamin Smith and P.C. Webb proved the
cast.—D,Lndant salt it was throtAi starvation he
dii it,—Dofendant was fined 12s nod cssts; or, in
default, on month's imprisonment.
CAUTION TO Datvisus.—Goorge Cutler, • publican,
Lower tiagley, was charged with driving his horse
furiously on the 2nd lost, to the annoVance 9,nd
danger of pas=engers. Mr. C. H. C defended.
P.O Cooper s:sid lie saw
,the defendant driving down
Market Street at a furious rate, He did not appear
to be urging the horse on. He called out to him
but he took no ne-ice, and in the High Street he
came into collision with another trip.—Defemlaut,
who has been previoudy convicted, was fined 20s
and cotiti.

BREACH OF THE PEACE —John Timmins, jam...,
labourer, and lienjaroin Southall, spade maker,
01c16-vinford, wete cliar4ed with committing a
breach of the peace ty fighting on the 6th iast
Defendants were ordered t:.) pay costs.7—William
Wyley, chainmaker, Stofirbriclge, was charged with
aiding and abating :the above defendants, and was
ordered to pay costs, _ _ _

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thorougi knowledge of the natural laws which govern
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ful ejphcatiot o the line properties cf well selected
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such articles of d et that a coustitution mly be gradu-
ally built up nuti strong eLough to resist every tend-
°ley to disease Hundreds of subtle maladies ar4
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weak point !,Ve may escape many a fatal shaft by
keeping ours;!lves well fortified with pure blood and a
properly nouriihed frame." a:cd. te.—
Atide simply with boi:iog water or milk Sold only in
p,ekets, .EPPEI &CO , Iloinceopathic
Chemists, Lond,n."— Also makers of Epps's Afternoon
Chocolate Essence.

ASSAULT: ---- Vifilliam Wooldridge, blacksmith,
Haglev, was charged with assaulting George Gros
ley, on the. Ist inst., at Hagley. Complainant
said the defendant struck him across the shoulder
with a stick. Ordered to pay costs, 9s GI
DRUNK.—Martha Parsons, nailer, I.,‘;•e, was
charged with being drunk and incapable on the 4th
inst at Pertobello.—Defendant sail she was not ,
drank, but she was trcubled with the rheumatic"
P.S. Chare and P.C. Cooper said the defendant was
drunk and using beastly language, and she had to
be carried on a stretcher.—Mr. Freer: Was j,,t rheu-
matic lan.;uage?—Fi:-,ed 5s and costs. -
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE —Abraham Wyatt, 18,
asziwaar, was charged with rid ng his
bicycle on the fooT ith, at Pelmore, on the 27th
ulb. The case was withdrawn on the paymea of
costs, 5, 61.
13,,-ARD OF GUARDIANS.—Mr. Philip Pargeter
presided at the weekly meetin; of this Board yes-
terday. The :,laster of the House reported : Ad- •
mittcd 22, b:,rn 1 discharged 18, dead I, remain-
ir.g id the heuse 492, against 630 for the corre
spending week last yea-. The relief was as fol-
lows : Kingsxinord, X,47 18i ;
.Stourbridge.
£3l 4s 8d ; Llalesowen, 23 19> 5.1. Non-resi-
.ferit £1 lis 5d ; total, £lO6 19s ; against
£lOl 1s 6i•l for the coiresp,,ndin4 period last year