Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-02
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

The editor of democratic journal at Mad
rid, was being tried lately for seditious writing.
when the public prosecutor commenced to
euloglse Queen Isabella, and in a kind of ap-
peal to the democratic party, demanded if her
Majesty was not worthy to occupy the throne
of Spain "No," coolly exclaimed one of
the auditors. The prosecutor grew very an
cry, and protested that she was, when the
murmurs were so loud that the President b ad
the greatest difficulty in appeasing the tumult
The editor was acquitted.
The London Globe, of June Is, SAYS: Let
US not suppose that the internal discords of
our American kiDsfolk afford any sort of addi-
tional security that those who administer til cir
affairs will be the more disposed to preserve
peace externally. Some of them, on the con-
trary, might not be sorry to adjourn internal
discords, and compel unanimity by plungng
into war.
The London Chronicle of June IL, saws ::
The Stade dues of the Elbe cannot long be
permitted to continue when the Sound dues
are effectually dealt with /; and our own loca
dues on shipping must of necessity be abol-
lshed, as at variance with the imp erial policy
OF the empire. One liberal commercial uni
form system must be eventually more or less
adopted throughout the continent, and the
| results cannot fail to be eminently adyanta-
geous to the industrial and commercial classes
of every part of Europe.
writer, signing himself HAmericus. " SAYS.
In letter to the London Times: Il would
| humbly beg the people of Great Britain to re-
collect, at this solemn moment of international
differences, how monstrous the rebellion of the
colonies against the mother country was con-
| sidered at the time, and how universally its
justice is acquiesced in now; to recolect that
| the United States went to war with Great
Britain in 1872, to resist the exercise of a
claimed RIGHT cd ffal -
qulvocal wrong; and, by the light of this ex-
perience, to ask themselves if il is not barely
possible that they may be once more mistaken
in regard to the merits of certain questions
which Heaven grant may not this time lead to
war"
The London Chronicle of June IA saws
Lord Palmerston and his ministry are "a.
garded equally by all as a mere accidental
combination-a temporary necessity, remova-
Die on the earliest convenient occasion Such
an occasion appears to present itself in this
American question; and it would be amusing
II the interests at stake were not so grave, to
watch the struggle between such accom- plished
strategists."
The London Times, On the ID of May, thus
spoke OF the metropolitan preachers "Ex.
cept here and there a newly caught Irishman,
there is positively not one preacher of the most
ordinary elOquence in all London Go any,
where, to the best churches, where the selec
ton has been unfettered and the patronage
honestly exercised, and you will hear unex.
ceptionable statements illustrated by apt texts.
but in whole sermon not word to Quicken
your pulse or give you the feeling of an open.
cd understanding Next morning, May Sd,
the Times solicited of the clergy summaries of
their Thanksgiving sermons, and the Londoy
clergy, with wonderful forbearance toward
their assailant, reported their discourses as
requested.