, 1876-09-27
tn LAWS"
M 6 N o U s.
rs PUBLISHED
From the Spectator. J


The Pail Mall Ga7ate of Friday evening
published a telegram from Berlin which, if cor.
rect, may be of serious Importance 1t announces
that the Russian Government is endeavouring
with the aid of some Dutch bankers, to place a
loan in Holland. Russja, in any emergency,
u%susly appeals to Holland for money, and this
loaf may be the prelude to intervention. The
Turks are said to believe that Intervention is
sure to arrive, and to expect that the Russians,
instead Of crossing Roumauia, will invade Turk
ish Armenia and move along the southern shore
OF the Black Sea. Anything like a serious
campaign would, however, be preceded by the
abdication of the Gar, who hls recently assur-
cd his officers that he was always anxious for
the honour of Russia, a sign hat they think it
10 peril, but he does not,
LORD Beaconsfeld must have been studyiog
the Book of Daniel 1t IS difficult to believe
that any one but he wrote the pompous pro.
%olamation in which Lord Lytton announces that
on January l,. 1877, be shall hold an ''Imperial
Assembly"at Delhi, to proclaim Queen Victoria
Empress of India" and announces that he pro-
poses to invite "the Governors, Lieutenant.
Governors, and heads Of administration from
all parts Of the Queens Indian dominious, os
well as tho.e' Princes, chiefs, and mobiles in
whose persons the antiquity of the past is associ-
ated with the prosperity Of the future, and who
so w%orthily contribute to the spleudonr and
stability Of this great Empre.2 As the Rcoyd
has pointed out, these are almost the exact words
of Daniel, cap. ill.,, v. 2 "Thsn Ncbuch din zzar
the King sent TO gather together he princes,
the governors, and TIE captains, the judges,
the treasulcrs, the councillors, !he sheriff, and
all the ru.trs Of the provinces, to come to the
dedication of the IMAGE which Nehuchadnozzl
~ ls~-. ii - i I
trying to initiate 3 ,byloq, or is lie thrus ing his
tongue in his cheek at tie golden imogc he is
setting up on the PLAIN o! Debit
The DAILY Meas has published the letter Of
lis Special Commissioned in Bulgaria, detailing
and ampliiying bis tel grams. It i, useless to
60 over the catalogue Of horrors again, but we
must menti II that the writer and Mr.. Schuyler
saw with their own eyes the school-housc and
the remains of the gi'ls burnt in 1.-THE story
which Mr.. DisraeIi persi>tently denied. He adds
that the Bulgarians maiutsin their school houses
themselves, in spite Of the opposition Of The
Cover ment, by a voluntary tax aud that they
are honest, hard.working people, who built solid
stone houses, and who in Batok at all events
struck no blow, mot a single Turk being killed
here" In ono place two hundred girls, afer
being outraged, were taken into the open, be-
u0dueu1 aEu Ielt 10 TOT. MI. DIStdeIl was rigQt
when he wittily remarked that the Turks usual
ly terminated their connection with people who
fell into their hands in a more expeditions
manner than by imprisoning them, And SO
they do. Mr., Disraeli was right. At the time
he made that very witty remark, these young
girls had been lying there many days"
Il seems but too probable that the British
Government will be forced to declare war on
Dahomey. The King absolutely refuses to pay
the fine inflicted on him, and has become wild
with rage at the blockade of Wbydah, now
strictly enforced. He threatens to invade the
settlement of Lagos, in revenge for the block
sde. and to murder every white man within his
reach. He has already arrested all white men
found IN Whydah, who are chiefly Frenchmen,
against whom he is specially enraged, as they
informed him, as he alleges, that France would
stop the blockade. The invasion of Lagos would
make war inevitable, but fortunately the distance
from the coast to Abomey is not great, and the
Government would have the experience of the
Ashantee war to guide it. We only trust we
shall not repeat the Ashantee blunder ofleaving
the liking" upon his throne.