Omaha daily bee., 1880-05-07
They State that England is
Prepared to Preserve Her
Dignity Among Euro
pean Nations.
She Will Make no Cont
mental Alliances, and will
be Opposed to OPP
preston,
Which Outline of Policy De-
lights Austria, but Dis
gusts Englishmen.
Marriage of George Eliot"
the Famous Authoress.
A PROSPEROUS COUNTRY.

Special dispatch to The Bee. ~r,
PARIS, May GA p. m.-The
condition of France has rarely
been more tranquil and prom
Using than now. Taxes, though
enormous, are collected without
trouble and they greatly exceed the
estimates. The difficulty is how to
make the most equitable remissions.
~'tBUsrED"' TURKEY.
Special Dispatch to The Bee. :
LONDON, May z. 1 a. ma dispatch
from Berlin says: bankruptcy is rife
in Constantinople as a result of the
postponing of payment of the army
and civil service contractors. They
have their claims referred to innum-
cradle commissions, and these, after
endless delays, hand them checks on
some provincial board, which, upon
application, Is found to be pennileas.
10 this embarrassment the porte has
seized the pension fund of the foreign
post and telegraph Office employees.
GOING TO HIS POST.
Special dispatch to The Bee.
LONDON, May 6, 1 q. m.-The Mar
quis of Ripon, the newly-appointed
vlcsroy of India, will leavsin1a few
days for his post by way of Brindisi
and the Suez canal.
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE LIBERALS.
Special dispatch to Tn Bee.
LONDON, May 6-I a. m.-SirC has.
Dixie, the newly-appointed under
secretary for foreign affairs, was inter-
viewed by a correspondent of French
paper, and his u~tterances create much
surprise and no little Indignation here.
Speaking of the foreign policy of the
liberals the baronet treated the grave
subject with considerable frankness
and said: "We have succeeded to the
political estate of Lord Beaconsield,
and to make an inventory of the in
heritance to the carrying out of the
policy ~bequeathed to III we r com-
PEELED to make some reserve now.
The Afghan question puzzled us .
good deal, and it is to be hoped will be
settled in accordance with our own in
terests. There is the sulking Cete-
wayo, whom we would like to release,
but it is out of u power. We may
grant the Beers the privilege of semi
independence, and thus dispose of the
South Africon problem"
Correspondent-"How about the
eastern question: Will you cease to
uphold the integrity of Turkey, if
she fails to carry out the reforms
which have SO repeatedly been prom
Sir Charles Dilke-"Exsctly. You
have said it. Those who fancy that
we meal to pursue a feeble policy
abroad are strangely mistaken. We
shall not hold aloof from European
politics; our voice shall be heard and
shall command respect in the councils
of nations. We will be careful, how.
ever, to raise it only in behalf of lib
erty, and will promote the welfare of
all alike in concert with republican
France and free Italy. We shall en-
deavor to cut the gordian knot of the
question by establishing a con.
of free states between the
Danube and Adristic and Grecian
ENGLAND WILL ENFORCE LIBERTY.
Correspondent-'Then you are op-
posed to the encr Jachments of great
1owers2"
Sir Charles Decidedly. We
hall not tolerate the encroachments
of either Austria or Russia. Neither
or Herzegovina must belong to
Austrian, Turk or Russian. They
must be free or ~self-governing powers.
Dur programme is u~nrelenting hostil-
ty against oppression of every kind.
A. for the power of Russia, let me
tell you one thing: it would be far
EASIER for us to raise Central Asia
Russia than for her to array
India against us. If slaves are bar
whose fault is it if not that of
The foreign Office at st. Petersburgl
The Russian foreign ministry depart
nent, in which German is principally
and in which the foreign pol.
cy for the past ten years hss been
by two Prussians and
,ne Swiss, (Messrs. Westman and Bal
berger, and Baron Jomini). We de-
est the power which oppressed Po-
and and handed Hungary over to
Austria. However, we hoid in high
'steem thed young Russian party
which at Prague and Moscow
resucitated the patriotism
md generosity Of the Sclavics.
ENGLAND DELIGHTS AUSTRIA.
special dispatch to The Bee.
LONDON, May z, 1 a. m.-The
correspondent CT the Daily
Telegraph says: The fact that Earl
Granville, British foreign secretary,
ook the initiative in the collective of
representation to the Porte for the
purpose of securing a direct under
landing of the Montenegrin affair be-
ween the powers, has given great sat
at the Austrian chancellory.
,ount Dubsky, Austrian ambassador
t Constantinople, was Immediately
rdered to cooperate heartily with
liz Austen Layard, British ambassa-
or. 1t is said in diplomatic circles
hat Premier Gladstone has declared