Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27

fOr the premiership Io nas poWeE'
full mai ority behind him, and the
probable permanence of existing In
s,itutious was indicated by q public
declaration of his not long since to the
effect that republicanism was not
suitable for S2sinsrds. 1.-THE substi.
tuition OF a republic for the monarchy"
said he. "would split Spain into frsg.
ments."
Much pride is justly taken by the
Germans in the benevolent iustitu.
tiops e Berlin. These number five
h. $ 1itsls, eight orphan asylumns, nu.
merous pension FUNDS, and not less
than $50 relief societies. The cum
total OF funds available for the aid OF
needy persons 10 in tho neighborhood
If IS. Geo 600, besides miscellaneous
educational charities. Amorg the
more important # these institutions
ia The "Vlctoris National Invalid
Fnud." which disposes Of the income
Of $500, eco for the relief Of cripplee
of the war # 1866. and the "Crown
Prince Fund" OF S4C0 900, which haa
a somowha. similar application to the
veterans Of 1864. The pension prin.
ciple is everywhere apparent.
H. ia reported with some degree OF
probability that Russia Is about to
adopt a more humane policy toward
Poland. Some tticial at st. Peters.
burg has discovered that the Russian
Poles are quite too anxious to make
friends with the Prussians and Aus
%trisns, and they are to be shown that
their real interests are conferred in
Russia. The Russian agre ement
with the Vatican is practically an
abandonment OF the attempt to force
tho Rassian larg1age on the Polish
people, insomucn 40 the clergy are
hereafter to speak Russian where that
ia the language of the people, hut
Polish where Polish prevails. Re-
forms in the laws of property are also
to be introduced. Since 1865 Poles
have been forbidden to buy land in
half a dozen provinces, and they are
prohibited from selling land excep,
to Russians, or to devise it outside OF
the line tf descent, with the additional
provision that in failure Of direct issue
or collateral heirs Of the ~testator II
tails to tbs crown. 1t Is now pro
posed to abolish these restrictions
altogether.
The large cities of Italy will have
troubles over religious procession 8
though those psrades are forbidden by
law. The clerical party resists the
prohibition with bad grace, ever
though there never was much solem,
nifty about the ordinary parades. Il
the country districts the enforcement
of the prohioitory regulations Is left
mostly to tho discretion of the syndic,
or mayor, who, If he Is 30 inclined,
shuts his eyes to the infraction of the
statute. At Naples, however, several
attempts to carry out the parados have
recently come to naught. Such occa'
sions always attract the indefinite
numbers of street arabs In Italian
cities in indeterminate masses, and
the mo~untebanks and peasants make
the most of them. The Italian holi
days, formerly extremely numerous
have been cut down to O very shor'
list, and some are sanguine enough t.
hope that the result will be to GO
more work done.
The italian coal trade has hithert
been almost monopolized by England
, but the St. Gothsrd Tunnel, whic'
> has worked many revolutions-on pa
seems likely to bring about a req
: change in the base of supplies of fue
for the peninsula. A coal exhibitio
Is to be held at Milan next autumn
! and coal companies in general are t
: be invited to exhibit their wares, in OF
: der that Italians may be able to judg
D of the qualities and prices of Goals o.
. fered for importation. The annua
' italian output Is returned at sbou
!, 100, 0C0 tons of Ignite, and 90 90
Y tons of turf, with a very small amour
) of anthracite, while the country's I'm
, ports from England amount to l. 500
: 900 tons.
: Alsace and Lorraine, which BIZ
marck claimed In 1870 as t~erritor
/. whose people were German by rae
: and sympathy, after twelve year
oes1lng and coercion, are found as oil
stinately opposed to German rule 9
they we're when the wal closed. OF
. Gen, Mantenffsps mission as sta
holder has been q failure, as he We
= compelled to avow In a speech tn
other evening at Strasbourg. He
. to be recalled, and the iron hand VI
: gloved Is to be laid upon the recalc
trant race that refuses to own tn
= ties Of kindred that Bismarc
u furnished up for them. The truth
that the jewellers from the mouth
the Rhine to Tvs source on the lie
bank are as genuine Frenchmen " IL
jewellers on the bank of tie Sein
n The present delimitation which ALLOW
the Germanic races to pass ovcr Il
n Rhine aud beyond the Meuse
wholly arbitrary and without permal
ency. Sooner or later France will r
occupy her ancient limits from Il
% ocean to tn, Upper Rhine, and the q
tempt to csjole or coerce the citizer
10 of Alsaoe Lorraine will prove as futi
70 as 1t would be to seduoe Now Englal
= from the American union.
s.. The existence of a famine In Icelal
has been d ,nied, but 1t is clearly {
l. tahlished by a letter to the civiliz
nations, signed by the acting governo
the bishop, directors of educs'io
members of the Altling, or parli
It ment, and many prominent oficlal
!, merchants and newspaper editor
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