Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-24
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

OIf1kfk AMI Jf1kAN JUNE
Scarcely had London recovered
from her fright over the Westminster
explosion, when the attack on Lady
Florsnce Dixie on last Monday, threw
the government Into new oonvulsions.
The more the story of Lady Dixie Is
analysed the more improbable 1t seems.
She Is an enthusiastic Irishwoman,
popular, generous and active In all
benevolent efforts. Her personal re-
.~lations to many Of the home rulers are
very close and the sole basis for the
belief that Irishmen had any hand In
the assault was an attack made some
months ago by Lady Dixie against the
management of the funds of the Land
League. Lady Dixie herself expresses
the belief that 1t was tramps and
not Irlshmen who waylaid her, but
England is not inclined to accept any
other solution than that of fenianism.
There are many, however, who assert
that Lady Dixie Is subject to hysteri-
cal fits and who claim that the report
cd assault probably existed only In
her Imagination. Whatever the
cause, the Queen has ordered a por.
trait of the faithful dog who Is sup.
posed to have driven off the ASSISTANTS
and Lady Dixie Is for the time being
the heroine of the hour. From parlia.
ment little news of interest has come
during the week and 1t may be pre-
sumed that prior to adjournment for
the Easter vacation, which took
place on Thursday, no measures
of much general Importance were
discussed. Great interest has been
excited In some quarters of Great
Britain by the protests of the English
settlers In India against the native
magistrates act. Through Lord Ripon's
influence q law giving native magis.
trates jurisdiction over certain
offenses has been framed. By its
terms the whites would be subject to
this jurisdiction, and the uproar has
now broken out in protests Of q
threatening sort. The natives are ten
to one, and some such law commends
itself to Civilized judgment; but, of
course, the English settlers who have
made the natives helots do not relish
such a measure, which would not only
render the natives their equals, but
In certain cases their magistrates.
That royalty Is still strong In England
Is shown by the excitement created by
q slight accident which happened to
the queen on Saturday in Windsor.
While descending to her carriage for a
ride she slipped and bruised her knee
and on returning had to be
carried to her room. The accident
was greatly exaggerated and crowds
packed the streets of London all Sun
day and Monday awaiting bulletins
from Windsor. The loyalty of the
working-people Is said to have been
especially noticeable, and great relief
wal universally experienced when the
official announcement came that her
majesty would be able to attend to
official business 81 usual.
France passed through the anticl-
pated danger of Sunday with none of
| the communistic outbreaks which had
been predicted. The anniversary of
the Commune of 1871 was generally
observed, but there was much less dis.
turbance than had been expected.
There was nothing unusual at the
Champ de Mars, Paris, where the
meeting of communists was announo-
ed to take place, or at the Pere Ia
ChAise cemetery, where many slain
communists were buried. At q meet.
ing Of 500 socialists ct the Brasserie
des Paquis an uproar took place, fight.
Ing ensued, and the doors Of the
place were broken. The meeting
afterward broke up. La Chapelle
JAffrin, . member Of the municipal
ity, In = speech eulogising the com
mune, advised workmen to abstain
from disorderly manifestations. In the
provinces the only Incidents were .
small meeting ct st. Etienne, which
was dispersed without resistance, anG
o similar meeting ut Roubaix, the dis
persal Of which Was attended will
slight resistance and the arrest o.
eight persons. There was no displa,
Of troops In Paris.
France IL learning how to manag'
sgltators of every sort, Religious an,
political. By simply paying them n,
attention whatever the governmen
I will deprive them Of the chief interes
they possess, for nine.tenths of tn,
people who used to be attracted b,
them when the police had orders +
imprison them. The meetings of tn,
communists throughout the republi
would have assumed considerable I'm
pertance II attempts had been mad
toIprevent them.
p The adjournment of the 'Frenol
chamber Of deputies for one mont
hardly bears out the alarming storie
as to political crises, popular discont
$ emit, and inoipient rebellion In Psri
and the provinces with which the gen
: tlsmen at the English end of the At
lantio cable oonoeives II to be his dut,
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