The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-05-25
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE
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LONDON, May A.-Even tho best Informed
sswppspsrs are In state Of muddle with re-
gard to the character Of the expedition to
Khartoum. There are two reasons for this
First the Government think the expedition
must b kept secretin order to have any chance
Of success. and. secondly. they stil loaths the
expedition - perilous. expensive. absolutely
usslsss. and only exousable on account Of the
pressure Of public opinion against leaving Cor.
don to bis fate. They. therefore. still hope
against hope that tho expedition will not be
necessary: and they keep up the fiction that no
expedition 10 In preparation. and refuse to give
any information either to Parliament or to the
newspapers. Thus the whole Information Of
the country has to DO gathered painfully BY o
study Of the kilograms from O'Kelly and the
other writer's scattered over the soudan.
One cause Of the delay OF anything like do.
sisive steps 10 tho lingering hope that the King
Of Abyssinia may DO induced by Admiral Hew.
ct to allow the expedition to 60 through his
territory. which would be an immense saving
OF time. money. aad risk; but the Abyssinian
monarch 10 suriy and suspicious. and tho re-
caption given. up to tho present, BY his officers
20 the English commander has not been on.
oouragins.
The comments OF tho party organs In the
press show that tho Government even II their
expedition should be finally successful and
pass OF without single hitch. will not gain
one particle OF political profit. They will DO
charged with having vastly increased tho dim.
culties and the cost Of the enterprise by post
poning It 30 long. while the peace loving Radi.
calls IN Parliament and tho journals already
howl that Khsrtoum will have to be abandoned
~ soon as taken: that It Is absolutely useless.
~ the retention OF the Soudan Is unreservedly
given up bv everybody except perhaps Gordon.
and that therefore every penny and every life
spent In Its conquest will be sheer loss.
The real truth Is that tho Government arc
drifting from day to day in the struggle to hold
at the same time to their own views. to humor
the fanatical crank who represents them In
Khartoum. and to obey the whims OF tho igno-
rant and passionate British democracy. who
have their most susceptible feelings skilfully
worked on by an INSCRIPTIONS Opposition.
Hence distracted counsels and half courses.
henos expeditions entered on with the hope
that they will have to be dropped. and enter
prisss which. while pleasing the within Of the
hour. arc destined to lead to nothing but OK
pense. bloodshed and precipitate retreat.
The Egyptian business will surely end BY
strangling the Government in its LAGOON
knots. and. meantime. Gordon continues. In the
slight and occasional glimpses We get Of him.
to give evidence OF his disordered and unsteady
mind Tho latest report about him 10 that he
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tho conduct Of Mr.. Gladstone and the Ministry.
In Parliament. the position OF the Govern
mont continues unsssallable and votes Of GEN.
sure are played out For while the majoritiss
In favor Of the Franchise bill grow larger. and
the s0uabbie In the Tory party has broken out
With renewed ferocity. Churchills submits
sion to the regular leaders Of the party did not
hast beyond the few days when the vote Of CON-
sum was held to bind all good Conservatives
together. and twice during the present week
he has kicked over the traces in the most o.
tentatous manner.
His speech. backed by his vote against the
exclusion Of ireland. produced something like
panic Il resulted In tho abstentlon OF North
cote and . hundred Of tho psrty-nearly half
their entire numbor-from the division. and
gave the Government tho majority OF 1876. the
largest they have ever had. Tho speech was
made moro remarkable by the open and almost
offensive manner in which Churchill sneered
at those OF the regular leaders whom he par
tieularly dislikes. Tho chief object Of his At
tack Was Mr.. W. II. Smith q great newspaper
agent who. having smassed vast fortune in
trade. was pitchforked into Cabinet post By
Disrseli to please the shopkeepers.
Again ON Friday. Churchill and his chief
lieutenant. Gorst assaulted An amendment
which had tho strong support Of Northcote.
49, kl>- L. L.
the Intervention Of Mr.. Balfour. formerly
friend OF Churchill. but now timid adversary.
Az Balfour 10 the nephew OF the Marquis OF
Salisbury. and was even sneered at by Gorst a.
such. Churchill appears as setting himself
again up In opposition not only to POOR feeble
Eorthcots. but to tho moro formidable leader
Of the party in the House Of Peers.
Mr.. Chamberlain first and only achievement
In tho present session has been his speech OF
nearly four hours duration on his bill for tho
protection Of sailors lives. He made out . very
powerful and even startling case. but nobody
believes no thinks tho bill has tho least chance
this session; and the very length Of the speech
causes 1t TO be regarded AZ an appeal to the
country. and not to tho Parliament.
The chief topic Of interest on tho Continent
has been the resolve OF young Victor Napoleon
10 cot himself up ~ . bachelor and live away
from his papa Ono OF the causes assigned for
this course Is that the youth does not approve
Of his eldor's recent leaning to the republicans.
but moro credible explanation Is that tho boy
= tired OF living on his marrow allowance OF
el.Bo0 year. and that he has got present Of
million OF francs from the husband Of Nine.
Au5an Moot who left him all her fortune In
case her husband should die before her. and
that he Ii fond OF pleasure and wants. like all
the boys around him. to amuse himself freely.
Royalty has been much before the world dur
ing the week. The Empress Of Russia has tel
egraphed to both her husband and father her
gratitude at the kind reception she got from
the German Emperor.
That wornout old libertine. the King OF Hol-
land. with his young wife. has had an aston
ishinsly magnificent and popular reception In
Brussels. The Crown Prince OF Austria pre-
ssnted his wife with two monkeys on her last
birthday. Tho Grand Duke OF Hesse was
brought over to England to got over his lovo
affair. and is sent back cured. The disease
from which the King Of Spain suffers Is a
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