Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-12
r MORNING. NOVEMBER 12, 1884.

has lately been exhibited in London, an6
 which gives some remarkable results This gun has single barrel only, which is pro
 tected from undue heating by water jacket l The cartridges are supplied to it in contin l uous canvas belt, not unlike the belt carried l by sportsmen. The recoil of the gun at each discharge is utilized in bringing forward the next cartridge, forcing it into position, cock I ing the hammer and pulling the trigger, so that the gun when once set going is automat- l ic. If it's attendant were killed in action the l weapon would in fact go on firing it's compile ment of cartridges until the last one was e1- pended. The rate of discharge can be regula- l ted from one a minute to the astonishing l maximum of six hundred per minute The same system of belt-feeding has been applied l by Mr. Maxim to ordinary rifles fired from the shoulder.
 The council now in session at Baltimore is the third plenary council of the Roman church which has been held in this country. The two former, well as the present, were held in Baltimore, the first in 1852, the sec ond in 1886. The growth of the church in the United States is shown by the number of pre- lates present at each of these ecclesiastical assemblies. At the first there were arch bishops, 25 bishops, i mitred abbot, Il superiors of religious orders, and 12 vicars general; at the second, 7 archbishops, 39 bishops, 2 mitred abbots, 24 vicars general, 19 superiors of religious orders, and 7 rectors of seminaries; at the third, 13 archbishops, 50 bishops, and visiting bishops from Canada, from northern Japan, abbots, 1 prefsct apostolic, il monsignori, IS vicars general, g superiors of religious orders, 12 rectors of seminaries, and 90 theologians Many of the clergy without superior ecclesi- astica1 rank are also present. The councils deliberations are held ill private, but the public is admitted to the solemn sessions on Sunday and Thursday mornings, and to the evening services on each day of the week ex- cept Thursdays and Saturdays. The council ing on Sunday, Nov. 20.
 The general election for the imperial par lament which has just taken place in Ger many was a complicated affair. So far as it's results are known they show great increase in the strength of the Socialists and propor-
  These general elections for the Reiehstag are held every three years by universal suffrage, and the number of registered electors in the l empire is about ten millions. At the last 1 elections, in 1884, barely half of this total l went to the polls; but in Berlin the Progress. 1 ists, or Radical wing of the Liberal party, 1 boiled large vote and carried alIthe six seats l Since then the Progressists have become | merged with the Secessionists from the | old National Liberal faction into new | party calling themselves Lberalists. In the | capital only one of their candidates, Dr. | Ludwig Lowe, has been elected. One of the | seats has gone to a Socialist, and the other | four will have to be contested again at sec ond ballot, the Liberal candidate being op- posed in every case by Conservative and | Socialist. It is the custom in continental l elections for the candidate who has boiled | the smallest vote to retire before the second | ballot, limiting or openly declaring to his | supporters that he would like them to vote for | one or other of his competitors. By virtue l of this arrangement it is possible that an al- liance between Conservatives and Socialists l may oust the Liberals from the four seats | which remain open in Berlin.