Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-30
ENalAND's ENEMIES.
Closing Around Her on Every
Side.
THE PEOPLE ALMOST N DESPAIR.
Grim forebodings Of Approaching Dis.
aster Heard on All Z
Sides.
WHAT THE PAPERS HAVE TO SAY.

foxpoS, December 29.-Nevef in the
memory Of any living man has . holiday
season found England in deeper gloom than
that of the year 1884. The tone Of every
organ of public opinion, with the single ex-
ception of the slavishly Ministerial Daily
News, is pessimistic in the extreme The
Manchester Courier, conservative Journal.
sums up the prevalent temper when it writes:
"In every quarter Of the globe the fatal
fruits Of procrastination, indecision and vac
illat,on are ripening together. Regions ot
which the general reader has probably neve:
heard have their names indelibly stamped
on the memory from association with some
tale of mismanagemen or humiliation. Ger
many threatens our colonies, strange rumors
OF reiterated Russian intrigues at Cabul
bode no good to our Indian empire,
France Trampies ON Our Heels
in Africa and Asia, and, with the doubtful
exception Of Italy, there is no considerable
power which regards US with either triendli.
ness or respect.
When the temper Of the country is indics.
ted by such an article in respectable
newspaper, it is natural that everything
should be seen through jaundiced eye,
and there is not spot Of brightness, ac-
cordiug 10 any otthe papers, in the whole
| horizon.
The Egyptian imbroglio is worse than
ever. The delay in the answer OF the pow
ers to the proposals of England has now
been proved to be deliberate; and tie last
version is that the intention is to appear to
spare England the humiliation Of an answer
which much be contemptuous rejection OF
such foolish proposals
The accounts of the Wolseley expedition
continue unsatisfactory, and the English
suspect everybody of betraying them. The
Mudir Of Dongola is declared to be in con.
slant communication with the Mahdi, and
the Mahdi himself knows everything. and Is
| only
| Enticing the English on to Destruction,
while the Khediye is accused Of making
preparations for stormy day BY selling
Justice for bribes-
The cost Of the promenade to Khartoum
is meantime declared on good authority TO
be fifteen million pounds, with the import
ant proyiso that there shall be no fighting,
and the Egyptian business is reckoned,
since the bombardment Of Alexandria. Is
meaning an expenditure Of twenty-five MIL
lion pounds.
The advocates Of opposing policies under
| such circumstances are shouting louder than
ever in favor of their ideas. Mr.. Labouchere
and The Radicals call for prom, withdrawal;
the lingo Standard declares for immediate
annexation and the defiance Of all Europe,
and, indeed the times are 30 out OF joint
that even some Of the Ministers are said 10
favor the abolition Of the law Of liquidation
in Egypt and the Commission Of the Public
Debt, which would be nothing less than an
outrage upon all the other powers.
A similnr feeling Of
| Alternate Despair md Rashnssa.
signalizes the proposals with regard to the
great colonial struggle. The apologies
which Lord Derby and Lord Granville have
published for being jockeyed by Bismarck,
aggrarate the contempt for their imbecility.
and the protests Of the Australians find .
ready echo in the advocates Of the federa.
ton Of the empire. "Pederate or perish"
exclaims the Pail Mall Gazette in its usual
effective and sensational style, while Mr..
George Potter. workingman leader, de-
mands that England and her colonies should
seek compensation for the advances OF
| Germany, and at the same time relief for
the desperate depression oftrade, BY imme.
diately entering into o federal union. the
primary condition of which would be free
trade between themselves and protection
against all the rest Of the world.
As TO armsments, the Times Newspaper
has now Joined in full cry in the panic
which was first started by the Pail Mall Ga
zette, and draws
A Terribly Gloomy Picture
Of the helplessness Of England and the mis-.
management Of her deiences, winding up
with the emphatic declaration that, ~
things are, war, as wars arc now waged,
might mean to England speedy and irre.
| uieyable disaster.
The panic rs TO India is due 10 persistent
rumors Of the presence Of Russian agents in
Cabul and the massing Of troops close 10 tho
frontier, while Herat is now 10 at the mercy
of the Gar that the DeIimitation Commis.
sion is declared 10 be no better than farce.
Finally. the picture Of universal gloom Is
completed by the continuance Of the Do
preston in trade, the stories Of distress In
several large towns still appear, and II IL
horrible TO read how the diferents dcpots
for the distribution Of food at Christmas
time were beseiged by masses Of people %
hungry that the meat was eaten raw i'm.
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