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The results are obtained ont Of our Free Hos
pitat for Infants and Women as in TO-
Am editorial from the Boston Industrial
Journal confirms siis.
For infants, nvalids and nursing mothers 1t is un-
rivalled and alone. Let US here cite case which
has come under our own personal observation, 50
reading you may the better Judge of the merits of
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MACHIASPORT, Jan 6-Sld schs Ximena for
Boston; Mott-Haven Collif S, and Freddie Eaton
MOTE, tfrom Calas) f,r New York
Jan Sid. sch Sabao, Flynn Boston.
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HOTEL DIRECTORY.
Embracing the leading Hotels at which the DAILY
PRESS may always be found.
AUBURN.
ELM HOUSE. Court St.-W. s. g. A. Young, Pre-

AUBURN.
ELM HOUSE, Court st.-w. s. "a. Young, Pre-
essss0ss. RaTH
SHANNON'S HOTEL-Jerry Shannon, Proprietor
BATH HOTEL-C. M. Plummer, Proprietor.
BETHEL.
BETHEL HOUSE,-W F. Lovejoy Son, Proprie-
tors.
BOLsTER's MILLS.
HANCOCK HoUsE-M. Hancock, Proprietor
BOSTON.
PARKER HOUSE, School St.-H. D. Parker O. Co.
Proprietors.
CRAWFORD HOUSE. Court st.-stumcke 8 Good
win, Proprietors.
AMERICAN HOUSE, Hanover ST.. Rico.& Son.
BRUNSWICK.
P. q K. DINING RooMs-w R. Field, Proprietor
CORNISH VILLAGE
LINCOLN HOUsE.-C. e. Woodbury. Proprietor
CALAIS.
AMERICAN HOUSE-M. D. Gardner, Proprietor.
CORNISH.
DAVIS HoTEL-M. B. Davis, Proprietor.
ELLSWORTM.
HANCOCK RoUsE-George Gould, Proprietor.
EAsFPORF.
PAsSAMAQUoDDY HoUsE-T. H. Buchanan.
HOUETON.
SMELL HOUSE ID o Floyd, Proprietor.
LEWISTON.
DGWITT HOUSE-Quinbs & Murch, Proprieto,
MACHsAs.
EASTER ROTEL-E. L. stoddard, Proprietor.
N0RREDGEW0GK.
DANFORTH HOUSED Danforth, Proprietor.
PORTLAND,
CITY HOTEL. Ger Ter of Congress- and Green Sta,
j. w. Robinson Proprietor.
FALMOUTH HOTEL. Corner OF Middle and Union
Sts.-J K. Martin Proprietor.
PERRY'S HOTEL, lit Federal St.-J. G. Perrys
Proprietor.
pREBLE HOUSE, Congress st.--M. S. Gibson
Proprietor.
U. s. HOTEL, junction of Congress and Federal
Straightforward Newbegin, Projectors.
PHILLIPS.
ELMWo0D HOUSE-T. L. Page, Proprietor
RAYMOND VILLAGE.
CENTRAL HOUSE. VIM. h. Smith, Proprietor.
sACCARAPPA
PRESUMPsC0T HoUSE,-w. s. Pratt, Proprieto
sK0WHEGAN.
ELM HoUSE-Robert W. Haines, Proprietor
HIRAM.
MrcUTLER HoUsE-Freeman Pussley Propri
etor.
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The Press, having bees rsergaAiss4
In all departments, enters upsn the Few
Year with bright prospects.
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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP 10,
EasspOrts Fle., Calais, Me-, 50.
SHan, N. B., Halifax, N. Sc, 81.
WINTER ARAANGEwGNTs,
TWO TRIPS PER WEEK

rs<~Av- ON ANB AFTEE mon.
.>tssk1Azr 8 DAE. DEC Sd. steam
fE.-ssszssgzssszsRe ers OF this Lane win
Leave zIailread Wharf,
,oH OF State street, every Monday and
thursday st .. m, for Eastport ane St.
John. With connections Cor Calais, Robbinston, ST
Aadrews, Pembroke. Houlton Woodstock GrsnJ
MenAR, Campobeile, Digby, Annapolis, Yarmouth
windsor, = slifsx, Moncton, Newcastle, A-aherst
Pictou, shediac, Bathurst Dalhensie Char
lottatown Fort Fairfield, Grand Falls, and Other
stations on the New Brunswick and Canada, Inter.
colonial, Windsor, and Annapolis Western Coun-
Hes. Kali Roads, and Stage Routas.
~ Freight received up to D. CO and any In
formation regarding the same may be had at the
omce o. the Freight Agent Railroad Wharf.
FOR CIRCULARS, with Excursion Routes, Ties ets
- ate hooms and further information amply a
Oompany's Once, 40 Exehsnge st,
20. HEhsEY. President. and Manager
Hcl DIFF
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The following are Portland quotations on Hides
and rallow:
Ok ami Steer Hid over 80 Tbs weight. 7c U ib
OK and Steer Hides between o0@9U tbs.. &c y ID
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TERMS.

For the DAILY, by carrier es.oo =
year, by mail $500 year; in advance.
For ,he WEEKLY, $3.50 a year. NJ
paid in advance $500 year.
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New York stock and money nIarkes.

Iby I6I6BFhph.J
NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.-Money easy at 11S@21a on
call prime mercantile paper at t61s Exchange
strong at 4S3s4 for long and 466 Va for short Gov
ernments firm. State bonds dull Railroad bonds
irregular Shore 5s declined to 81 1s and raj
lied to 691s.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggreat
ed 1876. On shares.
The following are to-days closing quotations on
Government Securities:
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.ailroad Receipt.


PORTLAND jan 10.
Received by Maine Cent1a Railroad for Portland
~ cars miscellaneous merch 4ndise: tor connecting
roads 60 cars miscellaneous merchandise.
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The elegant new steamer FREMONT and favorite
steamer FOREST CITY will alternately leave
FRANKLIN WHARF, Portland, at O'Clock D. m
and N Ola WHARF, Boston. at o'clock D. m
Sundays excepted.
Passengers by this line are reminded that they 80
cure comfortable nights rest and avoid the ex
at night.
EKlfckets and Staterooms for sale at D. Il.
KOuNG'S, 272 Middle Street.
through Tickets to New FORK via the various
Rail and Sounu Lines Tor sale
Freight taken az usual
>. "a. GOYLE, sr., General Agent.
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Europeaa Markets.


(By Telegraph1
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 10 --t2.3u P.M-Cotton market
hardening upl4nds at 10 led; Orleans 61s sales
5000 paies; speculation and export goo bales.
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MEMORANDA.

Sch Mile Washburn of Provincetown, lying at
Central wharf. parted her lines "Wednesday morning
during tho storm. and drove into the sehr s r
Hitchcock ing away jioboom, bowsprlt and
headgear, and stove bnlwarks. Tho P Ii sustained
no damage beyond few scratches.
Sch Martin Chase, Capt Blair, for Pensacola
before reported ashore at hunneWeli Point, re-
manned in position 9TH the tugs having failed
to haul her off. Another effort was to be made
last night, 10th.
Brig John ii Crandon, Sinnett, from New York
for Havana ia ashore OF Bay Ridge
During the storm at PruvincetoWn 9Th inst the
schr Lookout of MAcbias, foued the Majestic, of
Bangor, and lost fgui head and cutwster carried
away mainboom &C. he Majestic sustained only
light damage. Sch Daniel ebster lost flying lib
boom by contact with with fisherman.
Sob Douglass Haynes, Dunton from Providence
for Wscasset lost three anchors at Salem 8tb dur
ing the storm. She afterward drifted ashore on
Hawthorn Point and LATER ffoated Ger and ground
ed in the cove. She was hauled off 9Th without
much dama5e An effort will be made to recover
the anchors.
sch Providence. of Bangor, parted her moorings
at Stonington 9th, and drove ashore On " ham
passuc.
Sch Charlotte Sibley, Bartlett In towing down
the st Johns river, Fla GROUNDED on the middle
ground and will have 10 lighter tue deckload
Sch Palatka ChapIe-. ia towing up the st Johns
river, grouudcd Fellow Palatka, aud had to lighter
part OF deckoad.
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Hersford's Acid Phosphate, Assists Men

Prof. ADoLPH Orr, New York, says OF the
Acid Phosphate; II have been enabled to de-
vote myself to hard mental labor, from shortly
after breakfast till late hour in the evening
without experiencing the slightest relaxation.
and 1 would not now at any rate dispense with
ito
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.

On and after MONDAY, Oct.
18th, Passenger Trains will ran
as follows
E.eave Portland for Dexter, Bangor
vancebor0, 81 John, Haiifnx aud
she Provinces, IA. a ndrews, ~. ste phen,
fredericton, Aroesteoh Geunty, and alf
stations on y. a Piscasaquis E2. r., 1.2b
p. M: 30 p. m, tl1.l6 p. M;
for skowhsgan and Be,fass LIS
Wntervslls, 700 a. m. i,25 p. M, 1.s0
p N. IL. 15 pm and on Saturdays at 5.15 .. m.
Augusta. ID allow eli ,asar timer and Brnns.
wich 100 a.. m.s 1.30 p. NJ, 6.15,
p. IN. and on Saturdays only at 11.15 p. NJ.
RockIsnd and Hna4 n G.incoIn R. r.,
TOO a. m, 1.3U N. Auburn and Lewis
ton. 3. Is b LBS p. NJ, sos .. m. Lew.
is.sn Vi canswick 1000. NJ, ILLS pm;
FarwimkaoD, Monmouth, Winthrop,
Oakland and North Anson ], rs p,m. Far.
mingIo0. via Brunswick, TOO q. m.
THE 1.l5 p. M. train is the night express with
sleeping car attached and runs every night Sur
days included but not through to Skowhegan on
Monday mornings or to Bucksport and Dexter or
beyond Bangor on Sunday mornings.
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Captain isaiah Rynders Had nm Attack
of paralysis; tried New York's best physicians;
got no relief until he obtained Giles Iodide
Ammonia Liniment, which, to his unspeakable
joy, cured him. Captain Ryuders will give
any information desired. Besides 80 West
23d ST., New York. Sold by W. f. Phillips.
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JELLY RoLL.-One cup sugar, two eggs, one
tablespoon butter, one cup milk, two teaspoons
Congress Yeast Powder, two and one-half cups
-four.
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The following are the closing quotations stocks
BosrOs Jan. lo.-rhe following were today

BOSTON Jan. 1O.-The following were to-day o
quotations Butter, Cheese, Eggs. &c:
Butter We quote Western and Northern cream
cries at $50 36c tor cboice and z4G30c for fair
good; New York no Vermont diaries 24a30c % lib
for choice 1929 for fair and good Western dairy
at 20D2ic and Festern ladie packed 6(Gl7c %
III: demand steady but moderate; choice grades are
firm.
Cheese firm at 12Is@l 31ac for choice, 11@12c
for tair and good: 6d9c for common.
Eggs have been selling at 30 a33c for Eastern, 20
@31c for New York md Vermont 20 G30c FOR No
Scotia and P f Island and 27a2sc for Western
Potatoes-Hoult n and Aroostook Rose at 43@
300 " bush. Eastern Rose 4e@5nc, Northern Rose
45G4Se Eastern Prolifics 50A 53c.
Beans-cboice Northern hand ri ked pea at 50
a - ~ bush; CHI nee New York small hand -pic ked
do SO SOAP rs; common t good at ST. 5092 20;
choice small hand picked pea Vermont at 50 80 a
81; choice screened o 2.QD2 45; hana-picked
medium 3d. and choic 49, do 2 stsn q Al:
common beans 2 O0td2
at 2U(a2 80; do pea
yellow-eyes at log -oJcs
at 8 Is.
Apples-We quote No Baldwins at $3 25a3 80;
No 2 do eOa2 z5s Western $5Gp3 70 y Dbl fancy
eating at 81 0O6S5 30.
Hay-Choice prime hay is quoted at $l6@$17 ~
ton medium TO good al Sl49S B.; choice Eastern
fine at $l3@$l4. poor at $I1@$l3, with Es tern
swale at So rye straw at $l2 509$l3 90 and oat
straw $9Gl0 " ton.
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Hides aud sxssow.

FIRE ISLAND, NS.-l70U bush potatoes Is bbls
Ehad bbls eggs 10 market.
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Portland. Bangor, Mt Desert & EaChlaS
Steamboat Co.
Winter Arrangement, Commencing Dec

Winter Arrangement, Commencing Dec q
6xze-ae Steamer LEWISTON Capt
A,.HMA> sChas. Deering, will leave Rail-
k-sl2zAzSAEs2szS road Wharf, Portland, every FRI
s day Evening, at Ills, or ON
arrival OF Steamboat Express Trains from Boston,
for Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick,
(Stage from Sed1wiek 10 Blue Hill on arrival Of
Steamerl, South West and Bar .Harbors, Millbridge
and Machiasport
Connect al R0CKLAND with Steamer for BLUE
HILL, SURREY. LAM0INE, HANCOCK, SUI
LIvAN and Ellis WORTH.
Also with B. & B. Steamers at Rockland, going
East, for River Landings.
RETU RNsNss. will leave Machiasport at 4. 30
9. m: every Monday and touching at intermediate
Landings, connecting at Portland with Pullman
and early morning train for Boston.
Connect with BOSTON and Bangor Steamers al
Rcckland, Coming West and receive passengers and
freight from Bangor and River Landings for Port
landl
GEORGE L. DAY,
Treas. and General Ticket Agent
e. GUSHING, General Agent,
Portland, Dec. s. 1883. dec6dn
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There is one extreme of goodness to which
we have never known the most perfect saint to
attain, and that is the refusal to pass off
pu"ched and filed coin, when the opportunity
offeis.
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How They Get at 1t.

Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters alone reach the
seat Of disease through the pores OF the skin. 25c
jan9 WS&w
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DON'T WAIT.

Write 10 u~ for these testimonials In full or send
direct to the parties. All are absolutely true aud
given without our knowledge solictati m. Don't
gious and Copper-colored Diseases of the Blood,
Skin and Scalp with Loss of Hair.
Sod by all druggists Price: CUTICURA 80 cts
REsoLyENT, ST.; SOAP, % cts. POTTER DRUG AND
fHEsfI0 r, % Ro, tim Mass
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Winter Resorts
GRAND EXCURSIONS.
Atlas Line of Mail steamers.

For BAHAMAS, JAMAICA, HAYTI, PORTO RI
GO, COLOMBIA, ISlHMUS OF PANAMA and
NlCAkAGU A. Tourists are invited to avail OF
these trips, which they can make any route taken
by the Company's Steamers at the extreme low
price of So per day, which includes ali privileges
and living on board the whole time, or passengers
desiring to Change their route may transfer to any
other passenger steamer of tt line they may meet
on The voyage. For passage apply 70
pm, FORWOOD 81 Co., Agents,
oot5d3m 70. "A State Street, New York.
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A little girl was asked by her teacher what
three kinds of bees there were. She answered
that there was the queen bee, and the others,
she believed were the King and the Jack.
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Sample copies win be sent on application.
Address all busir ess communications to The
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO..
Portland, Maine,
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Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

UAdHu AIuHh haitWdS VI Cduauhs
CHANGE or TIME.
On and sffe- MONDAY, OCT. 18th, 1883,
Trains will rum as follows:
DEPARTURES.
and s. Is p m.
For SO. ham, 40 a. M, 400 and 5.15 p. m.
For Garh"m, Montreal, Quebec and Chi
cage, 1.30 p. m.
ARRIVALS.
From Lewiston and Auburn, S.35 a. m,
=. and 5. 80 p. m.
Fr@m Gorham, 945, 8. 35 q. m. and s. Ii D. m.
IL 30 p m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on night train snd
Parlor Cars on day train between Portland and Mon
treal.
TICKET 0FFECEs,
IA Exchange Street. and Depot
Foot of India Street.
TICKETS SOLD AT REDUCED RATES
TO
Canada. Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinsati- %. Loui-, Omaha sagi-
nav, st. Paul, salt lake City,
Denver, san Francisco
and all points in the
Northwest, West and s0uthS=est.
JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager
j. STEPHENSON, q. p. A.
Oct16tf w. j. SPICER SUPERINTENDENT
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portland Daily wheiesaIs Market.

Portland Daily Wholesale EHarlkes.
PORTLAND. Jan. 10.
In Grain the market is steady with an improved
demand Provisions quiet and firm. Sugars are
unchanged at SAC for graduated and ia for
Extra G. At New York the markoI for refined Su-
Rars were little higher to-day. In Poultry we mo-
tice an advance on Chickens.
Dry sisods Whosesaie Market.
The following quotations wholesale prices
woolsns and Fancy Goods, corrected daily by Deer
ing, AIilliken Co.. 1913 Middle streets
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Rurnetss' COcoaine,
Cheapest Hair Dressing.
IL e. 80 allays irritation, and pro-

A1.0'cu q le0feNRo 6HO" VI Ut S'11 z9-sszs
Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are invariably
acknowledged the purest and best.
How many parts OF speech are there, John
ny?' well, in onr house there aiu't none,
'cause when mamma gets her speech started ii
never parts; il just reaches from sun to sun
'thout even crack in it,"
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RgfAHTTV For Rough. Chapped and
hp AbfA a. IL M Oily Skin, BlackheAds, and
Skin Blemishes, use Cr1TrnHRA SOAP.
.,jaR22WS&w2~1
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SAILING DAYs or sTEAmsmaPs.

MINIAT URg ALMA NAC..... JANUARY IL.
Sun rises ........7.16 High water, a NJ. 10 90
Sun sets 4.23 Moon sets.......... 5.57
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PERSONAL

correspondent OF The Osuednd Lsdder, writing from
sWampscett, Mass, saysi Mrs. Frances HOdgsOn Bur
nett 10 always object Of interest when shs 10 seen
swinging In her hammock ont driving riding She IL
good horse woman but does not ride much for she Ia
suffering from nervous prosratOn and Oyerwork Tor,
perhaps exctemen and Is obliged to keep very quiet
Her two little boys with her, but Dr. Burnett only
occasionally, the distance being 50 great from
Washington. Mrs. Burnett nothing for fashion she
dresses ally, but in a style that suits her
strong rather beautiful face and lovely rounded
hgurc merit OF her dressing that she rarely
black, VIII Oh has come tho badge or prof sslOnal
rich and untrmmed eKcept with lace sac wears long,
soft white woods, pale blues lavender pink ana even pale
yellow and each to be part OF onality and
quite different from anything seon on any other wOma
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander widow of General La n
der and popular actress, occupies cottage at
Swsmpscott, which she made on Of stab belonging
to one OF the houses upon her grounds Tho drawing
room was formerly ths carri1ge-house The dining
l. where the horses stabbed, aud the hchen
Appearance The stage made eight yc RS ago next
January at III Boston Theatre in th3 scarlet Letter"
Professor Douglass. of the Michigan state University
his classes rs charging suspended copper plate
heavily with electricity and producing miniature cy
clone tunnels shaped and whiting with sufficient veoc
ty to catch up pens pennies and pth-balls from on
table.
The future Queen OF the Netherlands will be one of the
richest women Europe being heiress to the $4000000
Of her late brother and the vast private possessions OF her
father the present King.
j. b. Grinnen, for whom the town OF Grinnell, Iowa,
was named says: In Grinnell there saloons and
no has been sent to JAIL to the poorholse or 10 the
penitenary for twenty five years. We stand oy-
clone occasionally if you will keep VIII skey away"
General Butler viii be slxtysix years old In November
Joachim the celebrated violin player tells good story
about himself lie has heavy head Of hair except one
spot, which easily hide by not cutting of par
tcuar lock- One day in London he went 10 the BARRIERS
70 have his hair trimmed. The barber wished TO take
this lock or but Joachim insisted on its remaining
whcrcupOn the barber exclaimed Let me cut 1t on II
makes YOU look Ike OF those old Dutch ldcrs' Tb,
barber had, OF course. idea whom lao shearng
Thomas Bailey Aldrich IA 10 return from Europe at
lie had engaged passage for October TO- but fear
Of the cholera has induced him to rerace his steps I'M
mediately.
Oliver Doud Byron laid wreath Of flowers upon the
I0neelow tablet In Westminster Abbey carly last week
ard appended TO the wreath card with the inscription
From an American admircr-Ollyer DOud Byron
| actor" To these words Louis Harrison waggishly
! aided: "OPENS Utica y y, October g. Tho card 70
| mnncd on view several days before 10 was removed
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the solid vote of the Irish party third vote
Of confidence promised to be critical, and as the
country had not shown signs OF taking vital
nterest in the fate of the Franchise bill, the
Ministry If defeated seemed destined TO pre-
mature appeal to the electors, on the ground Oh
an unintclligible and unsuccessful policy in
Eovpt This crisis has been averted by Mr..
Glodstone's political sagacity with the aid OF
Lord salisbury's obstnacy. When the Confer
ence met, the Governments concessions to
France were not disclosed The Conservatives
unwisely challenged the Government to a vote
of confidence and when their offer was accepted
abruptly withdrew. The Franchise bill was re-
iected by the Lords and n great popular agita-
tion in behalf of reform was organized. Then
came the collapse of the Conference, and with 1t
England's release from the concessions made to
a Jealous and overbearing rival. Only one thing
more was needed TO complete the demoraliza-
ton of the Conservatives. This was the posi-
tive change of front in Egypt which Mr.. Glad
stone has announced this week. A stronger and
more ineligible policy has been proclaimed.
General Gordon is to be rescued the Soudan IL
TO be paciiod and English responsibilities arc
no longer to he shrked mt Cairo.
The Prime Ministers sincerity in struggling
against the inevitable consequences of Tcl-ol-
Kebir cannot bo called In question. On general
principles ho has been opposed to tho extension
Of the British Empire. Ho believes That tho
burdepa of foreign administration ought not to
bo increased aud that Englshmen nfo nlfenhy
doing moro Of tho worlds work thhb thoy
ought cyor 10 have undertaken. He hoped 10
mako Egypt aefsnsialning State by strength
enng tho authority Of tho Khediyo ana miro
dncng various administrative. reforms lie mas
failed to accomplish his purpose. Egypt could
not be- governed by natives In accordance with
European principles. There were no materials
either for militia, an army or reform ciVil
service. Egyptians could govern their country
in their own way, but not in the English way !
and the attempt to combine incOngruous ele-
ments and ideas ended in a lamentable failure.
Mr. Gladstone has made gallant struggle, but
his final defeat was inevitable. His declaration
this week shows that he has yielded to the adj
vice and warnings of his associates and is now
prepared to adopt a stronger policy. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer is to be sent to
Cairo to make temporary arrangements Tor the
relief of the Egyptian Treasury, and LORD
Northbrook, who is known to favor an English
administration of tho country, Is commissioned
TO formulate now scheme of government.
Evacuation even of the Soddan is now declared
to be out of the question General Gordon Is to
be rescued and order restored in the Upper Nile
as far as Khartoum. There is no longer the
slightest trace of vacillation and uncertainty in
Mr. Gladstone's Egyptian policy. 1t will satisfy
Englishmen and silence the carplng criticism OF
the Oppositon The Reform bill now has Il
clear field.