Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-28

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 LONDON, Nov. If. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Before this letter reaches the United States John Bull will be engaged in new little
 war. After the Ashantees, the Afghans, the
 Basutos, the Zulus, the Boers, the Abyssin- ians, the Egyptians, the Arabs of the Sou dan, now comes the turn of the Burmese. The English sent ultimatum to King The baw, who answered that he must first con- suit France, Germany and Italy. This cool reply has exasperated the British and the ex- peditionary force will cross the frontier with out delay. Four regiments have already proceeded up the Irrawaddy river by steam CT. For some time to come interest will cen ter on that great waterway and Mandaley, the capital of Burmah.
 Alderman Staples was installed Lord May or of London on Monday last, and the time honored carnivalesque procession made the metropolis once more ridiculous. The Lord Mayors show was superintended by MT. Hol- land, the manager of the Covent Garden cir GUS. The elephants and camels were con- spicuous by their absence this year, and the only attraction was Sir John Bonnet, the representative of the people at the Common Council of the corporation of London, three times elected Alderman by the free citizens ess x1derfiens He was the only one who was received with favor on the occasion of the show. The oth- CT members of the corporation of London were respectively addressed by the crowds as 'sOld Turtle Soup" ''Mr. Alderman Bung," etc. Inquiries were playfully made to f'who stole the corporations moneya" and whether there were ':any jobs hand to-
 day?" etc., etc. Pockets were picked freely, the Police court docks were full of game on Tuesday and altogether the people of London spent happy day.
 The English Parliament will be dissolve ved on the 18th inst. On the 22d the candidates will be nominated and two days later the elections will take place. According to the Conservatives, the return of MT. Gladstone to power will be disastrous to the interests of England According to the Liberals, with Lord Salisbury's return England will be on the road to ruin. Both Conservatives and Liberals, reckoning on the good sense of the nation," are sure to succeed, but as there are six hundred and forty-four members to be elected I shall not be able to tell you be- fore next month under which government we shall be happy.
 Although everything passed off very quiet. ly at the opening of the French Chamber of Deputies, an incident, insignificant in itself | perhaps, occurred which presages great diff | ticulty in forming a government majority. l The moderate Republicans, known now by I the name of Opportunists, put forward M. | Spuller, the late Gambetta's most intimate | friend as candidate for the vice presidency | of the chamber, but he was defeated, the I Monarchists and advanced Republicans hay ing coalesced. Of course the Monarchists are not slow in declaring that the Republic has but short time to live. Gambetta is dead, they say; Ferry crushed, Brisson used i! up and Grevy almost an octogenarian. A last convulsion will be called Clemenceau and the death sob Floquet If, however, the
 Republicans can succeed by mutual conces
 sions in holding together the republic is not | in danger The danger exists indeed and is ] imminent, but it does not come from the ! Right; it comes from the Left. As l sale ! before the return of two hundred and five l Monarchists was manifestation in favor O | a peaceful government: nothing more. | ! was meant to condemn the famous colonia ! policy not to destroy the republic. In a re markabIe speech delivered in the Chambe r of Deputies on the 30th of last July, NJ. Gle
 menceau, referring to the opinion of Marsha | Moltke that "Peace is 8 dream, and not { beautiful dream" exclaimed, amid the plau dits of the great majority of the deputies ssWell, at any rate peace is the dream of De ! mocracy, which dreams of nothing but the | development of human activity in Hbert.
 and justice" And he immediately warned I his hearers that at the approaching election ! they would find that the 'bloody ideal'' O M. Jules Ferry and his followers was not tn one likely to take with the popular masses Surely the result of the election has mad ! good his prophecy. Indeed, the recent his tory of France, even much before the gene ! ral election, affords very emphatic confir ,f1-, J1,ax " case where an attempt has been made t launch the French nation into q policy o l aggressive adventures and conquest the gov 1 ernment which has made the attempt ha I suffered prompt and ignominious defeat. Il 1881 the Chamber of Deputies upset the frs l Ferry ministry by majority of three hun dred and ffty-five to sixty eight on aecoun 1 of the expedition to Tunis, although tha l expedition had been highly successful from
 l military point of view. In 1882 the Freyci ! net ministry was defeated on the vote o credit which it asked in order to enabl
 France to join with England m an armed n ! teryention in Egypt. In 1853 the secen
 ! Ferry ministry was overthrown by a majori ! ty of three hundred and six to one hundre
 ! and forty. nine on account of the Tonqu1 expeditions. How changed! may perhap
 ! exclaim those English people who are ion ! of representing the French as fighting cock \ signing after glory and conquest. Glor and conquestl They have had enough C
 that. It is peace that they ask at the top (
 I their voices.
 The last of the Armstrong case of abdu Q ! ton was heard on the 10th inst. MT. Stea r | and his accomplices, whom I should rath' . ! call sshis assistants" were found guilty. NJ U Stead was condemned to three months in e prisonment without hard labor. He Wi o condemned by the letter, not by the spir al of the law, and the judge took great care n
 to let the jury be influenced by his good m
 tives. In my mind this judge acted vel 1T much like counsel for the prosecution. F. > instance, he warned the jury not to be pref l. diced against Mir. Stead because he circul = ted an amount of disgusting and filthy ar 'e oles which suggested to the minds of inn ,- cent women and children the existence g vices which probably never occurred to the "a l minds before Was it not, however, pre | udicing the jury against MT. Stead to expre