Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-28
FROM ENGLAND.
MAX O'RELL PHILOSOPHERS ON
MATTERS IN GENERAL.

/ count. This lucky soldier is simply over
/ whelmed with honors and bank notes by
/ a generous Queen and grateful country.
/ After having beaten the Ashantees, in
( 1874, brought home the umbrella OF their
I King, and burnt their capital,
feat, not requiring much
talent, the dwellings being built OF wood,
mud and straw, Gen. WOseley, on his re-
turn TO England, had a grant Of $4,000
made to him. Eight years later on his re-
turn from Egypt, this same General re-
ceived a peerage and e2s,00O Lord Al
cester, his companion in arms, who had
operated on the walls Of Alexandria,
whilst Lord WolseleY was operating on
the backs OF the Egyptians, lsO obtained
peerage and $4,000. Now Lord Wolse-
ley was sent last year to the Soudan to
regain Khartoum. Unable to do so, he
had to content himself with regaining the
road to England. For this feat Of British
philosophy, he has been created a VS.
count When / consider the small num-
Der of British soldiers whose death the
General caused to be deplOred, / imagine
that all these hOnors have been bestowed
upon him at the instigatlOn of the Royal
Humane Society.
Queen Victoria has not yet heard the
last Of the Battenberg business. In a
case Of mere ordinary discomfort with the
SOyereign's choice OF husband for her
daughter, the grumblings would have
subsidized after the tying Of the matrimO-
NAL knot, whereas at this match there is
still feeling manifested which is more
akin 70 disgust than to disapprobatiOn.
IL was bad enough to choose such IA hus-
band for = Royal Princess OF England,
but the browning blunder was committed
when he was created a Royal Hichness,
and made knight OF the Garter. II the
| English nobility, many of whom have
royal blood in their veins, had any doubts
as TO why they were sent to this world. it
must now begin to dawn upon them,
| should thinK, that they were
created to hand pocket-handkerchiefs to
German serenities. 1t is no wonder they
are branching out into commerce, etc;
that one dukes son goes into grocery,
another into stock broking, and that hon
CRADLES are TO be found tOuting for wine
| merchants. The ladies' seem to be follow
ing the example of their lords, to judge by
| the fact that q lady of rank has lately
| opened a bonnet shop In the West End Of
| London.
AS everyone knows, Lord TennysOn,
| poet-laureate, wrote an ode on the Occa-
! sion Of the marriage of Princes Beaerice.
| The poets effusiOns are as humorous as
| the prose details of this interesting we'd
| ding. The bride, we understand, will
| lead ga summers lifeO | fear IL will be
| the German Prince whose life will be a
| summer one. for the permanent presence
| of his royal mOther-in-law will. no doubt,
make it hot for him. AS told you before,
| the Queen allowed the young couple only
/ tOrty-eight hours to enjoy each others
| company quietly. At the end of
the prescribed time down came to lunch
with the pair the memorable mOther-in-
law. Such arrangements have certainly
| had no parallel since she case of the small
tradesman found "traveling alone" upon
his honeymoon, in consequence of the
| money not running to ''taking his wife
! along with him." | hope we shall hear
| no more of the London scandals. The
| Grimm al law has been amended, and now
! that this nasty business is over, il is
amusing TO see the English press trying
! 10 prove that all great foreign towns are
work. The last discovery was that San
| Francisco WIS the worst Of all.
The general elections will take place in
! France on Oct. 4, and in England in the
early part of November. The former
country will from now till October re-
| sound with the cry: "Opportunism OF
| Radiealism " England with: eFCOnserya-
archy" will, of course, be raised in France
but not responded to by the people. The
| Republic is, for the present, the unohAl-
lenged master OF the situation If France
| had a King on the throne most bourgeois
and the whole of the peasantry would vote
| for MOnarchists at the elections, but the
| middle classes in France will bear any
thing rather than that there should be a
| fresh upsetting of the existing form OF
I government. What the French people
want is, peace at home and abroad; THERE
| meal Is a jOgtrat and thrifty existence.
| When will French rulers understand that
and abandon their colonial politics which
are making the French laughing stock
in EuropeH
1t should be said that the French parti.
sans OF spirited colonial policy have g
strange way of understanding the thing
They believe that colonies are made by
governments by the force OF arms
They will not understand that English
adventurers, not English governments
have made English colonies. Gen. Cor
don said in has diary at Khartoum thai
the English would do we'll TO borrow a
| little chiYalry from the French, but surely
the French would do we'll TO borrow a
little wisdom from the English. Colonies
should be made by private enterprise
The English 20 to pastures fresh and
new'' at their own risks and perils, ee
pecially the missionaries, W no are the
best cOlOnizing agents. Colonies should
be made Cor overlooking populations. not
for the wholesale expectation of officials
In Cochin China there are 1000 French
Inhabitants, 4,500 French soldiers, and
1900 French officials, who answer for the
security Of the place, so that the English
and Germans may comfortably come
there. settle and trade. Our colonial
policy in France consists in getting the
chestnuts out Of the fire for our neighbOrs
ABTopOs of missionaries being good
col0nizing agents, l am indebted u an
Englishman with whom | crossed the
channel. "On arriving upon his new
feld OF operation" he said 10 me, "the
missionary places the bible in the hands
OF the natives and thus addresses them
My dear brethren, lit your eyes tc
Heaven and pray. Lift your
eyes --higher-higher-hi still
that's IL. Now close them
and do not open them until l tell you
that's right-not yet--there; now open
your eyes, You are saved. When the
worthy natives open their eyes their ter
ritOry is gone.'
France has just received her annual
sermon from Prince Won Bismarck. Every
summer secs cavalry manGuvres IA the
east OF France, aud these are always thJ
signal Tor war; ngs from the official pres,
I on The redeu0tablu Chancellor. ING
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