Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-29
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walls or Alexandra whilst Lord WolseleI l was operating on the backs of the Egyptians also obtained peerage and s30, ,O00.- Nov Lord Wolseley was sent last year to the Sou dan to regain Khsrtoum. Unable to do so he had to content himself with regaining tn, road to England For this feat of British philosophy he has been created viscount 1 When consider the small number of Brit
 ish soldiers whose deaths the general caused | to be deplored imagine that all these hon
 ors have been bestowed upon him at the in
 stigation of the Royal Humane society.
 l Queen Victoria has not yet heard the las of the Battenberg business. In a case o
 mere ordinary discontent with the sover eign's choice of a husband for her daughter the grumblings would have subsided after the tying of the matrimonial knot, whereas at this match there is still a feeling manifest l ed which is more akin to disgust than to dis l appreciation. It was bad enough to choose such husband for royal princess of Eng l land, but the crowning blunder was commit l ted when he was created Royal Highness I and made Knight ot the Garter. If the 1 English nobility, many of whom have royal E blood in their veins, had any doubts as to | why they were sent to this world, it must now begin to dawn upon them, I should l think, that they were created to hand pocket handkerchiefs to German serenities. It is nc wonder they branching out into com merce, etc.; that one dukes son goes into grocery, another into stockbroking and that honorables are to be found toutipg for wine merchants. The ladies seem to be following the example of their lords, to judge by the fact that a 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 occasion of the ] marriage of Princess Beatrice. The poets effusions are as humorous as the prose de- tails of this interesting wedding. The bride, we are told will lead Ca summers Hfe." 1 fear it 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 l told you before, the Queen allowed the young couple
 only forty-eight hours to enjoy each others company quietly. At the end of the pre-
 scribed time down came to lunch with the
 pair the memorable mother-in law. Such ar
 engagements have certainly had no parallel
 since the case of the small tradesman found
 travelling 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 Lon
 don scandals The criminal law has been amended, and now that this nasty business is over it is amusing to see the English press trying to prove that all great foreign towns are worse than London. They are hard at work. The last discovery was that San Francisco was the worst of all.
 The general elections will take place in France on the 4th of October and in Eng
 land in the early part of November. The former country will from now till October resound with the cry, "Opportunism or Rad
 icalism," England with. Conservatism or
 r sEAF oE course be raised in France, but not respond ed to by the people. The republic is for the
 present the unchallenged master of the situ- ation. If France had king on the throne most bourgeois and the whole of the peasan-
 try would vote for monarchists at the cleo
 tions, but the middle classes in France will
 bear anything rather than that there should
 be fresh upsetting of the existing form of government. What the French people want
 is peace at home and abroad. Their ideal is a jogtrot and thrifty existence. When will
 French rulers understand that and abandon
 their colonial politics, which are making the French a laughing stock in Europea
 It should be said that the French partisans of spirited colonial policy have a strange way of understanding the thing. They be- l1eve that colonies are made by governments by the force of arms. They will not under stand that English adventurers, not English governments, have made English colonies. deneral OOTQOn SalQ III Ills O1ary Ut hnhT- toum that the English would do well to bor
 row little chivalry 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 go to pastures fresh and new" at their own risks and perils, especially the missionaries, who are the best colonizing agents. Colonies should be made for over flowing populations, not for the wholesale exportation of officials. In Cochin China there are one thousand French inhabitants, forty-five hundred French soldiers and two thousand 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.
 Apropos of missionaries being good coloni- zing agents, I am indebted to Englishman with whom crossed the channel. ''On ar irving upon his new field of operation" he said to me, "the missionary places the Bible in the hands of the natives and thus address es them My Dear Brethren-Lift your eyes to heaven and pray. Lift your eyes-higher -higher-higher still-that's it. Now close them and do not open them until I tell you that's right-not yet-there; now open your eyes; you are saved.' When the worthy tives open their eyes their territory is gone"
 France has just received her annual ser
 
 summer sees cavalry man9uvres in the east of France, and these are always the signal for warnings from the official press of the re- doubtable chancellor. The French may be iu-advised to occasionally let fall the word revenge but surely the Germans are still more so to be constantly reminding their neighbors of their defeat. I am afraid France is now in just the kind of position in which Bismarck has long wished to see her. M. Jules Ferry, the great Opportunist, urged by the German chancellor, has gone to An nam. to Tonquin, to China, to Madagascar and kept the French troops at good dis tance from the German frontier. The willy diplomatist has also succeeded in exciting bad feelings between the French and the English. So for the moment we have lost the sympathy of our natural allies; we have thirty five thousand soldiers in Tonquin, where we have also lost fifteen thousand; we have six thousand in Madagascar. Our cof- fers are empty; we over head and ears in debt. M. de Bismarck, pleased at seeing all right at least, tells us that we had better keep quiet and not talk about our revenge, or he will give us good drubbing. When the general elections come off I hope France will not forgive French minister for having a1ienated from her for some time the sympa- thies of the freest people in Europe to throw her into the arms of her most implacable enemy.
 It is said in Paris that the richest collec- tion of diamonds in existence is in the pos session of Miss Minnie Palmer, that spright- Iy, delightful American actress whom I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing in Lon don, but who is quite unknown to the Pari- sians. The central diamond of her coIlec- ton has, we are told, historical name, hay ing been exhibited at the great exhibition of New Orleans under the name of Cleveland gem. The stone was bought of Portuguese by Mir. Defan, of New York, who cut it and polished it. This beautiful diamond is, it appears. worth $200, 900. Now is this tale from Wonderland
 Truth offers every week prizes for puzzles of different kinds. Anecdotes of rural ways formed the subject for this week. The win ner of the prize has, think, a capital anec- dote. A young countryman had bulldog puppy which he thought highly of. One day he was teaching it to "hold on, when it seized his father by the nose and held on
 with vengeance. Beer ii, father, beer il" cried the young rustic, "'twin be the making O the pup" MAX oRELL-