Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-19

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 LONDON, June ,. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 I henceforth renounce the profession of prophet, at any rate until l know, as your witty compatriot once said. The political situation here changes not only from day to day, but from hour to hour, and there is no saving what the result of the division on the second reading of the home rule bill will be- Last Wednesday the betting was even; on Thursday pal lliamentary bookmakers were offering the rejection of the bill at three to one Adverse to the bill as most English men are, they dread the possibility of an i'm minent new election, yet n dissolution seems almost inevitable. What will the electors have to decided Whether they accept or not the principle of home 1ulei Bat the great majority of their representatives do accept this principle. Will they be called upon to say what method shall be employed for tram- ing the principle into billl But how can tho constituents decide on any particular I Liberal majority is going to be dispersed to tho winds and if Mr. Gladstone retires to private life who is it that will feunite itt
 Tho expulsion of the princes from French territory seems now pretty certain to be voted and state of suspense reigns over the country. 1 may as well use the word reign" once more, before it is proposed by some Fronch Anarchist tp cancel it from the French vocabulary. But the advanced Re. publicans seem bent going farther than the lnere expulsion of the French pretenders. They will propose the conGscntion of the Or leans fnmily's property, which 1t was M. Thiers' first act to restore to them after the fall of the empire and his accession to the | first presidency of the third French republic. | It must be owned that tho princes made | themselves most unpopular, not to sny i'm | possible ns future rulers in France, by dc. manting the restitution of their immense l fortune at timo when their poor country | was straining every nerve to pay off the | Prussians. NJ. Thiers knew what he was about when he made tho oifor to them he | destroyed tho chance that the Due dAumale | had of becoming rival candidate for the | presidency. So after ait tie republic is | about to treat the Orleans princes Is the em- | pire had treated them, but republic should | be more tolerant and liberal than m empire, | instead of initiating it's worst ways.
 | | have been conliscated will the Radicals stop | there2 The pay of President Grevy ia three | hundred thousand dollars year. Every l body knows that with his economic habits | the President must be saving enormous sums | of money every year. Will they demand a | restitutiona I should not be surprised to hear that some Paris deputy has demanded the confiscation of all the ex-minister's prop erty-perhaps for the benefit of the men on strike. Of course this would mean the ruin of the whole country, as every Frenchman has been, is or will be minister if the pres ent state of things continues little longer. | The present ministry lacks firmness. It has | allowed the moderate Republicans to be de youred by the Radicals. Whether they like it or not the Radicals will be devoured by the Revolutionsts. And thepl Well, then they will have to begin again at the begin ninc. thus repeating what wo have several times witnessed these last eighty years.
 Her Majesty Queen Victoria has just ap- proved of the following regulations for the puidance of ladies about to be presented at | court find the following in the Court Cir | cular: 'High square cut gewns cannot be | considered full dress and are not admit sd at | court In cases of delicate health Her Ma
 iesty is pleased to dispense with the above regulation, in which case ladies must apply for Her Majesty's permission through the Lord Chamberlain. This application must | always be accompanied by a medical certih- cate" If the sovereign were m evil-dis posed man I should understand, though should condemn it, such compulsory strip ping. But Queen virtrous woman, ar exemplary wife and mother! What delight can she take in viewing necis and shoulders of several hundreds of her own sex7 The sight of three short bodces always reminds | me of the exclamation of a friend who, re-
 turning from a levee and being asked what he thought of the show, cried: "Why, old fellow, I never saw such one since l was weaned."
 | WONDERFUL LECTURE.
 M Jules Claretie, in his new edition ot "Paul ct Virginie," shows us Bernardin dt Sainte- Pierre in quite 6 new light a soul
 misanthropcal egotist. He says too tha , there is no foundation at eli for the vulgar
 belief that he was victim of the grea , French revolution. Quite the contrary, fo : he was, NJ. Claretie says, oae of those whom , the new regime favored. He was appointed | professor of ethics at the Great Norma
 school, and if he never delivered but on lecture there it not the fault of the revo } lution. In announcing this lecture at tn