Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-10

! HIS ouOrbS IO SoLGl6 Lne dIIalrS or 6SypG. Inc
 Sultan, delighted to see that the English com l missioner treated him as the Suzerain ot
 Egypt, appointed Moukhtar Pacha, Turkish | commissioner in Cairo. The Pacha, after
 the fashion of his country, dallied around l for some weeks and, being finally called upon
 to say what he meant to do, proposed that 1 the garrisoning of the Soudan should be giv- l en up to Turkish troops. Of course this was l too much even for the English diplomatist
 and he refused. But the funny part of it is
 that Moukhtar Pacha will not return home, and Sir Henry Wolff begins to believe that
 the only way of getting rid of the Turkish commissioner is that he (Sir Henry) should
 terminate his mission as quickly as possi- l ble." Now Sir Henry Wolff went to the | East to obtain the favor of visit to Egypt ! of a Turkish envoy, and now he asks to be l recalled as the only means of getting rid of l his Excelleuey! Sir Henry is greatly missed ! in English society, where his delightfully."- | chatty conversation made him an immense | favorite and his return home is eagerly l looked forward to by all his friends, who are l anxious to hear Ffall about it.'' No doubt | there is good fun in store for the interview 1 CTS also.
 l Oxford is improving Oxford, place fla | nous for dead languages and undying preju- l dices, as Mir. John Bright once called it. We 1 were rather startled in London when we 1 heard that the great Irish patriot, MT. Mi B chael Davitt had been invited to lecture on | l Russell club of the university. MT. Davitt ! did lecture and was even entertained at Un- l iversity college Unfortunately for the rep
 utation of England for hospitality, MT. Da- witt was not left wholly unmolested. It was i rumored the following day that he had been l screwed up'' in his rooms by some under l graduates of the college. It appears, how | ever, that such was not the case The un- 1 dergraduates only ''screwed up" Mr. Davitt's ! host and were satisfied with treating the great I1ishman to 8 little serenade. The Daily News relates the incident in the fol lowing humorous paragraph, which I fancy 1 is from the pen of MT. Lucy, it's editor: 'sOxford is very musical place and 1t did happen that some men indulged in a little chamber music in the room next Mr. Da- vitt's. They appear to have played patriotic tunes, not Irish patriotic tunes, but a selec tion of obsolete English airs quite a vari- ety of instruments Trombones, trunpets, hunting horns and doubtless the piano com hined in harnonies which severe taste might condemn. This expression of musical feeling is perhaps to be regretted, at least if 1 it disturbed the repose or agitated the bosom of the guest of the evening. But we are all subject to this kind of inconvenience at evening parties, concerts and from the un- called-for melodies of street musicians. The concert seems to have been brief, not lasting more than twenty minutes. Still twenty minutes of God Save the Queen,' sung to a tries mans loyalty when the concert takes place after midnight in room adjoining his bedroom. Amateurs who agree about music with Dr. Johnson and Victor Hugo will re- ! gret that most concerts last much longer" etc., etc. I have quoted good part of the paragraph to show you that the once grave, solemn London daily paper has become, thanks to it's new blood, quite an aid to di- gestion at breakfast.
 How changed Paris is! Such is the re- mark one invariably hears from those who have just returned from a visit to the French capital after not having 1t for some time. And changed no doubt it is in many respects. But the thing that strikes an ob- server as much as anything perhaps is the ! number of young men that are to be seen ill the fashionable churches. ''Why, every church 1 entered was half full of them!' said friend to me the other day; and they used to be very conspicuous by their ab- sence, think he was half inclined to be- lieve that the Young Mems Christian associ- ation had started a branch over there and to attribute the change to it's efforts. But the real explanation is simple enough. The present religiosity, if I may so call it, of the young man of high society in France is nothing more or less than set-off against the republic, and has, fear, very little to do with religious conviction. He goes to hear the great Lenten preachers, but when he first hears the name of one of them i'll drawing
 
 winner of the Chantilly plate, or of pre- miere danseuse at the opera. Religion is the
 fashion just now and he goes in for it now
 just as Ee would for the latest cut in coats.
 His parents are carrying on quite crusade against what they call free thought in pow
 er" The more the Parliament tries to break the power of the clergy by laicising the schools, the hospitals and other public estab- lishments, and unhou5ing religious orders, 50 much the more do the members of the ar istocracy honor the cloth by giving the priest the precedence over dukes at their tables, and handing over to the Sisters of Charity the money that they used to give to the par ish relief fund. For every blow that is dealt to the church fashionable France re- plies by blow to the lay institutions sup ported by the government.
 It is now sixty three years since London, Paris and Vienna society listened with de- light and amazement to the piano playing of 6 little Hungarian boy fourteen years old. Never had they heard such music as this mere child drew from the instrument, and everyone feted him and prophesied great future for the little prodigy. The boy is an old man now, full of years and honor, for where is the man who has not heard of the fame of Franz Liszt! After all these years he has again left his home to visit Paris and London not to electrify audiences with his
 wonderful playing, but just to be present at the performance of some of his works and,
 
 that his fingers have lost their cunning, for
 he played only two nights ago in private drawing-room in Paris, and his listeners
 were so carried away by his playing that they wanted to break up the piano that it
 might never be desecrated by other hands, and to carry the fragments away as pre- cious relics. But, although the grand old master could not refuse the petition of his hostess guests for the evening, he does not feel equal to the excitement of performing
 in public, and we shall have to be content
 with sight of him in St. James, Hall.
 Even the prospect of this will draw crowds, and Mir. Novello, the great London music
 publisher, is lucky man to have been able to persuade Liszt to come and show
 himself at the performance of his great
 work est Elizabeth
 The Pall Mall Gazette of yesterday, in
 one of those articles in which the impor-
 tant evening paper advocates home rule,
 says: "The reason why we are strong ad
 vocates of home rule is because we believe
 that such policy alone affords any pros
 pect of making Ireland really part and par eel of the United Kingdom. In short are eager to yaccinate Ireland with home
 rule in order to ward off the smallpox of
 separation" This sounds to me too much like Supporting the trousers of despair
 with the braces of hope" The metaphors
 of the sensational evening leading paper
 are becoming alarming.
 hl uo 11SSse pS uhS tO
 France from Panama. He says the new canal will be ready in 1s89 Since Victor Hugo's death M. de Lesseps has held the position of greatest Frenchman" alive un- disputed. But 1 am not sure his glory is
 not going to be eclipsed by that of M: Pasteur. Out of more than six hundred patients whom the French savant has in oculated only two have died, and these l two have died under such circumstances that instead of shaking the belief in M. | Pasteur's method, it only increases it. In
 future people will think nothing of being ! bitten by dog. On the contrary it will
 be found good pretext for going to the gay capital. 'What do you think, dears"
 said young lady to her friend the other | day. ''I am sure I don't know" was the
 reply 'sWell, pas been bitten by a dog
 and we're all going to ParisP'
 l Mrs. Langtry, who is now first rate
 actress, looks superbly in her Directoire at ! tire in the ''Lady of Lyons" Mrs. Lang