Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-26
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

tuted after the assembling of the chamber
will, like the Iirard cabinet. consist partly
OF opportunists and partly of radicals, and
that its tenure Of Office will be precarious and
brief. The same thing may be predicted of
coalition between the conservatives and the
moderate republicans. II is not for the in.
terest Of the right on the one hand or Of the
extreme left upon the other, that the present
chamber should live out its legal term. BY
such prolopgatlon of the present state Of
things NJ. Ferry would gain, but tho Comte
de Paris and M. Clemenceau would both have
much to lose. The latter can never be prime
minister until the radicals form the prepond-
Grant element Of the republican forces in the
lower house, and the Bourbon pretender
cannot become king until the French people
are convinced that stable republican
government is impossible. To dissolve
the new chamber, however, will require
the initiative of President Carnot and
the assent Of the senate. AS a ma
jority of the senators are opportunsts, and
as the chief magistrate is believed to be
much influenced by M. Jules Ferry, it will
prove difficult to secure another general
election against the larter's will But the
expe dient which he invented and applied to
President Grevy can be turned against his
friend. The extreme left and the right can
force Nj. Carnot to submit or to resign by
overthrowing successively every ministry
unwilling to dissolve the chamber. A French
republic, said Theirs, can only last upon
condition of being conservative. Some four
teen years have passed since the dissolution
of the Versailles assembly, and the number
OF conservative members of the present
chamber of deputies is exactly fifty. 1t
seems that the inevitable drift of things in
France under republican institutions is to-
ward radicalism, and that the alternatives
presented to the French people are aJacobin
regime or monarchy. But whenever France
has clearly recognized that it must decide
between these extremes, it has never hesi-
tated to choose the latter. 1t does not love
monarchy, buJ-it abhors the memory of the
convention and the days of '93.
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The scene of royal and imperial junket-
ings has been shifted from Berlin to Athens.
The marriage of Princess Sophia of Prussia
to the Duke of Sparta which takes place
To-day, has brought together in the capital Of
Greece a notable assemblage. Empress
Frederick accompanies her daughter to
Corinth, and quidnuncs will be busy
in giving political turn TO all
possible incidents relating to it. In
deed, the fact that the Emperor William will
go to Bucharest and Constantinople in the
course of the same tour may well excite
speculation as to the bearings of the visit on
international questions The Greeks are
said to be already preparing to utilize the
marriage of their crown prince with the
sister of the German emperor by asking the
latter to interfere somehow in Crete, and the
BulgarIans are rather uneasy. II ID likely
that anything of political character which
may be done by the emperor in Athens or
Constaninople has already been settled IN
Berlin. The approaching tour in its inter-
national aspects may even have been one of
the subjects of the conference with the czar
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Reports are current that the prince of
Wales is in poor and declining health. 1t is
stated on good authority that his ailment is
Bright's disease, that it has incurably fas-
tened itself upon him. and that there is no
probability he can live much over year
longer. The queen, on the other hand, ap-
pears TO be robust old lady, enjoying better
health than for some years. In all probabil-
ity she will outlive the prince of Wales but
in the natural order of things her career
must como to an end shortly, as she is now
past seventy years of age. Assuming that
the prince cannot live longer than the time
allotted him, as the penalty of idle, luxur-
Gus, lazy, enervating habits when the queen
passes away the crown will come to Albert
Victor. the princess eldest son, now in his
twenty-fifth year. The outlook cannot be a
gratifying one to the English people, If these
reports are true. Albert Victor is weak
ling, mentally and physically. Heredity,
not through his parents, but dating farther
back, has afflicted MIN with results OF the
vices and weaknesses of some of his Guelph
ancestors. His popular name of collars
and cuffs" is term of ridicule growing out
of his efforts to conceal his physical impoy-
erishment, which is on par with his mental
conditions. How long will the bluff and
sturdy English people tolerate such weak
ling as their ruleri BY the time he comes to
the throne some vital issues will have been
raised by tho people, the premonitions OF
which have long been apparent. Already
they are asking themselves how much longer
they will consent to have thirty or forty
thousand idle pluiocratic families own three
iourths of the land. and not only the land
but the ground rents in cities
HAn' ~.
The new king of Portugal. Carlos l., who
q few weeks ago completed his JWenty-sixth
year, comes To the throne not unprepared,
the invalid condition Of his father having for
some time caused more and more official re-
sponsibilities TO be placed upon MIN. The
little kingdom too, has now few causes of
disturbance or anxiety abroad or at home
Her chief colonial troubles arc in South
Africa, ana these are likely TO be quickly
settled the rivalry of her two strong neigh
bors, Germany and England, furnishing,
perhaps, a guarantee that she will find aid
in defending her rights. Yet the accession
OF a new monarch must cause some specula-
ton as to its effect. The twenty-eight years
tranquility which Portugal had under King
Luis T. was largely due to his observance Of
constitutional principles, willingness 70.
favor reforms, and lack OF disposition TO
seek personal prominence at the expense Of
the peace of the kingdom. Still, even under
him there were some exciting political crises,
and for long time continuation of the
financial embarrassments and disorders
which had been inherited from his prede-
cessors. The probabilities are that no great