Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-18
CURRENT TOPICS IN EUROPE.
Edinburgh Exhibition. = Russian
Rerolter.-Affairs in France
Bismarek's Birthday.-The Pope
and the Tyrol.-Sir Merreli's
Testimony, Etc.

and the Tyrol.-Sir Merreli.s
Testimony, Etc.
EUROPE, April :, 1890. Especial
correspondence Of the DEsEREr
NEWS THE erection Of the build
ings for the Edinburgh Interna-
tional Exhibition is now practie lily
completed, and the progress made
with the other arrangements yar-
rants the belief that the whole will
be ready on the opening day, the Ist
Of May. For several very good
reasons the exhibition promises To
be prominently successful. 1t will
be without Doubt the greatest exhi-
bition Of electrical appliances that
has ever yet been made, Mr.. Edi-
son will personally attend TO some
particular branches, and Other Gel
ebraied electricians will he present
70 explain those appliances that
strike the average beholder with
amazement and awe. The time
also is OPportune. The Forth Biidge
is attracting many visitors to Edin-
burgh this year. The number Of
these may lie expected TO increase rs
the season advances.
The site chosen for the exhibition
is about tive miles from the centre
OF Edinburgh, but it has this ad
vantage-that within the exhibition
grounds is situated one Of the sta
tions OF the Suburban Circular Rail-
way, one Of the stations OF the
Glasgow AMI Edinburgh line aud
the terminus Of the Princes Street
tramway or street car line. The
grounds are therefore convenient for
the general public rs well ~ for the
Inhabitants Of the ely. The scope /
81 TIE exhibition has been very |
much wideued since the project was |
started. IL was intended in the
first instance 10 he merely an exhi- |
bitiOn Of appliances OF electrical |
science. IL was soon seen, however,
tina. n sectional exhibition OF that l
kind would appeal 10 a +ery limited |
cla-s, and would hardly form a
strorg enough neucleus TO attract |
sufficient numbers 20 make the dis |
play popular and financially SUCCESS
full Ihe grounds now extend 10 |
nearly ninety acres. The recreation
ground covers nearly ten acres and 1
here are situated the Switch !
bsck Railway cscHii1- de-. fer 1
gtisSa1t, Il panorama, etc. The 4
buildings Of the exhibition 1
proper coveiline acres, tine machine
hail alone being over seven hundred |
feet long 10y one hundred and fifty 4
broad. II will he divided into three
sections. the middle one Of which |
will contain some twenty dynamOs
Of different patterns and design. In
the western division will he placed
the various kinds Of electrical ma,
chinery. such rs telegraphs, tele-
phones, electric clocks, Photographs,
electric motors, electric street cars,
electric lamps, electric Cameras, etc.
The eastern Section will contain the
greatest collection OflOcomOtives the
world has ever seen, from the first
crude machiRes in the days Of Ste
pheDs1n 10 those mighty monsters
that thunder along the Great North
ern Railway at the rate Of eighty
mills an hour.
Another praisewOrthy feature Of
this exhibition will be the great
"Gallery Of Art,'' In which there
will lie no "loaned pictGres,'' but
every paintingand piece Of sculpture
will be the work of some living artist.
Ia this respect the works Of both
home and foreign artists will have IA
better chance even than they had at
the Paris Exposition.
Just now there is quite 4 contest
going on between the Temperance
people and the liquor dealers con
corning the admission of spirituous
or intoxicating drinks on the eXhi-
bition grounds. II would seem that
the Temperance people have what j.
called the "inside circle'' in the
matter and IL is likely they will b.
able TO prevent such scenes as were at
times seen in the Glasgow exhibition
of 1855.
The European press, during the
past fortnight, has been so engrOsSed
with affairs in Germany that but
little attention has been bestowed 1
on French and Russian matters
Of almost equal importance. The
news from the Neva is, TO say the
least, grave. The letter Of Madame
Tsnebrikofl 10 the Car seems to have
awakened the latter TO the real DO
sition he occupies. He secs. it
would seem, that his government
has been 2 failure, and that "a new
force has arisen in Russian society
that lie never dreamed Of. Demo
cratic ideas are advancing in Russia
with progress that western nations
will scarcely credit Eussia,s I'M
written alliance with France has
had an effect in Russia, beneficial
TO ner people bat prcjudicial 10 the
Cars agtOcratic views. The late
outbreaks among the Students Of :
many Russian universities plainly
prove how widely spread are social- !
istic sentiments. List week the Z
Car sent for Prince Dolgoroukon,
The encouragement OF Moscow, I :
md after comforting with him has D
TO redress some of the
greatest grievances. Deportation | +
70 Siberia will cease for q time .
possibly n long time and the Gar :
will pursue a policy Of Cancellation
Il well as punishment for offend
"a" These are the words OF Prince
D0lgorOukotf, one Of tine most in =
iuential as well AS most literal
tstesmen Of Russia.
Almost simultaneously with the e
of Prince Bismarck s.
'omes the change OF Ministry in q
France. When NJ. Tirari resigned, Z
President Carnot no doubt wisely. Z
allied the ssgaeious statesman NJ. {
Ie Freycinst TO form a new Min
stry. Those who have watched a.
he course of French politics will !
that NJ de Freycinet wcs
he maH who came 20 near being =
hcsen President Of the French Re
Iublic at the last election. IL Is
leasing to see that President Car
lot has such good will ard conf
ence in his old rival. aud no. less
leasing TO see NJ. de Freycinet &C Al
ept position from the man who :
efeated him. All this augurs well =
Or the position Of France. nj
NJ. de Freycinet was born in 1925, n
nd is therefore just sixty-twO years Of
{ age. As will be remembered, he
anne TO the front just after the
rash Of the NapoleOair empire at Z
'edan. He, as prime minister. and
he lion-like Gambetta, as minister
( war, worked strenuOusly 10 stem
be tide Of German invasion. Since
hen he has worked faithfully TO
uild up the republic on a sold =
Unul 1879 be b. II the :.
osition Of prime minister, anu from q
het time till 1855 he held ti;e Iosi- 81
ion nF minister ~ far..fsr,, e. ~ - L.. v