, 1890-11-01

such q pitch that the Mayor WAS obliged to
call in the police. A severe struggle ensued,
and several students had to be arrested.
The Session of the D4nish Diet was opened
in the University Festival Hall, at Uopenha-
geu, at October 6, by the Prime Minister,
in the name of the King. 1t Is said that the
Composition of the Diet, since the last cleo
tions, hold out but little prospect of any
agreement between the Government and the
members.
At a grand banquet given in his honour
at Florence on October 8, Siepor Crispi made
an Important statement on the policy of
Italy. He repelled the idea that Italy would
adopt Irredentism, q movement which was
really directed against the Triple Alliance.
Italy, said the Signor, had 40 choice but to
adhere to the Alliance already concluded
between Austria and Germany. Interna-
tional obligations required that the treaties
should be honestly respected by the people
as we'll as by the Governments, and the
political direction of the country could not
be entrusted to the chapgeable moods Of
a~gitators. Italy, he went on to say, has now
two dutie3-one q sincere and intelligent
patriotism, which finds its best expression in
loyalty to the regime deliberately chosen by
the people the other, the fulilment OF her
international obligations. The Republic, said
Signor Crispi, REPEATING his famous saying,
would rend u apart, and would roYiYe the
malady which for centuries kept Italy dis.
u~ited. The Monarchy holds US together,
and is accepted by Europe as a pledge of
peace. An eloquent development of this line
of thought, writes a correspondent, brought
to a close a most able and successful speech.
The address made q profound impression on
the audience, and cannot fail to have a good
effect on all intelligent and right-minded
italians.
The great military man9uyres held by the
Russians in Volhynia closed with a melan-
choly incident, which cast a gloom over the
whole Imperial Family, and caused d most
painful impression among all ranks of
the army. The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicol.
ajeyitch, the Cars uncle, who has long been
g. sufferer from a mortal disease, held the
chief command at the m&nUuVres in his ca
pacity of Field Marshal, am. was, on the day
which brought the military operations to a
conclusion, suddenly seized with total mental
alteration. The scenes which followed the
seizure were of q most he|artrending character,
and greatly affected all who were witnesses Of
them. The unfortunate Prince was removed
under the ictest i~ncOg1@tO to the estate of
General Martynoff, in the Don Steppes.
Several physicians are in attendance upon the
august patient, but all pronounce his con-
dition to be beyond hope. The Grand Duke,
who is in his sixtieth year, was a ~fayourite
with the army, in which he acid one of the
chief commands in the Russo-Turkish War in
1877. The Imperial rescript issued after the
maneuvres, in which the Emperor expressed
his satisfaction at the conduct of the officers
and men, was addressed to the Grand Duke
Nicholas only in order to save appearances.
The German Government, it is reported. IS
preparing retaliatory measures against Amerl-
ca unless some concessions in the matter Of
the new tariff be granted her. The Canadian
Premier, Sir John Macdonald, has also been
giving his yi1ws on the new enactment, and
in a speech which dealt chiefly with the com.
mercial relations betweea the Colony and the
UQited States said that Canada would be able
to find a market elsewhere for the products
excluded from the United States by the
Mckinley Bill. The United States, he said,
desired either to annex Canada or to see her
separated from Great Britain as an indie
pendent Republic.
There was great excitement in New York