, 1890-12-24
DAILY Telegraph, Goth Now

notices, and not Il few devote very seriOuS
articles to the political consequences of the
change which the demise Of the late mon
arch has brought about. The general tone
of these reflections is moderate, and al
though q cen tain amount at auXItty as to
what may happen IN a future more or less
remote is. betrayed i'll various quarters, there
Ia a satisfactory absence OF any remarks =
an alarmlSl tendency. The present Situa-
ton had been tnrrS'en for some time, and
politicians have had ample leisure 10 dis
cuss it's every detail One of ne most in
Auential of the Republican journals ex.
presses very accurately the view enter
tanned by many trenctmen when it says
that events which would formerly have APP
peared most serious Will now hardly excite
public opinion, accustomed rs il Is TO deep
er emotions. The Luxembourg matter
which ucally led 10 II conflict between The
two greatest armi, = III Eur0prs-pales in
comparison with lhat of AlSacp-L0rrain OF
~C0nstaniiuoplr. Such important questions
pending between powerful States are, so to
speak, the ransom of the small countries
which have escaped absorption. It is
affirmed, aGd not without some show OF
truth, that many Germans would like to add
Hollands rich possessions beyond the seas
10 their building Colonial domain and to f10td
the Rhine from it's source To its mouths.
They also east c0vct0uS Chances II LuXrm-
bOurg, which belongs 10 the German Gus
toms. Union; but who, it is asked, in tile
present condition of Europe, wonld dare to
march ore soldier on The Hague. or on
Luxembourg? Attention, moreover, is
drawn to the fact that although the new
Grand Duke OF Luxembourg is Il German
he does not seem inclined to Cede his pos
sessions for The second time to the King OF
H.. ---sAN -, IL n,ES Ar t1N
people in the pureSt French, which is their
official language, If not the tongue in which
they are wont to converse. Tn Dutch too
regard without dismay the perils to which
their nationality may be exposed. II the
heroic means OF defence employed III the
Seventeenth Century do not guarantee
Holland sufficiently from the more scientific
and methodical brutality Of the Nineteenth
Century, wisdom aud prudence have still
some effect on public opinion throughout
Europe, and the Dutch, we'll aware of this,
will rely more on these d~efences than on
those which formerly safe-guarded their
country's independence. Another journal,
which is also exceptionally we'll informed
on matters of foreign policy, remarks this
evening that Europe will follow with sym
pathetic attention the first acts of Queen
Emma's Regency. Then, turning to Lux
embOurg, ii says that it would be an inSalt
to the new Grand Duke to imagine that he
willsnOt III future subordinate whatever
German proc Iivites he may have to its
interests. 1t might, perhaps, be s~atisfac-
tory to ascertain whether the people of
Luxembourg would care to exchange their
neutrality. which is so suitable to q small
State like their own, for heavv fiscal and
military burdens and the eventual periis
OF annexation rs the German Empire. The
authority in question declines to see how
the accession Of ii PriN CO whom Prussia
deprived of his Duchy in 1866 could be the
signal If the incorporation Of Luxembourg
with Germany. In short, the most authoris.
ell mouth pieces of public opinion regard
the political outlook with COmmendahle
calmness, although, as will have been
gathered from the remarks to which have
drawn your attention, they are not blind to
the possibility of certain contingencies,
which assnredly would not be viewed with
agreeable feelings in this country.
Now Il at the Nihilists, az is generally
surmised, have effected a vendetta in a
foreign country for the first time by the
murder of General SeliverStoff, the pros
pect is not "A pleasant one for those high
placed Russians who make Paris peri
odically their happy hunting ground.
Uneasiness has set in, indeed, among many
influential MuscOvite cOlOnists here who
have at one time or another occupied i'm
portant posts under their Government.