, 1891-04-08
for that Office, and his character is usually
unknown outside the Federation.

NS4 WIN
The German Emperor feels keenly the gen.
eral disapproval of his action in renewing the
passport system in Alsace- Lorraine because
the Partisan journalists were so rude to the
Empress Frederick. The Paris correspond
ent of the Times has accordingly been request
ed to explain his Majesty's reasons to Europe.
The Emperor was neither in anger nor in
haste, nor did he believe that his mother
had been insulted but he had endeavoured
through her means to re-establish courtesy
between the two nations, and when he failed
through the exertions of the "howling der
wishes" who made France giddy and ruled
the rulers, he felt that his conciiatory atti-
tude was represented as a humility This
he was bound on behalf of Germany to repudi-
ate, and he accordingly restored the barriers
between two nations which cannot look at
one another without frowning." He is con-
WINGED that the good sense of the French
nation will soon show it the necessity of self
control and when it does, when the French
nation shall pass judgment on these useless
lncItations, . he will again remove the barri-
els" He is ready to relax his rigour as
soon as the French people have shaken off
their pernicious tutelage." That is all YelV
well, and not undignihed as IN essay, but II
does not alter the fact that the Emperor paid
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ing dervishes,' and that because such persons
made a noise in Paris, he imposed restrictions
on the business of Alsace-L Lorraine. He sent,
as it were, a message of Cancellation to his
neighbour that neighbours footman spit
consequently, as a warning, he cutted his
own page boy. Surely the greater the dignity
of the cutfer, the greater the mistake.
The parties in Seryia are beg inning to pass
all bounds. King Milan has recently sug-
gested that his own favourite Minister, Nj.
Garashanine, murdered two girls in prison
because they knew too much about a plot
for assassinating the King and the ex-Minis-
ter has retorted by a pamphlet which implies
that the ex- King himself was the murderer.
and asks why if the former Sovereign held
him to be such a villain. he retained him in
office. An effort has been made to punish
NJ. Garashanine for this pamphlet as a libel
on the eX-king; but the astute old Minister
had used King Milan's travelling name,
Count de TakOvo, and the Court has decided
that it never heard of such an individual. To
make the scene perfect, Queen Natalie has
printed and withdrawn a pamphlet more than
limiting that the murder-charges against King
Milan are true. All the charges all round are
probably the lnyen tons of heated brains !;
but when things of thai kind are said. even
in Eastern Europe, where libel takes forms
hardly known in the West, civil war cannot
be far off. We venture to predict that the
Austrian Government will shortly see reason
to believe and to decree that Servian pigs are
not quite free from trlchin8,-a remark which
when made IN Vienna, acts IN Servia as O.
cold douche, restoring parties to their self
control. Servlan electors are not particular
as to a few murders, but they are particular
about the free export of their pigs. They have
nothing else to live on.