, 1892-04-06

winch is gwen ty g0verneSSes and servants,
created suCt tACttutntin (oltIaire. that spe-
cial pltc0l tiG Is Lao TO- lie ttktn to guard the
Court ant the prisoner. 1lele has been no
thorough sitting g tie tvdCce yet, ard the
only fact understood to Be a6nilttd is tie ~
ing f the little girl in the dark rouln; but tie
feeling for children, now SO strong everywhere,
has been keenly aroused.
The correspondent Of the III mes who is inves.
tigating the Russian famine declares that the
only way to save the three hundred thousand
German coloniets settled on the Nolga, is to
assist them to rmIgrate.. The VILLAGERS have
lost heart IS well as their crops, their animals are
dead and in one village alone twelve hundred
persons are defen ent'o on he relief afforded by
the Provincial Council OF Samara. Many of
the Col1nists, 70 save fuel, are living in luies
IN the ground, ana eat for their sole food the
wlld gr.ss of the ST, ppe mixed with Spanish
lqtCrC" The prospect Of the future is al
most bal, the colonists being unprovidtd
with seld, So',hlt in one district Of Samara
forty thousand acres Of arabic land viii be left
fltlow. We pei celve from other accounts that
the officials are not very ready t. aid the Ger
mans, WHO are disltked Ne heretics. and whose
departure wound tie seen Withput dismay. 1t
10 all very well, however, t. write Easily about
emigration; but who IL to move that mHss If
people all At oace E? TneY cannot march b.
Promised Land, like the f|lIlowers Of Peer the
Hermit and to carry three hundred thousand
souls across Europe and to America Ivy sea
would cost + 900, on. A few shiploa,ls of
rough biscuit sent up the Nolga would give
them relief n the quickest form. but u large
proportion will succumb to disease.
MI Jephson, the African explorer delivered
aok,,-o -. tr-.t.uI,.- 49,. WI. a.
ing for the proposal which was made on Thurs.
day in Parliament TO grant TO 900 for the
survey Of The railway from Mombassa to the
north VEST shore Of he Victoria Nyanzl. This
railway would open up 4 larg" and fertile re-
gion, gave us the control Of the great lake, or
able us to arrest the slave RAIDS, and ultimately
secure the severe: guty cf Uganda, the most
valuable Kingdom in East Africa, where the
Court shows strong disposition towards Chris
tianity. The railway. it in sad. cannot he
b lit without n i arantee, snl a survey ia indis-
p~ensablc to ~scertttn It's f~eas,bll1y aud lts cost
1t VAS, 10 e9,r. strongly oppoted By Mr., Glad.
stone, and the debate STOOD adjourned to FRIDAY
night. 80 hat we cannot record its result. We
dis!ike these guarantees exceedingly, more
especially when they are really given to bene.
fit Companies half sovereign, half trading.
There is no limit to their possible number VI
amoJAu, nor can there be any effective check
upon the cost Of construction, tho dislike to
waste q million because another half a million
is wan ed, being eAce, sive We do not see
why the British East Africa Company, if it be-
heves in the project, cannon find the money for
il on Its own creoit- the sum will he only e.
OC0,0gu-or Why It's managers hesitate about
III aki>g the srrtpy The experts. however.
are al ag4in-t 3. an { the survey isrcgarGsd As
an exp orIng expedition, 10000 Is not much
to ply for formation which will, ut sill events.
enable The House Of Commons to act or refuse
TO act upon fall AID accurate data.