Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-25
OUR LONDON LETTER. The Allied Powers May Be Rent
 Asunder BY A PROPOSED ENTENTE To Which William of Germany Is Opposed-Lond
 Schools.

| LONDON, Nov. 24.--[Special Cable Let | ter. I-Amid the uncertaIn rumors regard | ing an Anglo o-Russian alliance, the fact | that Italy has recalled Count Ternielli- | Brusaii de Vergano and Baron di Mare | chetto, her ambassadors at the courts of | St. James and St. Petersburg, respectively,
 and will shortly fiji the positions th us ] made vacant because they failed to advise l the gover ment that rapprochement was | one of the proba abilities of the near future, | has a substantial significance. II the en-
 tente concerned nothing more than the de- limitation of the Russo- Afghan from | tier, no one of the powers belonging to | the dreibund would care what arrange | meDts were made, but the prospect Of tue | opening of the Dardauelles to the Russian | fleet appears to be an unpleasant surprise | to ltaiy and is not we'll received by Austria. The position of the negotiations between Great Britain and Russia, according to the best information ut Lne foreign office, does not stly de finite statement regarding | the final outcome. The whole range Of ln- ternal questions under consideration, In- cluding tue matter of concerted action In
 regard 10 the Corean question, the govern ment of which country will seek t1e ald Of England in order 10 prevent Japan from ae qulrlng permanent right of occup .tioE,
 au0 tue granting of free hand to Russia
 in Persia so as to enable access To the gulf,
 is also involved, while the opening ot tbe Dardauelles anu the Bosphorus, II including
 Tree access 10 the WarSh1p pS oI all nations to
 the Black sea necessarily means the assent
 oi the treaty powers, which IL Is not at all likely will be granted.
 During the last crisis in Central Asia,
 when the probability was that the British,
 ii war were declared, would force a passage
 Black many declared their intention of opposing
 Great Britain's operations there. Again, when the porte was known 10 be Willing to concede to Russia the right of passage through the straits of vessels carrying arms aud munitions of war, Austria, Italy and Great Britain protested against such action
 being taken. he proposed Anglo Russian alliance might enable the two nations to of the English policy would consequences that responsible papers like the Spectator refuse to believe that sucn a step as the one in question is at all prob able or is being seriously considered. Meanwhile all that can be asserted is that Russia and England are seeking basis for a permanent entente, in which their own interests are only to be considered, those of France and the powers forming the dreibund being entirely ignored.
 M. Florens, ex-French minister of for eign affairs, is now in St. Petersburg, whence he has sent several communica- tions to the Paris journals. In recent letter to the Journal, M. Florens attributes the change in the relations between the reigning heads of England aud Russia to the fact that Czar Nicnolas II is not only attached to his English relatives, but is drawn toward England by his sympathies. He may decide to stand by his fathers for eign policy, but if he does that policy will take on personal hue. The moral of this is, says M. Florens, that war against Eng- land is not passport to the court of St. Petersburg.
 Other aovices from the Russian capital say that Sir Frank Lassieller, the British ambassador at St. Petersburg, has sud- denly become persona grata to the court and has gained the entire confidence of the foreign office. It. is also stated in these dispatches that decisive action with En- gland in Armenia will be a part of the new Russian policy.
 The recent attacks of the semi- official
 German papers upon England are atrib-
 uted to the hostility Of Emperor William to the proposed entente.
 Though the cericals have a majority of
 only three in the London school board,
 that majority is composed of stalwarts who car always be depended upon to vote as one man in support of dogmatic education, which for the next three years will domi- nate London.
 Similar struggles have taken place in Liverpool and Manchester, and the results in these cities also have been similar; es
 specially is this true in Liverpool, where the school board election recently resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the pro- | gressives, who succeeded in electing only | one candidate.
 | Archbishop Walsh, Catholic primate of | Ireland, has issusd manifesto to the Irish l Catholics of England, in which he de- nounces Michael Davitt and other Catholic | journalists for, as he alleges, having made | common cause with the secularsts against | Christian teaching. Unless MT. T. P. | O'Conner shall find some way to pacify | the Liverpool priests and art upon it, it is
 con, o led by all that e will be ob lged 10 l bid farewell to the constituency which he | now represents.
 | The defeat of the liberal candidate for the | seat in the house of commons for Forfar-
 shire, made vacant by the appoin tment of | Sir John Rigby to the office of lord of ap-
 peal, has reduced the govern ment majority l in parliament to seventeen. Should the | approaching contest in the Brigg, or north | Lindsey division of Lincolnsh result in | the defeat of the liberal candidate, the con-
 viction of the National Liberal club is that
 dissolution will be imperative early in l the spring. -ta.s
 The dispatch of MT. H. Maitland. Jersey | to Lord Dunraven, in which he stated that | all of his lordship's stipulations for race l during 1895 for the America's cup had been | conceded except the one with reference to
 the Marblehead course, should, says the
 Yachting World, satisfy Lord Dunraven,
 who could hardly expect that his proposals
 would be accepted. We are surprised, | continues the paper, at the amount yielded.
 The course and sailing length are trif1ing | matters as compared with the advantage of | The settlement of these concessions and al- l terations in the terms of the match place | the competition upon fair terms.