New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-29
ROCND About EUROPE.
RUssIAs GERMAN srBJECTs-AN APPEAL FROM
THE SULTAN TO ENGLAND-THE lMMtNl-
TIES OF THE BENCH.

THE SULTAN TO ENGLAND-TllE IMMUNE
TIES OF THE BENCH.
Tho efforts of the Muscovite Government to Rus
sanize the Western provinces of the empire. efforts
which have been universally condemned IN the
foreign press appear less subject TO criticism since
the publication of official reports at ST. petersburg
showing that in what are known as the Vstula
provinces OF Nicholas III the German settlers out
number the native Russians by l23 to l. Thus, in
the Department Of Flock the German population Is
twenty-five times the size OF the Russian, IN the
Dcpartment Of Kalisch Il forty-sx times great
while in the Department OF Petrokon II Is as much
seventy-three times as large In fact the pro-
iinitely greater in the Vstula provinces than even
in what are known the Baltic, or admittedly
Teuton. provinces of the Car. and under the cir
tiles ST. Petersburg should view with serious APP
their frontier lines OF immigrants belonging TO that
particular nation from which Russia has most to
fear in the event or war
England has Just received an extraordinary tribute
from the Orient indicative OF the reputation for
equity and justice which her tribunals enjoy
throughout the East When the Egyptian Princess
Zeynab daughter OF the great Mehemet. Ali. died,
she left the whole OF her large property TO the FL
Azlhr University at Cairo which is the principal
educational centre OF Mussulman orthodoxy. and
stands In much the same position toward the Ma
hometan faith that the University Of oxford occu-
pies with regard to the Anglican Church. The
Princess youngest brother. Hahn Pacha. managed
to get hold OF this property, which he kept for his
own use. and when he died years ago In Con-
stantnOpe his fortune, amounting to about SIS
100000 was shared in equal portions between his
children and the Sultan. The El-Azahr University
having In vain applied the latter to refund
Princess Zeynab's legacy. along with 100000 OF
arrears OF Interest has appealed to the English
courts Of justice against the sultan who has hither-
TO been regarded as the spiritual head of the Ma
hometan Church throughout the world
Had the measure to which the present French
Government now stands committed debarring men,
bers OF the Legislature from being actively inter-
ested In any financial syndicates Industrial en-
ierprises been In force IA year ago, NJ Felix Faure
would not al the present moment be President Of
the French Republic For he was at the time a d.
rector OF one OF the great navre steamship COM
panies, as Weu as OF number OF other Joint stock
concerns while his predecessor at the Elysee Pail
ace. VI. casimir Perier. and is still the pre al
dent and principal shareholder OF the great Anzin
Mining Company. Should the bill in question be-
would be compelled 10 withdraw from politics in
Guiding Leon Say, Jules Simon the Due d Aud
rirre- Pasquier. the Prince Arenberg NJ de Nor
mandie. Baron Gerard and NJ. de Marceie
Although the Royal Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons In England. which enjoy the monopoly OF
the medical practice in that country have once
women. yet the smallness OF the majority by which
this decision was carried must be "a source OF great
encouragement to those women who are anxious to
obtain medical dpomas In England The chief
source of what opposition there is seems to lie with
the Royai College Of Physicians, the surgeons
showing themselves more amenabie feminine
reasoning and II Is expected that within the next
year or two. when younger and more progressiye
men shl have succeeded to the MIA ces
now held IN the Council of the former body by the
veterans OF the profession. will be pa ssed
opening wide the portals Of these Two colleges TO
women