Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

that is said of his physical condition is
true, but his public confession that he
expects the opportunity to take that
rest to come soon, and that he antici
pates leisure to return to his favorite
studies, is none the less significant. 1t
could not have been a pleasant con.
fession to make, for it admits failure
and expected L, feat and inability to
perform the task he took from Glad
stones hands, not entirely with the
latter's consent. A majority of less
than half dozen is shaky dependence
for any ministry, and that is all that
stands between the government and
defeat, which may come with any di-
vision. 1t is well worth noting that
while the government is dorning along
sn the Commons, apparently waiting
for the inevitable, the liberal party is
unusually alert and active in the coun-
try, and is preparing to contest the
general election with as much vigor
as ever. The odds are against this
party, but it is by no means certain
that the unionist-tory alliance will have
a walkover, or that it will control the
Commons by an overwhelming major
ity, or be able to prevent the enact
meat of some of the reforms for which
liberal work has paved the way. .
The scheme of reform now adopted
for Armenia is not as thorough as pub
lie opinion would have demanded had
its proponents waited until the out
come of the investigation of the eaor.
mites committed in the Sassoun dis
trict had been officially made known.
Then the christian people of Earope
would haye been satisfied with nothing
short of a system giving complete
autonomy under a christian governor
to all those districts of Asia Minor in
which Armenians constitute the ma
lor part or at least large part of the
inhabitants. To the sultan nothing
would then have been reserved but a
nominal suzerainty and a definite trib-
ute. AS it is, guarantees, which, it
may be hoped, will prove adequate,
have been exacted for the proper Sc
lection of the Wallis, or Turkish COVER.
nors, for reparation of the losses suf.
feredby the victims of savagery and
spoliation in Sassoun, and for the
rigorous maintenance hereafter of the
rights and privileges conceded to the
Armenians. The most efficient of
| these guarantees may be looked for in
! the appointment of a so-called high
commission of surveillance over the
| application of reforms in the provinces
and in the creation of permanent
committee of control at Constantinople
The Austrian cabinet dissentions,
which have existed for the last two
years, or since the resignation of Pre-.
mier Taaffee, were brought to a climax
by the Hungarian ecclesiastical bills,
the still more recent antisemetic agita-
ton, and the presentation of the new
! electoral law. 1t is we'll known that
the Austrian cabinets have always
been composed of men belonging to
different parties, or rather nation&ities
this composition being forced On the
government in consequence of the diff.
ferent races united under the imperial
scepter These coalition cabinets GOULD
remain in power for long time, like
that'of Taaffe, which lasted three years,
while there were no important CUES
tions of home politics In discussion.
BUTT, could not be expected that the
Windischgraetz ministry, including
representatives of the liberal Germans,
the Austrian conservatives, the Polish
faction and the clericals of the Hohen-
wart group, would remain united in
discussions relative to the acute politi-
cal problems above indicated. The
Hungarian ecclesiastical bills have
already caused the resignation of Count
Kalnoky, the minister of foreign affairs.
The extension of the suffrage proposed
at last by Premier Windischgraetz was
highly displeasing to the liberal Ger
man party, which understood that the
new electors would not join It's ranks.
The Polish and the conservative fac
tions were dissatisfied with the min
isterial policy which had permitted the
anti-Semitic party to become virtually
the masters of the Vienna municipality.
Here are some of the latest figures
about London from the report of the
registrar general. The estimated popu
lation in the middle of last year was
4,349, 166. The area is 121 square miles,
equal to square of eleven miles to the
side, within which there were no less
than 1892 miles of roads made or sane
toned at the end of last year. On an
average fifty-eight persons live on each
acre of ground within the boundaries,
or about 37,150 on each square mile.
In different parts of the metropolis the
destiny of population shows remark
able contrasts. The parishes with the
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