The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
Many Significant Events May
Happen in Europe AS a
Result of Plotting.
TALK OF A FRENCH MONARCHY
In England the Belief Grows That
Mr.. Chamberlain Deliberately
ProvokeS the Beers.
Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times. ]

lldn reports ana pOlltlCdl 6SIinRS
give US to understand that England is
profoundly interested in the education
question, it is really the case that the pub
lie is thinking next to nothing about it.
The moment you get outside the circle of
professional politicians and clergymen, es-
tablished or otherwise, you do not hear
the subject mentioned anywhere. Just
now the Liberal papers are filed with hys-
terical letters from nonconformist readers
solemnly washing their hands of home
rule and Irish sympathizers generally. be-
cause Irish member voted on the second
reading for the Governments education
bill, the Liberal workers persuading them
selves that this betrayal by Irish allies, as
they call 1t, is a serious matter, but as
matter of fact it is not.
What is serious is that the Liberal party
is in ruins, without a leader and organiza-
ton or platform, and that even if Eng
hsh public opinion was ripe for free-school
agitation the Liberals would not be in
position to profit by it. This lack of
coherent opposition party makes itself
more and more grievousIy felt in matter
about which people truly are concerned.
The Transvaal business is drifting stead
lily toward the danger point and no one
has the strength 10 stop it. l am told
that Mr.. Cham berlain's selection of Sir
Graham Bower as the new British agent
at Pretoria will be treated as personal
affront by Kruger and the Beers and that
it is impossible to believe that it was not
deliberately intended as such.
Bower Is the Cape official whom all
Afrlkanders accuse of having kept back
the Queens proclamation against Jane
sons raid in the interest of the raiders
and they suspect and hate him accord
inEly. They naturally regard his being sent
to Pretoria direct provocation to kru-
ger TO DEFY England and thus precipitate
quarrel. This feeling that Cham berIain
has surrendered TO interested influences
intent on open rupture with the Transvaal
which was only a suspicion a few weeks
ago is rapidly becoming a settled belief.
1t frighIens as we'll as angers the people,
but there is no one to call halt.
Inasmuch as emperors do not write tele-
grams for publication and presidents do
not take long railroad journeys suddenly
without some distinct purpose in view, we
are forced to the conclusion that the
Franco Russian combination sees some
reason for specially asserting itself just
now. The Gar the other day seized the
occasion of the military railway accident
in Algiers to speak of French soldiers as
''our brave brothers in arms and Felix
Faure travelled from Paris to meet the
Cars mother to-day, as she passed
through Lorraine at a point almost within
sight of the German frontier. These events
are seen to be significant, but just what
they signify is not obvious. There is, in
truth, such a delicate balance of diplo-
matte entanglem ents and national feuds
AaS ioIf ,oTr rafy al =
that every movement jars the whole struc-
ture.
Apparently the various feather-headed,
half-civilized populations of eastern Europe
are full of the notion that, after the Cars
crown is really on his head things are GO
ing to happen. All the small and can
tankerous non, Magyar nationalities within
and about the Austrian empire are work
ing themselves into frenzy of rage
against the Hungarians, whose exhibition
of culture and civilization at Buda-Pesth
Is resented by these man Slavic and hy brid
barbariauA They detile Hungarian
escutchons and burn Hungarian flags and
the word passes among them that
presently the Car is to wipe Hungary
from the map.
Throughout Bohemia, Bulgaria, Servia,
Crete and Macedonia tirebrands are circu-
latiDg with warnings of impending ac-
tivity, and IT seems clear enough that the
more responsible people in these powder
houses OF the East are expecting some
thing. At all events public opinion here
and elsewhere probably does not err in
concentrating attention upon the Cars
coronation as something more than q
mere dynastic function.
The last of those who are going to wit
ness the great ceremony at Moscow are
now on the way thIther, although formal
festivities will not begin till THURSDAY.
1t is true that the Gar and Czarina are
to arrive at the Petrovsky Palace On Mon
day, but they do so without passing
through Moscow. This Petrovsky Palace
is TO Moscow about what Jones' wood used
to be to New York when | was a boy. 1t
has an open air theater beer garden, con-
cert pavilion and so FORTH and Is the best
known and most popular of Moscow's S
suburban resorts. Usually visitors can
also see by day the Imperial PARK and
palace, begun by Catherine and finished
by Paul. 1t is rarely used nowadays
Here, however, the young couple are to
spend two days of solemn religious re-
treat preparatory to the grand state
entry into Moscow on Thursday, when
they will take up their residence
in the Kremlin. Thence forward till
Tuesday, when the actual coronation will
take place, all the assembled thousands of
princes, ENJOYS, notabilities and delegates
have more or less part in the complicated
ceremonial by which the chief event is
ushered in, and they are all to remain
through the following twelve days of re-
ceptions, fetes and balls, which end on the
departure of the court for st. Petersburg
on June T. There are. $40 journalists, in
Guiding Russians, who will enjoy official
recognition in the work of describing the
affair.
The English correspondents there are