The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-05
French Dellrlum Of Joy Runs TO All
Manner Of AhsurdItles.
ENGLAND APPARENTLY APATHE1IC
PreponderatiRg Influence of Russia
In English AftaIrs-Faure's GOSSIP,
Delights the Parisians-Ali Europo
on a War FoOtins-Quecn knights
tho Captain OF Iier Yacht.
copyright, 1897, by Associated Press. }
London Sentembe,- 4 1907


Public attention still centres in the
uuai alliance, though 1t has been in
Igrrupted by the shoutines of Emperor
Hiian, OF Germany. England remains
aPathetic. in spite of the fact that tho
Seh're OF 'avity In European affair.
aias oeen shifted to st. Petersburg.
commenting upon the political situa-
uon, the Spectator remarks:
:, The closer we look into the details of
the arrangements binding Europe. the
o.earer II becomes that no one of the
various powers can move without Rus
sih. In some way or the other every
. ~, pU"er except Russia IS bound either
uS express agreement or by interests
hot 10 alter the status quo"
queen Victoria and the Marouis or
salisbury, though fully aware of the
HIench 1ealousies Of England, place
great reliance upon the clear cut. Eng
Iahd-tending influence Of the Czarino
ofer the car, and believe the alliance
fealiy makes for peace. Germany finds
T,s,,, TVnTe IN the bitter chagrin of Emperor
NInialns remarks, ''at st. Petersburr
according to my conviction, we SKINNED
me cream Prince Bismarck, too, Is
eoitening German susccptIbiIittes nv oy
piaih!nE the weakness of the meaning or
the words employed by, the Car.
IN FRANCO, particularly in Paris, the
iluil continues. Russian names are
"a g
ION ION and luxury; the streets still CAV with
RUSSIAN colors. will be repaptized: where
t Eser men see pictures or the Car they
!tit their hats, and the statue Of Stross-
Durg, on the Place de In Concorde 10
ually decorated with floral wreaths in
iespohse to the almost universal con-
yiction that Russia means to CONNIE,
StrasSDurgs restoration
Inough the Tanufa cturers are a1
ready disappointed In not obtaining i'm
mense Russian contracts, Russjo cor.
tainly intends to do much to erstifv
a French ambition. The first step an.
nounced is the establishment OF a Rus
Ira ST. esation at nangier, to support
French views in Africa, and France
reels. for the first time since 1871 Thai
she Is strong enough to have her own
way. '"'
PRESIDENT Faure is quite delIghting
Parls with the gossip of the Russia n
Court. What astonished him most was
.ne ihlormai and entirely unaffected
manners mani OF the Emperor and Empress
The Imperial couple, he explains, fIveG
exactly like private people, in a small
cottage with their children. dogs aud
photographs about. The Car dfsIIlxcs
military escort near by, goes about
Practlcaily unattended and is i'm
mensely popular with the people. This
last statement Is confirmed Inv tbn ra-
ception His Majesty met with ut war
saw this week. There the Poles seemed
TO have given him n most hearty vel
come and in political circles much i'm
Porthnce Is attached to His Maiesty's
visit to Poland.
IMMENSE CONTINENTAL ARMIES
between the intervals of the universal
shouting FOR peace, the heads OF the
various nations have been busy per-
!ecting the effectiveness of their armies
ny autumn manoeuvres. Emperor Will
nam paraded an army corps at Coblentz
Wurzburg and Nurempurg upon the oc
caslon OF his visits to the cities. and to-
Gay at Homburg His Majesty para ed
-FOUR army corps before him, the EN-
press the King and Queen of Italy, the
klng OF Saxony, the King of Wurtem-
pnrg, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, the
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia the Duke
ana Duchess Of ConnauGht the Duke OF
Cambridge. Prince and Princess Henry
or Prussia and many other notabilities
Ihe army manoeuyres proper do not
begin until Monday next.
1& Germans have actually mobiliZed
e larger force than they had on the
French border !el 1870, within ten days
Of the declaration Of war. and the troops
are In the very positions they would oc-
cuDy If actually mobilized for war to-
day.
Though army manoeuvres on grand
scale are occurring in the Crimra. the
Car at THO Warsaw manoeuvrns will
witness the operations of four thousand
hVe hundred officers and one hundred
and twenty-five thousand men. The
manoeuvres Will be particularly direct
ed towards solving the difficulty of sup
plying the troops with hot food in the
field and Improving the bicycle. postal,
telegraph and ambulance services.
The French army manoeuvres. which
will be held IN the north OF France, Will
bring two army corps together.
The British army manoeuvres, which
finished to-day near Arundel, and which
furnished instruction to 10000 men, have
not called forth any particular com
ments from the military critics, except
their complaints OF the presence Of too
many boys In the ranks and the remark
that the Continental armies outclass the
British in organization.
When DR.. Theodore HerZel, the So
called new Moses, made his farewell
speech at the meeting OF Ionists at
Basic, Switzerland, during the week. he
declared the Congress had been worthy
OF Itself and Israel Then ensued a
dramatic scene-tears. kissing and re-
1oicng, bcggarlng description.
While Queen Victoria was travelling
from Osborne, Isle Of Wight, to Gosport,
during the week. on her way to Balmo-
raj. Scotland, Her Majesty called STAFF
captain. W. G. Goldsmith, commander
of her yacht, to the quarter deck and,
In the presence Of the court and of the
crew, she conferred upon him tho honor
Of knighthood. The affair was entirely
spontaneous and Is one Of the few in
stances Of knighthood having been con-
ferred by the Queens own Initiative, In
stead Of rs O result OF political intrigue.