The age-herald., 1897-10-10
JOHNNIE BULL
 MUCH WROUGHT UP Over the Election in Greater
 New York. DEAD SET AGIN TAMMANY While Worrying 0Ver Troubles Abroad
 Finds Troubles of His Own. TROOPS FOR FOREIGN WARS SCARCE Especially When It Is Rumored That France Is Looking Around. Woodford May Find Himself Like Taylor Persona Non Grata to Other Diplomats Spain in a Terrible Financial Strain
 England Great Strike Growing.
TROOPS FOR FOREIGN WARS SCARCE
Especially When It Is Rumored That
 France Is Looking Around.
(copyrigbted. 1897, by the Associated
 Press)

Copyrighted, 1897, by the Associated
 Press.)
 London, Oct. 9.--Nclt even ins the case of a presidential campaign in the United States have the English newspapers dis Nplayed such interest as they are now talk ing in the struggle preparatory to the el=ct.on of mayor of Greater New York. Even the heavy wcelSlies today devote much space to IJhe subject.
 The Spectator and the Spsaker both print hong articles on the ma yoralty contest.
 The Speaker says: Never since the days of Imperial Athens or republican Rome has a municipal contest involved such Important issues. Many a king has not had so much power as the mayor of Greater New York will have.
 Continuing, the Speaker expressed trle opinion that the success of the Tammany ticl1ei would not merely mean victory for the '.plunderera of New York" but the triumph of the salveritcs at the next presidential election"
 The Spectator says fit dreads the suc- cess of Tamnlany, and asserts that the election is a matter of deep interest to the whole civilized world.
 After oullining the immense power which the future mayor of Greater New York will have, the Spectator remarks: "The success of such an elected officer will almost realize Carlyles idea of a demccrsllic king. On the other. hand. should failure attend this great experi- 1nent, 1t will be felt throughout Europe as we'll as America, and will sound the doom of people self-gov in vast modern ciiies.''
 Lord WoIalay, ccinlmande er- in chief of the British forcss, is making great effoics Ito surmount the difficulties which Great Britain is experiencing in finding troops for her numerous small wars That the government is a, its wits end to secure the additional 10000 men which par.la- ment will be asked to add to the permil- nent strength of the army is shown by the plan elaborated by the war office in which the volunteers of Great Britain VIII DS dldple TUT oci f1CS dDiOctu III CtSe of war Up to the present it has been impossible to call upon them for duty abroad only for khe defense of the colo nies and in exceptional cal5es. The prop osition however, is regarded as threa!en- ing to some of those who make up the volunteer force.
 The British government is also consid- ering the adoption of an internal bullet invented in Birmingham. The bullet is made of lead, and instead of being coni- cal, line top is level and has a cup-like cavity. On entering flesh this bullet acts like a punch, cutting a clean, round alole, which does not close. It is ques- tion whether its use would not be a hreach of the international convention
 Tn spite of the French balloons d'essai suggesting European coalition to turn Great Britain out of Egypt the evacua- z tion of this country by British troops was probably never so remote as it Is now. Indeed signs point to the possible deposition of the khedive of Egypt whose attitude lately has not been as submissive as the British agent and minister plenipotentiary, Lord Cromer desires in which event a British pro- tectoralte will inevitably follow.
 Russia, it is said, has effectualy srub- bed the French efforts to make ths Egyptian question European one.
 The difficulties in West Africa between the British and the French, which were foreshadowed in dispatches to the As- sociated Press on Oct. g. and which have been brewing since 1889, are assuming definite form. The French expedition, consisting of 800 soldiers and 2.O0o car riers, has started from Porto Novo, on the coast of Dahomey, fer Mdkki, whence it procee eds to the Hinterland of Lagos.
 The French officials are said to have pressed natives of Lagos and their ca- noes into the service of the expedition As Lagos Is a British colony. this aa- tion upon the part of the French is not likely to pass without strong protests.