, 1908-11-21

through a plant Chancellor. Yesterday
was observed as a day Of national pen1tence,
and many clergymen who on Sunday prayed
for divine guidance for Prince Bulow, thank
cd Providence for ~dissipating The gathering
clouds. Nevertheless the Radicals merely
regard the issue as joined instead of'settled;
they demand what tho conservatives oppose,
q constitutional amendment establishing
ministerial responsibility to parliament, which
almost certainly will lie defeated, as even
those who favour it theoretically regard
party Government in Germany as too undevel-
oped to permit the innovation. The Ber-
liner Tagebiatt and Rheinische West
phal:sche Zeitung are among the represen-
tative journals which regard the crisis as
not passed
It is reported that Prince Zu Eulenburg,
incensed by his abandonment by the Court
has written his memoirs, and sent them
abroad for publication, and their piquancy
will rival the HChenlohe memoirs.
New York, Nov. 19th-The Osberga from
Turks Island foundered off the Delaware
Capes, the Saint Helena from Java saved the
crew.
A telegram from Port au-Prince says
that General Simon having disobeyed Presl-
dent Alexis summons TO q consultation 1t Is
inferred that Simon is planning q revolution
and the Government is making preparations
accordingly.
Copenhagen, November 2Oth-The King
went to Vienna on the seventeenth, and the
Dowager Empress of Russia left for ST. Pc
telsburg yesterday.
The Poles who murdered farmer Beck
have been captured in Copenhagen; their
leader violently resisted arrest, and shot
at, and wounded, two policemen.
Censor Levin will retire at the end OF
March.
The st. Thomas arrived yesterday.
The st. Jan left London yesterday.
London, November 2Oth-The death is
announced Of the Revd.' George Edward
JEFF, Master of the Charterhouse
Viscount Briiport's $ econd eldest surviv-
ing son has married Miss Eileen Orme, a
chorus gil], Il cousin Of Miss Denise Orme,
wLo uonied tie Hon. John Yalde Butler,
eldest son OF Lord Churston.
The Standard says greater powers are
to be given to the Government of India to
deal with the present dangerous situation.
The Earl of Mipto, Governor General, has
shortened his provincial tour and returned
to Calcutta. Racial hatred is said to be
serious and the native states to be leavened
with treason.
Sir John Ellerman, the controlling owner
of the Ellerman City and Hall Steamship
Lines has assumed control of twenty eight
Bucknall Liners, making one hundred and
twelve steamships under his management.
The Postmaster General announces that
the mails to the United States have increas-
ed twenty seven per cent. under the penny
postage arrangement.
A Paris despatch states that the Senate
has passed without a division the bill
passed by the Chamber of Deputies several
years ago, applying the congregations law
of 1901 to Martinique, Guadelol pc and
R4union. NJ rep.y was made to the
suggestion that it was most inopportune
during the Saint Pierre Miquelon distur-
Dances.
Berlin advices report that the Kaiser is
extremely depressed, and has cancelled sew
oral engagements, indicating greater reserve.
nevertheless the agitation continues spread
ing throughout the provinces Prince Bulow
will explain the situation, when debating the
finance bills fer five hundred million marks
of new revenues, to be introduced on Thurs
day.
Sir Edward Grey, in q speech at Scarbor-
ough, remarked that the crisis in Germany
had not elected a single word hostile to
England, and he hoped Englishmen will rec
procate the friendly feeling. He spoke hope