Year: 1871




1t viii be seen therefrom that the contested


will has been admitted to probate, and to this
extent the validity of the instrument is estab-
iished. The decision in full is a very lengthy
document, the Surrogate evidently desiring to
present every detail and salient point in the
testimony for and against with his own COZ
cluslons thereon, not only in justification of
his ruling, but for the benefit and guidance
OF the Judges of the Appellate Court, before
which 1t is determined to carry the case.



The Gladstone Ministry and It's Troubles.
Our special cable dispatches day after day
give us fresh and convincing evidence that
Mr.. Gladstone's sorrows are multiplying.
Since the opening of Parliament the Premier
and his associates in the Ministry have been
almost nightly the objects of the most bitter
attacks. Mr.. Disraeli loses no opportunity to
pour forth his abuse. Some of the younger
men, like Sir Robert Peel, who followed the
lead of Lord Palmerston, and who hitherto
have been reckoned among the warm sup
porters of Mr.. Gladstone, have openly rebelled
against their chief. The tories are enraged
because they have been so long kept out of
Office. The more conservative of the wings
are dissatisfied with Mr. Gladstone's too rigid
adherence to the principles of the Manchester
school. The radicals, again, are disappointed
because the progress of reform is slow. Then
there is deep feeling diffused among
the whole body of the people, feel
ing shared alike by tory and whig
and radical, and which finds expression
in loud murmurs of indignation-that some
how, during this continental war, the honor
Of England has been tarnished and her pride
humbled, and that for this the Ministry of Mr.
Gladstone is to blame. Considering the state
of feeling in both houses of Parliament, as
well as the state of feeling throughout the
| three kingdoms, it would not be surprising if,
through combination of the disaffected in
both houses, Mr.. Gladstone should find him
self without his majority, and so deem it wise
to resign.


For the present Mr.. Gladstone is still strong,
experiencing but little difficulty in carrying his
measures. But the difficulties which surround
his position are numerous. Any day ques-
ton may arise in connection with the foreign
policy Of the government which may suddenly
swamp it. The correspondence between Lord
Granville and Count Bismarck and between
Lord Granville and Jules Favre has been laid
before Parliament, and the general feeling
seems to have been that Lord Granville had a
most difficult part to play and that he played
it well. But Count Bismarck has promised to
give his version of the policy of Great Britain
during the war, and no doubt the Counts
version will be spicy enough. Then Jules
Favre will give his version. So, now that the
war is ended, and the necessity no longer
exists for drawing the sword, the presumption
is that John Bull will have grand domestic
row concerning his wounded honor, his injured
pride, his lost glory, and that the Queens
Ministers will find it difficult, if not impossible,
to retain their places. Then, again, there is
this grand Joint High Commission, the mem
bers of which are now feasting and fattering
each other by way Of preface to their more
serious labors. No matter what may be the
| result of this High Commission it cannot fail to
tell powerfully for good or for evil on the men
wiz ulc HOW Tue TtSpOuSlUlS uuVlSerS OF queen
Victoria. We shall not be sorry if Mr.. Glad
stone succeed in steering clear of the many
difficulties which now surround him; for in
our judgment he is the most competent man
who, in many years, has guided the destinies
of the British empire. Besides, if Great Bri-
tain no longer occupies the proud position she
once did among the nations, the reason is to be
found in the altered circumstances of the out
side world rather than in any changes which
have taken place inside the empire itself. No
Minister creates, no Minister can hinder the
inevitable; but it is one of the advantages of
the British constitution that the Prime Minister
of the hour is always convenient victim to a
dissatisfied public. If the Joint High Commits
sion satisfactorily settle the questions pending
between Great Britain and the United States,
the Gladstone Ministry will have done more
service to their country and the world than if
| they had taken part in and shared the loss and
| the glory of the late continental strife.


! SOUTHERN DISORDERS lawless deeds


of the Ku Klux and the colored militia men


in South Carolina continue to keep the people


OF that State on the verge of war. The


citizens seem to be under arms most of their
| time, Barnburninps and mob Outra rea ara