shudder; but hitherto the man with the pen has not appeared. The Jews, bethinking themselves of the wisdom of keeping their grievances before the world, have despatched Mr. Hall Caine, the well-known English novelist, to Southern Russia, for the purpose of getting up local colour for a romance which they hope will be the "Uncle Tom's Cabin " of the Russian-Jewish controversy. Mr. Hall Caine is a vigorous and sympathetic writer, but whether the thrusting of a masculine Mrs. Beecher Stowe into the arms of a million Legrees is calculated to lead to good results is open to question. The recent riot at Tchernigoff, in which many have lost their lives, is not encouraging. Central Asia. There is a little unrest visible in the Russia and heart of Central Asia. The champagne of Cronstadt is making itself felt on the furthest border of Russian Turkestan. Russia is moving-how no one knows-in the Pamirs, the lofty tableland that lies behind the Himalayas, where Russia, China, and Afghanistan meet. There are several Pamirs: one of them them lies in Afghan Badakshan, another adjoins Cashmere. With these it is to be hoped Russia will not meddle; elsewhere she can do as she pleases so far as we are concerned. Trade is springing up between Russia and Afghanistan, a fact which will ultimately have political consequences. With China, Russia's relations seem less amicable, and it is possible the movement in the Pamir country is directed more against the Manchu Empire than against the Afghans. The Chinese, however, have shown. more disposition to fulfil their treaty obligations, and it is hoped the danger in the Treaty ports will pass. If Russia chose to support the fanatical party, she might make no end of trouble in China, where it seems almost as difficult to suppress an insurrection as it is in Arabia, where the latest news announces that so far from the insurgents being disposed of, the Turkish commander insists upon 40,000 troops in order to restore the authority of the Sultan. Crossing the Atlantic from China to Chili, and Chili. we find that the Americans are experienc America ing their first taste of a spirited foreign policy. During the recent civil war, for some unexplained reason, the Americans, naval and diplomatic alike, seem to have gone out of their way to support Balmaceda. Slander, ever keen to discover unworthy motive, suggests that a fat contract granted to Mr. Patrick Egan's son, led his father to be more than passing kind to the Dictator and his cause. There may not that the American warships acted as his Naval that Mr. Pat Egan was friend and ally of the Dictator; Intelligence Department; and that the Americans allowed Balmaceda to procure any quantity of warlike stores for their ports, while they hunted down the Itata, which was accused of conveying contraband of war to his opponents. This being their belief, the mob of Valparaiso handled somewhat roughly some of the crew of the American warship Baltimore. Out of this arose a fierce war of recrimination that threatened at one time to develop into a war of shot and shell. The Chilians regard Mr. Blaine as the Northerners in 1863 regarded Lord Palmerston, and for much the same reason. the Chilians have what the Northerners had not -an overwhelming preponderance of naval force. If the Americans were to threaten war, the Chilian fleet could sweep the American flag off the Pacific long before the Americans could procure or despatch fighting-ships that could take the sea against the Huascar and the But Esmeralda, and the Almirante class of torpedo cruisers. If the Americans mean business on the large scale, they must double their fleet, and even then they will do Africa. The success which attended Sir W. Harcourt's veto upon the Ministerial proposal to guarantee a railway through British East African territory has brought us within measurable range of the loss of Uganda. That disaster has been temporarily averted by the splendid liberality of the Christian public, which raised from £30,000 to £40,000 in a few days in order to enable the East African Company to carry on its beneficent operations in the British sphere of influence. Emin Pasha has startled his German employers by suddenly starting off upon his own account and filibustering across the frontier into regions set apart for the British Crown. The conduct of the German Government has been most correct. Emin has been repudiated, and at last the Germans have come to understand Mr.Stanley's point of view about Emin. Further south, Blantyre is flourishing. Still further south, Mr. Rhodes has arrived in Mashonaland, and has been personally inspecting the land of Ophir. He will return overland, 1,600 miles, to the Cape. Lord Randolph, whose expedition northward has hitherto been the dullest. THE HON. PATRICK EGAN. U.S. Minister, Chili. well to arrange for a firm fighting alliance with John Bull. Such an alliance in South American waters would be a guarantee of peace, and the pledge of better things to come. Sir Henry Parkes has fallen, and Mr. The Fall of Dibbs is now Prime Minister of New Sir Henry Parkes. South Wales. The General Election left Sir Henry with a following of 48 in a House of 141. The Labour party, 31 strong, occupied an independent position, while Mr. Dibbs counted upon a regular following of 56. For a time Sir Henry was able to carry on, but in October he was defeated by a temporary coalition of Labour members and the Opposition. Sir Henry opposed the proposal to limit by law the coal-miners' day to eight hours. In a division on October 16 Sir Henry was defeated by 49 votes to 41. A week later Mr. Dibbs and his colleagues took the oath of office with a Protectionist programme. As New South Wales has hitherto been our Free Trade colony, the advent of a Protectionist Ministry is regarded with very mixed feelings. It is understood that the new Ministry will neither oppose Federation nor adopt a Labour programme. Everything points to an early dissolution, when the parties will have time to consider whether they should coalesce or reconstitute themselves on a new basis. HON. G. R. DIBBS, M.P. New Premier, New South Wales. of failures, contrived last month to write an interesting letter. He and his companion had the good fortune to fall in with several lions, and the incident contrived for a moment to impart a little interest even to the Graphic special correspondence. The more detailed information that has Woman's reached this country concerning the defeat Suffrage. of Woman's Suffrage in New Zealand and S. Australia shows that in both colonies the reverse is a mere fluke. In New Zealand the adverse majority was only two in the Upper Chamber; in S. Australia there was actually a majority for the change, but as it was not a majority of the whole Chamber it was insufficient. It may be noted as a sign of the times that Mr. Balfour stated this month, as a reason why is the One Man One Vote Reform Bill cannot pass, that no Reform Bill can be considered which does not Note also that at the deal with woman's suffrage. Socialist Congress held in Germany last month, the programme was amended so as to make it include The German poliuniversal womanhood suffrage. tician is not usually accused of sentiment. There, if anywhere, citizenship is based on the bearing of arms. Yet even in Germany the claim of woman to the franchise is gaining recognition. The meeting of the International ConProgress. gress on Public Morals at Brussels last month marks an extraordinary and unexpected advance in the cause of public morality. Mrs. Butler might well marvel as she found herself and her veteran crusaders welcomed by the rulers of Belgium. Never in any country has the Federation received so hearty a welcome. The Prime Minister and all his colleagues, the ambassadors, the bishops, and the representatives of the trades unions, combined to accord the abolitionists of State-regulated prostitution a reception unprecedented in the annals of their heroic struggle. But the Belgian Ministers seem to be good Christian men, and this question placed for once the Socialists and the Catholics on common ground. The Congress was, as usual, boycotted by our press. In some matters our editors are as blind as moles, and this is one of them. But even the most cynical of journalists might have spared a paragraph to note that the King of the Belgians had made a Baron of M. de Laveleye. Since Haman led Mordecai through the streets of Shushan, has there ever been a more piquant illustration of the irony of history! German Emperor has launched another of his manifestoes, this time against the infamous wretches who make a livelihood out of the unfortunate women of the streets. The German law against such criminals is already so at Bradford. Another and welcome illustration of the men A Stirring awakened conscience of the community in this respect is afforded by the vigorous protest that has been made in Bradford against the return to the Council of a Councillor of the name of John Sheldon, on account of his utterances on this question. Mr. Sheldon absolutely refused to vote for the prosecution of frequenting disorderly houses, although he was not opposed to the prosecution of the women. Our local Association of Helpers began a vigorous agitation against Mr. Sheldon, and from this small beginning there came a public appeal, endorsed by the leaders of all the churches, to the ratepayers, in favour of the equal enforcement of the law against criminals of both sexes. Mr. Sheldon, in his defence, said that the Town Council was rotten from top to bottom, and that, for his part, he did not deny that he was a horse-racer and gambler. "He had known gentlemen like the Prince of Wales, Sir George Chetwynd, and several other blackguards, and had mixed with them often." Note also in this connection that at Festiniog the announcement of Sir Charles Dilke as a speaker at a meeting, was sufficient to elicit protests from all the Christian ministers in the place. That protest will, if necessary, be repeated wherever Sir Charles Dilke. attempts to make use of any local gathering as a stepping-stone to help him over the gulf between him and the House of Commons. It may be mentioned as a curious illustration of the indifference of many of religion to the weightier matters of the law, that although a special appeal was sent out, asking each of them to bring the moral issues of the approaching contest home to the hearts and consciences of the ratepayers, only one minister so much as alluded to the elections, while three discoursed upon Theosophy. Before next Election Sunday it is to be hoped a change will come o'er the spirit of their dream, for this thing is not going to stop. ministers DIARY FOR OCTOBER. EVENTS OF THE MONTH. S pt. 15. Vote of censure on Mr. Bryce, leader of the Opposition in the Lower House of the New Zealand Legislature, carried, and followed by resignation of Mr. Bryce. 29. Dinner at Chicago to the European Commissioners to the World's Fair. Mr. James Lowther, M.P., appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in succession to Sir James Fergusson. Debeb. Abyssinian chief, defeated and killed. 30. Accident at Abergwynfi Colliery, due to over-winding of the pit-gear. Seven killed. Project for the establishment of a Central Dismissal of the Governor of Wuhu. Attack by Moorish tribesmen upon Fort opened at Amstersdam. Oct. 1. Meeting of the London School Board. Convention of Irish Nationalists at Chicago. Meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Scheme of naval reorganisation under which home ports must keep in reserve ships ready for sea at a few hours' notice put into operation. Letters received in London from Captain F. D. Lugard, recording events in Uganda down to March 27. Italian and Foreign Members of the Association of Catholic youths received by the Pope. Women's Suffrage Bill, Victoria, withdrawn. The Zone Time introduced on the Servian 2. Scheme of Insurance for Seamen, Meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation Close of the Irish Convention at Chicago. 3. Princess Beatrice gave birth to a prince at Balmoral. Mr. Gladstone presented with the freedom The Cabine's of Austria, Germany, and Funeral of General Boulanger at Brussels. The Zone System introduce on all the The body of General Lassalle removed from ber 9th. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Four improvement schemes rejected by the Anti-Parnellite Convention at Thurles. M. Rochefort's goods confiscated and sold. 7. The Marquis of Bute presented with the freedom of the city of Glasgow. The Hungarian Budget for 1892 introduced 9. Prosecution by the Post Offic for sending Official despatches giving particulars of the Funeral of King Charles of Würtemberg as Disturbances at Rio de Janeiro. 10. Accident to the Scotch express at Crowe. 18 injured. Funerals of Mr. Parnell at G'asnevin, and Sir William White's reply to the Turkish A French student expelled from Italy. 11. Rising in Monte Video. Austrian Budget for 1892 introduced. 12. Prayers in London synagogues for the Russian Jews. Salvation Army at Exeter Hall. Bill enacting that county officials in Hun- Portuguese Royal decree issued denomi- 13. Recommendations of the Committee on the Water Supply of London adopted by the County Council. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Birmingham City Council decides in favour of obtaining water from mid-Wales. More destructive storms. Second German Socialist Congress opened at Erfurt. Meeting between M. de Giers and the Marquis di Rudini at Milan, and visit of the two statesmen to King Humbert at Monza. C-lebration of the seventieth birthday of Professor Virchow at Berlin. Decoration Scandals at Berlin: Manche and Meyer sent to prison. Trial of Anarchists at Rome commenced. Visit of Queen Christina to the persons injured in the Burgos railway disaster. More destructive gales. Earthquake at San Francisco. Mr. Balfour appointed Leader of the House of Commons. At the meeting of the London School Board Mrs. Besant's motion that no fees be charged at the nurseries under the Board carried by 20 to 14 votes. Socialists prosecuted for holding meetings. in the streets of Chelsea, The sons of the Khedive received in special audience by the Austrian Emperor. Defeat of the New South Wales Government on the Eight Hours Question by 49 against 41 votes. The Banco Unico Bill in Argentina became law. New buildings of the Norwich Asylum and School for the Indigent Blind opened by the Lord Mayor. Fire at the Isle of Dogs, five lives lost. Decision of the greatest savings bank in Announcement of a peerage for Mrs. Smith. Annual Conference of Metropolitan School Board teachers. Waterlow Park opened by Sir John Lubbock. The new Lord Justice-General, Mr. J. P. B. Robertson, installed. The Brennus, ironclad, added to the French Navy. New Imperial Museum of Art at Vienna opened by the Austrian Emperor. Retirement of Gen. Mitre from the candidatur for the Presidency of the Argentine Republic. Vote of Censure on Dr. Pellegrini for requesting Gen. Mitre to abandon his intention of retirement. Renewed Attacks on the Salvation Army at Eastbourne. Publication of the text of Gen. Boulanger's private will. Close of the Prague Exhibition. Close of the French Exhibition at Moscow. Resignation of Dr. Liddell, of Christ New wing of the Roval Veterinary Collage a Cimden Town opened by the Prince of Wales. Conference of the Evangelical Alliance a Bath opened. Memorial stone of the extension to theMo lev Convalescent Home laid by the Lord Mayor. Slvation Army service in memory of Mrs. Booth at the Crystal Palace. Rs gnation of Dr. Allon, of Union Chapel, Islington. Honours conferred on Prof. Helmholtz by the German Emperor. Resignation of Sir Heu y Pirkes, and Hon. G. R. Dibbs to form a new Chinet. General debate on the French Buget commenced. Railway accident in Silesia: five killed. 20. St. Luke's Institute, Peckham, opened by 27. the Duchess of Teck. At a meeting of the London County Council Gen. Mathews assumed office as Prime 21. Charge of fraud against Rev. Dr. Clutter- Close of the Evangelical Cnference at Bath. Eastbourne. Seventieth Birthday of Herr Max von 22. Bishop Davidson, of Rochester, enthroned. National Congress of Railway Servants in Paris opened. Publication of Dr. Koch's new remedy for The thirty-third birthday of the German Wurtemberg Parliament opened. Lady Macdonald presented with a peerage More gales and floods. 23. Storms and floods continue. Sensation in China caused by the arrest of M. Dibbs's Ministry, New South Wales, Crisis in the Argentine Republic ended. 24. Letter from the Pope to Archbishop GoutheSoulard of Aix relating to the Pantheon incident at Rome published. New wing of the General Hospital, Bristol, Nonconformist Demonstration at Rhyl. 25. The 125th anniversary of American Methodism celebrated in New York. 28. 29. 30. Railway disaster near Morians; eight killed. Great fire at Meiringen, Canton Berne. More riots at Eastbourne in connection Meeting of the Council of the Liberation Presentation of addresses to the Bishops of Collision off the Eddystone Lighthouse. 15 Adjournment of the New South Wales Royal Commission on Labour resumed its sittings; evidence taken relating to the collieries in Northumberland. King Charles of Roumania at Berlin. Statement by M. Ribot with regard to foreigners in Madagascar. Foreigners not excluded from the advantages of concessions of forest and mining rights. Decision of the London County Council, by 90 to 2, to take steps for acquiring the undertaking of the London Street Tramways Company. By a majority of eight, the Council also declared taey had no intion of working the tramways. Collision between Parnellites and antiParnellites at Cork. Collapse of a building at Bolton: four killed. The shipwrights at Sheerness passed resolutions condemning the classification system. New pier at St. Leonards opened by Lady Brassey. Report of terrible earthquake in Yokohama. Deputation from the Ward of Farringdon Without to the Common Council, asking the Court not to sanction the letting of land on the Victoria Embankment to the Salvation Army. New buildings of Bedford Grammar School opened by the Duke of Bedford. MR. W. F. D. SMITH. (From a photograph by Taber, San Francisco.) At the Senate House, Cambridge, motion on the question of appointing a syndicate to consider the possibility of allowing an alternative for Greek at the Previous Examinations defeated by 525 to 185. The Moselle Royal Mail Steamer struck on a reef near Colon, and was wrecked. In a breach of promise case (Ward v. Mortimer) at the London Sheriff's Court, £750 damages awarded. Prince Damrong, brother of the King of Siam, received by President Carnot News received of the massacre of Dr. Beziat and his escort by a band of brigands on the west coast of Madagascar. Resolution passed by the New Zealand House of Representatives in favour of a bi-weekly mail service between the colony and Great Britain. Animated debate in the French Chamber on the policy of the Ministry in in respect to M. Lafargno. Bost of Matthew Arnold in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey unveiled by Lord Coleridge. BY-ELECTIONS. October 7. Manchester, North-East: In 1885: 4058 3908 Conservative Majority 150 In 1886: (C) 4,341 (L) 2,893 Con. Majority 1,448 (C) 3,680 (L) 3,353 Con. Majority: 327 (C) 5645 (L) 2486 Con. Majority 3159 545 Two Conservatives were returned unopposed. At two byel-ctions, August 13, 1886, and November 17, 1887,Conservatives were elected unopposed. 4952 1946 Con. Majority 3006 In 1886: (C) 5034 (L) 1508 Con. Majority 3526 NOTABLE UTTERANCES. September 30. Lord Armstrong at Newcastle, on Modern Guns. Bishop Temple, at Plymouth, on the Drink Sir Edward Clarke, at Falmouth, on the Mr. Pickersgill on the Recent Brewster October 1. Rev. J. R. Diggle on the work of Mr. Gladstone, at Glenalmond College, on 2. Sir George Trevelyan, at Newcastle, on Registration Anomalies, etc. The Marquis of Ripon, at Newcastle, on the Rural Population. Mr. Gladstone, at Newcastle, on the Foreign Policy of the Government, the Temperance Question, the House of Lords, Ireland, One Man One Vote, Labour Representation, District Councils, etc. etc. Sir Edward Clarke, at Exeter, on Mr. Glad- Mr. Wm. Morris, at Birmingham, on the 3. M. Gladstone, at Newcastle, on Harbours, Local Self-Government, Freedom of Trade, etc. 5. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, at Leeds, on the Mr. W. L. Jackson, at Leeds, on Ireland. Sir John Lubbock, at the Working Men's 6. Mr. Brourick, at Hexham, on Mr. Glad- Gen. Hav, Mr. White, and others, on Recent Military and Naval Inventions. M. Felix Volkhovsky on the Despotism of the Russian Government. 7. Sir Henry James, at Bury, on questions. social Lord Ripon, at Welshpool, on the Liberal M. Buls, Burgomaster of Brussels, at Mar- 8. Sir Wm Harcourt, at Glasgow, on Mr. Gladstone's Newcastle speech, etc M. de Freycinet, at. Marseilles, on France, since 1878, and M. Jules Roche on the export trade of France. |