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5 THE STANDARD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3. 1890. M. TISZA AND KOSSUTH. I THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

I SIR J. LLNTORN SIMMONS. It waa I tory among these has been the reception of the Diplomatic Body by the President of the Frexch Republic. The language of the Nuncio was extremely well-chosen, and Caktot never shows to greater advantage than when he speaks, officially, for the great nation whose chief representative he is. Without indulging in those bombastic generalities which too often disfigure the honest ebullition of French patriotism, President Casxot shows himself uniformly aware of the great traditions, striking prosperity, and imperishable vitality of posal, which.

fort from the fact that the enamelled swan is still starred with all the wild flowers of our English garden. Pope's Windsor Forest" is not a forest now and the scaws and fells over which Wordsworth mused are being rapidly denuded of their timber, not to mention that they are being cut into by roads and railways, and waterworks, and all the accessories of what is fast becoming a suburb of the great Lancashire cities. There is no help for it. In a small country like ours, as population increases, the most remote and sequestered districts will be gradually converted to the uses of the enterprising speculator. It would be as fruitless to protest against the staring red-brick villas which well-to-do Londoners plant on Surrey heaths as to waste regret on the fact that Liverpool is turning one of the loveliest of Welsh valleys into a huge artificial water tank.

In America and Canada they have been wise in time. When they come to a particularly beautiful and curious bit of Nature's handiwork, they make it national property, and secure it for ever against the "prospecter" and the Land Syndicate. Thus, Americans will always have their natural museum a sort of Derbyshire on a colossal scale in Yellowstone Park, and Canadians will find their Switzerland, not cut up into ranches, or made hideous with grain elevators, in tbe picturesque district under the spurs of the Rocky Mountains which has been recently "reserved." by the Dominion Government. What the Americans would do if they had a Stratford-on-Avon, or, perhaps, even a Meeting of the Waters," we can well imagine. Unfortunately, we can hardly imitate our friends beyond the sea in these matters.

At the most, we can occasionally induce a Town Council or learned Society to buy up the house of a famous man, and to preserve it from being improved out of existence, in order that somebody may pocket tbe value of the bricks and stones. Natural beauties and poetical associations must take their chance under the caprices of owners, who, it may be hoped, are not often so greatly distressed or so deaf to the claims of sentiment as the proprietor we hope it is only one who has let out his Wicklow woods. But this particular species of Vandalism ought really to be discouraged, for other than sentimental reasons. Poetry and history apart, the wholesale disafforesting of England and Ireland is a real misfortune for the country. We have far too few of our forest trees left and since we no longer need them so greatly as we used to do for ship-building, or even for fuel, when an oak or a pine is cut down another is not always planted, or allowed to grow, in its place.

The result is disastrous to climate, as they have found in Spain, in India, and in some of the Western States of America. Public-spirited owners of other woods, as beautiful and almost as celebrated as those of the Avoca Clieveden, for instance, of which occasionally ominous rumours have been heard may be deterred from turning their trees into matchwood by such arguments, even if they care nothing for the kindred arts which Geosge II. called boetry and bainting." and these not being subject wffl heloeproedobserve vith a taeyit deference thth ransTorreil ttoa to a jeweller in -mg cvnt. Pikes jfx. 8Hrsr.Hos5T.

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wouM iiae were not xae wesnsn I easuyhe Cseand. Fresh blood is the way to mend the i Just aafteah pobey at taw way anauh warn the tenae he eases gm vlaep to the swam swuy-lh. swanm of Ms. Jvjoer. That tbeway to ereesoh.

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Mr. GlaITOSE forces himself, against the trrain. to op with this or that advanced pro- en its merits, he would mjfmmmrtj rejwu luab IS ne IS it be will obtain sup- port KrHosse Bade. In abort. Home Rule is the ail and the end all of his hopes and emotions; and for the sake of realising the dream, he is ready to sacrifice much that were he master of his own action be would conserve.

The posi-soof the New BiiIimik absolutely with Irish agilaliti baa been much that com-saends itself to the Radical liking. But for Irish I.erri-.ativv bstract theory, they hare no They am ready to pot the British Constitution into the crucible by doing so, they secure a chance of their own political schemes. Bat is of these schemes they are thinking first of alb. They do not mean to forego, or to imperil, or to postpone a single article of their the sake of Mr. Parxrll's So long as it pud, Radicals were ro be Separatist but they hare woke the conviction that it will not pay to be too ardently Home Role.

The Union, they see. will not go down without long and exhausting struggle, and, as men of the world, they realise that in the prolonged eourifiet they and thsir pofitses are exceedingly The lively interest end sm stained sympathy leaned in the people of this country for the political rood sense and a sturdy sentiment of iadere-adence. coupled with a due regard for Public Treaties and the general welfare of Europe, will not he diminished by the arrange-amenta just entered into by the Government of Prince FEB.DIXA3D with Mr. O'CoxoR, her Majesty's Diplomatic Agent and Consul Ousii si at Sofia. Henceforth, British goods are to be admitted into Bulgaria upon of Customs duty at the rate of eight per cent, ad rabress, alcohol, gunpowder, salt, and tobacco only being ex ceeded from this specially favourable tariff, to any higher duty is paid by other States.

The 1 feitisseissl is to remain in force till the 15th of January, The BeJgnriana compete that they will, at first, lose twenty thousand a year by it but for by the prospective increase of trade, and what is of tent imoortance to them bv the recognition on the part of England of the internal dues, not Powers. No one bat already a voice las been raised in the sees with envy and ill- calculated to promote the tgreas of the young Prinei- As a matter of course, also, Russian at Constantinople will be em ployed to poison the ear of the Stxtak, and to lead him to suppose that England is favonr- Uam Isa malevolent manoeuvres, the Scltax being well aware that Great Britain will do nothing, in Bulgaria or elsewhere, incompatible with the real welfare and integrity of the Ottoman Empire. It is only by such described that the Powers to Turkey and to Bul- csn hope to counteract the injury Russia to inflict on both, by its continued 21- to the manly efforts of the Bulgarians to ncDe their own advancement and expansion to European law. The same attitude of envious displeasure displayed the other day towards that Power granted the Bulga- for their Loan on the Stock of Vienna and Buda-Pestb. But the of St.

Petersburg and Moscow on and we anticipate attempted protest of the Muscovite 0 bv Mr. CCoxon with the Cabinet of will turn out equally to be a bruitim Mam ajg to call attention, in this that the Bulgarian shortly to invite tenders of the Kaspichar-Soria-which is to be three in length, and fertile districts in as well as through the in the neJajaeeaehood of Foreign Office opportunely to be on the alert. zhv eras er is especially enjoys the people, also the circles of the Anstro-Hongarian be gathered from the reference affairs in the striking rpmch by Herr Tisza on Aew Years-as followers in the Hungarian Nothing could be more explicit satisfactory than the assertion man concerning great stability of the Triple affirms is a gua- to the nations of Europe, and to the Hungarians. degree that awsm ut of domestic reforms is The King of Italy, in receiving his Parliament on the though ere may, perhaps, reasonably feel seme at as adding, he really on so, that (hi aswane ins hnenwn re aeejunj nan- mtnt which has taken Germany. The likely to be said by aay oCeukl peteoenge, whether at Rome, at at Thala nCh.

or at BurJm, which Ihe saaflinn of all the members of the the sie- cited. Every one can easily understand am mm mm be uttered in the the Austrian. Tan osaws aanwa every case. Urns, we may ascribed to King HrvLEar as a roundabout way. on the part of the German Ewtebok and Prince of creating throughout ia is a disturber of the further away for such an estimation to be to the wudd za Tntr In this way, the of the Triple League can periodically sphere quite of mi sail they could other aid on the field of battle.

Europe the notification, come from it amy, that Russia stfll to a breach of It is difficult to my what amount of hataj in that have been flying the last few davs coocernintr the Czlvr. At the besinrdnff of this week, even fiersuaded the CzU was suffering from It is pro-been only si saem aaahna. virti of the that has iMHiiii tn pvptv Court. in Eurone. The ararruest for the health and asafwi of Alexsjwle, IU.

are felt in this re-solute and continuous impulses of a por- of bis subjects caanut fail to be recognised nl ether. (FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) EOME, Thuesdat Night. On the Day of St. Thomas of Canterbury, patron saint of the English Catholic College here, the bead of that Institution, Monsignor Giles, gave a banquet in honour of General Sir John Lintorn Simmons. Covers were laid for one hundred and fifty guests, among whom, with many other ecclesiastical personages of distinction, were the heads of the Irish and Scotch Colleges, Monsignor Kirby and Monsignor Campbell.

Those who know anything of clerical matters here are aware that there exists an almost wordless but very strong opposition to Sir J. Lin torn Simmons' Mission amongst the Irish Catholics at least, those who espouse Nationalist doctrines. They resent any apparent drawing together of the Vatican and the British Government in the strongest manner, and have pointedly abstained from showing the English Special Envoy those attentions which he has received from all the other Catholic subjects of the Queen in Borne. Among the initiated, therefore, one incident of the banquet was productive of some amusement. Monsignor Giles gave the health of The Queen," which was loyally received, and all the students then sang God save the Queen," standing.

Sir John Lintorn Simmons, in a brief speech, afterwards said how gratifying it had been to witness the loyalty of her Majesty's Catholic subjects, and how sensible he was of the warm hospitality shown by them to him personally in Pome. He had already enjoyed a hospitable welcome at the Scotch and English Colleges, and hoped to receive that of the Irish one. A better effect was never produced by simpler means. Monsignor Kirby, sitting at the table, must have felt that the honour of Irish hospitality was now involved, and that the invitatior must be given. It may seem absurd to English people to be told that there is a Party which declares that if there is an English Envoy sent to the Vatican there shoidd also be an Irish one.

But after all, it is, I suppose, natural in that section which desires to detach Ireland from the United Kingdom. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. (TSBOUGH RXDTBB'S AGBfCT.) LISBON, Jan. 2. The Cortes were opened to-day by King Carlos, who commenced his speech by expressing his thanks for the sympathetic demonstrations made by the people on the occasion of the death of his Boyal father and of his own reclamation.

His Majesty announced that the 'ortuguese Government had accepted the invitation to participate in the Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels, which it hoped would have a good result. The King then said Recently the patriotic aspirations of the British nation and the Government of Queen Victoria to extend their vast possessions in Africa have been met at several poiuts of that Continent with the fixed design of Portugal to preserve under her rule and to utilise for civilisation those parts of African territory which the Portuguese were the first to discover, traverse, and open up to the missions of Christianity and to the operations of commerce, and in which the Portuguese authorities have exercised jurisdiction and influence according to the social condition of their inhabitants, acts which are sufficient to indicate incontestable possession. This rencontre has caused differences of opinion between my Government and that of her Britannic Majesty as to the conditions which European sovereignties in Africa ought to satisfy, and the titles to territory which they ought to show in order to be recognised by the Powers, and from these divergencies a Diplomatic correspondence has resulted. The correspondence has not yet been able to settle them, and has, besids, had to deal with another subsequent difference of opinion as to the manner of regarding a conflict which occurred on the banks of the Shir6 River between the native population and a scientific Portuguese expedition. My Government, being inspired by the national sentiment, and acting in conformity with the unanimous wish of ths two Chambers, has endeavoured to convince that of her Britannic Majesty of the right whereby Portugal rules over the territories to the north and south of Zanzibar.

To this matter the above correspondence refers. My Government has confined itself during tha incident, and in all its communications, to asserting the right of Portugal to the territories which she has always claimed, and to reiterating the declarations she has always made. It will persist in this attitude, with the support which the representatives of the Nation will certainly not withhold, hoping to obtain an equitable adjustment of all legitimate interests which as I desire will promptly re -establish perfect accord between the Governments of two nations united by bonds of friendship and the traditions of centuries." His Majesty then referred to internal affairs, and the business of the various Ministerial Departments. On the subject of the Colonies, the King spoke of the efforts made by Portuguese explorers, and reviewed the measures adopted for rendering the administrative system in Zumbo more efficacious, and for improving tbe navigation of the rivers. He also referred to the steps taken for the establishment of telegraphic communication with Mozambique, the working of the Delagoa Bay Bail way, and the construction of a railway in Western Africa.

A SWISS THEATRE BURNED. (FROM OUB CORRESPONDENT.) GENEVA, Thuesdat Night. The theatre at Zurich was last night destroyed by fire, the outbreak occurring towards tbe end of the performance. The audience was able to leave the theatre without panic, and there was no loss of life. The tire spread so rapidly that nothing was saved.

THE FIRE AT LAEKEN. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, Thuesdat Nioht. The widowed Crown Princess Stephanie, daughter of the King and Queen of the Belgians, has been much affected by the news of the fire at the Castle of Laeken. It was in that Palace that she was born, and there she passed the happiest years of her childhood, and was betrothed to her husband, the late Crown Prince Budolph. THE RUSSIAN ARMY (Through Reuteb's Aqenct.1 ST.

PETERSBURG, Ja. The Government Arms Factories will turn out a number of repeating rifles for the use of the Army during the year 1890. Orders for the supply of cannon have also been received. RETIREMENT IN THE ARMY. TO THE EDITOB OF THE STANDARD.

Sib, Mr. Stanhope's attention was recently called to a letter in The Standard signed referring to voluntary retirement from the Army. He would not have thought it necessary to trouble you with a reply, were it not that other Correspond dents appear to entertain a somewhat similar view. "Your Correspondent would seem to have fallen into a not unnatural error, probably attributable to want of familiarity with the technicalities of Royal Warrants. It is the case that tha regulation to which he taRes exception lays down that retirement shall only ha permitted under tie-following rules," but your Correspondent has apparently overlooked the opening words of the paragraph by which it is governed with reference to Article 81 of the Koyal arrant," If he will turn to the Article thus alluded to, he will see that it relates entirely to voluntary retirement With pen8fon.

The particular unfairness of which ha complains is, therefore, non-existent, as no changa whatever is made as to voluntary retirement Without pension. On the Constitutional question which he raises, as to the right of the Crown to refuse permission to its officers to resign their Commissions at pleasure, he is also, obviously, mistaken. Officers can hardly be held to possess such right, legally or Constitutionally. Aa officer taking a Commission under the Crown thereby places himself under the Army Act, and cannot resume his "personal liberty by simply resigning his Comnussion. He is not free from his obligation under military law until his resignation has been duly accepted by tha Sovereign; although, no doubt, such acceptance is never refused, unless there exists very special reason for the refusal.

I am. Sir, vonr obedient servant, G. FLEETWOOD WILSON. War Office, January 2. Mr.

Schnadhorst leaves England to-day, in the Norham Castle, for South Africa, for the benefit of his health. The Duke and Duchess of Teck and Princess Victoria of Teck visited tha Savoy Theatre last evening. Sir John Lubbock, M.P., will address the students of the Keighle Technical Institute on Jannarv 51st. Major C. H.

S. Kennedy has been selected for the command of the 2d Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. The Marquess of Bipon has promised to speak at a Liberal meeting at Hull on the 17th inst (FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thuesdat Night. Lord Lytton, his son, Lord Knebworth. and his daughter, Lady Betty Balfour, are now laid up with influenza, and the Russian Ambassador, Baron Mobrenheim, is suffering from a severe attack.

If the present Wintry weather lasts, however, it may be hoped that the visitation wiU soon cease. Meanwhile, the mortality continues very high. The official return of the of Health issued this morning states that the deaths for the week ending December 28 were two thousand three hundred and thirty-four, against one thousand three hundred and fifty-six registered in the week ending December 21. In the last week of the year 1888 the deaths in Paris were under one thousand. The official return states that only twenty-two deaths were caused by the grippe, while chest diseases pneumonia, bronchitis, and phthisis destroyed seven hundred and forty-two lives.

The mortality, however, shows a tendency to decrease. The following return is, on the whole, encouraging Sunday, December 29, 348 deaths Monday, 30, 461 Tuesday, 31, 389 Wednesday, January 1, 334. The accounts from the provinces continue unsatisfactory. At Brest, Perigueux, Toulon, Montpellier, and Poitiers, the garrisons and the official world are suffering severely and at Poitiers, in addition to the influenza, typhoid fever has broken out among the troops. (FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, Thcbsdat Night.

The Queen of Saxony was prevented from attending the congratulation ceremony in Dresden yesterday by an attack of influenza. The Countess de Launay, the wife of the Italian Ambassador here, is suffering rather severely from the same complaint. Dr. Miquel, Burgomaster of Frankfort, and one of the most prominent National Liberal leaders, is also ill of influenza, complicated with severe bronchitis. His condition, however, is not thought alarming.

(FROM OCR CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, Thursday Night. Count Taaffe is again suffering from an attack of influenza, but the doctors give hopes of his speedy recovery, Archduke Frederick, quartered at Pressburg, is also laid up by the epidemic. A hospital has been opened to-day for the treatment of influenza patients outside Vienna. The school holidays in Vienna are to be prolonged till the middle of January. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) PESTH, Thursday Night.

The influenza is still rapidly spreading throughout most districts in Hungary. Among those who are suffering from an attack of the epidemic, are no fewer than seventy persons belonging to the staff of artistes and other employes at the Pesth Royal Opera. (FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) SPEZIA, Thursday Night. Bad weather having set in since Christmas, the influenza has become more general in the town, and is spreading to factories, shipbuilding yards, and villages along the shores of the Gulf of Spezia. It is a curious fact that the disease, which has propagated so rapidly everywhere else, should take a fortnight to cross the gulf, only two miles in width, to San Bartolommeo and Port Usola, on the eastern side, where it is now slowly spreading.

Several cases are reported to-day at the villages on the hills further south, but all of the mildest kind. In a dozen cases near San Bartolommeo, into which I have inquired, the patients only complain of violent headache, with a chill, followed by intermittent high temperature, which gives way at once to anti-pyrine. The total of the troops invalided by the epidemic to date is about forty per and partial deafness occurred many severe cases. Sulphurous acid, obtained by burning sulphur with closed doors and windows, is being recommended and adopted here as the most efficacious mode of disinfecting the air of hospital wards and sick-rooms tainted with influenza. The weather is now fortunately improving.

(FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, Thcbsday Night. Twenty Post-office employes, thirty City Guards, about one hundred clerks in the various Ministries, and two Communal Councillors are suffering from influenza, but no severe or fatal cases have been reported. Indeed, the Municipal Office of Public Health continues to deny the existence of a real epidemic of influenza, but registers the usual number of severe colds. (Thbotjqh Reotsb's Agbitot.) PARIS, Jast. 2.

The Saint Cyr Military College will not be reopened until the 12th inst. The epidemic is raging at Montpellier. At Angers, the Bishop has dismissed the students of the Seminary to their homes, and the Mayor has given orders to postpone the reopening of all the schools in the town. BERLIN, Jan. 2.

It is announced from Dresden that since Christmas large numbers of the inhabitants have been seized with influenza. At yesterday's New Year's reception at the Saxon Court, the number of persons usually attending was reduced by one-third, the Queen herself holding no reception at all. The Saxon Minister of Finance has been seized with the malady for the second time. In Nuremberg the re-opening of the schools has been postponed for another week. VIENNA, Jaw.

2. Count Taaffe is suffering from a slight attack of influenza, and is confined to his bed, but his medical adviser thinks that he will be able to rise to-morrow and attend to bis official duties. This is the Premier's second attack. The doctors state that, although the disease is decreasing in extent, it is increasing in virulence. The daily mortality now exceeds the average at this season of the year.

The Municipal authorities are about to erect a special hospital for the treatment of the influenza cases. PRAGUE, Jax. 2. The influenza has increased here. Numerous Professors and teachers at the Universities and public schools have been attacked.

TANGIER, Jas. 2. The vessels of the TTnited States Ironclad Squadron, which arrived here to-day from Lisbon, were not allowed to communicate with the shore, as they had forty-eight cases of influenza onboard. THE SERVIAN LOAN. (FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) BELGRADE, TmnisnAT Night.

I am now enabled authoritatively to confirm the fact of the signature of the contract for a Loan of twenty-six million francs by M. Bosier. The contract still, however, requires the sanction of the Skupshtina before it becomes valid. The Loan will be issued at a price of not less than seventy-five, and will bear five per cent, interest. The emission of two-thirds of the Loan is imperative, the remaining one-third being optional.

The interest is guaranteed on the net profits of the Bail-ways. The Skupshtina has decided to continue its sittings for a few days longer before breaking np for the holidays, in order to pass the Budget. The question of the Constitution of the new Council of State has been postponed till after the vacation, but all Parties, it is believed, will now come to an agreement. DR. PETERS.

(Through Reutes's Aghrct.) FRANKFORT-ON -THE-MAIN, Jajt. 2. It is announced in the Frankf urter Journal that a private letter from Aden, dated 16th has been received at Offenbach, stating that lieutenant Bust, the only survivor of Dr. Peters' Expedition who has arrived there, reports that he was taken seriously ill while on his march to join the Expedition. He was unconscious for five days, and was deserted by all his followers with the exception of his personal attendant.

When he recovered, one of his party, who had returned, reported that Dr. Peters bad been murdered at a spot one day's "ourney distant. He declared on oath that he iad himself seen the Doctor lying on the ground with one of bis arms cut off, and Lieutenant Tiedemann with three spear wounds in his breast. MR. STANLEY AT MOMBASA.

(Through Reuteb's AgenctO ZANZIBAR, Jas. 2. Mr. H. M.

Stanley has been cordially welcomed at Mombasa by the European residents, who entertained the gallant explorer and his officers at a farewell banquet prior to their departure for Egypt. During dinner a selection of airs was played on the Highland bagpipes. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, ThttxsdaY Nisht. The remarks made by M. Tisza at the New Year's reception yesterday in reference to Kossuth bave created a sensation not only in Hungary, but also in Austria, and form a general topic of discussion in the Press to-day.

According to tbe present Hungarian Naturalisation Act, Kossuth's rights as a Hungarian citizen expired at tbeend of 1889. In anticipation of this event, the Radical Opposition fomented an agitation throughout Hungary in favour of such an amendment of the Naturalisation Act as would leave Kossuth still a Hungarian citizen. Most of the Hungarian Municipalities also hastened to confer on the ex-Dictator tbe honorary citizenship of their respective towns. At the same time, the Opposition pressed M. Tisza in Parliament to declare his views on the matter, whereupon the Premier, with the express consent of the Emperor Francis Joseph, stated on two occasions that he regarded the venerated exile as a Hungarian citizen, and should continue to do so even after the expiration of the year 1889.

With regard to the Naturalisation Act, M. Tisza declared that he thought it required amendment, but, as he distinctly repeated yesterday, not on account of Kossuth. On the contrary, tbe Premier pointed out the anomaly and inconvenience which would arise if any Act were altered for the sake of an individual, and especially Kossuth, who refuses to recognise the established authorities in Hungary. This declaration is to-day made the text of violent attacks upon M. Tisza by the whole of the Opposition Press, and it is anticipated that the Hungarian Parliament, which reassembles on the 11th instant, will again be the scene of violent scenes and scandalous proceedings against the present Prime Minister.

Impartial politicians in Hungary as well as in Austria acknowledge that M. Tisza's views on this delicate question are just. In spite of the general veneration and respect felt for the aged leader of the Hungarian Revolution, it was impossible for M. Tisza to take up any other ground than that he has done, as a question of principle was at stake. M.

Kossuth might long ago have returned to his country had he chosen, but he could never bring himself to acknowledge the recognised King of Hungary, and in his recent letter to M. Dolinary be again calls the present political condition of Hungary, especially her relations to Austria, a transitory phase, and not a final settlement of the Hungarian Question." Even a statesman like M. Tisza, who is a pillar of Liberalism on the Continent, could not overlook the irreconcilable antagonism existing between the openly avowed views of the ex-Dictator and the principles of any Hungarian Government holding office by favour of the Emperor and King Francis Joseph. Since the agreement made between Hungary and Austria in 1867, immediately after the Coronation of Francis Joseph as King of Hungary, the present is the second time that Kossuth Worship has assumed such great proportions. On the former occasion, the Honved Associations succeeded in arousing the national feeling in favour of Kossuth in a manner which threatened to injure the newly-formed union with Austria.

Count Julius Andrassy, who was at that time Hungarian Premier, accordingly entrusted General Klapka, the famous defender of Komorn, with a conciliatory mission and he travelled through the country, achieving by his speeches a great success, as he was very popular with the Honved Clubs. On the present occasion M. Tisza and his Party are perfectly unanimous on the Kossuth incident, and this will render it easier to check the great agitation which the Opposition are now stirring up in the country. M. Tisza is expected to arrive in Vienna tomorrow morning, when he will present his New Year's congratulations to the Emperor and the Archdukes.

(FROM OTjR CORRESPONDENT.) PESTH, Thtesdat Night. Of the Pesth papers only two, and those the semi-official organs Nemzet and Pest her Lloyd, defend the attitude taken up by M. Tisza in his New Year's speech in reference to Kossuth. All the Opposition journals declare that, by recalling bis promise to lay before the Hungarian Parliament a Bill to alter the Law of Naturalisation in favour of Kossuth, M. Tisza has forfeited the confidence of the nation, and they threaten obstruction in Parliament and other demonstrations in case he does not soon resign.

If M. Tisza does not yield to the popular storm, the only expedient he can resort to is the dissolution of the Lower House and an appeal to the country. If the new Elections aye carried out on the cry of The King or Kossuth," M. Tisza will no doubt crush the Oppositions I PRINCE BISMARCK. (FROM OCR CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, Thuesdat Night.

The text of the Emperor's New Year's congratulation to Prince Bismarck is published to-day. It runs as follows: "On the approach of the New Year I send you, my dear Prince, my warmest and most hearty congratulations. It is with deep gratitude to God that I look back on the dying year in which it was our lot not only to preserve external peace to our dear Fatherland, but also to strengthen the guarantees for its maintenance. Another thing which has given me deep satisfaction is the fact that, with the trusty co-operation of the representatives of the Empire, the Act for the Insurance of Sick and Aged Workmen has been passed, and thus an important step taken in the care of the working classes, an object which I have specially at heart. I know very well how great a part of these successes is due to your self-sacrificing and successful energy, and I pray God to preserve to me for many years to come your faithful and tried counsel in my difficult and responsible vocation as ruler of this Empire." THE EMPEROR FREDERICK'S TOMB.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, TflussnaT Night. The model of the monument intended to adorn the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick has at length been finished by the sculptor, Professor Begas, and was inspected by the Emperor and Empress on Tuesday afternoon. It represents the late Sovereign in his well-known Cuirassier uniform, resting in the fulness of a great warrior's strength on tbe sarcophagus. Tbe shoulders are draped in a wide mantle, while the hands, crossed on the breast, clasp, one the victor's laurel, and the other the hilt of a sword, whose scabbard is covered by the palm of peace. The lower part of the body is covered by the mantle.

The sides of the sarcophagus are adorned with splendid reliefs representing the blessings of peace and war. The monument is a genuine work of art- GERMANY. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, Thubsdat Nioht. The Emperor took a walk in the Thiergarten this morning, and afterwards visited Count Bismarck. His Majesty and the Empress attended the performance of Hamlet in the Berlin Theatre yesterday evening.

The German Court is going into mourning for three weeks for the late Empress of Brazil. The Prussian Diet has been summoned to assemble on the 15th for the despatch of business. Herr Wildenbruch's new drama, which bears the strange-sounding title of The Field Volonel-Oeneral, and the performance of which in Berlin was forbidden by the Emperor himself, was given yesterday at Leipzic, where it is reported to have achieved a great success. The English mail of yesterday, via Flushing, arrived in Berlin eight hours late, owing to a fog at sea. THE SPANISH MINISTRY.

(FROM OTJR CORRESPONDENT.) MADRID, Thuesdat Night. Despite the reserve maintained in official circles, a modification in the Cabinet is hourly expected. Senor Sagas ta informed the Queen in a Council held to-day at the Palace that the Minister of Finances will leave Madrid tomorrow for Malaga, after placing his resignation in his hands. The extent of the modification of the Cabinet will depend upon the success of Senor Sagasta's efforts to conciliate the dissentient Liberals, ebaaed Sofia fmlmrm. In connection with France.

Nor will the sympathy and admiration of manlriTd ever be withheld from that 1 country so long as its Government pursues a policy of moderation and concord, and its I gifted people direct their remarkable capacity to the arts of peace instead of to the combinations and chances of war. Every Government in Europe, oar own included, has abundant cause for solicitude and wise activity at home, without wandering farther afield in search of external complications. In the excel lent address of Herr TiazA, to which we havp already alluded, distinct reference to this consideration was made, and in a manner which we can only hope will have a wholesome effect on Austrian no less than on Hungarian domestic politics. A monstrous attempt has been made daring the last few months to force that Statesman into surrendering the reins of government, by violence in the street and scandalous invectives in the Diet. By no such manoeuvres, Herr Tisza declares, will he ever be dislodged from his post.

He will retire before the express wish of his countrymen; he will bow to the majority; but by a minority, however scurrilous and pertinacious, he refuses to be intimidated. Strong in the support of his Sovereign and the majority in the Transleitban Legislature, he will persevere in the policy whose keynote has often been struck. It is agreeable to observe that, in every European country of importance, the beginning of 1890 finds the Executive stronger and more courageous than heretofore. It is so in France, so in Italy, so in Austria-Hungary, so in Great Britain. If there be no improvement in Germany iu this respect, it is only because there was no need for improvement.

In these days of wide popular suffrage it is imperative that the Executive should be strong and courageous. In default of its possessing those qualities, not only the State, but society itself, must gradually be dissolved into chaotic and conflicting elements. Once more we are reminded that the age of sentiment is dead the age of economists and calculators is before us. The beautiful woods of the Yale of Avoca, adjacent to the Meeting of the Waters, have, it is stated, been leased out for a term of years for the sum of eighteen hundred pounds. This is bad enough but it is made worse when we discover for what purpose this not very magnificent sum has been offered.

The wood of these charming plantations is to be used by the enterprising purchasers for making matches To such base uses will the famous trees descend. If there was in all Great Britain and Ireland a spot that should be sacred from the desecrating hand of commerce, it is surely the Sweet Vale of Avoca." It forms the inspiration of perhaps the best known poem of the Premier Poet of Ireland. There is not in the wide world," sang Moore, "a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet." We need not carry on the quotation. Everyone remembers the pretty, sentimental verses. We know how It was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene, Her purest of crystal and brightest of green bow it was riot her soft magic of streamlet or bill," and so on.

But even if this fortunate spot had not been immortalised in Moore's beautiful lyric, it was worthy to be spared for its own sake. It lies in the midst cf one of the loveliest districts in Ireland. The whole route from Dublin to Wicklow, down the Valleys of the Avonmore, the Aughrim, and the Avoca, which form the two meetings of the waters, runs along lovely shady slopes, clothed with a luxuriance of wood such as can seldom be matched in Ireland, and not often in England, outside Devonshire and Derbyshire. And not in the most favoured portions of this Island can one get a more exquisite combination of foliage, water, and distant views of mountain scenery than in these smiling glens. It is true that covetousness and greed have long since been at work in these verdant vales to rob them of their attractions.

The mighty trees that were the relics of the primeval Wicklow forest have, for the most part, yielded to the axe; but there are still left plantations of spruce, larch, and pine of rare beauty and pictnresqueness. The Avoca, indeed, gives access to one of the few show" districts of which the distressful Island of Saints boasts: it has its haunted hills and storied rocks and though it cannot boast of "chiefless castles breathing stern farewells," there are plenty of historic associations in the county of Wicklow to touch the patriotic fancy. The tourist of a romantic turn can easily transport himself to the Lake of Glendalough, where the good St. Kevin was tempted by Kathleen's "eyes of most unholy blue," and where, like a virtuous young Irishman, he resisted the temptation. Not so far away is the home of Mr.

Pakxell, which fact, perhaps, might be held by some Irishmen to give the district a stronger chum to veneration. At any rate, it is a beautiful region this land of glens and rivulets and softly-wooded hills. Even ths fitful attempts made at different times to extract gold from the Avoca, and the extensive copper mines about Ballymurtagh, have not succeeded in spoiling it. But if the woods are cleared its beauty will go, and future genera- will wonder why anyone should have the trouble to write poetry about it. The Vale of Avoca has companions in misfortune.

They do not err, says Scott, who hold that when tbe poet dies mute Nature mourns her a-orshipper." It may be so but Nature has no longer power to protect her own shrines against the invasion of industrial, money-making man. The lands of Scott have themselves fallen victims. The Highland hotel-keepers have, it is true, succeeded in preserving the Troiwachs, and Ben venue, and Ellen's Isle for the benefit of their visitors; but that is because they have no commercial value except as show -places. It is otherwise with the Border, which is, perhaps, even more closely associated with tbe name of the Wizard of the North. If you visit Melrose by the pale moonlight," the process is unpleasant, because of the exhalations that arise from the Tweed, owing to the number of factories that pour their refuse into that polluted stream and all about the moorlands and the valleys of that storied region, huge brick chimneys belch their smoke into the air, and dye products and chemical abominations of all kinds kill the turf and poison the rivers.

Thera is no help for it, we suppose. When the poet is so unlucky as to pitch upon a district that is destined to develop manufactures, he must be content to hare Ms descriptions taken on trust. Fortunately, a good many of the localities most celebrated in our literature have happened to lie outside the main roads of modern Progress," which, therefore, has mercifully spared them. We can still muse in Stoke Pogis Churchyard, undistracted by sounds more out of keeping with tbe famous Elegy than an occasional distant railway-whistle. We can discover Miltox's cottage at Horton, and find ourselves in the midst of much the same peaceful rural sights and sounds as those which inspired the imagery of L' Allegro and Penseroso." Happily, tbe extension of the Midland manufacturing district has stopped a good way short of Kenilworth, and we can still if the Other trippers will let us accompany Amy Robsakt and Wayxamj Smith in spirit on their ride through the leafy Warwickshire lanes.

But if we go on thence to the place made sacred by a greater genius than Scott, we look in rain for the leafy copses of the Forest of Arden, for tbe Forest of Arden has been made into firewood long ago; we search fruitlessly for the thickets and "bosky depths' which suggested tbe imagery of the Midsummer Night's Dream and At You Like It, and only take some faint com rich coal veapoa coal region Ipto hairehstoaed reportun tioe. Well may the FrrmdUaU to" European day to favawsnant, more of that distinguished the very a speehn BaWsssI ri.er-. Mil who leamse in a pBewhar The Queen has been pleased to approve that the dignity of a Baronetcy of the United Kingdom be conferred upon Sir Albert Sassoon, C.S.I. Sir Albert, who is in his seventy-third year, was for a few years a member of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bombay. He was made a Companion of the Star of India in 1366.

Lord Salisbury was reported last evening to be much better. He is, however, ordered to refrain as far as possible from troubling himself with official business, though his Secretaries remain at Hatfield, in case any pressing matters should require his attention. The marriage of the Hon. Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, seceud sou of the Earl of South esk, -with Miss Marion Alice da Gouruay Barclay, youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Ford Barclay, of Monkhams, Essex, took place, yesterday afternoon, in All Saints' Church, Woodford Wells, Essex.

Lord Carnegie, eldest Mother of the bridegroom, acted as his best man, and the bridesmaids were the Ladies Helena and Katharine Carnegie, sisters of the bridegroom: Miss Hilda Buxton, cousin, and the Misses Esther and Caenda Bland, Misses Amy and Violet Leatham, and Miss Ursula Barclay, nieces of the bride the Lady Antonia Maude, and Miss Ethel Pease. Master Terence H. Ford Barclay and Master Evelyn Barclay, nephews of the bride, attended as pages. The bride was led to the altar by her father, who gave her away. The Rev.

N. E. Fitzpatrick, vicar of All Saints', officiated, assisted by the Rev. H. H.

Stewart, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, and the Rev. R. P. Felly, cousin of the bride. After the reception, held at Monkhams, tbe Hon.

Lancelot and Mn. Carnegie left for Merle wood, Virginia Water, belonging to Mary, Marchioness of AOesbory, aunt of the bridegroom. Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, K.C.B., died at Bournemouth on Wednesday night. Tbe late Admiral was son of Rear Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan, C.B., by Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Rear Admiral Bartholomew ames, and was born in 1810. He married, in 1837, Sophia, third daughter of Vice Admiral James Young.

He was educated at the Naval College, Portsmouth, and entered the Navy iu 1823, obtaining his first commission by examination in 1830. He was actively employed in the Parana during 1845 46, and was promoted to Captain for his services at the Battle of Obligado in the Philomel. He was Captain of the Lightning, in charge of surveying operations in the Baltic, iu 1854, and of the Merlin, at the bombardment of Sveaborg, the following year and was for eight years Naval Officer at the Board of Trade. He became Rear Admiral in 1863, Vice Admiral in 1870, and Admiral in 1877 was nominated a Companion of the Older of the Bath in 1855, and was made Knight Commander of the Order in 1869. Sir James Fergusson, by direction of the Marquess of Salisbury, has written to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, stating that it has been reported to her Majesty's Government that the bounty on the export of cotton yarns and textiles, which has long been desired by the merchants of Moscow, may very likely be granted.

The rates of bounty named are calculated on the assumed amounts of duty paid on the raw material. The rumour, Sir James Fergusson points out, is of importance to British manufacturers in connection with the trade to Persia, Afghanistan, and Asia Minor. The Commander in Chief notified in a General Order, yesterday, that the Queen has signified her pleasure that the Soudan medal, with a clasp, inscribed "Gemaizah, 1888," be granted to all troops who were landed at Suakim before the action of Gemaizah, on tbe 20th December, 1888, and were there on mat day and that the same medal he granted to all troops who were emplovad on the Nile at and South of Korosko, on the 3d August, 1889. A clasp, inscribed "Toski, 1869," ta to be given to mil who were present sit that action on the 3d of August last. Those officers and men who are already in possession of the Soudan medal will receive the clasps only.

A News Agency states that Mr. Parnell was served yesterday with the citation and petition in the action for divorce brought by Captain W. H. O'Shea against his wife, and against Mr. rarneil as Co-respondent.

The service was effected by Mr. E. F. Dav, solicitor to Captain O'Shea, who attended the offices af Messrs, Lewis and ijewis. There was no one present when the service took place, and Mr.

Parnell, on receiving the document, made no observation. In order to carry out the arrangements for the banquet to he given to Lord Harm prior to his departure for India, a Committee consisting of the following has been appointed Mr. Akers-Douglas, M.P., Mr. George Marsham, Mr. F.

A. Mackinnon, Colonel H. G. Deedes, Mr. R.

T. Tathara, and Mr. C. Fitch-Kemp. The banquet will take place in London, probably in February.

The Scheme which it was intended to bring before Parliament next Session, for incorporating a Company with power to construct a toll bridgo for vehicular and passenger traffic across the River Thames between Poplar and Greenwich, has been dropped by the promoters. Prince Kawananakoa, nephew of the King of the Hawaiian Islands, has been entered as an in-student of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and will commence residence this month. The Prince is twenty-one years of age, and in communion with the Church of England. The Rev. Albert E.

Seymour, late vicar of Bromsgrove, Worcester, has been appointed Archdeacon of Barnstaple, in the place of the Rev. H. Barnes, resigned. The latter becomes treasurer of Exeter Cathedral. Judge Bristowe has so far recovered from the effects of the bullet wound iaHicted by the Berlin dentist, Arneman, as to he able to leave the General Hospital, Nottingham, and return to his home in Derbyshire.

An order was issued from the War Office yesterday, directing that, in future, Volunteer Colonels who are appointed Aides de Camp to the Queen, will bold the distinction tor ten years only. The Marquess of Bath, accompanied by Lady Katherine Thynne and Mr. and Lady Alice Shaw-Stewart, have left for Brindisi, where they embark for Alexandria. Colonel G. J.

Wigram, C.B.. commanding the Coldstream Guards, has been selected for promotion to tha rank of Major OssWrtU the pursuit word needed should at is reached KzsitABCK, Mui urmn whenever it mores from Germany. mi "rajit IuhsBsn of anrtatal.