Douglas Jerrold’s Sayings;
My friend, the late Sam Phillips, one
da; met Douglas JerroM, and told him
he had seen, the day before, Pavna
Collier, looking wonderfully gay and
well—quite an evergreen. •'•An," said
Jerald. “he may be evergreen, but he’s
never read." On my repeating this to
Hicks. he smiled and said, “Now that’s
what I call 'ready wit.’ ”
Jerrold was in France, and with a
Frenchman who was enthusiastic on
the subject of the Anglo French Alli
ance. He said that he was proud to seo
the English and French such good
friends at last Jerrold—Tut! the best
thing I know between France and Eng
land is—the sea.
A very popular medical gentleman
called on Jerrold one day. When tho
visitor was aboot to leave.'Jerrold, look
ing from the library window, espied bis
friend’s carriage. Jerrold—What, doc
tor! I see your livery is a tneasle turned
up with scarlet fever.
The law's a pretty bird, and has
charming wings. ’Twonld be quite a
bird of paradise if it didn't carry such
a terrible bill.
One of the “Hooks and Eyes” was
expatiating on the fact that he had
dined three times at the Duke of Dev
onshire's, and that on neither occasion
had there been any fish at table. “I
cannot account for It," he added. “I
can.” said Jerrold; “they ate it all up
stairs.”
A biend—let us say Barlow—was de
scribing to Jerrold the story of his
courtship and marriage—bow his wife
had been brought up in a convent, and
was on the point of taking the veil,
when his presence burst upon her en
raptured sight. Jerrold listened to the
end of the story, and byway of com
ment, sahl, “Ah, she evidently thought
Barlow better than nun."
At a meeting of the literary gentle
. men a proposition for the establishment
of a newspaper arose. The shares of
the various persons who were to be in
terested were in course of arrangement,
when an unlucky printer suggested an
absent hUeratcmr who was as remark
able far his imprudence as for his tal
ent, “What!” exclaimed Jerrold;
“share and risk with him! Why, I
wouldn't be partners with him in an
acre of Paradise:”
Jerrold was seriously disappointed
with a certain book written by one of
his friends. The friend heard that Jer
rold had expressed his disappointment
Friend (to Jerrold) —I hear you said
—was the worst book I ever wrote.
Jerrold—No, I didn't I said it was
the worst book anybody ever wrote.
A gentleman who enjoyed the repu
tation of dining out continually and
breaking bread with the refinement of a
goorment once joined a party, which
included Jerrold, late in the evening.
The diner-out threw himself into a chair
and exclaimed, with disgust, “Tut! I
had nothing bat a mean mutton chop
for dinner!" Jerrold—Ah, I see; you
dined at home.
Jerrold and some friends were dining
in a private room at a tavern. After
dinner the landlord appeared, and, hav
ing informed the company that tho
house was partly under repair and that
he was inconvenienced for want of
room, requested that a stranger might
be allowed to take a chop at a separate
table in the apartment. The company
assented, and the stranger, a person of
commonplace appearance, was intro
duced. He ate his chop in silence; but
having finished his repast he disposed
himself for those forty winks which
make the sweetest sleep of gourmets.
But the stranger snored so fondly and
iaharmonioosTy that conversation was
disturbed. Some gentlemen of the par
ty now jarred glasses or shuffled upon
the Boor, determined to arouse the ob
noxious sleeper. Presently the stranger
■tailed bom his sleep and to his legs,
and shouted to Jerrold, “I know you,
Mr. Jerrold; but you shall not make a
butt at me!” “Then don't bring your
36“ in here!” was the prompt
He Forgave Him.
One of Mr. Lincoln's annoyances
Was the claims advanced for having
first suggested his nomination as pres
ident One of these claimants, who
was the editor of a weekly paper pub
lished in a little village in Missouri,
called at the white house, and was ad
mitted to Mr. Lincoln's presence. He
at mice commenced stating to Mr.
Lincoln that he was the man wbo first
suggested his name for the presidency,
and pulling bom his pocket an old,
worn, defaced copy of his paper, exhib
ited to the president an item on tho
subject.
“Do you really think," said Mr.
Lincoln, “that announcement was the
occasion of my nomination!”
“Certainly.” said the editor, “the
suggestion was to opportune that it
was at once taken up by other papers,
and the result was your nomination and
“Ah, well," said Mr. Lincoln, with s
sigh, and assuming a rather gloomy
conn tenancy. “I am glad to see you
and to know this, but you will have to
excuse me, I am just going to the war
department to see Mr. Stanton.”
“Weil.” said the editor. “I will walk
over with you."
The president, with that apt good
Baton so characteristic of him, took up
his hat and said: “Come along."
When they reached the door of the
secretary’s office Mr. Lincoln turned to
his companion and said:
“I shall have to see Mr. Stanton
aloae, sad you must excuse me," and
taking kirn by the hand he continued,
“good-by. I hope you will feel per
fectly easy about having nominated
aas; don’t be troubled about it; 1 for
give you."—Ben. I'erly Poore, in Bos
lon Budget
Burdette, to a recent treatise on
eqiwTrisnism. thus picturesquely de
scribee the English style at riding,
which la of course, like everything
Xagiich. the only correct thing in this
country: “Ton will shorten the stir
rape until the knees are on n level with
your chin. Then as you rids you will
rim to your feat and stand in the atti
tude of e man peering over e fence to
leek tor his dog. and then suddenly fill
In the saddle like e man who has stepped
on a banana-peel. This is the English
reboot Dis hard on the bona, but is
i ueurifinavmygraceful. Amancan-
I gjyar tower, sad ride
Three Nationalities,
The following plaint by an Italian
artist aptly illustrates the difference in
the national character of the three par
sons mentioned:
I vork in my studio one day ven one
gentleman vid tho lunettes come in,
make one, two, tree bow, very pro
found, and say, "Qutt MorgenMein
heert" I make one, two, treo pro
found bow, and say do same. Den de
gentleman look at my picture very
wow and deliberate; den he say, “Dat
is goot; dat is beautiful; dat is very
beautiful; dat is vondrous lino.” Den
he say at last, •'Meinhcer, vil yon per
mit mo to bring my friend, do Baron
Von A., to see your fine work?” I say,
“Sare, you vil do me one favor.” Den
he make tree more bow more profound
dan before, and he go vay. Do next
day he bring his friend do baron, and
dey two make six bow, all very pro
found, and dey say dat all is very
beautiful, and den dc baron say, “Sare,
vil you let me bring my friend de Count
Von B. to Bee dese so lint* work?” and
den dey make dcr bow once again and
go vay, and I see dem no more. Dat
vas one German gentleman.
Anoder day, ono little gentleman
comes in vid one skip, and say, “/Son
four, monsieur! charme de faire votre
connaissance." Ho takes up his lorg
nette, and he looks at my first picture,
and he say, ‘’Ah, very well. Sare,
that is one very fine morsel. ” Den he
pass quick to anoder and he say,
“Sare, dis is truly admirable; after dis
beautiful picture nature is vort noth
ing," and so in two minutes and a half
he got through dem all. Den he twi. 1
his cane, ana stick out his chain, and
say, “Sare, I make you my compli
ment; you have one great talent for do
landscape; I shall have the honor to
recommend you to all my friends; an
revoir, monsieur,” but I see him never
again. He was a French gentleman.
Anoder day, I hear one loud
tap vid one stick at my door. Vcn I
say, “Come in," one gentleman valks
forward, and nods hi 9 iiead, but takes
never off his hat. He say, “May I see
your picture?” I bow, and say, “Vid
pleasure, sare.” Ho no answer, but
look at mo a long time and say not a
vord. Den he look at anoder and say
notting. Den he go to anoder and
look, and say, “Vot is de price of dis?”
I say, “Forty louis, sare. ” He say
notting, but go to the next and look
for one long time; and at last he say,
“Vat is de price of dis?” Den I say,
“Sare, it is sixty louis.” Den he say
notting, but look anoder long time.
Den he say, “Can you give me pen and
ink?” and ven I give it he sit down
and he say, “Vot is your name, sare?”
Den I give him my card, and ho write
ont the order on Torlonia for sixty
louis; he give me de order vid his
card, and he say, “Dat picture is mine;
dat is my address; send it Home; good
morning.” And so he make one more
stiff noa and valk away. Dat vas ono
American gentleman. —London Stand
ard.
Joaquin Miller on Mrs. Langtry.
In a series of sketches from New Vork
to the Boston Qlobe, Joaquin Miller
speaks to and about Mrs. Langtry in tho
following generous manner:
If alt God's world a pardon were.
And women were but flowers:
If men wore bees that busted there,
Through all the summer hours—
Oh! I would hum God’s garden through
For honey till I came to you.
Then I should hive within your hair,
Its sun and gold together;
And l should bide In glory there,
Through all the changeful wenthor.
Ohl I should sip but one—this one
Sweet flower underneath the sun.
I have seen it stated that it was I who
first gave Mrs. Langtry the name of tho
“Jersey Lily,” by inscribing the forego
ing verses in the English edition of one
of my books to her with thi9 name.
A mistake. I had heard Lord Hough
ton speak of her in most generous
praise as “The Jersey Lily” long before
he presented me to her, and her worth
and beauty induced the writing of the
foregoing verses.
Treat her well. She is altogether
worthy yonr best consideration and es
teem; good, truthful, frank and sincere;
Eure as the snow and very bravo. Treat
er well. And to her I say: Remain
so. Do not mistake America. She is
sincerely virtuous. This warm, young
country of ours has more praise for pu
rity and honest endeavor than for all
the glittering and ambitious filth that
ever shone before the footlights under
the name of genius.
As the stage is fast encroaching on
the lecture-room, aye, possibly on the
pulpit, and is becoming the very center
and source of combined instruction and
delight, it mast stand forth purified.
Clean hands will 1 be always upheld on
the American stage. Clean hands and
honest effort These matched with al
most perfection, physically, are her best
recommendations. Quite enough. Give
a year or two more of work and she
will appear as well on the stage as off
it And this is very high praise. But let
her forget to work; let her, in the whirl
and froth that comes to tho surface in
all the cities and surrounds all new
lights, forget her high place, onr trib
ute to womanhood, then good-bye.
Wanted—Frivolous Young Men.
“It is no use,” a young lady recently
remarked, despairingly, “there are no
frivolous men any more, and it is quite
useless to tiy to have parties. Nobody
comes but the solemnly dndish empty
brains that it gives one cold chills
simply to look at, and if one of the fel
lows that is really interesting does stray
into a ball or an assembly he has the
air of having made a dreadful mistake
and he gets aways as quickly as pos
sible. Everybody is so dreadfully in
earnest either for working or being a
fop ti lt there isn’t a good comrade
left.” The lively young creature had
more to say in much the same stylo
and t' the same general purpose, the
burden of her complaint being that
there were no society men who se-med,
as she phrased it, worth while, anil
that the individuals wbo were really
worth while—whatever that mysterious
formula may mean—could not !h>
drigged into those gay assemblies
whither the belles of the town repair
to criticise each other's dresses and to
meet the opposite tax.—Boston Courier.
A correspondent suggests that the
name of Washington bo changed to
Whitesnahingtom on account of its fa-
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A VALENTINE.
While looking over letters old and yellow,
I came across a gorgeous valentine,
Quite covered o’er with Cupids and with rosea,
Bent to me years ago, when youth was mine.
Ah! well I mind the day that I received It—
It seems at least a century ago;
I opened It with trembling haste and breathlosa-
Wlth sweet expectancy my cheeks did glow.
Bow bright and beautiful looked then the rosea—
Through all the years they’ve kept their changw
less hue;
I read and read again the tender verses,
And treasured them as youth and love can dot
The Cupids now look very Hat and stupid.
Up thero on top, a golden bar astride;
Tho verses, too, now sound a trine silly:
Youth’s rosy spectacles I’ve laid aside.
But, as I sit and hold the gaudy trifle.
My lost youth rises up beforo my view—
Thepreclous years when seasons were all Summer,
When ev’ry path lay ’neath skJes bright and blue.
Bow gladly would I glvo the mite of wisdom
I since have gathered, to go back once morei
And feel again the thrill of expectation
As wlion tho postman left this at my door.
This foolish littlo piece of silk and paper
Is fadeless, whllo my youth Is dead and gone;
Tho hand that wrote the verses, cold and pulseless
And yet unchanged, unaltered is tho song.
Why keep reminders of the bright days vanished?
So, valentine, I bid you now good-bye;
X watch the flame swell up and blight your roses.
Aad from my heart comes oue long, wistful sigh.
—Faith Walton, in Chicago Tribune.
Fooled by a Granger,
Representative John J. O’Neill, of
Missouri, is a veritable son of tho soil.
Among his granger constituents he is a
granger himself, and what he doos not
know about horses, cattle and patch
products is not worth knowing. His
district lies in tho upper part of St.
Louis, but as it embraces tho billy-goat
and garden-truck suburbs of tho metro
polis of tho Mississippi his constituency
is somewhat rural. To this element
Mr. O’Neill has long been a walking
encyclopedia of information concerning
crops and live stock. During hi 3 last
campaign, while he was canvassing, he
met one of his farmer constituents driv
ing a cow. He at once began to air his
knowledge of bovine breeds with which,
he said, he had been familiar sinco his
earliest boyhood days, when his father
used to send him out in the ghostly
twilight to hunt for truant calves.
Iu the height of his enthusiasm he
offered to buy the cow tho farmer was
driving. The farmer was not anxious
to sell, but said he would take $65 for
her. “Drive her right up to my house,”
said O’Neill, “and I’ll be there to pay
you the money.” The farmer, how
ever, suddenly regretted that ho had
consented to part with his favorite cqw,
and began to think of some way to get
out of the trade. All at once a bright
idea struck him. Said he, “Let mo tell
you, Mr. O’Neill, I want to be honest
with you. Tho cow's gentle and a good
milker, hut there’s one thing about her
that I ought to tell you of. She has no
upper teeth.” “Os course that changes
the trade," said O’Neill; “you wouldn’t
expect mo to take a cow with such a
deficit as that. But you bring mo’s
good milker with sound upper teeth
and I’ll buy her.” When tho story
got out there was great excitement in
tho cabbago end of his district and the
farmers turned against him en masse.
O’Neill learned, to his horror, that
cows did not have any upper teeth.
He tried to explain, but it was no use.
The grangers swore they would not
have a Congressman who was “blamed
fool enough to believe that cows had
upper teeth.”
As a result 0 Neill was almost over
thrown. Ho was only re-elected by tho
skin of his own upper teeth. Since tho
election ho has bought a whole library
on the anatomy of domestic animals,
and is determined that no designing
granger shall catch him napping next
time.— Washington Republican.
The Pranks of Western Electioneering,
When Colonel Singleton was a candi
date for Congress from one of the hill
districts of Arkansas, he had a rich ex
perience. He soon became tho butt of
his opponents’ jokes, and as there were
ten aspirants for the position his life
was an exaggerated burden. Once when
the candidates on horseback were going
to meet an appointment of oratorical
contest, Singleton fell behind, determin
ing to no longer submit to their raillery.
The party passed out of sight, leaving
tho disconsolate candidate to his own
reflections. A light rain had fallen, and
when the party crossed a broad, shallow
creek, one young fellow conceived the
idea of a joke. “Suppose,” said he,
“that we take off our coats and wait un
til Singleton comes in sight, when we
will put them on, giving to him the im
pression that the creek is deep. We’ll
not say anything to him, and ho will
think that we want him to lunge into
tho water.”
The idea was acted on. Pretty soon
Singleton came along.
"That’s all right,” he yelled when ho
saw tho men hurriedly putting on their
coats. “I understand you. Want mo
to get wet, ch?”
He dismounted, and although tho day
was fearfullycold. ho tookoffhisclothcs,
mounted and carefully guiding the horso
he entered the stream. The water was
not more that six inches deep, and when
ho perceived the cruel joko ho stood up
in the stirrups and began to swear,
when his clothes fell into the water and
began to float away. In attempting to
reach over and regain them he fell, and
his horso staggering, stepped on him.
His rage was terrific, and when ho ar
rayed himself in his garments he bor
rowed a gun at a neighboring house
and chased his opponents fifteen miles,
totally forgetting his appointment to
speak.— Little Rock Gazette.
The Walts.
One of tho best of tho poetical dia
tribes directed against tho waltz was
from tho pen of Sir W. Elford’s friond.
Sir 11. Englefield.
“What I the «lrl I adore by another embraced?
What! the balm of her breath shall another
man taste?
What I pressed In the danco by another man's
knee?
What: pantlnir recline on another than me?
Sir, ebe a yours; you have pressed from the
grape Its fine blue:
From the rosebud you're shaken the tremu
lous dew:
What you'va touched you nAy take. Pretty
waltxer—adieu 1"
It Is estimated that avery brick In •
building at Winnipeg, now in progress
will cost 10 osnts.
An enterprising editor writes on
“How to treat woman.” The only sain
way for ono’s pockctbook it never ?
show them a bill of fare. They her* a
fondness tor Urge figures. » _
Hiring China.
“It takes lots of chinaware for theft
swell receptions,” said a china dealet
to the Star reporter the otiier day, as
the porter passed out with a basketful
of plain white china.
"Yes, I suppose yon sell considera
ble,” said tho scribe.
“Sell! Well, yes, we sell some; but
,” then he stopped and smiled cur
iously. “Well, it isn’t all sold that
goes out. It comes back in most cases.
That is, what isn’t broken comes back*
That’s why it’s plain white. Haven’t
you noticed that all the china at these
receptions is plain white? Well, that’s
tho reason—it comes back.” Then he
put his mouth close to the scribe's car
and whispered.
—“What! For all these large recep
tions? Cabinet ministers too? You
don’t say that they ”
“Yes, all of them nearly hire their
china for such occasions. You seo at
some receptions, such as those given by
the cabinet officers, foreign ministers,
supreme judges and the like, there are
four or five hundred guests presont
All have to be serve I. Now, yoa don’t
expect them to keep a china store. No,
no, they hire their service. That’s go
ing to , but I guess not; I won’t
ton youVherc. If you go there you
may eat out of that plate, and to-mor
row night you may eat from tho same
somewhere clso. See!”
“Don't it get broken?”
“Yes, receptions break china very
fast, but we get paid for all that, and
charge a percentage on its value for its
use. There is hardly a reception given
in Washington where thero is not hired
china on the table. It’s cheaper to
hire than to own. Some people put
away their light fancy china on such
occasions, becauso it is expensive to
have broken and hard to replace.
Others don’t have it. What wo hire is
nice china, but, as I said, it is plain
white. We seldom hire any other kind
and when we do it is never tho same
set twice.”
“Why is that?” asked the scribe,
“don’t they like the colored?”
“Well, no, they dont like it. I guess
not. Now, you go to A’s to-night;
you seo a sot of china with peculiar
Japanese figures on it. You go to B’s
next evening. More Japaneso figures.
Again, C's chocolate is served in Jap
anese. All the rage. Ah! Japanese
figures are just the thing in china
now. You mention it to Mrs. Been
there. She draws you to one side; puts
her figures to her lips in a sly fashion
and whispers close into your car: ‘Hir
ed.’ Now, you see, that won’t do. If
they are all alike they must bo white—
plain white. Then, too, it is easier to
replace when broken. Yvg, all tho
first-class stores have ehini’^hire.” —
Washington Star.
This Maelstrom—This Wall Street.
New York is an iron-fronted, and
iron-hearted town. Typical of New
York entirely is its screaming, screech
ing, swift and verv crooked elevated
railroad. Iron. All iron. Iron and
paint
Os course if commerce and money
getting—tho saving of time for these
two purposes—is the aim and end of
life, this monstrosity ougtit to be called
a success. For it certainly saves time
and is a great rest to those who have
prostrated themselves in arduous and
all-day battle with the many devices
and schemes and gambling games of
Wall street
But when wo consider that these same
men never, from one year’s end to tho
other, grow so much as one grain of
wheat or manufacture so much as ono
lueifer match, wc doubt if they deserve
rest
Let us stick a pin here and reflect a
moment on this fact! This maelstrom—
this Wall street —tiiat draws to itself tho
brain of the land, that engages in cease
less battle the best forces of the repub
lic, never gives back in return ono bis
cuit to bo eaten, one garment to be
worn, or ono line to bo read. Nothing!
For the thousands of lives spent thero
Wall street gives back to us annually
many insano and utterly wrecked men.
We have, as the two or three monstros
ties: Goulds, Vanderbilts, etc. We have,
set opposite these, many maniacs, many
a ghastly corpse, pistol in hand, leaning
against a wall in the dark; 10,000 ruined
homes.
If so short a time has wrought all this,
what may one not expect in the couiee
of a century? Clearly something must
be done. At this rate some coarse and
cruol man will get hold of money enough
to not only “damn the public,” but the
republic.
It occurs to me that stock-gambling
must be mado odious; counted low and
vulgar as cards; despised and left to the
habitues of tho prize-ring, the pool-den,
and tho faro table.
Something certainly must be done.—
For I state it as a cold, frozen truth that
any judge of Now York, high or low,
member of congress, and, indeed, every
dignitary as a rule, and even somo of
the ministers, “dabble” in stocks. I
speak from authority, for I havo just
been serving two years in Wall street
myself.— Joaquin Miller.
Popular Errors Corrected.
The Iron Age corrects some popular
impressions respecting distances travers
ed by vessels at sea. The “knot” and
the “mile” are terms often used inter
changeable, but erroneously so. Tho
fact is that a mile is less than 87 per
centofaknot Three and one-half miles
are equal, within a very small fraction,
to three knots. The knot is 6,082.66
feet in length. The statute milo is 5,-
280 feet. The result of this difference
is that the speed in miles per hour is al
ways considerably larger than when
stated in knots, and if a person forgets
this and states a speed as so many knots
when it was really so many miles, ho
may bo given figures verging on the in
credible. When we hear parties say that
such a vessel is capable of making
twenty knots per hour, wo usually take
tbo statement with a very largo grain of
salt, for twenty knots is 23-04 miles per
hour, a speed which very few vessels
have made, and it is doubted by some
w*o have the best opportunity for mak
ing actual measurements whether any
vessel has ever made twenty-five mtlos
in sixty minutes. It has been said that
some of tho English torpedo boats have
made as high as twenty-four or twenty
five knots. Twenty-four knots are over
twenty-soven and a half miles per hoar,
and twenty-fivo knots are upward of
twenty-eight and three-quarter miles an
hopr, distances that are incredible.
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War In Europe.
Rumors havo for some time been rife
that the relations of Russia to the Haps*
burg empire have become strained al
most to the point of complete rupture,
but now we have a declaration from tho
most authentic sotirco that a war be
tween these two powers is inevitable.
The budget of the Austrian Foreigu Of
fice was adopted on Thursday upon the
express understanding that its largo de
mands were based on the urgent neces
sity of preparing for a collision. Tho
committee, in recommending the largo
appropriations asked for, avowed their
conviction that a conflict with Russia
could not be long deferred, and it was
because a majority of the delegations
agreed with them that their report was
adopted.
This public acknowledgment of the
critical aspect of the political situation
in Eastern Europe will be understood
to mean that the statesmen who control
the diplomatic and military affairs of the
dual empire abandon the hope and doubt
the expediency of deferring a catas
trophe. When we look back, indeed,
on the course of events in the liaikan
peninsula since the Congress of Berlin,
we can see that but for the circumspec
tion and dexterity of the Austrian Cabi
net war must long ago have broken out
between the two contestans for the Ot
toman inheritance. From the moment
that, through the acquisition of Bosnia
and the Herzegovina, the Hapsburg
monarchy was suffered to driven wedge
into the heart of the peninsula, her po
litical interests became diametrically
opposed to those of Russia, and it was
clear war alone could adjust tho rival
claims to dominate between tho Danube
and the JEgean.
The history of the Southern Slav
Principalities since tho Berlin Congress
is a tissue of intrigues more or less op
en and defiant on the part of the par
tisans of the two contestants for ascend
ancy. Thus far the sharp and rancor
ous struggle for influence seems to havo
resulted in a slight advantage for Rus
sia, for the Prince of Bulgaria has prov
ed himself a willing tool of the Czar,
has overthrown tho Bulgarian constitu
tion by a coup d etal, and has virtually
placed tho whole military and civil ad
ministration of his country in |Russian
hands. Montenegro also must be look
ed upon as a mere Russian outpost
planted on the flank of the territory to
be fought for. In Servia, on the other
hand, the political sympathies are more
evenly divided, and the well-known in
clination of the Prince for an alliance
with Austria is probably not unconnect
ed with recent attempts to get rid of him
by assassination. In Roumclia, also,
whore the emissaries of the Moscow
Slavophiles have been tryingto play the
same game which proved successful in
Bulgaria, the Russians havo been cir
cumvented by the joint influence of
Austria and Turkey; but tho audacious
operations of the Muscovite agents in
this quarter, coupled with tho proof of
their complicity in the Bosnian insur
rection, have convinced the Austrian
Government tiiat they havo nothing to
gain by the postponement of an inevit
able war. This has become tho more
palpable since the St Petersburg Gov
ernment has thrown off the mask, and,
instead of pretending to discountenance
the machinations of the Slavophile
party, has detached army officers for the
avowed object of placing them in posts
of authority in the Bulgarian service.
Moreover, while inflammable materials
havo been heaped up in the peninsula,
Russia has been quietly preparing to ar
rivo betimes at the seat of the conflagra
tion by massing large bodies of troops
along her western frontier. Should tho
conviction expressed on Thursday by
thm joint delegations of tho Austrian
and Hungarian Parliaments be justified
by the event, Russia would probably
find herself without an ally, and Ger
many and Austria united might reason
ably expect to inflict such a blow on tha
Northern Empire as would relievo Eu
ropo for many years from tho haunting
specter of Muscovite ambition.—A>w
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