Guardian (Newspaper) - December 28, 1887, London, Middlesex 4_ 1 I I. a No. 2195.-Two DECEMBER 28, 1887. By Post 6d. THE view we should be content to fight the with the weapons of ordinary and to leave the The week which Day is usually to find out for itself on which side the advantage 1 7?T7 we against the and lull has this year hardly lasted beyond the actual J -A 1r, n * ww i t v i i especially the section of tho not that Uven a speculative stockbroker likes to eat his Christmas * * dinner in something like and to the tastes of this influential the telegrams that threatening to enforce payment of the war indemnity appeared on Monday morning breathed nothing but When these reassuring statements had served their tun they made way for a repetition of the alarms that have made the staple of Continental news for some time The their solution of the Irish problem is different from ours it is that the means they take to make their solution the accepted one are means which so friendly a critic as Dr. On special envoys presented a Turkish decoration to the King of the Porte having it is Austrian advice to establish closer relations for united action with An Imperial decree sanctions the arrangements for the junction of the lines of The Danube Steam Navigation Company has ordered that all its vessels and archives shall be removed for the winter O'Dwyer is obliged very unwillingly to declare morally | a precaution The Liberal Opposition might be just as strongly impressed with the intrinsic justice of the Nationalist demand situation is because the facts which underlie and they md * have brought about the situation are TT * Pf J ltS * 7 and do not want but each one of of they a them feels that there are things which they want still loss T moro faith than war and which they do not see how to avoid without m the 8mcenty of to Home warl Russia probably has most reason to dislike a but The formation of a Welsh Land designed to then she has still greater reason to dislike what she must for Welsh advantages which successive accept as a condition of Events will not stand still of Parliament have conferred on the same class in in the and the only Bulgaria that Austria can put is the natural sequence to their adoption of Irish who The Roumanian Government is taking measures to protect northern frontier of the On Thursday Chamber of Deputies unanimously agreed to the demand of tho Government that the Minister of War should be authorised to employ 400,0001. of the total credit of 640,000Z., now in the hands of tho Government as reserve f in the purchase of 100,000repeating rifles and ammunition for the Roumanian and the remainder for purposes of The Chamber has aleo increased the contingent of recruits for the coming year from 12,500 to 16,500 The Vienna correspondent of the Times publishes the following from a Roumanian statesman who a few years ago held high diplomatic office i- has been about the existence of a formal treaty between and The truth I that when went to nearly three years ago Roumania did enter the Central European The terms of the treaty were that in case of a war between Russia and in which Germany also took Roumania should place 150,000 men in the and at once assume the up with is a Bulgaria that would be intolerable to methods in resisting the collection of The Germans can have no desire to risk the existence of their repudiate one undoubted obligation probably think the recently consolidated but supposing that they are selves exceptionally law-abiding when they seek to have convinced that it must one day be defended against Russia another made lighter by statute instead of by their own | THE RESIGNATION OP THE ARMENIAN or or both it is not strange that they should wish the struggle to come while the heroes of 1870 A correspondent of the Times gives an interesting are still with and many weak places remain to account 0f the attitude of the Paris Municipal Council he made good in the armour of their These are during the recent election of a It was known the things that obviously make for and while there may that had been made at tho HAtel de Ville be unknown influences at work which tend to if for proclaiming a Provisional Government in the event of The Constantinople correspondent of the in a letter dated the 22nd observes that the persistence of the Armenian Mgr. in hia resignation gives a special interest to its real which are not generally To begin with he has departed from tho policy of his Mgr. of having recourse to the foreign Powers for the redress of the grievances of the Armenian a policy which resulted in the insertion in the Berlin not to so tremendous a calamity for it is M Ferry being What was not known was that the carry necessary impossible to feel very hopeful that they will be allowed to Radical in the Council were so divided as to the vinoea inhabited by the and to guarantee their have their mayoralty to good turning use to which a street revolution should be turned that even success would probably have had no very taking The says the writer in with those conversant with the condition of the the conspirators of the old They have jn everything but and poor in the hope of discovering some way charity ade to extend our knowledge of the their constant to upset the existing order of against the Kurds and These promises and the supervision of the Powers which was to have enforced their execution have proved a dead Mgr. when he came into power nearly three years following out the traditions of the old school to which he laid down the principle that the Armenian community in Turkey ought to expect and the maintenance of its privileges only from the Ottoman Government and he has carried Armeni 1 things by means of a melodramatic out this programme with scrupulous The Armenian real problem which the condition of the unemployed f people seconded its but the practical results have Are the me ow standing idle good on the other are wifch tlie who care any nothing at all for the First and are chiefly or are they physically or of doing work if it were given them? The remedies suited to these two cases are obviously quite and until we know with which case we are or how to distinguish between them if both are we cannot hope that what we do to relieve distress will be of any The Mayor ises to give us some of the information that is If 20,000Z. can be collected it will give employment to 1,300 competent labourers in laying out land for the Public Gardens They will be employed full time at the ordinary wages paid for this kind of be placed under experienced and be at once dismissed if they are or A committee will inquire into the character of every workman so and will endeavour to find permanent work for him when bis engagement is No one will bo taken on unless he produce of character and proof that he has lived in London at least six It will be see that this plan promises to supply information on two quality of the workmen now out of and the extent to which the supply of good labour is in excess of the for that there is a brisk competition for the places to be filled and that the 1,300 men first taken on with few to can been so unsatisfactory that discontent is widely spread among the clergy and all classes of the It has even been interested in tho promotion of trade organisation and the I feared that the people would manifest according to traditional gradual working out of great economic Thus the one party is the other is that term in a very wide The ends the latter have in view may not be economically but those who pursue them do not think it necessary to place Paris again in ruins as a prelude to the reconstruction of society on sounder principles as regards the distribution of That the should be a growing element in the Paris Municipal Council is on the whole a hopeful augury for the tranquillity of will e that a large proportion of the men out of work are really competent on the one man after another is dismissed because he has not the or the or the steadiness required for the it will be plain that large numbers of the unemployed are not so much unable to find work as unable to do No as the Lord Mayor it is only a corner of the question that can be dealt with by but it is a corner that and define tho line and direction The letter of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick which has made so real imports uc allows to f that % man in Ireland is a document of are at times be a Home Ruler and a AUSTRIA AND On Wednesday evening the Paris Temps announced that the Russian Government had informed certain Powers that the movements of Russian troops in Poland were now Whoever these Powers may be it does not seem that sach assurances have been given to the members of the new triple and at it is no value is attached to reassuring utterances on the part of Russian representatives at foreign Courts not immediately concerned in the question at Nevertheless there seems to be some improvement in the political though when Count Andrassy was asked last week in the principal club of Shall we have war or he only the Perhaps he can tell It is that the men of the Austrian reserve who are employed as workmen in South Germany have orders to be in readiness to return to Austria if called on after the New and also that the officers and men of the Prussian Army Corps on the Russian and had their Christmas furloughs cut Last week ru but see ours of Prince Ferdinand's foundation forged ents have partisan of the tenants and yet think boycotting akin murder and of Campaign If the embers of the Home party were not yet been the Czar's consent having heen asked and not yet while his Majesty has not withdrawn his confidence from those who either wittingly or deceived The journal deduces from this the apprehension that the sole good prospect opened up by the meeting between the Czar and the German Chancellor at Berlin has again been closed by the work of mendacity and intrigue If the Osar does not at last feel called upon himself to assist in tearing thd mask from the Germany will have to consider whether her office as guardian of the peace of Europe does require her to act against the Czar's titan recently reserves to be but i consequence of intelligence the relations of Russia and an order has been to postpone the and to reinforce the O'Dwyer we still think the ends they have in artillery and cavalry On the other it is again reported that the Russian ambassador is putting on by demanding that the name should not be pronounced during tho services in the Hereupon Mgr. sent in his official on the plea of his great with a memorandum setting forth the true cause and enumerating the four in for which he has not been able to obtain redress The first of these and it seems the most is in reference to the decisions contrary to the Christian doctrines and the Christian law which the Mussulman tribunals of the sheri in spite of the in questions of the succession to property where members of Armenian community are In is well the committees exclusively so far as social rights and personal status on the respective Patriarchs in virtue of iven by the which consecrate these Tho centralises the registration of applies the ecclesiastical law to all documents relating to social &c. In succession questions it is true justice does but its office should be limited to dividing the inheritance between the rightful the pointing out of whom belongs exclusively to the Now in practice the sheri tribunal often encroaches on the power of the it has been known to divide the of an Armenian among his illegitimate and legitimate as if the deceased had been a Mussulman and not a Such decisions violate the spirit and the text of the are directly contrary to the religious and social principles of the and would have the obvious consequence of disorganising it and breaking it second grievance relates to a question of ecclesiastical A young Armenian priest of the diocese of Smyrna disregarded the authority of the which ordered him to proceed immediately to The civil Government of this vilayet hinders the accomplishment of the wishes and orders of the Patriarchate under the futile pretext that it is with the conduct and his devotion to the Turkish The orte supports this singular and the refractory priest is thus sheltered from the action of the lawful authority of the The third grievance is in relation to the civil In 1860t in accordance with the of 1856, which requested all the nationalities of the empire to organise the Armenian community settled upon a set of as it might better be a regular which was approved by the By the terms of this constitution the nation nominates by secret ballot a national assembly of 140 members laymen and twenty which is partially every and which votes and checks the budget of receipts and and occupies itself with all questions of national two councils formed from within and called respectively the religious council and the civil constitute the executive and are first with religious affairs and ecclesiastical the second with civil affairs and the relations of the Patriarchate with the The powers of these councils are limited to two those of the civil power having recently new members have been and the Patriarchate informed the Porte of this and asked for its The instead of complying with this is thus preventing the business of the community from being carried The fourth and last grievance results from the following state Armenians possess at Jerusalem a magnificent cc the Convent of St. It has not been possible to defray the considerable expenses of this and the convent has a debt of about To extinguish this the Armenian National Council decided that all the members of the
