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and notably Germany, M BLOWITZ, the lim Paris, forwarded a joi to President CLEVELAND, C in friendly terms, but understand that the Powers- remain impassive if the Cub by the United States. The same authority recognised as belligerents and e adds that in the event of the Washington Government siding with Cuba, Germany is ready to take the part of Spain. This is United States which Mr. McKINLEY may a sort of "hands off intimation to the not feel disposed to submit to, whatever the retiring President may think. It is evident that the situation is ticklish, for the American people do not care to submit to dictation, and if the German intimation is intended as kind. The danger is that one party may go "bluff" they will know how to respond in too far, and the United States may become committed to a policy hostile to Spain. «In The Great Republic is not prepared that case it is easy to predict the result. war, but she possesses vast resources which could soon be set in motion with sufficient effect to turn the scale in Cuba. It is to be hoped that moderation will continue by wise and generous concessions will win to prevail at Washington, and that Spain- back the Cubans to allegiance and accom- much further bloodshed. plish the pacification of the island without
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT its exceptions. There had no option, either in honour or despicable in a rofessional de law, but to make a full and complete It secretly reading letters that he disclosure, which he accordingly did, his may assist him in securing evidence, conduct in that respect being quite un se that is part of his dinar business; impeachable. As to the love intrigue itself, cases may arise in wi private in- there was probably very little love about it duals may think themselves justified in either on the one side or the other Mrs. acting the part of a detective. Would any CAREW's mind had, as we believe, become un lain upright business man in Hongkong balanced and she was possessed by an insane haven moment's hesitation in looking over thirst for mystery and intrigue. the contents of
of a waste paper basket if he DICKINSON she found a convenient playmate In Mr. had reason to suppose that he would thereby in her game of make believe, but of the secure evidence of an embezzlement of his man himself she probably thought as little as firm's money or property? A woman might of the paper on which she wrote her Annie conceivably y think that the discovery of a Luke letters. -wife's disloyalty afforded equal justifica-ignorant of the lady's infirmity, no doubt Mr. DICKINSON on his part, tion. To meet conventional opinion on felt his vanity highly flattered by what he the subject Miss JACOB herself seems believed to be the genuine partiality of a to have thought it necessary. to invent an clever and attractive woman, but his letters excuse for her conduct by saying that she do not convey the impression that his heart was looking for letters of her own that she was deeply engaged, and in his evidence he believed had been thrown into the basket, says that when he advised her to seek a but it seems more reasonable to suppose that divorce he had no idea of marrying her the object of her search was something in the himself. In one of his letters to Mrs. nature of what she actually found. She seems CAREW he also says that "for other sakes to have taken the measure of her mistress
dangerous woman engaged in wicked a declaration which, if somewhat senten- "than ours the grosser sin shall be avoided," intrigues, and to have set herself to discover tious, nevertheless shows that the writer's her tracks. In this she may not have been intentions at that time were not in the inspired by a high sense of duty so much nature of extreme treachery to the husband. us by mere feminine curiosity, but if her How much farther he may afterwards have action cannot be actively commended neither allowed himself to be led is now, perhaps, no on the other hand dues it deserve to be con- one's business but his own. To us he appears demned as treacl.cry, for guilty secrets are simply as one of the figures introduced by not entitled to respect. If an action is to be judged by its results then Miss JACOB's action tragedy--a tragedy more thrilling and a clever mad woman into her game of 18 certainly not to be condemned, for without sensational than the most sensational novel, it the evidence of the murder hat was after- which, we imagine, is precisely what it was wards committed would have been weaker Mrs. CAREW's ambition it should be. and, indeed, the crime might have altogether escaped discovery by the law. No right thinking person would like to have to do what Miss JACOB did and pick out other people's letters from a waste paper basket, but any one placed in similar circumstances might have some difficulty in deciding what was the right course to pursue. It is im- possible
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Spaniards is less tremendous and the dangers In the Philippines the task before the for the time, at least, less serious. The termined than was at first supposed, and insurgents are certainly much more de- the spirit of discontent with Spanish rule is more widespread; but the resources of the
case we will take this opportunity of con- Before leaving the subject of the Carew gratulating our Yokohama contemporaries on their excellent reports of the trial. Had the trial taken place in London instead of Yokohama it could not have been better reported even by the great London dailies. The feat is the more creditable inasmuch to say exactly what the state of as in the Far East newspapers have only a Miss JACOB's mind may have been, but if she small staff on which to rely. is to be tried at the bar of public opinion she is entitled to the benefit of the doubt and therefore to an acquittal. And even if her action in looking in the waste paper basket be condemned it must on the other hand be recorded in her favour that she tried to save the murdered man's life. It revolt, appears more probable than it seemed as marksmen. The natives, on the other
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was information given by her, through her friend Miss CHRISTOFFEL, that led Dr. WHEELER to decide that the dying man should be removed from his own house, where he was being poisoned. Miss JACOB was placed in a very difficult and trying position, she has been made to suffer severely, and taking her conduct as a whole she seems more entitled to public sympathy than condemnation. Of Mr. LOWDER's conduct in instituting a prosecu- tion against her for murder we prefer to say nothing until we know the course he now
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Mr. DICKINSON's conduct in regard to CAREW and the evidence he gave her at the trial have also been the much remark. ~ In Divorce Court perjury seems to be looked upon, by judges and lawyers, as a more venial than it is in other courts, so much so indeed that a lady's good name is at stake it is al sidered a gentlemanly lie as occasion g—rather a large w_might under defensible, it would nal Trial, and more that just concluded Mr. DIOKINSON therefore
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SPAIN AND HER COLONIES.
arms in the colonies of Cuba and the Philip Although the ultimate success of Spanish pines, now both in open and widespread
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a few months ago, the position is still so critical that both struggles are being watched with keen interest all over the world. These two important colonies are the last remaining possessions of the Spanish Crown of any particular value, and their loss would reduce Spain-already greatly shorn of her wealth and prestige-to a very low ebb among European Powers. It is the knowledge of this fact that has induced the Spanish Government to put forth heroic and extraordinary efforts to suppress these insurrections. They have strained nerve to throw masses of men into Cuba until they now have more troops in the field in the Pearl of the Antilles than were engaged at Waterloo. Yet the rebellion is still active, spite of some recent Spanish successes and the death of the insurgent leader. Meantime the Cubans are receiving a good deal of sympathy in the United States and elsewhere, and they get occasional supplies of arms which enable them to prolong their resistance. A large party in the United States are clamouring for the recognition of the belligerents, and it is quite possible that if the Cuban insurgents as the struggle is prolonged much further the President elect, Mr. MOKINLEY, may feel compelled to give way to the clamour, which,
means of securing new supplies very rebels are small and their limited. difficult and can be easily held by thinly On the other hand the country is clad natives against the Spanish troops, who are not acclimatised and labour under the disadvantages of heavy impedimenta-and inability to subsist on the light and easily obtained fare which suffices for the rebels. consist, too, of raw recruits who neither Most of the reinforcements seut from Spain understand their drill nor have any facility hand, are often expert shots and have on several occasions done great execution with their inferior weapons of precision. Never- theless the chances are strongly in favour of the ultimate success of the Spaniards i much as there are still many influential na- tive communities who remain loyal to Spanish rule. Another great source of uneas to Spain has, it is said, also been removed we allude to the possible attitud on the subject. According, Spanish telegram, "the Japanese "Madrid has addressed
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This assurance must have been peculiarly "mised in the rebellion in the Philippines." acceptable to the Spanish Government time when a little encourage would suffice to keep the only alive but vigo are racially allied to in all probability we islands to the rule of the would be e easier than islands, and if they. introduce both men
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