The British Lion.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 16, 17 June 1885, Page 3

The British Lion.

A sensitive Briton abroad sends to the . Pall if all Gazette f rota DuSßeldorf.' the "following account of "the BtftisftiJiriVir yfrom a foreign point of view " i^-The : . XJ&rst is taken from an Austrian weekly,; the Boytibt, a publication somewhatsimi- ' lar to our Illustrated London News. On ■■'■. its front page is a large colored picture, r - in which Count Herbert Bismarck is represented as a lion tamer, standing m a . huge cage, gracefully bowing, evidently^ at a burst of applause from the spectators, for. a successful exploit. _At his feet, m a frightened, whining, supplicat- - ing attitude, with its tail between its legs * crouches the British lion — his fade a tolerably good caricature of that of Mr Gladstone. In tke background "are : seen the head and shoulders of the old Grerman jv- Chancellor himself, who is saying Splendidly done, Herbert, m} r son ! you* have • timsd him as completely as your father ■•. did before you." Here is another Sketch ' '-Jt rom '^off Berliner Wespen. Last week's ;'/ edition" "contained a full page engraving "f showing Princt Bismarck attitudinising also as a lion-tamer. The Chancellor is re- . presented astride a lion's back., proudly Waving his hat with one hand, while ho wields a small' dog whip with 1 the other, by the aid of which he has apparently ' brought the ferocious beast to a state of abject submission ; for the po»r, animal, •which bore as usual the face of Gladstone, with its fore paws been and its '■'\. head bWei to thu ground, seemed utterly cowed and subdued. Above them with ; : the sceptre and ball m its claws^fttesthe ..Prussian eagle. In the background stands Franca as a sly but frightened-looking hyajna.