POLITICAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS.

Punch has a cartoon c m which ' Ifr Gladstoneis represent^ leading m • Korse called ";The Majority," after fust ' running m a race. He is Winking to some bystanders, and saying a word or two, to the. effect thai the race was lost through him being without his ', whip," but thatthe omission was purppglylmade This h intended to depict an idea which prevails amongst some political circles' at 'home that the Liberal party suffered defeat williKgl}'— -in fact aided inbringinfj it abouN so -that',; the > present intricacies iii. foreign relationships might be tackled by the Conservatives, to whom the task ,is gladly relin^iuslied. ;^;. v ...,Y A liondbn special of June 30 says the ..death «f Emperor William promises to be the next great sensation m Europe. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to prevent the sending of any telegram revealing his . real, condition ? bat privato letters are lot dtahject to official censorship, and they giro such discouraging forecasts that the news of the Emperor's death is daily expected m omcial circles. In England the death' of the a?ed Kaiser is looked upon "as an event of the very near future. The exte'js ft which this occurrence is caleuKted upon seems surprising arid- heartless/^ |ts' immediate political effect - \rill be $p bind Germany and : England together $* very close union. There ar.e hints o? a second and secret treaty of "Windsor toicj that had really more to do with '* IJ3 change of admmistr^tion thah : 4^yagu§ and shadowy protnYsef' njade 'by Mr Gladstone. According to tfce r ' story, $« '®**$? ■■■s?**& ict sm *w9«w& m mother that the death, ftf- thp Brapecoi , wasionly a question 1 ef * f aw weekßU^i that upon the accession o{ Frederiok William to the Imperial throne otGer. i^many the; influence of Bismarck would - "cease to be a prominent disturbing el©/ went m European politics. Lord Salisbury will have fin interview; with Bii. marck m August.