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Editorials

The article presents news from around the world. It is now more than three years since British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone's Government came into power, leading a Parliamentary majority larger and more enthusiastic than has been seen in England in this generation. Much has happened since then. The Ministry has been driven by stress of weather into seas which they never meant to navigate and among shoals from which escape seemed sometimes impossible. The historical event of which Vienna celebrated yesterday the bicentenary anniversary is one of the very grandest landmarks in history. Christendom, as such, has had only two days of deliverance through the fiery ordeal of battle which can be compared with the 12th of September, 1683: the days of Poitiers and Lepanto.