The Unrest of Europe

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 45.

The Unrest of Europe

SOME one has pointed out that the apparent peace of Europe at present, is evidently confined only to the absence of actual international war. Everywhere the people in the Old World seem to be stirred by exciting thoughts and topics. A murderous attack is made upon good King Leopold, of Belgium. Scores of students and a number of young girls of good families are thrown into prison in Warsaw, Russia, on the charge of nihilism. England watches Ireland with nervous attention, and a recent serious dynamite attempt in that unhappy island, has added to the fears of England. Many socialists have recently been arrested at Munich. France and China continue a desultory warfare, while England is excited over the contest between the Liberals and the House of Lords; a contest which threatens to result either in the extension of the franchise to about 2,000,000 of England's inhabitants, or something approaching revolution.—Advance.