Of late her mind has become slightly clearer, and her doctors have decided
that it is possible that her reason may be restored if she once more
visits Mexico.

This decision seems hardly a kindly one. If it be true that the poor
Empress, who is now a woman of fifty-seven, does not know the full force
of the sorrows that fell upon her, it would seem kinder to leave her in
ignorance of them, than to restore her reason, and allow her to suffer for
griefs that are now thirty years old.

* * * * *

Europe has again been shocked by the news of Christian Powers firing on
the Greeks, and endeavoring to prevent them from freeing themselves from
the rule of the hated heathen Turk.

The feeling in England is very strong on this point. So much so that the
old statesman, Mr. Gladstone, who is to England what Bismarck has been to
Germany, has published a very fine letter on the subject.

In the strongest kind of language, Mr. Gladstone calls the Powers to
account for the action they are taking. He declares that they are
listening to the advice of two ambitious young rulers, the Emperor of
Germany and the Czar of Russia, and allowing themselves to be guided by
the desires of these young men, instead of listening to the voice of the
people, which is decidedly against their actions.

He speaks in no friendly terms of Turkey, her massacres and her misrule,
and says that Greece has done a great service for the world in helping