Cubans, the United States to guarantee the payment of the sum of money
agreed upon.

General Woodford has cabled to the State Department asking permission to
publish the contents of the note he gave the Duke of Tetuan.

The President is considering the matter, and will probably call a
Cabinet council to discuss it before anything is decided.

In the mean time, the Spanish are in such an excited state that the
Government of Spain fears for the safety of our minister. A special
guard was therefore ordered to accompany him from San Sebastian to
Madrid.

On his arrival at Madrid, the guard, which had travelled with him on the
train, again took him in charge, and conducted him safely to the
American legation.

It is to be hoped that this angry feeling will soon subside, and that
the Spaniards may allow the United States to show that her only wish in
the matter of Cuba is to do what is just and right for all parties
concerned.

The resignation of the Spanish ministry will of course delay the answer
to our letter, as it would be wrong for the Government to press for an
answer while affairs are so unsettled in Spain.

* * * * *

Austria has been having her share of excitement during the past week.

On the opening of the parliament in Vienna, a disgraceful scene was made
by the members of the lower house.

The session was to be opened by the Premier, Count Badeni. When he
entered the hall he was greeted with howls and hisses, and cries of
derision.

For certain reasons, which we will explain later, the Premier is at
present very unpopular with the parliament, and so the members greeted
him in this shameful manner, and finally one of the members, becoming
more excited than the others, advanced toward the Premier, and began
calling him names.

The result has been a duel between the member, Dr. Wolff, and the
Premier, and the occurrence has raised a storm throughout the country,
for that a Prime Minister should fight a duel with another member of the
Government is an unheard-of thing.

Austria is a very difficult nation to govern, and the position of
premier is by no means a bed of roses.

The reason of the difficulty is that Austria is composed of so many
different states which have very little in common with each other.

In all, there are three great divisions: the Austrians proper, who are
Germans in their leaning and language; the Hungarians, or Magyars, who
are a haughty, fie