UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1897.
On February 7 the Russian Ministers left London and Paris; the English Minister left St. Petersburg on the same day. |Great Britain and France Declare War with Russia.| On the 27th the ultimatum of England was despatched to Count Nesselrode. On March 24 Her Majesty’s formal declaration of war against the Emperor of Russia was read from the steps of the Royal Exchange, and the reasons for this act were published at length in the London Gazette. England had been slow—culpably slow, declared Derby and Disraeli—in resorting to an appeal to arms, but, having made it, the spirit of her greatest poet pervaded the Councils of her Ministry:—
“Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear it, that the oppressor may beware of thee.”
J. Tenniel.] [From “Punch.”
WHAT IT HAS COME TO.
Lord Aberdeen holding back the British Lion.
