Editorials.

The article focuses on several political issues from the world. Whether Great Britain or Venezuela has the better historical and legal title to the territory so long in dispute between those two countries, no one without the easy omniscience would venture to decide offhand. It is an intricate and dubious question. England derives from the Dutch, Venezuela from the Spanish, possessions; but just what were the boundaries of each it is difficult to tell. The plan of reorganization of the Union Pacific Railway was promulgated on Thursday. The U.S. Government holds a second mortgage on the main line of road amounting to $53,000,000 of principal and interest. The possession of this claim and the impossibility of its being paid in full at maturity have led a large number of people along the line of the road and on the Pacific Coast to demand that the Government take the road and operate it.