ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 28 May 1888, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Per Press Association

Auckland, May 25. GENERAL SUMMARY.

Dates from Europo per E.M-S. Zoalautlia, are to May 4. Tlie Canadian Clulb of London gave a banquet, on the evening of May 4, to Lord Stanley of Preston, appointed Governor-Goner al of the new Dominion.

It was reported in London on May 2 that Russia is moving additional troops toward the Austrian frontier.

A now Egyptian loan was issued in London on Thursday, May 3, in bonds, amounting to £233,000 at 9^-per cent.

All the eminent literary and political personages of London have concurrod in tho proposal to raise a memorial in Westminster Abbey to Matthew Arnold, and also to found a scholarship in his name in Oxford University-

The Bill introduced in the House of Commons to close shops at 8 o’clock in the evening for five days in the week, and 10 o’clock on Saturday evening, was defeated on May by a vote of 273 to 95. Sir Joha Lubbock moved tho second redding. Mr Bradlaugh denounced the Bill as absolutely immoral in principle and absurd in detail.

The Barings have declined to proceed in the business of floating the stock of Walker’s Brewery, Liverpool. Tho trado increased more than 500,000 dols since tho idea of selling the stock was first mado public. The London police gave out that they aro informed that a gang of dynamiters, sent by the Clan-na-Gael Societies from America, aro on their way to Great Britain. A special -watch has been placed at V all points.

Reports find credence in London that the Prince of Wales purposes visiting America in 1889, accompanied by the Duko of Sutherland.

The London Times of April 21st has a sensational story from Rio do Janiero, dated March 31, stating that a rich Brazilian poisoned 300 Indians in one province and 800 in another, because they lived on land needed by the whites. The poisoning was done by charging tho wells with strychnine and chlorate of mercury.

<An important emigration movo ment lias been started by Lord Lotliian, Secretary of State for Scotland, for tbe transfer and settlement in tbe Canadian NorthWest of families from districts in the western highlands of Scotland and the Scottish Isles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has consented to advance funds for one third of the expenses if the other two-thirds are raised by private subscription. The scheme is experimental, and if successful it will be carried out on a large scale. Tho Times of April 24 prints a letter in which Dr Morell Mackenzie announces that he has brought a libel suit against the Cologne Gazette and Krenzi Zeitung. The

ing tho treatment of the Gorman Emperor. Helen Crosmond, a prima donna, and daughter of Madame Rachael, committed suicide by shooting, in London, on [April 26. She had signed a contract with the Diury Lane Company, but owing to a misunderstanding tore it up in. a ft t of temper. When attempting, f n re-open negotiations she found a substitute had been engaged. sh o grew despondent, and took lier own life-

The Socialists have begun an active agitation in Berlin against tbe Crown Prince. Thousands of pamphlets, in which insulting epithets and threats of assassination occur, are in circulation. _ { x traordinary precautions have been taken for the safety of the Crown Prince. Mounted police accompany him everywhere. In tho House of Commons on tho evening of May Ist, M‘Donald, the Lord Advocate, of Scotland, stated that the Government proposes to advance £IOOO to promote the emigration of crofters to Canada. In addition to the sum raised by private subscription, each crofter’s family will receive £l2O, to he repaid to the Government in twelve yearly instalments, free land to be given to the crofters by tbe Canadian Government. Mr Gavin Clarks moved that tbe House adjourn in order to consider tbe question of tbe imminent danger to law and order in tbe Highlands and Islands of Scotland, resulting from tbe collapse of the Crofters Act, After a vigorous debate, in which tbe Scotch and Irish members took part, Mr Clarke’s motion was negatived by 300 to 99.

THE PAPAL DECREE. The following is tbe full text of tho Papal Decree, in which his Holiness condemns boycotting and ho Plan of Campaign:— “ On several occasions the Apostolic See has given the people of Ireland, whom it has always regarded with a special benevolence, suitable admonition and advice when the circumstances required as to how they might defend their rights without injury to justice or the public peace. Our Holy Father, Loo XIII., fea - iug that lest in the warfare that has been introduced among the Irish in the contest between the landlords and the tenants, and which is commonly called the Plan of Campaign, and in a kind of social interdict called “boycotting,” arising from the same Contes c, the true sense of justice and charity might he perverted, made an order to the Supremo Congregation of the Inquisition, to subject the matter to a serious and careful examination. Hence the following was proposed to their Eminences the Cardinals of that Congregation “ Is it permissible in the disputes between the landlords and their tenants in Ireland to use the means known as the “ Plan of Compaign” and “ boycotting ?” After a long and mature discussion their Eminences unanimously answered in the negative, and their decision was confirmed by the Holy Father on Wednesday, the 19th of April. The justice of tho decision will be readily seen by anyone wbo applies bis mind to consider that the rent agreed upon by mutual consent cannot without violation of the contract be diminished at the mere will of the tenant, especially when there are tribunals appointed for setting the sum in controversy, and reducing the unjust rents within the bounds of equity, after taking into account the causes which diminish the value of land. Neither can it be considered permissable that rents should be extorted from tenants and deposited in the hands of unknown persons to the detriment of the landowners. Finally, it is contrary to justice and charity to persecute by a social interdict those wbo are required to pay the rents they agreed to pay, or those who, in the exercise of their rights, take the vacant farms. It will, therefore, be your Lordship’s duty prudently i hut effectually to advise and exhort ‘ the clergy and laity not totrangress tho bounds of Christian charity and justice while they are striving for a remedy for their distressed condition.—R. Cardinal, Monaco, Rome, 'April 20th.” The Nationalists have determined to continue the plan in spite of the Papal Decree. A Dublin despatch of April 30th says that the irritation caused hy the Pope’s Decree against the Plan of Campaign .is manifesting itself in tlie strong antipathy to Monsignor Persico, on whose reports the decree is based. In the neighborhood of the Convent, where the papal emissary resides, the people who formerly saluted him with respect refuse to recognise him, and a local bakery refuses to furnish bread to tbe Convent while the Monsignor resides there. A later despatch from Rome on April 29 says the College of the Holy Office was charged to examine Msgr. Persico, report, and decide whether the Catholics who belong to the National League are guilty of sin and debarred from absolution. The Congregation (the Pope presiding) replied in the affirmative, and drew up a decree to that effect, Cardinal Simeoni forwarded it to Ireland with special instruc- , tions to Msgr. Persico and the Irish episcopacy, when instructing the ; clergy to enforce it, to inform them 1 1 that they must refuse absolution to i anyone declining to renounce mem-

I stone thinks the Decree will strengthen the cause of Home Rule. Archbishop Walsh,_ now in Rome, declares bis readiness to submit to tbe Pope’s order, but will resign his diocese rather than act in opposition to his conscience. Should he resign, it is reported that he would he created a Cardinal. In a speech at Kilmurrin, county Limerick, on May 4, Mr Dillon advised the people to adopt the Plan of Campaign and boycott all persons who evicted farmers. Though the-people, he said, were bound to obey tbe commands of tbe Pope in the matters of Church discipline, they would not have their poh tics dictated to them by Italians.

The Irish leaders, to counteract the effect of the Pope’s edict, are circulating a circular calling on the members of the National League to stand firm, and are arranging for twenty simultaneous League meetings.