BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 17 April 1890, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Late Cablegrams

Erain Bey has written to the Relief Committee declining to visit England. A committee o£ the Irish Landowners Convention has passed a resolution that the Land Purchase Bill will be injurious to landlords, and fail to benefit the best class of tenants. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, supported the bill, and urged the Government to submit a local Government Bill immediately, making county councils responsible for advances to tenants instead of the State. Kusaia is building a flotilla of towing boats on the Danube, which will enable 16,000 men to be landed on the southern shore in the event of war in Bulgaria. All the Russian students recently arrested, except eight, have been released. By a fire at Baron Rothschild's mansion at Waddesdonj near Aylesbury, Buckingham, a painting by Gainsborough, valued at £IO,OOO, was destroyed. The "Economist" advises investors to show above the ordinary amoiint of caution in dealing with the Victorian loan. It declares that unless financial ability is introduced into the Victorian Treasury, political jobbery cheeked, and Parliament insists on deriving more from the land than loans, the colonial taxpayers and English investors will 3uSer. Four hundred live sheep from the Argentine Republic imported into Liverpool realised double the price received for River Plate frozen mutton. King Humbert and Signor Crispi (Italian Premier) sent congratulatory telegrams to Mr. Stanley on his arrival at Brindisi. German and French newspaper correspondents have been oxpellcd from Rome for attacking the Italian finance. It is announced that Emin's expedition to the interior is for the purpose of rescuing Dr. Peters, reported to be starving with his followers at Kavirondo Bay, on the shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza. Anti-Carlist riots have takeu place at Valencia, in Spain. Barricades were thrown up in the streets, and the military had to be called out to suppress the disturbance. It is understood that the Central American States of Costa ltica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador, have decided to federate, and a diet will be summoned to elect a president in September. Scientific men ridicule the assertion that au affection of the glands of the neck follows on an attack of influenza.

Baron de Worms, in replying to a deputation from the Sugar Refiners and Trades Unions, said that neither France, Brazil, nor the United States of America had made the slightest advances towards signing the Sugar Convention. Great Britain, he stated, was prepared to ratify the treaty, but it must be remembered that England had not always the command of the situation. The United States Pensions Committee recommend the gratuity to Mrs. Parnell (mother of the Irish leader) of 60dol. per month. Emperor William has forbidden duelling in Germany unless the military Court of Honor sanctions the men going out In case of a blow or Insult to u lady relative.

The Duke of Cambridge has invited six or 12 Victorian riflemen to take part in the Royal tournament, which opens on June Ist. The report of the massacre of two Portuguese officers and 150 Native soldiers by the Makololos in February has been confirmed. The opening of the new town of Tipperary, occasioned by the evictions from Mr. Smith Barry's estate, took place to-day amidst great enthusiasm. The ceremony was performed by Messrs. M. Davitt and O'Brien. The old towu of Tipperary is now practically deserted.

It la considered nt Berlin that Stanley is a covert foe unci enemy to Germany, and his expedition (or the relief of Emin Pasha is regarded as a disguise to a huge British scheme of commercial annexation of tho equatorial provinces. Dr. Parke declared that the injury received to his eyes by Emin Pasha is incurable, and cataract will produce blindness at the expiration of a year. The Pan-American Congress has failed to agree on the question of a common silver coinage ivhich shall be a legal tender for all American nations. The House of Representatives has to a large extent curtailed the scheme favorably reported on by the Naval Committee of the Senate for largely increasing the navy of the United States. The Midland colliery owners having conceded 40 per cent, increase to the miners, the leaders of the strike discourage any further agitation being carried on until Christmas.

Despite the order of M. Constans forbidding a demonstration on May Ist in favor of eight hours' labor, the Socialists in Paris are determined to parade the streets with two hundred thousand men on that day.

Strikes have occurred in many trades in Vienna, the operatives demanding only eight hours' labor r.nd an increase of 60 per cent, in their wages. Six hundred Vienna unions will hold a demonstration on May Ist advocating hours' labor. The New York carpenters have given notice that they intend to go out on strike in May, demanding eight hours' labor.