BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 19 April 1890, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Late Cablegrams. Emln Bey hns written to the Relief Committee declining to visit England. A committee ot the Irish Landowners Convention hns passed o resolution that the Land Purchase Bill will be injurious to landlords, and fail to benefit the best olass 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. Russia is huiiding a Hotilla of towing boats on tho Danube, which will enable 18,0(10 men to be landed on tho southern shore in the event of war in Bulgaria. All the Russian students recently arrested, except eight, have been released. By a Ore at Karon Rothschild's mansion at Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckingham, a painting by Gainsborough, valued nt £10,0(10, was destroyed. Tho "Economist" advises Investors to show above tho ordinary amount 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 deri\ ing more from tho land than loans, the colonial taxpayers and English investors will suffer. Four hundred live sheep from the Argentine Republic imported into Liverpool realised double tho price received for River Plate frozen mutton. King Humbert and Signor Crispi (Italian Premier) Bent congratulatory telegrams to Mr. Stanley on his arrival at Brinriisi. German and French newspaper correspondents have been expelled from Rome for attacking the Italian finance. It is announced that Emin'B expedition to the interior l« for the purpose of rescuing Dr. Peters, reported to be starving with his followers at Kaviroudo Bay, on tho shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza. Anti-Carlist riots have taken place at Valencia, In Spain. Barricades were thrown up in the streets, and the military bad to be called out to suppress the disturbance. It is understood that tho Central American States of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and ban Salvador, have decided to federate, and a diet will be summoned to elect a president in September. Scientific men ridicule the assertion that an 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 eigning the Sugar Convention. Great Britain, he stated, was prepared to ratify the treaty, but it must bo remembered that England had not always the command of the situation. Tho United States Pensions Committee recommend the gratuity to Mrs. Parnell (mother of the Irish leader) of BOdol. 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 a lady relative. Tho Duko of Cambridge has invited b!x or 12 Victorian riflemen to take part in the Royal tournament, which opens en June Ist. The report of the massacre of two Portuguese officers and 150 Native soldiers by tho 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 town of Tipperary is now practically deserted. It is considered at Berlin that Stanley Is a covert too and enemy to Germany, and his expedition for tho relief of Emin Pasha is regarded as a disguise to a huge British scheme of commercial annexation of the equatorial provinces. Dr. Parlto 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 bo a legal tender for all American nations. Tho House of Representatives has to a largo extent curtailed the schema favorably reported on by the Naval Committee of the Senate for largely increasing the navy of the United States. Tho Midland colliery owners having conceded 40 per cent. Increase to tho minors, the leaders of the strike discourage any further agitation being carried on until Christinas. Despite the order of M. Constans forbidding n demonstration on May Ist in favor of eight hours' labor, the Socialists in Paris arc 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 and an increase of DO per cent, in their wages. Six hundred Vienna unions will hold a demonstration on May Ist advocating eight hours' labor. The New York carpenters have given notice that they Intond to go out on strike in May, demanding eight hours' labor.