EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 131, 10 May 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

f Age SraciAiiS. J [UNITED PRESS London, /vpril 23. It is rumored that Mr Forster will succeed the Marquis of Lome as Govpruor-General ol Canada. „ 'Lhe Irish National '■ Convention, held its first sitting; yesterday at Philadelphia. Looneywus elected President, and m the course of his address upheld the action which the Irish had taken all through the agitation, and refrained from s lying a word which might be considered ji , condoni nation -of the dynamite outrage*. The excitement attending the proceedings of the convention has led the United States Government to take, action m tli9 matter. A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday at Washington to consider the subject, and a discussion took place ns to the best means of suppressing Fenian head« centres, and preventing the leaders! of the party from stimulating then* agents to further dynamite outrages. Sir John McDonald, Premier of (.'acacia, has been accused, of having committed perjury. • ' It has been ascertained that Guy, the Clerk m the Telegraph Department, who asserted that he had be<n kidnapped by Fenians and kept m confinement'for several days, is suffering from mental aberration, the result" of injuries which he received to his head about Easfer last. The Czar has definitely "resolved to abandon the idea of his coronation. Considerable excitement exists m London over the propbsecT duplication of the Suez Canal» the necessity ior which was recently urged- by a' 'deputation of merchants upon-Earl Gt'anvhle. ■ • • ; A secret meeting of promoters of the. dynamite^ policy has 'been- held m New York. O'Donovau ossa, wLo was present," announced that he still had an unshaken belief m the value. of dynamite as an agent for obtaining their demands, and tlub he was prepared to continue to use' it -u&til 1 those demanda have been concede!. The German Gbvernment'has entered a protest against the manner m which the Porte is' carrying on the administration of Armenia. It. strongly advises the Sultan to introduce a number of necessary reforms.