The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-03 00:00:00

RETIREMENT OF MR. O'DONNELL.

Mr. F. H. O'Donnell, M.P., writing from Warz-
burg, Bavaria, to the Freemales Joumal, announces
that his health will not permit him to return to
political life for some time to come. Even though
his health were restored, he would prefer not to be an
actor for some time to come in the Parliamentary
game played by Mr. Parnell. He proceeds to attack
the policy of Mr. Parnell, and prefers the following
charges against Parnellism. He says: It has sub-
ordinated national action to a policy at Westminster.
It has not developed the faculty of free speech, free
deliberation, and free administration among the
people. It has known no medium between blind
adulation and vehement denunciation. It has reduced
popular organisation both at home and in America
to the mere objects of registration and money
subscriptions. It has sapped the very foundation of
self-government by an almost unparalleled abuse of
the nominee method, preventing even the selection of
candidates by constituencies, and controlling by
envoys—half spies and half dictators—the most
legitimate expression of local opinion. It has fostered
a deceptive confidence in Westminster legislation by
systematically extolling as 'triumphs of the party'
the most misleading and worthless or injurious
measures—Land Acts, Labourers' Dwelling Acts,
Tramway Acts, migration clauses, &c.; and it pro-
fesses now to believe that mere parliamentary speak-
ing and voting will enable 80 Irish members to
' master ' 600 British. Parnellism ha carefully and
persistently discouraged and thwarted every branch
of political action which lay outside the capacity of
five or six individuals."

Much surprise has been created in New York by the
pews cabled from England that the proposal of the
"Boston Pilot" to raise a Parliamentary fund of
£45,000 in aid of Irish members has been seriously
received in this country. There is not the slightest
probability that the amount, or anything approximating
to it,will be raised.
Marshal Serrano is lying in a very critical condition
at his country seat. All the Liberal and Democratic
papers in Madrid express sympathy and concern at his
illness.

THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE%
[neuter's Telegrams.]
Rom, Sept. 27.
To-day's official cholera bulletin reports 164 cases
and 84 deaths in the province of Palermo; nine cases
and two deaths in the province of Ferrara, three cases
in the province of Massa Carrara; six cases and six
deaths in the province of Parma, and two cases in the
province of Reggio d'Emilia.
MADRID Sept. 27.

The official cholera bulletin issued this morning
reports 521 cases and 209 deaths in Spain yesterday.
In Madrid (capital) there were five cases and no
deaths, and in Madrid (province) 31 cases and 17
deaths.

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 22 (via Plymouth).
The cholera is very bad at the Spanish lines and
also at La Tuners, a fishing village consisting of
mere hovels, situated about a mile to the east of the
Lines on the Sandy Beach. The village is no doubt
called La Tunara after Atun, a tunny fish of which
the fishing was very active in the Bay of Gibraltar in
olden times. These hovels of wattles and packing-
cases, with thatched roofs, have no sanitary arrange-
mente whatever. They are built on the flat sand,
where there is no possibility of drainage, and which,
therefore, has now become saturated around them,
and the water supply is scanty and has to be brought
from the neighbouring hills. The inhabitants number
about 1500, of the very poorest class. Most of them
fled last week to the surrounding villages, leaving
only about 300 in the place, and many of these
stricken with cholera. A number of them had pre-
viously died of the epidemic. The fugitives were all
refused admittance at the other places, and are re-
turning. It is said that the Ayuntamiento of Linea
contemplate ordering the whole place to be burned
down. The number of cases at the Lines and Tumult
reported officially up to noon yesterday has been 223,
with 114 deaths, but the probability is that the num-
ber is greater in both cases.
The small numbar of cases Which have occurred
here—namely, 22 and 18 deaths—is regarded as a
proof of the perfect efficiency of the sanitary arrange-
ments. About 3000 people are coming in here daily
from the Lines and Tunara, and yet the cholera does
not spread. Some of these people are engaged in
work here, others come in for shipping—all of them
leaving at about seven oteloolt in filo /waning, when
the gates are shut. But there is little work for
them to do. Three thousand seven hundred of the
Gibraltar people are now being relieved daily at the
soup kitchen, so that it is impossible to relieve these
strangers too. A small soup kitchen has been estab-
lished. at Linea, but money is required. Small sums
are sent from here, and the Governor has asked he
Lord Mayor of London to send a portion of the
Mansion House Relief Fund to the place direct, as the
need is so pressing.
The epidemic is now serious at Estepona, twenty
miles from this place. A gentleman from Malaga,
in passing through Estepona, drank some bad water
from the effects of which he died on his return.
MADRID, Sept. 28.

The official cholera bulletin reports .560 Cases and
203 deaths in Spain yesterday, of which five cases
and four deaths occurred in this city.
MADRID, Sept. 28 (0.15 p.m.)
No fresh cases of cholera or deaths have been re-
ported in the capital since midnight.
ROME, Sept. 28.

To-day's official cholera bulletin reports 102 cases
and 94 deaths in the province of Palermo, eight cases
in the province of Ferrara, four cases and two deaths
in the province of Mama Carrara, two cases and
eight deaths in the province of Parma, two cases and
one death in the province of Reggio d'Emilia, and
ane case in the province of Rovigo. In consequence
af the receipt of more favourable news from Palermo
the King has postponed his visit to Sicily.
Rom; Sept. 28 (Evening).
King Humbert to-clay telegraphed to the Syndic of
Palermo announcing that, the Ministers having
advised him that important reasons of State necessi-
tated his remaining in Rome, he had very reluctantly
been obliged to renounce his proposed visit to
Palermo. His Majesty, at the same time, placed the
sum of 100,000 f. at the disposal of the Syndic.
The Royal despatch was placarded in the public
Places at Palermo and created an excellent impres-
sion amongst the people, who appeared to warmly
appreciate the King's generous contribution. The
island appears now to be perfectly tranquil. The
authorities are disarming the inhabitants, and at
Alessandria Della Rocca obtained possession of 300
rifles. The conduct of the King meets with universal
commendatioa in Rome, even the Opposition press
praising his loyalty to the Constitution and his per-
sonal
Serious floods have occurred at Serravezza, which
have left a large number of workpeople and peasants
without resources.

The Lord Mayor has received a letter from General
Sir John Adye, G.C.8., Governor of Gibraltar, in
which, after thanking the Mansion House Committee
for their donation of £lOO for the sufferings in the
,or
Spanish town of Linea, he states that
Linea, which not many years ago contained only a few
hundred inhabitants, has now a population of about
12,000 persons, the great majority being hardworking
people of the poorer classes, who depend in great
measure on Gibraltar for work, upwards of 1000
Spaniards coming in daily for that purpose. They
are at present suffering not only from a severe visita-
tion of cholera, but are in great distress from want
of work, as, owing to quarantine, the commerce of
Gibraltar is almost at a standstill, and the poorer
classes there are suffering as well as Linea. He (the
governor) felt sure that the generous donation of the
committee would be fully appreciated by the suffer-
ing inhabitants of Linea. He might mention that
during tho last seven days there had been 121 cases
cholera, of which fifty-one have been fatal.