The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-02
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LONDON, Sept. John Bright publishes
this morning long and eloquent address to
the voters of the city of Birmingham Mr.
Bright gives his views on nearly all the great
questions at issue. He explains to his constit-
uentS the defeat of the late reform hill and
reviews at large the question of suffrage. and
repeats his desire for such an extension of the
franchise as will call into exercise more of the
enlightened intelligence of the country. He
denOunceS the principle of three corpered
constituencies as applied to Birmingham. He
believes the disestablishment and dsendow-
ment of the Irish church would strengthen
both the cause OF christianity and the consti-
tuition of the country. Mr.. Bright closes by
announcing himself the champion of the prin-
ciples above set forth, and offers himself as
candidate for reelection to the House of Com
mons in the approaching general election
The ARIEL the first hip of the tea feet from
CHINA, has Just arrived in the Thames She
sailed from Foochow May 18th, in company
with the tea ships Talplng and Sir Lanniel.
The English cricketers sail from Liverpool
tomorrow in the steamship City of Baltimore
to play series OF five international matches
against the United States and Canadian crick-
eteis They Will play one cricket match in
stead OF two, as previously reported, in each
of the following cites:-New York, Montreal.
Boston and Philadelphia, and will not play a
match at base ball. They are the strongest
team of crcketers that could be picked ffom
the leading professionals of England, and are
captained by the celebrated Willcher. of the
"All England Eleven" with whom are q
Freeman and Rowbotham of the "AlI Enc
land, and the following members of the
united South of England Eeven"-G. Grit
fifth, L. Humphrey, H. Jupp, Pooley, James
Lillvwhite and II. Challwood
The inquest on the bodies of some of the
victims of the Abergyle railroad accident was
resumed to-day. The railroad officials re-
sumed their evidence. The son of the station
master at Abergyle testified that the danger
signals were properly displayed before the col
llsion. 1t is reported that the body of one of
the dead has been recognized as that of Bayard
Clark, an American. q
CORK, Sept 1.-All those arrested on sus-
picion of taking part in the Tipperary distur-
Dances have been discharged, no evidence hay
ing been ELECTED sufficient to justify their
further detention. Mr.. Scully is suffering Sc
verely from his injuries aud his physicians re-
port his condition as growing worse.
MANCHESTER, Sept. MURPHY, the anti
Catholic ag'tator, was arrested in this city and
held in bonds to keep the peace. Being una
Bile to give securities, he was sent to Jail,
where he now remains.
.H FRANCE.
PARIS, Sept. IA banquet was given to-day
inhonor of NJ Pierre Magne, Minister of Fl
lat Perigneux, his birthplace NJ. Magne
made an eloquent and pacific speech He de-
clared that peace would continue because En-.
rope needed and the Emperor desired it,
France was strong enough to preserve peace
and it was no ones interest now to break it.
This declaration of the Minister was received
with enthusiastic applause.
THE FALL OF HUMAITA
LONDON, Sept. 1st-The following particu-
lars Of the events preceding the evacuation of
the Fortress of Humaita by the Paraguayans
are believed to be authentic:
On the 10th of July, the MARQUIS De Caxias
commander-In-chief of the allied forces re-
ceived information that the Paraguayans were
leaving the fortress. He immediotely ordered
an advance, and column of 16, 900 men crossed
the bitches, entered the enemies lines and
took possession of redoubt. They were then
making preparations to occupy the rest of the
works, when the Paraguayau troops opened
IRE OF musketry and artillery, which had
terrible effect upon the allied column in its
crowded and rather disordered condition The
Paraguayans then advanced on the Brazili-
ans, jumping into the redoubt and attacking
them with the bayonet in the mean time keep
ing up a sharp artillery fire on the column
which had commenced to fall back. The at
lacking party of allies were driven from the
redoubt and the whole column retired to its
camp, having suffered severely in killed.
wounded and prisoners. The lowest estimate
OF their loss in this attack, places it at 600
killed and wounded. Some divisions were cut
to pieces, and large numbers were missing
A few days later the allies assaulted a Para
guayan fort in the Gran Chaco. The attacking
party was received with heavy fire of artil-
lery, which created panic among them and
they commenced a retreat in disorder. The
Paraguayans left their deiences and pursued
the retreating troops with great vigor The
latter again suffered heavy loss especially on
Their retreat. Their killed and wounded
amounted to $50. On the 18th of July it was
discovered that Humaita had at last been evac-
uated. All the heavy guns left in the place
were dismounted and spiked, and some
munitions OF war which could not easily be
moved through the forest were left behind.
The garrison retired in good order and with
out interruption to the new position on the
Tibicuary. The Notifications there which Ln-
PEE has been building for nearly year are be-
lieved to be impregnable, and the commune
cations with the interior are secure. The Par
aguay river has been so INSTRUCTED as to be in
accessible to the irOn-clads of the allies
+ A dispatch was received at Rio Janeiro on
the 9Th, stating that the y. S. steamer Wasp
had proceeded up the river to Asuncion to
take ON board Minister Washburne and suite