The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-30
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN
Instead of abating the heavy rain storms
with which England has been so diSastrously
visited for weeks past, were severcr during the
past week than usual, On the 22d tue rivers
in the north and northeast part OF Lancashire
were overlooked, dong much damage to crops
on the 23d the floods in OXfordslire were the
highest ever known in summer, the Oxford
race course being two feet under water; and
the Home Park, under the walls OF Windsor
castle, was flooded, The showers, indeed, are
heavy all over England and almost without in
tcrmisson. \ fall in consos on the 21th was
attributed to the rains.
\ review Of the crops by the best authority,
estimates the grain crop at "A third less than an
average, amounting to a loss of Sl00000,000 to
cutvators, and that l2j000,000 bushels will
be required from abroad, There is also de
tcency equal to $G0,000O00 III potatoes, beans
and peas, and loss of $l5000,000 in rye
There is nearly famine among tenant farmers
in the west Of Ireland
The labor troubles are finding their solution
in schemes of systematzed emigration on
large scale to the |. 5. 4 numcrously attend
ed meeting of skilled workmcn at Sheffield on
theI2Gth resolved in favor Of such scheme and
q similar meeting at Oldham on the 2.th en-
dorsed the plan. Meantime 50 associated York
shire farmers, possessed of considerable wealth,
sailed from Liverpool on the 21th for Texas.
Grain arrivals from the t. s. continue heavy,
winter wheat bringing 9S. 2d about 50 2S) per
100 lbs; spring S.. 90 (about S21) per cen
tai or 100 lbs; corn Is. sd. (Sl15J per 100 lbs
or 60c. per bushcl. TO pay forths grain some
railroad IRON has been shipped 70 America and
few bonds have come over; but the heaviest
item consists IN drafts on the Bank of England
for gold the calls on the Bank, for shipment
20 New York, having been on the 23d $500.
900; ON the 25th $340000; and on the eth
nearly ?20000o0. At the same time over 20.
000O00 Of francs t$4O0o0OOl of gold have been
shipped from French ports for the United
States in the last three weeks and ii is estima
ed that $1,j00000 gold will have to be sent
from France to the [. 5. for grain before
spring.
From South Africa Gen. Wolslcy telegraphs .
that he has mixed force of 10000 organized
to attack CetewayO, who is still at large and
defiant, though many OF his chiefs continue to
surrender. The chief Sccocoeni of Pondoand
is also showing fight and the Beers are deter
mined to fight unless their independence is re,
stored
The Home Rule League had a turbulent
meeting in Dublin on Saturday night The
which throughout were riotous,
were notable for their hostility towards the
more moderate section of the home-rule mem
bers OF parliament Strong resolutions in tav-
or of the obstructive policy in the house OF
commons were adopted.
Sir Rowland Hill, the father of the penny
postage system, died on the Goth, aged 81.
There is some uneasincss felt in diplomatic
circles over the evident growing feeling of hos.
Utility between Germany and Russia, The war
office IN Berlin has felt constrained to send to
Russia a complaint against the hostility to-
wards Germany of the Russian press, to which
reply comes that the Car holds it impossible,
were il even desirable, to check the free ex
preston of opinion on the part of 1.-THE indie
Pendent organs of public sentiment The an
swer Is regarded as next to a snub. Gen. Man
tentfel, it is said, is to go to Warsaw at the
grand review to take place there by the Gar
and try to settle the misunderstanding which
Is mainly between Bismarck and Gartschokof,
and does not affect the friendly relations oe.
tween the emperor and car.