Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12
Horrible and PreCOnCerted Butch
cry Of Russian Political Pris-
Oners Who Attempted an
Escape from Prison.
GAIN FOR FREE TRADE IN GERMANY.
Turkish Exiles Recalled and Re
leased from Prison.
Italy 10 Consider the National
Aspirations of the AIbanians.
The Egyptian Question still Serious and
Unsettled.

CoNsTANrINoPLE, April 12.-The
sultan, in yielding to urgent represent
atiOns of the grand vizer, has recalled
several exiles and ordered releases
from prison.
ROME, April 12.- The Fanfuelas
states that Premier Aleprettis has in
formed the Albanian delegates that
Italy, while remaining faithful to the
treaty of Berlin, would, if possible,
consider the national aspirations of
Albanians.
BERLIN, April 12,-Free trade
seems to gain by uninterrupted agita-
ton in its favor. 1t is doubtful if
new elections would have given Bis
marck larger majority.
ST. PETERSBURG, April u. "A
Kieff correspondent of the st. Peters
burg journal gives the following ac-
count of the outbreak among political
prisoners last month Persons under
arrest in Kieff prison resolved, some
time ago, to tunnel under the walls
and escape. The scheme was betrayed
by one of the conspirators, but the
authorities allowed the prisoners to
continue the excavation. When the
tunnel was completed and the prison
ers had entered it one after another,
intending to come up through the
opening beyond the prison precincts.
the soldiers previously posted at the
opening shot the escaping prisoners as
they came up, when the bulk of the
prisoners, terrified by the noise of the
firing, stopped and remained in the
tunnel The soldiers were sent in
from behind and the unfortunate
wretches were caught between two
fires. They were all shot down. The
proceeding seemed to give the officials
much amusement, and the officers
of the Kief prison were then praised
and decorated for having acted with
such cleverness and decision.
The correspondent adds: Quite in
keeping with this is a statement pub
lished bya Russian chaplain in the
central prison at Charkoff, in the off +
cial Eparchal Midomasti, as diocesan
intelligence, He declares that of five
hundred prisoners detained at that
prison two hundred died within four
months One of the heaviest charges
made by Nihilists against the Russian
Official administration was the brutal
treatment ofprisoners, in consequence
of which the health of most of them
has broken down, many dying and
some being driven mad.
LONDON, April u. = The Times
says "The unequivocal attitude as
sumed by the sultan relative to the
khedive is doubtless an advantage
which England and France will be
able to turn to account, but we can t
as,yet discern any valid reason for Eng
lands abandonment policy Of extreme
caution with regard to Egyptian af-
fairs, The proposal for joint expe-
dition is manifestly premature. If
a display of force were resolved
upon England might find her inau-
ence directed to securing good gov
ernment, while France would be
occupied with even greater energy in
defending the claims of foreign crcdi-
tors.
Hahn Pasha, the khedive's uncle,
is we'll educated, enlightened, liberal.
minded, and has lived quietly for sew
eul years past in the European fash
ion on the Bosphorus.