Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-03
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
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LONDON, Dec 3.-The DaUy TelegTaph's Ply
mouth dispatch says that her Majesty's ship
EalorouS starts for the south Of Ireland ON Mon
DAY with small arms. ammunition buckShot
ana steam furnaces, armed With 7-pounders for
river transit.
America Feeding the MacedOnians.
A dispatch to the Daily Ne,rs from Salonlca
says the harvest in Macedonia has so entirely
failed that wheat is coming from America.
The Hebrew Question i'm GERMANY.
The Times Berlin correspondent says: The
Jewish question continues to attract much pub
hc attention. Newspapers are debating 1t.
pamphlets are pouring forth, tumults are TAX
Ing place among the students and an occasional
1racas still occurs in the streets. a large num-
Ger OF eminent Jews Will meet to consider steps
10 DEFEND themselves. 1t is proposed to establish
journal to support their cause. An officially
inspired writer IN the Grenzb0ten seeks to vim
dicate Prince Bismarck from the imputation OF
sympathy with the anti-JeWfsh movement.
The writer severely condemns Court Chaplain
Stoecker
The Cars Health.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3.-The Gar has az
rived here from Livadla and appears TO be in
good nealth. Gen. Melikoff accompanies him.
France and Germany.
PARIS, Dec. Sit Is semi officially announced
that the accounts published In London respect
ing arrangements concluded at Friedrichs rub
between France and Germany for preventing
Servia from becoming kingdom, and restrain
Ing the inhabitants OF other Turkish provinces
and princlpalities, are unfounded, the only fact
being that France and Germany agree with all
the powers In advising Greece to follow wise
and moderate policy.
The Irish Trials.
DUBLIN. Dec. 3.-The af1fdavitS OF Parnel.
Blggar, j. d. sullivan. Sexton. and Dillon, On
which to base an application for p0stponeTnent
OF the trial Of the JraverSerS On the ground
that the date already fixed viii interfere With
their constitutional right to be present when
Parliament meets, were nled in the crown oifi9e
at o'clock last evening. The trayersers VIII
apply Tor postponement or the trial Until the
18th OF January.
The Excitement In London Over
the irish Question.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The excitement over the
Irish question is increasing. Lord Cranbr0ok
tconSeryatiyel speaking at Beach Hampstead
last night, declared that as the government
had failed to suspend the habeaS corpus act, IL
further outrageS were committed, the blood
would be on their heads. Lord Justice James
writes to the Times that the rent OF Irish hold
tngs should be fixed at 20 to % per cent. over
6riffiths valuation, and that any landlord dis
satisfied with this should be entitled to call
upon the government to purchase his land at a
lair price. Col Gordon, who has been On tour
OF the whole west OF Ireland, writes that the
condition OF the people Is worse than that of
any other In the world. A gulf Of antipathy
exists between them and the landlords. Citing
slavery in the West Indies, he proposes that
the government should buy out ali the land
lords west OF the Shannon, at a cost OF
ESQ. .000,000, OF which great part will be repaid
by tenants. and the cancer VIII be cured. ne
also proposes that the lands thus acquired be
administered by land commission, supple
mented by an emigration commission,