Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-16
BY CABLE.
The London Times on the
Greek Question.
A Steamship With a Hole in
Her Prov.
Military Movements of the Porte.
Declines to be sheriff in Ireland.
An EnCyCIlCaI Letter frcm the Pope.
Military Movements Of the Porte.
An EncycIlcaI Letter frCm the Pope

france. England is resolved TO sup
port the collective Judgment Of Eu-
rope, and not to proceed alone. If
France sees fit to resume the pro-
posals made at the Berlin conference,
or to propose other terms acceptable
to Greece and consistent with pledges
given at the conference, England will
join the powers in securing their
acceptance by the porte.
1t is said that emigration forms part
Of the governments programme lol'
dealing with Ireland. Probably many,
Irish farmers will be sent to the
northwest at the expense of the Brit
ish government.
The steamer Hibernia, from Liver
pool for Baltimore via St. Johns, N.
f., and Balifax, has been in collision
and has a hole in her bow above the
water line.
Rev. Messrs Dale and Efraght, rit
ualists, have decided to lodge appeal
from the judgment of the Queens
bench.
The land commissioners have pub
lished charges of Judges Dense and
Fitzgerald on the state of the country
and they will be widely circulated.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says the vote on the Greek question
was telegraphed December l4th to the
representatives of Turkey abroad
RAGUsA, December 16.-The porte,
with a view to the loyal ful6lment of
its engagements, has echeloned seven.
teen battalions of troops on Murco,
Montenegro frontier, with instruc-
tions to prevent Albanians from inter
fering with Dulcigno. The Turkish
delegate has referred claims of Mon.
tenegrins to the two villages near Dull
cigno to the European deliucation
commission.
| CoNsTANTINoPLE, December 16.--
Dervisch Pasha has arrested the
prince of the Miridites, the principal
| Catholic tribe of northern Albania
and Hodo Bey, the chief of the Al
banian league, and has sent them
aboard a man-cf-war to Constantine
pie.
LONDON, December 1G.-The porte s
latest note on the Greek question pro-
poses as basis of negotiation the pro-
posal made by him in his note of DC.
tOber Sd, namely, that the oession Of
territory should not include Janlna
and Larissa. The proposal has been
hitherto utterly secuted by Greece.
The Times publishes letter from
the authorities of Dublin to a person
appointing him high sheriff of cer-
tain county for the 1881, and reply to
the letter, The reply states that the
person declines the appointment be-
cause owing to the state of the country
his rental is so diminished he cannot
afford the expense of Office, adding
that the government having allowed
the country to verge on the state of
anarchy and rebellion, the responsi.
bilities and dangers of the Office are
moro than he is willing to incur.
ROME, December 16,-The pope
has issued an encyclical letter, exhort-
ing patriarchs, archbishops and
bishops Of the Catholic world to
stimulate their Aocks to pray, work
and contribute in>aid of apostolic for
; eign missions, as represented by the
. work of societies, for the propagation
. of the faith and for schools in the
east.
: DUBLIN, December l6.-Tho mill
y tary authorities have collected camp
f, requisites at convenient stations all
over the country, and the commits
t sariat has accumulated a reserve Of
+ portable provisions in every town.
! VIENNA, December 16.-The en-
Z peror and Crown Prince Rudolph have
3 declined the ball at the opera house
3 endered them by the city Of Vienna
0 on the occasion Of the marriage of the
! crown prince, and have requested that
!; the money intended to be apprOpriattc
|. for that entertainment shall be given
to the poor of Vienna, at the same
IS time Offering libe contributions
+ themselves for the same purpose. This
: is the result Of a scandal created by
y the town council appointing com
/; mittec to investigate the rumors tina
J. the crown prince had ordered furni
p ture and household equipments 70
T. his new establishment from Paris
> the appointment of the oommit.e
70 being accompanied by severe com
G. ments of members of the municipc
$ council on the royal family patronizin
foreign tradesmen. Inquiry shove
these rumors to be false, and at mt
nr ment when tho committee was maxim
I'd a report to that effect letter vas re
ceived from the minister, the presideu
n; of the imperial council, informing tn
IS, burgomaster that the emperor an
y, crown prince must decline the city
g. hospitality.
4, CoNsTANTINoPLE, December 49,
i'll The porte in a note states that u
Ie- military PREPARATIONS Of Greece hay
been pushed forward until the who