The Portland daily press., 1880-01-26
EUROPE.
Rewarding Brave American shipmas

Rewarding a Brave American Shipmas-
LONDON, Jan. 24.-The board OF trade have
awarded piece of plate to the captain of the
American schooner Fred A. Carrie, for saving
a shipwrecked crew.
English Cabinet Council.
A Cabinet council was held today in Lon
don.
Anglo-Portuguese Crusade Against the
Slave Trade.
Information has been received at the English
foreign office, of a satisfactory combination of
the armed forces of England and Portugal in
the suppression of the slave trade of Mozam-
bique channel.
Time for Reconciling the Poles.
The st Petersburg Golos urges that the time
has come for the beginning of a complete re-
Cancellation with the Poles by placing them on
the same footing as Russian subjects.
Reconciling the Gear and Czarina
1t is reported in court circles at St. Peters
burg that the visit of the Russian Imperial
minister Of the household to Cannes was caused
by the assiduous efforts of the Czarowitch to
restore complete harmony between the Gar
and Czarina, which has been disturbed by
family affairs. The minister is ordered to in
vite the Czarina to be present at the twenty
fifth anniversary of the Cars accession to the
throne, if her health will permit.
The Armed Truce in Europe.
The Times, in leading editorial article, to-
day, commenting on the proposed increase in
the German army, says: what is disturbing
in the matter is the vivid revelation it affords
of the terrible condition of the armed truce in
which Europe exists from day to day. By
wisdom and firmness statesmen may avert a
collision of these armed forces but such an
achievement will need incessant vigilance and
patience. AT such time England ought to
hold herself as free as possible from all I'M
necessary entanglements, in order to be able,
if necessary, to make her voice heard at some
critical moment, when the whole course of
European history might be ha ging in the bal
ance. Far greater issues to the world are now
at stake in Europe than in any other quarter
of the globe, and, in deciding them, England
may have still more beneficent part to play
than ever she has yet fulfilled. To play it ef-
fectively, she must be strong and she should be
at peace"
The Irish Agitators
LONDON, Jan. pa land meeting was held
to-day in Connemara Mountains at which sew
eral thousand persons attended Dayitt and
DAILY were present. There was also land
meeting at Bohole, at which there were 1000
present.
John Bright, speaking at Birmingham, yes
terday, reverted to the Irish question at length
and urged the government to take energetic
action for the relief Of the sufferers in Ireland.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has issued an APP
peal through the London press in behalf of the
Mansion House relief committee, stating that
that committee is not connected with any
other organization and that it consists of rep
resentatives of all creeds and of all shades of
politics. The appeal states that evidence ac-
cumulates that there is scarcely a county in
Ireland in which terrible privation does not
exist in some portion, though it is more Sc
we're in the western counties and ON the north
west and southwest seaboards. The Lord May
or fears that the public of London do not real
iZe the gravity of the crisis or that unless
mt ha ION Of do
people must die of starvation. He cannot
think that if they did they, who gave hun
dreds of thousands to avert famine in India,
would have given less to the Dublin Mansion
House fund than had Sydney or Melbourne.
The Lord Mayor states that $4,000 have been
already distributed out OF the G20,0 600 received
but that is a mere drop in the ocean of need.
He fears a recurrence of the disaster of 1917,
when abundant assistance was forthcoming,
but too late to save life.
The Cuban Slavery Question.
MADRID, Jan. IA committee of Senators
and Deputies have drafted new bill for the
abolition of slavery, different in some points
from the bill adopted by the Cortes.
French Politics.
PARIS Jan. 24.-The resolution adopted on
Friday at the meeting of the Republican mem
bers of the Left who favor plenary amnesty,
offering admission to the other groups of the
Left, and which was agreed to by the extreme
Left with certain reservations, is the only re-
suit of the effort to unite the Republican Left
and the Republican Union as single govern
mental party 1t is not apprehended, how
ever, that their failure to coaese will en-
danger the Cabinets majority, as the only
burning question, plenary amnesty, is one
which the Republican Union. through its
organ, the Republique Francaise, declares its
willingness to postpone for the present.
Public Meetings in France.
PARIS, Jan. 25.-In the Chamber of Depu-
ties today, while the bill reatings to public
meetings was under discussion, Louis Blanc in
sisted that the right of meeting and of forming
associations should be absolutely unrestricted
as in England and the United Ststes.
The People of Adrianople Starving.
LONDON, Jan. 25-A Constantnople des-
patch asserts that terrible distress prevails in
Adrianople. Fifteen persons were found dead
from hunger there in one day. In some cases
pieces of wood were found in the mouths of
the corpses.
Putting Pressure Upon the Porte
The News St. Petersburg correspondent re-
ports that intelligence has been received from
well informed private sources in Vienna othe
effect that Austro-Hungary, England and
France, have agreed to make joint represent
tation to the Porte for the speedy execution of
the provisions of the treaty of Berlin.