The Portland daily press., 1880-12-04
EUROPE.
Parneu Suddenly Returns from
France.
THE PROBABLE COURSE OF THE GOV
ERNMENT.
The Excitement Reported to be Increas-
ing.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3:--A London despatch
says: Curiosity is shown as to what brought
Mr.. Parnell back to England from France so
suddenly Parnell stated on Thursday night
that Ireland under 10 circumstances will ac.
cept cuercion. 1t is stated that the British
government, after mature consideration, have
determined to make a stand on two points,
viz: The abolition of ve"y small teuancies and
ixity of tenure all around.
DUBLIN, Dec. 3.-The atfidavits of Parnell.
Biggar, j. ID. Sullivan, Sexton and Dillon, on
which 10 base an application for a p sipone-
ment of the trial of the traversers, on the
ground that the date already fixed will inter-
fere with thoir institutional right to be pres
ent when Parliament meets, were filed in the
Crown office at s O'Clock last evening. The
traversers will apply fer postponement of the
trial until the 25th of January.
The Telegraph's Plymouth despatch says:
The Valorous starts for the south Of Ireland
Monday with small arms, ammunition, buck
Silct and steam pflDaceS, armed with severn
Founders for river transit.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The excitement over the
Irish question is increasing Lord Cranbrook,
Conservative, speaking at Beach Hamsted last
night, declared that as the government failed
t' suspend the habeas corpus, if further out
RACES were comm tied the blood would be CD
their heads.
Lord Justice James writes to the Times that
the rent of Irish buildings should be fixed at
20 to 70 per cent over Grtfith's valuation, and
thatany landlord dissatisfied with this should
be entitled TO call upon the government to
purchase his land at fair price.
Col. Gordon, who has been on tour of the
west of Ireland, writes that the condition of
the people is worse than that of any other ma
ton in the world. A gulf of antipathy exists
between them and the landlords. Citing as A
precedent the measures taken to abolish slav.
ely in the West Indies, he proposes that the
government should buy out all The landlords
west OF the Shannon at a cost of $50, 0,000, 600,
OF which n great part would be repaid by the
tenants, and the cancer will be cured He al
so proposes that lands thus acquired be ad-
ministered by Lord Commission, supple
mented by an Emigration Commission.
The government has ordered the prosecution
of the proprietor of the Sligo Champion for
publishing notice calling on tenant to re-
linquish his farm.
DUBLIN, Dec. 3.-A private in the Sd dra-
goons at Ballincollig vas yesterday shot and
badly w unded
Police sergeant O'Connor was brutally beat
en- and kicked by a mob at Claremorrs tod v.
Minor outrages are increasing throughout Ire.
land and a reign of terror is spreading The
government vii! prosecute the proprietor of
the Sligo Champion for alleged REASONABLE ut
terances and defence of the atrocities of the
Land League.
The Jewish Question in Germany.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-rhe Times Berlin CORES
pohdeht says: The Jewish question continues
to attract much public attention. The news
papers are debating it, pamphlets are pouring
forth, tumuts are taking place among the st u
denis, and an Occ,siUnal fracas occurs in the
streets. A large number of eminent Jews will
meet to consider steps TO defend theinsel YES
1t IS proposed to establish journal to support
their cause. An officially inspired writer in
GrenZboten seeks TO vindicate Bismarck from
the inpuiation of sympathy with, the anti
Jewish movement. The writer also severely
condemns Count Chaplain Stoecker
Foreign Notes.
The harvest in Macedonia has so entirely
failed that wheat is cou,ing from America.
a Paris despatch sa,sa committee of the
ID put'es on the DeCissry case has been re-
nominated, all ctinns Ueing represented.
Roman papers announce that a Phllhelienic
commlJiee of action, unm,sed of ex-t1ariba,-
dian officers, has been c, tilu;ed wi b the aim
OF rendering succor To Greece within legal
llulltS, should she commence va.
London correspondent of the Leeds Mer
curry has reason to beleve that orders have
been sent TO the Viceroy of India for the evac-
uation of Camd ihar, to commence as soon n,
the weather I,esinits.
A ST. Petersburg despatch says the Gar has
arrived there from Lvadla and appears in good
health. Melikoif accompanies him.
Admiral Seymour has notified the various
of the dissolution of the COM
biued fleet.
Judgment was deferred in the suit in London
TO compel the Edison Telephone o. to take
out a license on the ground that the telephone
IS an Infringement on tue governments mo.
nopoly of the telegraph.