National Republican., 1880-10-29
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
A Significant Trenoh spoech,

LONDON, Oct 2s.-A dispatch from Paris to tho
Times says: The journals here have been dis
cussing for two days speech Of NJ Floquet the
radical deputy at VGlence which is interesting
because NJ. Floquet Is the mouthpiece of NJ Gam
beta. Judging from the tone OF the speech, NJ.
Ferry must not expect long or quiet term of
Office, and the reassemblng Of the chamber of
deputies will be signal for his fall NJ Floquet
reproaches the cabinet with following the policy
OF compromise for which NJ DeEreycnet was 50
severely blamed. lie shows favor only TO the
three ,GambettiSt ministers, Constans, Ca2ot
ing spared by the chamber of deputies.
This means that the same system will be employed
against the Ferry cabinet as against It's predeces.
sor. There is little doubt that, in the opinion Of
the Floquet group, the fall Of the Ferry cabinet is
desirable, firstly because that cabinet exists, which
was created apart from the direct Influence and
the permission Of the Gambcttlst group, of which
Nm. Floquel, Brsson and Allaintarge are leading
members.
Dulclgno.
RAGusA, Oct. 2s,-The prince Of Montenegro hay
Ing refused TO transfer the negotiations to Kuna
the ottoman commissioner has left that place.
Negotiations continue, however, with Ria paSha
PEsTI, oct. 2S.-ln the budget committee of the
Hungarian delegation to-day Baron Won lIaymerle
replying to question, said If uiler the settlement
of the military details connected with the sur
render of Dulcigno ami infer the withdrawal of
the Turks Montenegro should not have occupied
the debated territory within a certain short period
the naval demonstration would cease and Austria
would not participate in any steps which might
lead her into further complication or into Wuriike
action against the porte,
The ISurd Invasion of Persia
LONDON, Oct pa dispatch to the NelUs from
Mcshed states that 10000 Kurds under Sheik
Abdullah are advancing on TNbriz They are now
at MarOgha. They have massacred The entire
population of So.uj-BOlak, The garrison of 1abriz
is only . 0JO strong. RCinlOrCemcEts Of 1000 men,
twenty guns, with five Austrian officers, under COM
mand OF an uncle of the shah, have been huIrledly
sent from TeherAn.
dispatch from Teheran to the same paper says
the first Kurd division eynded the Tahriz troops
aud has gone south In the direction of HamNdan.
The TcherGn division has gone TO encounter II.
The kurds occupy 5000 square miles of Persian
territory,
Sew Cunard Company Steamers.
LONDON, oct. 2s-'The CunNrd Line Steamship
company has concluded contracts for the con-
Struction Of three powerful screw steamships for
the trans Atlantic service, the largest of which is
to hc of steel aud will be of 1000 tons aud $500
two viii be 5000 tons ana $500 horsepower and
will be called respectively Pavonia and Cephn,
onia. The AurNnia and POvonia are to be built
and enBlned by James x George Thomson on the
Clyde aud the Cephalonia by Laird Bros. at Bir.
kcnhead. Tho total Of the steamship tonnage
now In the course of construction for the Cunard
company amounts to $1,000 tons and $500 horse
power
Tho German Laudtag.
BERLIN, oct. 2S-Thc empcror's Speech which
was read at the opening Of the lnndtng to-day, ex'
presses his thanks for tho popular manifestations
OF loyalty at Cologne on the occasion of the ccle-
bratOn of the completion of the cathedral. The
estimates for 1881 promise surplus which will rem
der 1900 go marks available for the remission of
PrussiAu taxation. Tho transfer of private rail
tralic. The lGndtag will be called upon to CO.
operate In carrying out economic reforms for the