Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
The ParneII Riot.

EYNIscARTHY, March 29th.-The cause of
the riot yesterday was as follows Chevaller
OClercy, Member for county Wexford in the
late Parliament, seeks reelection as Home
Ruler, while Parnell has nominated two
other candidates as Obstructionists, one of
whom is very unpopular. The O'Clercy
party, in large body, some 10000 strong,
forcibly took possession of the platform, when
Parnell arrived accompanied by members OF
the Enniscarthy Club, and attempted to get
on the platform, but was received with shouts
of :. No dictation ~ His friends We're at
tackled, beaten and thrown down, several
with bleeding heads A body CT armed police
was drawn up near the platform. Had the
Parnell party been numerous, the list of cas-
ualties would have been very large.
EIectioneering Excitement ia The United
Kingdom.
LONDON, March 29th. Passion Week,
usually devoted in England to ecclesiastical
observances, presented a singular spectacle,
every corner of the three kingdoms Icing en-
gagged in passionate electioneering, which
was scarcely suspended on Good Friday.
Certain churches, where gorgeous ceremonials
are practiced, were half empty, while the
public halls were throDged with listeners to
political harangues. Every public house in
the metropolis is converted into Tory head
quarters. Many theaters were closed through
out the week, they would have been
scantily attended if open. The picture gal
leries are deserted, the concert halls only
half full, the parks are desolate, and the
shops are empty, the beer shops excepted,
where the lingo landlords and their custom
ers carouse together. Every boarding is COW
cred with political placards. Many private
houses are displaying the bills of candi-
dates Cabs, vans and other vehicles public
and private, are similarly decorated. While
the contest proceeds throughout England
generally on broad public grounds, most of
the metropolitan constituencies are preparing
to vote on local issues and interests. Trades
men rival the politicians in political activity
and extracting declarations against co-opera-
ton from numerous candidates, including the
Right Hon. William III. Smith, at West
minister. They show such strength that in
Chelsea sven Sir Charles Dilkes seat is con-
sidered imperilled. The lavish Tory expend-
iture is likewise contributing to that result.
Sir William Harcourts seat from Oxford is
likewise in danger on this account. The total
number of candidates now reaches nearly
l, l0O-comprising 499 Liberals 495 Tories,
and 81 Home Rulers. Both sides are attack
ing nearly every doubtful seat, and barely a
hundred constituencies are uncontested.
The Russian Fleet in the Pacific.
New York, March 29th.-A cable dispatch
to the Herald from London says: a Rus
sian Commissioner named klavalsky, who
left Odessa on March 9th, is expected soon at
San Francisco on the cruiser Moscow. Tie
ostensible object of the journey is to arrange
for line of steamers from California to the
mouth of the Amoor river. The Russian
fleet in the Pacific is greater numerically
than the fleets of all other nations combined.
1t is said that Russia and America are nego-
tiating concerning Klavalsky's mission.
America Competing with Russia for the
Foreign Grain Trade.
LONDON, March Goth. = The E1aminer
says We are not the only people affected by
American competition. The Russians are
complaining deeply of it. For some time
past the struggle between them and the
Yankees for the supremacy of the corn trade
has been severe one; but now the Ameri
cans have so far developed their strength that
they have actually had the audacity to carry
corn to Odessa, which is just as aggravating
ship Goals to Newcastle. A few days age an
American vessel is reported to have touched
at Odessa with q cargo of corn for the famine
stricken people in the Caucasus. One would
have thought that IS corn is as plentiful as
dirt iu the interior of Russia, it would have
been cheaper to have exported the grain from
Odessa instead of bringing it all the way
across the Atlantic. But this does not APP
pear to be the case. Thanks to the corrupt
system of substituting railways in Russia and
steamboat communication in the Black Sea,
the freights charged are so excessive that
merchants at Tihis find it cheaper to bring
over corn from America.
Baroness Coutts and the Liberals.
LONDON, March 29th.-Baroness Burdett
Coutts, being asked to contribute towards
Herbert Gladstone's candidature for Middle
sex, writes 81 do not feel disposed to join
this movement, because it seems to me that
under the present circumstances of the world
the country needs, above all things, strong
Government, aid since the dissolution of
Parliament in 1874, by Gladstone, the Lib
erals have been too disorganized to offer such
Government to the country"
Dissension in the Turkish Cabinet.
CoSsTAST1NoPLE, March 29th.-There is a
serious discussion in the Turkish Cabinet
The Grand Vizier proposed reduction OF
the various pensions and the Sultan's civil
list Mohammed Nedim Pasha, Minister of
the Interior, vigorously opposed the PROPOSE
ton. and the Grand Viizer accused him OF a
lack of patriotum.
The Religious Question in France.
PARIS, March 29th.-Decrees against I'M
authorized religious societies will be published
to morrow The first concerns the Jesuits
only. while the second affects all authorized
congregations.
EIsCEILASEOUs.
The President has sent to the Senate the
following nominations James NJ. Arm
strong, to be Register of the Land Office at
Colfar WASHINGTON Territory. William II