The Portland daily press., 1880-12-27
EUROPE.
Preparations for a Rising in Ire
land Yesterday.
THE POPE DISAPPEARING OF THE
METHOD OF THE LAND LEAGUE.


the Times says:-"I am satisfied in asserting
that the Land League in Ireland falls dis tinct-
~ within the category of associations regarded
BY the Vatican as revolutionary, and when the
Pope, as in the document published in the As
Servatore Romano, deploring the serious char
acter OF the agitations in Ireland, etc., for the
official nature of which I can fully vouch,
speaks of anarchical means, he points distinctly
to "Boycotting" and other unworthy systems.
After this utterance there cannot longer re-
main any justification for the assertion made
by portion of the Irish press that the Pope
countenances the proceedings they advocate"
NEW YORK, Dec. g.
Specials to the World state that the Informal
ton received within the last few days by the
government has been of character to leave no
doubt Of an organized and general rising in
Ireland arranged for the 26th of December
This accounts for the hurried dispatch to that
island of SO many thousand picked troops
which renders a successful instruction impos-
sible. Simultaneous blows, according to the
original programme, were to be struck in Lon
don and other cities of England. Many Irish
Americans have arrived within the last few
days at Queenstown, but any attempt to land
arms will be frustrated for the coast is now
carefully guarded. The conservative papers
reproach the government bitterly, but leading
journals in the provinces express full approval
OF Gladstone's policy.
At Portedown two tenant farmers who re-
fused to obey the Land League and continued
to pay rents to obnoxious landlords had their
houses burned and produce destroyed. A spy
employed by the constabulary to search out the
perpetrators was stabbed.
DUBLIN, Dec. 26.-The circulars of the mag
istrates in reply to Forster's circular state that
the magistrates are unable to carry out the law
owing to terrorism. The Monaghan anti
League associations have issued manifesto
calling on loyal men to combine for mutual de-
fence.
A Land League meeting in Barris in Ossary.
Sunday was suppressed.
There was riot Saturday in Dublin between
soldiers and civilians.
The Gazette publishes a proclamation pro-
hlDltng the meeting at Athefuerary county,
Wickloll, Sunday.
At Cork to-day the police were fred upon by
a crowd and one policeman snot.
Particulars of the Recent British Defeat
Details of the attack on the wagon train
which the detachment of the 94th regiment
was in charge of show tht the wagons got into
swamp and all hands laid aside their arms to
extricate them. The Beers suddenly appeared
and before the soldiers were able to defend
themselves they were shot down. While Boer
was attempting to hoist republican flag at
PatchefOtroOna he was shot by British officer
whom the Beers Immediately killed. The
four prisoners reported to have been murdered
at PatchefStrOOna were commandant of the
Cape mounted police and three civilians. They
were brutally murdered in the midst of an as
sembly of 5000 Beers. The driver of a post
cart was murdered and the mails carried off.
Floods in Cyprus.
NIcosIA CYPRUS. Dec. 26.-Sixty houses
have been destroyed by floods at Limasol.
Eight persons were killed and the damage will
Suicide of the President Elect Of Swift
zerland.
BERNIE, Dec. 25.-M. Anderwert who was
recently elected President of the Swiss Con-
federation for 1881, committed suicide this
evening in public promenade, shooting him.
self with a revolver.
The Greek Question.
BERLIN, Dec. 26.-The Russian minister at
Athens is summoned to St. Petersburg to en-
tighten the Gear on the Greek question and re-
ceive instructions.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 25-The Agence
Russo, in announcing that Russia has agreed
to the arbitration of the Greek frontier aues-
ton, provided Turkey and Greece are prompt
to accept the decision of the powers, explains
that the refusal of Greece to accept the arbi-
tration scheme does not refer to the proposal Of
the powers, but to the demand put forward bv
Turkey.
CoNsTANTINoPLE. Dec. 25.-If the Porte &C.
cepts the arbitration of the Greek question it
will stipulate that the Ottoman troops shall oc-
cupy the Balkans.
ATHENS, Dec. 26.-Premier Commandorous
declares the report that Greece is willing to ae-
cept arbitration entirely false.
PHuIPPoPoLIs, Dec. 25-The second session
OF the Provisional Assembly of Eastern Rou-
melia to-day was closed by Aleko Pasha, Gov
ernor General, in the presence of the consular
body.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Dec. 26.-Tissot, French
ambassador, has informed the Porte that the
powers have accepted the arbitration proposed
Resignation of the Governor of Roumelia
Aleko Pasha has rendered his resignation as
Governor of Roumeia.
An Unfounded Story.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.-The report OF the
discovery of tunnel near the railway at Liya
dia is officially declared unfounded.
Opposition in Spain to Concessions to
American Importers.
New YORK, Dec. 26.-The Herald's Madrid
special specialization must be called in
America to the strong influences brought to
bear upon the Madrid Government by the Jour-
naliStic organs of the SO-called free traders in
the capital, by Catalan manufacturers, Cas.il-
ian agricultural interests and the great ports of
the peninsula to arrest and impede the conces-
sions about to be made by Senior Del Castillo to
the imports of the United States and the flag
of America in the West Indies. The argu-
ments rest on the pretension th at America
must diminish the duties on sugar and molasses
because her own refiners want the raw material
and all the developments of the relations be-
tween the United States and the West indies,
especially the repeal of differential flag duties
in Cuba, is the object of resistance in the ports
of Spain. They ask the repeal of the flag du-
ties in the United States.