The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-21
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.


THE GOVERNMENT BOUND TO FALL.
LONDON. December 2O.-Rigbt Honorable
David X. PluDket. member OF the House Of
Commons from Dublin University, speakin.
al a Conservative meeting at Chesterfield
Yesterday, said the Government was bound
TO fall. While deplOring the outrages in
| Ireland, he asked his hearers 10 take into ac-
count the influences which are brought 10
bear on his countrymen by agitators seek
| Ing TO serve their own purposes.
GREAT CRISIS TO BE FACED.
Right Honorable JJmes Stansfeld, Rad-
cal member OF The House OF Commons for
Halifax, speaking at Sowerby Bridge yes.
terday, SAID, as member OF the Commission
on Agriculture, he had spent some time in
Ireland studying the Irish question. They
had now, he said, to face great crisis, and
he believed u remedy for the present state
OF things would be found.
The correspondent OF the Times at Dub.
lin says: "The country Is drifting nearer
the rocks, and nothing is done TO save her.
The wave OF agitation sweeps with greater
force through the provinces, and al
! though II has met with check IN Ulster
nobody eau tell how long the barriers
which The loyal feeling in Ulster impose
will he able 10 Withstand repeated shocks
| at Mr.. ParnelPs bands. Coercion has tri-
umphed, while the Government shrinks
| from any attempt TO counterfeit it,"
GLOOMY VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
The Times in leading editorial article
this morning SAYS: "Law.abiding citizens
have 10 submit 10 terrorism which not only
delies but supplants the law, and after look
ing long and anxiou>ly for help from the
Government they have begun TO resign all
hope, and no longer venture to resist the
dctation OF the Land League. Cases in
which the police are able to arrest and ma
gistrates able TO commit seem TO become
daily rarer; and even when trial is secured
witnesses fear 10 speak and Jurors are afraid
10 convict. Ii is TO deliver the peasantry
themselves as well as the upper and middle
classes that the yindieation OF the law has
become imperative"
THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
DUBLIN, December 20.--The Irish Land
Commission Is eXpec ed TO report on Thurs
day. IL is IumoI ed that majority OF the
Commission are agreed on the outlines OF
scheme the principal feature OF which Is
the extension OF the Ulster tenant right to
the whole OF Ireland, with The alternative
OF compulsory purchase, with view to the
creation OF q class OF peasant propiietors
in event OF the owners' Directing to the
extension OF the tenant right and revalua-
ton. II Is understood that Mr.. Cavanaugh
and O'Connor Don dissent from the pro-
posal, and will make separate reports.
Judgment Against Edison.
LONDON, December 2O.-Judgment was
delivered To-day In the case brought IN the
Exchequer Division by the Attorney.Gen.
eral against the Edison Telephone Company
| TO compel the defendants to take ont a ID.
cense 70 use the telephone. on the ground
| that IL is an infringement OF the Govern
menf's monopoly In regard to teiegrapns:
Mr.. Justice Slepaen cited the wofoing oi
the acts OF Parliament under when Tue
Government acquired The telegraph'c mo.
uopoIy, and said the defendants were liable