Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-18
Boycott to be Aided by Public
Subscriptions from the
English People.
The Times Severely CritiCises
tbs Course Pursued by
Gladstone.
CaDsizing Of the Bark Nile, From
Quebec to LOndOn--LOs
of Life.
Subsidy TO the Greek Navigation
Company to be Renewed.

from the Hague reports that the sec
ond chamber has voted a grant of
1000 guilders for the arctic expedition
next year.
The directors of the ANGLO Amori
can cable company have decided to
postpone repairing the Brest cable of
1859 until spring, owing to the bois-
ferrous weather,
BUCHAREST, December 18.-Nearly
all the governments, including the
United States, congratulated Premier
Bratiano on his escape.
BERLIN, December 18.-The state
ment Of the Imperial bank of Ger
many shows an increase in specie of
2,440,O00 marks.
LONDON, December 1S.-A dispatch
from Dublin to the Times says: "The
loyal farmers asd traders in many
counties hitherto undisturbed are
yielding very reluctantly to the press
ure put upon them to join the land
league and to subscribe to its funds.
In consequence of refusal of Glad
stone to assist Boycott, tae English
public will be appealed to for aid A
list of e committee will be published,
shortly, which will solicit subscrip.
tions in aid Of Boycott"
The Times, in an editorial, s,ys:
"Tha governments last aud unnoces-
sary blunder, IS GladstOne's reply to
BOycott's demand for assistance by
the government, which is conceived in
"a spirit that will provoke much dis
satisfaction. Public opinion cannot
but be offended by the letter, which
is devoid of national sympathy and
conceived ia spirit Of pettishnessI
against Boycott for having made
necessary the employment Of troops
Unsatisfactory as the action of the
government is, and unable as we are
to agree, we must still retain them, if
for no other reason than that we
should not change horses while cross
ing a stream. 1t is to be hoped that
they will brace themselves up when
the time of legislation comes, how
ever limp may be their attitude as an
executive government"
A correspondent Of the Edinburg
Sootchman says a dispatch of further
troops TO Ireland has no reference to
any expected popular outbreak. The
government have in view the use OF
the military in those districts where
the magistrates declare they can no
longer depend on the police. The
same course was adopted in 1881 1851.
PARIS, December ls.-The Rogat
of Pays states that having merely an
swered one aggressive newspaper ar
ticle by another, he has refused duel
with Reinach, Gambetta's secretary,
and will not accept challenge from
him unless Reinach directly insult.
him. Paul de Cassagnac, declares, in
the Pays, that he cannot allow a mem
Der of his staff to fight Reinach, as the
latter refused to fight Rocheiort with
whom alone he has had a genuine
quarrel.
ATHENS, December l8.-In the de
bate in the chamber of deputies on
the question of the renewal of the
subsidy to the Greek navigation COM
pany, the government urged that the
renewal was necessary, as the COM
pany's steamers would afford import
ans FACILITIES for the conveyance Of
troops and var MAJ erial when the time
should arrive for Greece to take Qction
against Turkey.
PARIS, December lS.-It is reported
that an English banker, acting in the
name of ex-EppreSs Eugspie, has
arrived in Paris, for the purpose Of
extricatiRg Madame dc Friodland,
goddaughter Of the ex.empress, who
with her husband, Baron de Fried
land, is under arrest, Madame dc
Friedland being charged With forging