Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-06
FRO Our Regular Correspondence
European Letter.
LONDON- Emo. Sent.

LONDON. Eng, Sept. 81, 1880.
Affairs in Ireland are rapidly progress
ing from bad to worse, and the agrarian
agitation is hurrying into open rebellion.
Not only do lawless anti-renters set their
landlords at defiance. but they are actually
organizing, under the name OF the " Land
League" for an armed uprising on the
first opportunity; that is, when England
has her hands full of foreign complica-
ti0ns, and hundred thousand fenians are
armed with muskets, and to this end Fen
ian agents are buying ard stealing them
as fast as possible. EveD "a portion of the
money which the charitable world sent to
Ireland last winter to keep the people
from starving is said to have been invested
in Snider rifles for murder and assassina-
ton. The government is perfectly aware
of this latest rebellion, and yet is taking
days ago certain landlord to whom a
tenant was heavily indebted for arrears of
rent was about to levy on the wheat crop,
when some eighty anti renters belonging
to the "Land League volunteered to
cut and remove the crop, in order to cheat
the landlord of his just and legal dues,
and when the bailiff arrived the harvest
field was bare. In another instance, an
order of eviction having been served
against tenant who would not pay, the
landlord advertised to rent his farm at
public auction, when the Land League "
issued their mandate, forbiddng any one
to bid at the peril of his life, and not II
single offer was made. And so farms
remain unoccupied and uncultivated, and
farm laborers continue to complain for
lack of bread.
The EASTERN question. with its numerous
ramifcations, must be subject of which
the general newspaper reader, whose per-
Sonal interests lie in no way in this part of
the globe, is heartily tired, and any straw
floating along the current of the troubled
waters is eagerly seized upon in the hope
that the Turkish ghost has at last been
laid. When brief telegram last week
announced that the porte had, somewhat
late in the day, at last consented to accept
the proposition of the European powers
concerning the cession of Dulcigna and
other Albanian territory to Mon tenegro it
was believed in certain quarters that all
difficulties in that direction had thus been
overcome that the speedy settlement of
the Greek question would follow-and
that, at least for some years to come,
matters would go along smoothly. not
only between Turkey and her neighbors
and dependencies, but amongst the Eu-
ropean powers themselves. 1t is a some
what thankess task to dispel such happy
vision, but, nevertheless, 1t is only ncces.
sary to glance at the true situation in
Constantinople, and to bear in mind the
procrastinating policy from time imme-
mortal pursued by the sublime porte, to
convince your readers that the Albano-
Montenegro question is far from being
settled, and that Turkeys acceptance OF
the suggestions of Europe backed though
it may be by Abeddin Pasha's assertion
that he is in hopes there will be no diff
Guilty experienced in bringing about the
cession of territory, will end in smoke.
Veil Riga Pasha has arrived at Dulcigno
in pursuance of his mission, an d has land
ed his troops-to the number of about
fifteen hundred. The fact that he has
done so without opposition bears out the
opinion that Turkey is playing with the
whole combined force of the European
powers.
The annual report of the postoflice pre-
sents much matter 70 instruction and
speculation as to what will be done in
that department in future. We have a
most energetic postmaster general in Mr.,
Fawcett, and should the present govern
ment remain in power we may expect to
see remarkable development of the post
Office, and it may not be rash to suggest
in very short time the half-penny stamp
will become universal instead of being
limited, as now, to a postal card rather
an unsatisfactory form of correspondent
at best, and liable always 10 abuse More
than one thousand one hundred and
twenty-seven millions of letters, and oveI
a hundred and fourteen millions of postal
cards were sent through the postoflice
during the past year. The telegraph is
more used than ever. and in short time
we shall. probably, have what Mr.. Faw.
cett so much desires-four penny tele
grams-while the telephone is coming
rapidly into use. The extension of the
postoffice savings bank is touched upon il
the report; but as we know, Mr.. Glad
stone, as soon as he can subdue the oppo
sition of the bankers, will greatly enlarge
the powers of this department, and confer
a great boon upon the poorer classes who
have too many restrictions upon frueaity
at present.
ALPHA.