Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-21
FOREHGN NEWS.
The Agitation In ireland.

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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Agitation in Ireland.
LONDON, December 20th.-David r.
Plunket, member of the House of Commons
for Dublin University, speaking at the Con-.
sentative meeting at Chesterfield yesterday,
said the Government was bound to fall.
While deploring the outrages in Ireland, he
asked his hearers to take into account the In
huences which are brought to bear on his
countrymen by agitators seeking to serve
their own purposes.
James Stansfeld, radical member of the
House of Commons for Halifax, speaking at
Somerley Bridge, said that 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 remedy for the
present style of things would be found.
NEARING THE ROCKS.
DUBLIN, December 20th.-The country is
drifting nearer to the rocks, and nothing is
done to save her. The wave Of agitation
sweeps with greater force through the
provinces, and although it is met with check
IL Ulster nobody can tell how long the bar
riers which the loyal feeling in Ulster i'm
poses will be able to withstand the repeated
shocks at ParnelPs hands. Coercion has
triumphed while the Government shrinks
from any attempt to counterfeit it.
yINDICATIoN OF THE LAW IMPERATIVE.
LONDON, December 20th.-The Times says:
Law-abiding citizens have to submit to a
terrorism which not only defies but supplants
law, and after looking long and anxiously for
help from the Government, they have begun
to resign all hope and no longer venture to
resist the dictation of the Land League
Cases in which the police are able to convict
seem to become daily rarer, and even when
trial is secured witnesses are afraid to speak
and jurors are afraid to convict. It is to de-
liver the peasantry themselves, as well as the
upper and middle classes, that the vindica-
ton of the law becomes imperative.
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS
LONDON, December goth. = Justin Nc
Carthy, Home Rule member of the House of
Commons for Longford county, speaking last
night, said he had reason to know that
| Forster himself is as well convinced that the
| State prosecutions in Ireland must fail as
were any of his audience.
THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
DUBLIN, December 20th.-The Irish Land
Commission is expected to report Thursday
1t is rumored that a majority of the commit
tee are agreed on the outlines of scheme,
| the principal features Of which are the ex-
! tension of the Ulster tenant right to the
whole of Ireland, with the alternative Of
compulsory purchase, with view of the ere.
alton of class of peasant proprietors. In
the event of the owners objecting to the ex-
| tension of this right, then revolution It is
understood that Kavanagh and the O'Connor
Don dissent from this proposal, and will make
a separate report.
INVASION OF PUBLIC RIGHTS.
|
Journal says that the suppression of the
meeting at Callow Hill on Saturday was one
of the gravest intrusions on public rights and
| liberty ever committed and accuses the Gov
eminent Of postponing the announcement Of
| its intention to suppress the meeting to the
last moment, so as to provoke collision
with the troops.
ORDER TO BE coUNTERMANDED.
! LONDON, December 20th.-The order for
the departure of 100 volunteers from the Sec.
ond Battalion of the Scots Guards from
| Windsor, to make up the strength of the
First Battalion, will be countermanded.
LONDON POLICE FOR IRELAND.
Three hundred experienced London police
have been selected to strengthen the civil
force in certain parts of Ireland, particularly
Dublin.
THE TRIAL OF THE TRAvERsERs.
DUBLIN, December 20th-The traversers
intend, if allowed, to examine nearly LOCO
witnesses at the trial, including tenants and
evicted persons, to show that their language
and conduct was justified
A circular has been issued to the constabu.
larry to use the utmost vigilance to protect
| the bailiffs and caretakers placed in charge
in houses from which tenants had been eyict-
ed, and to arrest persons who illegally take
possession of such houses. Another circular
enjoins extra vigilance on the part of parties
to prevent cutrages by armed bands.
IRISH DEMONSTRATION IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, December 20th.-A demonstra-
| ton was made by 5000 Irishmen in Man
chester last night, for the purpose of express.
ing sympathy with the Land League and
raising money for the Parnell defense fund.
| Chief Justice May was denounced in violent
| terms.
! MORE TROOPS ORDERED TO THE FRONT.
| A company of the army service CORPS COM
missariat and transport department, has been
ordered to proceed TO Ireland Wednesday.
| 1t is stated that battalion of Greaadier
Guards will go to Ireland Friday.
LONDON, December 20th.-The Times re-
ports that the Ninety-eighth Foot, from
Gibraltar. and a battalion of the Twentieth
Foot, from Malta, have been ordered to dis
embark at Queenstown.
A battalion of the rifle brigade from the
troop ship Himalya disembarked at Queens
town to-day, and has arrived at Cork. It
will remain there, with regiment of in.
fantry and three troops of dragons.
Defeat Of Colonial Forces.
| LONDON, December 20th.-There is news
| from the Cape that the Burghers have
been seriously defeated by the Pondas, and
that the Cape authorities find the area of war
spreading SO widely that it will become alb.
solutely necessary to call for British troops.
REPORT CONFIRMED.
LONDON, December 20th.-The Standard
| in its evening edition, confirms the report of
the defeat of the Burghers by the Pondas,
and also that request for assistance was re-
ceived at the War Office to-day from the gov.
eminent at the Cape of Good Hope.
CARE Town, December 2Oth.-The latest
/ advices from Mafeting reports thata patroling
column has been compelled to retire before
3, 900 Basutos The Colonial loss is trifling.
The Tembus have besn unnecessarily at
tackled in the Engobo gorges.
Billiard Championship of the World.
PARIS, December 20th-A billiard match
for the championship of the world and 81 900
a side, between George T. Slosson of the
United States, and Maurice Viguaux Of
! France, began tonight in the Grand Hotel.
The match is to be Of 8. 600 points, 600 TO be
played each night, the player reaching that
number any night in the course of run to
finish bis run the following night. The large
| dining saloon of the hotel in which the con.
test takes place was filed with spectators
! NJ. Gebelins. professor CT billiards, was
chosen umpire. Vignaux opened the game.
but failed to score. Slossou followed, and
also failed to count. After several uncertain
shots yignaux started run and made 81
points He afterwards made runs of III and
| Ill The highest run made by Slosson was
q. At 10 o'clock Vignaux had scored S04
and Slossop 60. The game then adjourned.
New Republic Established.
LONDON, December 20th.-A telegram to
! the Colonial Office from Pietermartzburg,
dated December 10Th, reports that 5000
and established Republic, viii Paul Kruger
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