Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-29
BY CABLE.
THE GREAT TRIALsAT DUBLIN
A SIGNIFICANT ABSENCE OF
EXCITEMENT.
The Sinking dr an IrOpclad.

DUBLIN, December 29.-E. Dwyer
Gray, Lord Randolph, Churchill and
other members of parliameut were
present at the opening trial. The
attorney-general will continue his ad
dress to day.
LONDON, December pa meeting
of home rule members of parliament
except those who are now on trial, will
bo held in London, January 9Th, i'm
mediately after the opening of parlia-
ment, for the purpose of considering
any further action on the policy OF the
government. The Times, in a leadiup
article, says: We cannot question the
correctness Of Oh eff Justice Ma,s'
opinion, ttat und,r circumst noes the
interest Of the justice wou d be oesl
served il he didn participate in the
trial case, if his withdrawal is to be
regret ed, but he his ac ed wisely,
an : scrupos which prom ie1 him 10
take this step deserved to be respected.
The News, in its leading editorials.
says: With jury, successfully i'm
pinnelled, and a bench on which both
sides can feel conf lence, trial will
proceed under the best conditions for
arr vng at satisfactory result as the
state OF Ireland READERS it possible.
A correspondent of the Times al
Dub in says that the FIRST day of She
state trials have been remarkable Only
/ for 6 Dom and dullness. Those who
ex ected the city would be full Of ex
citement, that thousands would as
semble in the streets and that the
court would be besieged by an eager
mu titude clamoring for admission,
were sadly disappointed. There has
not been the slightest manifestation Of
public feeling, beyond the gathering Of
about two hundred persons of the low
eat classes on the quay in the vicinity
of the courts. The absence of any
sympathy on the part Of respectable
citizens was very Significant, and pre-
sented to those who remembered the
| O'Ccnnell trial a very striking con
trast. Z
RARNsLEY, December 20. - The
Yorkshire miners association, on be
half of twenty thousand miners, have
resolved to give notice to the masters
with the view of obtaining ten per
cent. advance ia wages.
ToULoN, December 20. - The
Frenchironclad frigate Richslieu took
FIRE last night and finally sunk. Sev
eral of the crew were injured.
STUTTGART, December 29.-Prince
Christophe Ulrich, son of the heir
presumptive to the crown of Wurtem
berg, died yesterday.
LONDON, December ;29.-The off
cial returns show that the foot and
mouth disease is seriously spreading
among cattle in all the large counties
of England. There are 675i cases OF
this disease in Norfolk, aud 1876 in
London.
PARIS, December 29.-Soysn per-
sons were killed outright, and fall,
fifty injured, some seriously, aud per
haps fatally, by the falling of rool
Of a church, in Baillagot, during the
Christmas service.
VIENNA, December 29.-Couh: Vor
Montge as, formerly qecretary of the
Austro- Huagarian embassy at Lon
don from which post bo was trans
lerred to ConStantinople as counselor
Of the embassy there, has been sum
marily dismissed from the Austro
Hungarian diplomatic service without
a pension for gross official indiscrotiou
in communicating diplomatic intelli
genes in private letter,
ROME, December 29,-Bacelli ha-
been appointed minister Of pablo in-
structiOu, vice DeSanclis, resigned.
| CoNsTANTINoPLE, December 20.
The agitation in northern Albauia
against Conseryso is growing. The
Turkish functionaries at Pris, Uskuy
and Ipek have been dismissed and re
placed by Alblnians.
DUBLIN, December %. - Severa
traversers, including Parnell, wer,
not present at the reopening Of tht
proceedings in the state trials to. day
The law officer Of the crown continued
his address explaining the law bear
ing upon tho constitution Of an!
association.
ODESSA, December %. - BY tn
bursting Of a boiler 10 the admirat
works at Niootareff, yesterday, thre,
persons were Killed and ten injured.
The increase in customs dues @
goods imported from Russia will tax
, effect on the Both of January next.