The Newtown bee., 1880-11-24
Foreign Nsvs.

Two leading Nihilists have been hanged at St. Petersburg.
 vehement and brilliant speech at Birmingham, in which he reviewed the Irish question in its many phases, and practically declared that the present agitation is due to the oppression of the land-holding classes of Ireland. Mr. Bright traced the history of the Irish peasant for some time past and said that the present disturbances in the island had been brought about, perhaps unintentionally on their part by the absenteeism of the Irish landlords from their estates, which have been left to the tender merces of rack-reut agents, who, not having the power to lower rents, have been compelled to drain every penny from the mis- cradle tenants for a master who was spending 1t abroad while the tenants have been unable to get leases of land by personal negotiation with their landlords.
 The government of Santo Domingo has asked all American governments to unite in erecting monument to the memory of Chris topher Columbus.
 \ cabinet crisis is threatened in Engand Two members of the cablnet-John Bright and Mir. Forster-h have assured Premier Glad stone that if coercive measures are used to- ward Ireland they will resign; while two other membcrs-the Duke of Argyll and the Marquis of Hartington-threaten to resign ii Mir. Gladstone hesitates to repeal the habeas corpus act in case matters grow worse in re- land
 The people of Havana, Cuba, have had a celebration lasting i've days ln honor of the birth of the Spanish princess.
 News from China is to the effect that the United States commissioners have concluded 8 new treaty which thoroughly controls the question ot Chinese emigi ation.
 The schooner Abraham Lincoln has been lost on the coast of Liberia, Africa, with thirty lives. Among the lost were James B . McGill and George s. Wood, ex-representa- tives for the county of Maryland, Liberia, and other prominent Liberians.
 The Boersen Zeitun9, a German newspaper, says that in many places quarrels and duels have taken place between Germans and Jews
 The British ship Galatea, from London, bound for Bombay, India, toundered off Cape Clear and twenty lives were lost.
 A cruel case of wholesale eviction has oc- cured at the South Moor colliery, Durham, England. Because ot the refusal of the miners to accept reduction of a shilling week twenty-two families, with their house. hold effects, were turned into the street, amid driving sleet, while six inches of snow lay on the ground. One hundred and fifty families are still to be evicted.
 The Chilian squadron has sailed from Val paraiso with troops to attack Lima, the Peru viaa capital.
 The Kurds have burned village near Urumiah, Persia, and massacred 200 of the inhabitants.
 A sitish steamer which left San Francisco few days ago foI Hong Kong carried away $50 Chinamen.
 The public debt of Mexico now amounts te $144, 100000.
 caretaker who with others, had been placed in charge of farm in County Linn. erick, Ireland, from which tenant was recently evicted was shot dead while sitting at his 1reside.
 The British steamer Mildred, from New York bound for Marseilles, has foundered in the Atlantic. All hands on board, twenty three in number, were drowned. The British coasting steamer Ailsa with a crew of twenty men and seven passengers, has also been lost
 A special cable dispatch says that the mem- bers of the Irish land league have invested all their funds in foreign securities and lodged them in the Continental bank and removed their books and papers to place of safety.
 MT. Parnen and the other indicted members of the land league have entered pleas of I" not guilty ? in the government prosecution against them,