The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
EUROPE.
Rumored Deposal of Parnell.
A SHIPLOAD OF ARMS SEIZED BY
THE GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, Dec. 23.-Dublin customs author
tiles yesterday seized Norwegian ship unload
ing arms at Glare river near the mouth of the
Shannon. number of young men recently
arrived from America are under police sur
veillance.
NEW YORK, Dec. pa cable special says
Mr.. Labouchere publishes the intelligence that
Mr.. Parnell has been suddenly removed from
the leadership of the Land League and replac-
ed by Michael Davitt, whose outspoken Fem
ianism and emphatic demands for separation
from England, it says, find most favor now in
Ireland This statement must be accepted
with great deal of caution, as it is very we'll
understood here that there are no two men in
the Land League on more intimate terms with
one another than Parnell and Davitt.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times
says the introduction of the Land League into
the north of Ireland has had the effect of set
ting the existing tenants-right borderers who
had been for some time quescent, again in mo-
ton in some districts, and two concurrent
movements are now in progress which are dis
tinct from the League, although agreeing to
some extent with its principles. The printers
of placards for league meetings through the
country have received directions to attend the
trial of the traversers and to produce orders for
the publication of placards.
An Uproar in the French Senate Rumored
Resignation of President Ferry.
PARIS, Dec. 23.-In the Senate yesterday
M. Buffet, Orleanist, questioned the govern
ment on the subject of the removal of cruel
fixes from elementary schools in Paris by
order of Herold, Project of the Seine. Debate
showed that the law gave the local authorities
discretion relative to the retention of such re-
Hgious emblems, but that the police had in
some instances accomplished their removal in
careless and irreverent manner, throwing
the crucifxes into van at the door. NJ.
Herold explained that he had himself received
authorization from Premier Ferry before he
ordered their removal. The tone of Herold's
speech produced a great uproar on the Right,
particularly his statement that the question
was one merely of school furniture. An order
OF the day was proposed by De Rozere (Rep)
that the Senate, regretting the act which had
given rise to the discussion, passes to the
order of the day, which was passed by vote
of 159 to 80. Afterward the order of the day,
and rejected BY i5o to ia, and miIder CEN
sure on Herolds conduct was proposed by the
Moderates, which was shelved by similar
majority. To day Herold rendered his re-
signation. It is stated the Premier Ferry and
Constans, Minister of the Interior and of
Worship, have also declared that they will
resign.
LONDON, Dec. pa dispatch from Paris
announces that Premier Ferry has refused to
accept M. Herolds resignation, which has &C.
cordingly been Withdrawn.
DUBLIN, Dec. 23.-At meeting of the
Grand Orange Lodge the emergency COM
Mltteo TeSOlVou W eurOil persons WHO WOuiQ
when necessary proceed to a disturbed district
and enter the service or guard "Boycotted"
persons.
LONDON, Dec. 23.-A company OF engineers
have been ordered to leave Aldershot imme-
diately for Ireland.
The Pope and the Irish Bishops.
ROME, Dec. 23.-The Pope has addressed
recommendation to the Irish bishops urging
them to use their efforts toward effecting the
pacifcation of Ireland.
The Greek Question.
LONDON, Dec ga Berlin correspondent
reports that all the powers have adhered to
the arbitration scheme, which has been COM
municated to the Porte.
Labor Troubles in England.
the Bolton and Oldham operative cotton
spinners applied for an advance of five per
cent wages. -Four thousand golfers in Ash
ton-under-Tyne struck to-day.
Serious Floods in England.
Alarming floods are reported around M an
chester. The river Irwell, small stream
which furnished water power to Manchester
and several other manufacturing towns In Lam
caster, has overfiowed its banks and done great
damage to the mills. Communication with
off, and in the vicinity of the city numbers of
cattle have been drowned. The waters con-
tinue rising, aud further and more serious
trouble is apprehended.
Foreign Notes.
The entire garrison in Ireland does not in
clude single distinctively Irish regiment.
A parish priest says he intends to proceed
against Bence Jones, who was recently "Boy-
cotted," for libel in consequence of Jones'
starement to the effect that the priest induced
laborers TO quit his employment.