Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-07
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, Jan. IA dispatch from Berlin to
the Morning Post says: Prince Bismarck has
definitely approved the scheme for granting a
government suDventiOn to a joint stock COM
paDy which shall buy the factories and planta-
tions of the firm OF j. c. Goddefray & Sons-the
Hamburg merchants who suspended business
some time Since-and continue 10 carry on ope-
rat:ons at the settlements OF that firm in Samoa
and other South Sea islands,
Death of a Historian.
PARIS. Jan. Jean Joseph Pouioulat, the
of ~
Irish Rent Agitation Spreading to
the Cities.
LONDON, JAM A dispatch from Dublin to
the Times says: 1.-The Irish rent agitation has
entered a new phase and has extended from the
rural to the urban localities. A movement is
afoot 10 agttate for remission or reduction OF
rents on the part of the poorer house holders
and tenants in Dublin and the other larger
towDs.
Judah p. BENJAMIN.
The London correspondent of the LIVERPOOL
Post says that Judah p. Benjamin has been re-
tanned for the claimant in the Tichoorne case.
New Taxes i'm Germany.
BERLIN. Jan. 1T is stated that the introduc-
ton OF bill for tax on bourse operations and
The introduction OF the Breming tax bill was
announced at Yesterdays sitting of the Bun
desrath as shortly intended.
The Reported Russian Army Move.
LONDON, Jan. THE Pesthe1' Corresponding.
which according toa Vienna dispatch TO the
Daily Ne1rS, denies the reported movements o
the Russian army toward the Austrian frontier
is not an authority of sufficient weight to Justify
the acceptance OF its contradiction of the de
tailed reports of Russian military preparations
which come from various points on the Austrian
and German frontiers. These reports aye beginning
to excite attention throughout Europe. Apam
phlet has just been Issued by Berlin publishe
entitled ''The Fortifications of the German Rus
sian Frontier" wherein the defenSeS OF each
country are elaborately discussed and the re-
spetuve advantages OF different plans of inva-
sion on either side canvassed The author is
evidently a German military man, and the ap-
pearance OF such pamphlet under the present
circumstances is regarded in Berlin as highly
significant. The writer expresses the belief
that Germany'S eastern frontier is sufficiently
defended and that German forces can be easily
and quickly modified and thrown upon i'm
poItant points in sufficient strength eyen on
the shortest notice, to hold the Russians at bay
On the frontier until measures OF resistance I'm
the interior can be thoroughly organized. The
following passage closes the treatise: "When
at the beginning OF September, the venerable
German Emperor visited Alexander at Alexan-
drove. he showed to the world with the grati-
fled concurrence of his people, that his tradi-
tiOnal friendly relations to Russia still existed
and consequently allayed the excitement which
bad been caused in Europe by newspaper re-
ordinations extending over several months.
If the Emperor Alexander uttered the words as
cribed to him by the public journals-Thank
God, war with Germany is an imposSibility'-
he spoke. we may believe in accordance with
the feelings of great majority OF his loyal sub
jectS. These words are, IL is to be hoped, to be
effaced neither by nihilfstS nor PAN -Savonic
agitators, nor by those restless statesmen and
generals who. Notwithstanding their experience
OF the RusSo-Turksh war. desire to satiate their
thirst for glory by an attack upon Germany.
Should they venture upon this they may per-
haps, find that their object will be a tri1e more
difficult of attainment in this country than 1t
proved in Turkey"