Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-11-27
Resume Of Foreign News.
Europe.

Europe.
The most important news from Europe
relates to the land agitation in Ireland
which in some districts has assumed a grave
aspect. Parnell and other speakers are quite
defiant in their language. Matthew Harris
speaking at a land meeting at Galloway
October "a, said that after witnessing the
evictions of farmers, he had resolved, il
the farmers shot landlords like patridges
he would never say word against it. His
speech was received with cheers. The
Times of October 25th, in summarizing the
argument of speech made by Parnell at
the same place says: 1t is impossible to
mistake the meaning of such an argument
or the purpose of the man who nses it,
The condition of ireland and the temper OF
the men who are criminally misleading the
people calls for immediate attention.
London dispatches to the New York
World Of the same date say:
Two thousand and fifty Irish Cons.
tabulary have been ordered Immediately to
rendezvous at the Curragh of Kildare. The
town is filed with the gravest rumors.
The Post Office at Manchester is in flames
and will be destroyed. All telegraphic COM
munication with London is cut off. There
are plain Indications that the fire was in
cendiary, and it is believed by many that
this indicates an intention to organize dis
turbances in England in aid of the Land
League in Ireland. Two regiments of in
fantry at Davenport have been ordered by
telegraph to the suburbs of Manchester,
which were under orders for Ireland.
The indictments against the Land League
will include 200 speeches., drafted test.
| mony of $50 witnesses, and various news.
paper articles, and a Dublin telegram of
Nov. 9Th says it is confidently asserted that,
in justification of their acts and speeches,
the Irish agitators will, at the approach
ing trial, call several hundred witnesses
from rack-rented estates.
Dispatches of the same date say that
Charles 5. Dudgeon, of Longford county,
magistrate, was fired at near Longford,
and that the Freemam's Journal has started
subscriptions for the defence of the Land
Leaguers.
| In France, the movement naugurated
by the Government against religious orders
is being carried out The French Cabinet
Council has decided to continue the en-.
forcement of religious DEGREES and to dis
solve all non-authorized religious orders be.
fore the re-assembling of the Chambers. In.
spectors visited the former Jesuit estab.
lshment of Amiens, and found there two
jesuit Fathers, previously professors in the
same college. The Franciscan Friars of
Avignon have bricked up the doors of their
monastery. They are well supplied with
provisions. The President of the Mont.
nalior f,hnpo1 hoe lanlo,,l =.
competent to hear the suit of the Carmel.
ties against the Project, to recover pos
session of their convent. A dispatch says
the Tribunal of Conflicts will meet the 9th
Of November to decide the Jesuit question,
and unless the arguments are very long, q
decision in one case, which will govern all,
will be given the same day. During the ex.
pulson of the Seminarists at Lyons Nov.
9Th, disturbance occurred, in which a
workman was fatally stabbed with a sword
cane.
Affairs in Turkey and the Danubian
Principalities is in an unsettled but not
critical condition. There is Ministerial
crisis at Belgrade, caused by Austria
threatening to entirely close her frontier
against Servia should she not meet her en-
gagements on the conclusion of the treaty
OF commerce; and misunderstanding is
reported between Turkey and Montenegro
in regard to the surrunder of Dulcigno. A
Constantinople dispatch dated November
9Th says: Ria Pasha has telegraphed to
the Porte that a conflict with the Albanians
may be expected.
The Porte also has made arrangements
for the dispatch of 10000 men to Adriano-
pie, in view Of the preparations for the
union of Bulgaria and Roumania.
Asia.
A Peshawur dispatch dated October Goth
says: Anarchy reigns in Cabul, and that
the Amer has been murdered. There has
been no news by post from Cabul for
several days.
The insurgent Kurds, says dispatch of
October 25th, have renewed their depreda-
tons, and several more Persian villages
have been destroyed. The insurgents have
entered the District Of Selmast, Province
of Azerbaijan. The Persian troops at
Beenat are too weak to hazard an attack.
Additional troops numbering $500 with
twelve guns from Teharan, have passed
the town Of Gavin. The Kurds have also
invested the fortified town of Urumiah,
in Northern Persia, near the Armenian
frontier, and summoned it to surrender in
three days. The English Consul is trying
to obtain a delay. Several leading Kurds
are marching to the relief of the place.
Reinforcements are also marching from
Gerrus. The Turks will cooperate with
the Persians by despatchiug troops from
Van.
Africa.
The hostilites with the Bnsutos still
continues in South Africa, and few en-
counters have taken place. A London dis
patch Of October Goth says the Basutos
have cut the land lines Of telegraph betw cen
Durham and Cape Colony, aud the Govern
ment intends to send large reinforcements
to Basuto land.
The Colonial loss in the lighting at the
relief of Matieting was trfing. Previously
n party Of yeomanary fell into an ambns-
cade and suffered a loss of 20 killed and II
wounded. A fight took place previous to
the relief Of Maileting, the details Of which
are as follows; An ambuscade of yeo-
manAry were charged by large body Of
Basutos, who descended the hills at full
speed. A hand to hand fight ensued The
Basutos were armed with asssgais, imitat-
ing the Zulus. aud killed - yeomsn; re-
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