The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Foreign Affairs.
London, May Lord Carlingford has
declined the Enthusiastically at Constants
nople.

formation we have hitherto had every reason
TO rely sends us tho following extraordinary
statement; Last week steamer touched
of Lunay Island entrance of the British
channel, lor the purpose OF transferring two
passengers to u fishing smack. The steamer,
which Is named the Helene, has
a cargo consisting of twelve thousand rifles,
four million cartridges and u torpedo launc b,
They ARE to be landed in Crete about the end
OF May, when revolution is TO break out in
various parts Of the island. The two pas
sengers who landed are Cretan agents, who
had been entrusted with the purchase of the
arms, This is the ship which some Amer
lean correspondents said was in
teuded' for a raid on Cuba.
NO HOPE FOR THE ATLANTA,
Very little hope now remaiGs that the
training ship Atlanta, which sailed from
Bermuda ninety-one days ago, with II
crew of eleven officers and three hundred
men. 1t is thought she must have found
cred ia one Of the terrific gales known to
havs prevailed after her departure from
Bei uuda.
A correspondent of the Times SAYS changes
in the British Parliament and Cabinet have
brought an element of uncertainty into Eu.
rcpean politics which gives free scope to
Imagination. The sending of Austrian and
German military populations to st, Peters
barg to congratulate the Car on his birth
day is courtesy which has been shown be-
fore, and would have been
noted at another time, is now
conceded by conjecture with the recon,
struction of the Triple alliance.
The Prince of Bulgaria is expected nj Bel
grade, 10 pay long promised visit, and in
view ct the fresh impulse given to the aspira-
tion ofthe Balkan populations, BY u change
in the British ministry. This visit is now re-
garded rs the first step toward the alliance OF
Balkan municipalities. A union Of these has
advanced the Tidal leader in the Italian
Chamber Of Deputies with the
regular opposition for the over.
throw of the Carroll. The ministry
i; brought into connection with the change
in the government Of England, which is
supposed TO have broken the spell which has
hitherto forced Italy to keep on good terms
with Austria. Ii sno longer restrained by
the moderatng voice of England, which has
been often heard Of late. The Times con-
respondent considers the time for the reallza-
ton otl:aian greatness near at hand.
JEWS DRIVEN FROM ST. PETERSBURG.
a Berlin dispatch says all Jews of foreign
birth 10 st. Petersburg have been ordered to
quit the city within six hours.
IRISH APPOINTMENTS.
Lord o. Hagan has been appointed Lord
Chancellor Of Ireland, aud DR.. Hugh Lowe
Attorney. General for Ireland.
ENGLISH HOLIDAY.
To-day is a holiday Mt the Bank of Eng
land and on the Stock Exchange, the first
secular days of May and November being
the days on which the bank makes up Its
balances.
CHALLENGE AT TARGET SHOOTING.
The Bells Life says John William Oak
den, aged nineteen years, champion five hun
bred yard shot of England, challenges any
man in the world to shoot with him forty
shots distance of five hundred yards, at u
target four feet In diameter, with an eight
inch bulps.eye, or he will give eight points,
out of eighty shoots, for ESQ side and a
one hundred guinea challenge cup. He also
announces that he will give or take ESQ for
expenses 20 any part Of the world, the Bells
Life to hold the stakes and appoint the ref
cree.
FREED BY THE CAR.
St. Petersburg, May 1.-The Herald an
nounces that on the cd anniversary of the
birth Of the Car, which occurred to-day,
six thousand persons were either delivered
from Imprisonment or released from the SUI
peri ision OF the police.
CHINA's WAR SPIRIT.
The Nova Vereneyea publishes telegram
dated Vladiristock, April 18th, which states
that according TO intelligence from Shanghai
war preparations on large scale are making
in China.
FIRST sNUB.
In the article headed "a First Snub," the
Pail Mall Gazette, says: ut is somewhat
significant that the advent of a Liberal party
to power should have been seized upon by
the American people as an occasion on
which they might offer with IMMUNITY
to slight England. II WAS under
Gladstone; first administration that Russia
committed gross breach OF international
faith, and denounciDg the treaty of 1856.
The President of the United States has now
been solicited, by Congress to commit
another and even more conica breach. 1t Is
true that the recommendations of the Com
mittees on Foreign Affairs Of the Senate and
House of Representatives need not OF neces-
sity be acted upon by the Executive
but when it is rememended that
one chamber is governed by
a Democratic and the other by Republican
majority, sic., and further, that the Presiden-
tial election is at hand, there can be little
doubt that either President Hayes or his
successor will be ordered to withdraw
from engagements imposed on his Govern.
ment by the Bulwer-Clayton treaty.
The Clayton convention revival Of the Monroe
doctrine in It's most extravagant sense is too
good cry to be discarded by the managers
Of the other party. England's duty TO her
colonies requires that she should assert their
rights in this matter. France, Spain and
Holland can scarcely accept. the proclama-
ton Of Yankee sovereignty over the whole
Western hemisphere. Brazil and Chill are
not Likely TO submit to it.
Powerful rs the North, American Union
ia, it is not so strong as the to be able to defy
the public opinion of the world, which would
assriredly 10 such questions as this, be on the
side Of the nation which takes its stand on
legality. Even the most Jealous advocate of
peace at any price. must be anxious to uphold
the binding nature Of the treaties
volunteerly concluded between friendly
States, and therefore it must be
hoped tim, Gladstone, Lord Granville and
Rrioht will not be friphtened nv Yankee blus-