Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Distress in Ireland.

LONDON, January 25th.-At Saturday s
meeting of the Dublin Mansion House Re-
lief Committee eighty applications for relief
were received, and fifty-iVe grants, amount
ing to e2.6S5. The total amount SO far
granted is eS,3 $40 Five hundred pounds has
been received from Washington and 81, 800
from New York.
LONDON, January 25th.-A land meeting
was held to-day in the Connemara noun
tains. which several thousand persons at
tended. Davitt and Kelly were present.
There were also land meetings at Bohola, at
which 4, 900 persons were present.
John Bright, speaking at Birmingham yes
terday. reverted to the Irish question at
length, and urged the Government to take
energetic action for the relief of the sufferers
in Ireland.
The Lord Mayor Of Dublin has issued an
appeal through the London press in behalf Of
the Mansion House Relief Committee stat
ing that the committee is not connected with
any other organization, and that it consists of
representatives of all creeds and all shades of
politics. The appeal states that evidence ac
cumulates that there is scarcely a county in
Ireland in which terrible privation does not
exist in some portion, though it is more Sc
we're in the western counties and on the north
west and south seaboards The Lord Mayor
realize the gravity of the crisis and that unless
prompt assistance be given thousands of peo-
pie must die of starvation. He cannot think
that if they did, they who gave hundreds of
thousands to avert famine in India, would
have given less to the Dublin Mansion House
fund than had Sidney or Melbourne.
The Lord Mayor states that tS 900 already
has been distributed out of the go 600 re-
ceived, but that this is a mere drop in the ocean
of need. He fears a recurrence of the dis
aster of 1S47, when abundant assistance was
forthcoming, but too late to save life.
The Afghanistan situation.
LONDON, January 25th--A proclamation
will be issued, stating that vengeance for the
massacre of the British Embassy at Cabul
being satisfied, the army withdraws to Jella-
labad leaving the Afghans to live under such
sovereign as they may elect. Until such
sovereign be firmly established, the Queen
foregoes the right under the treaty of Gun
damak, to place an envoy at Cabul, all
communications with the Cabul Government
being in the meantime conducted by the
Queens special agent. Pending the peaceful
settlement of the country, Jellalabad and
Candahar will be occupied by British troops.
The Queen will insist that communication of
the Afghan ruler with foreign Governments
shall be held subject to her approval.
Right OF Meeting-D Death.
PARIS, January 25th.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day, while the bill relating to
public meetings were under discussion, Louis
Blanc insisted that the right of meeting and
forming associations should be absolutely IN
restricted, as in England and the United
States.
De Peyamont, the Orleanist Senator from
Haute Winnie, is dead.
Proposed New Cuban Loan.
MADRID. January 25th.-The Liberal states
that the Minister of Colonies will shortly
present to the Cortes, with the Cuban budget,
a resolution authorizing the Government to
contract a loan of 60, 900, 600 piastres, the
proceeds to be devoted to the payment of all
previous Cuban loans. The guarantee to be
offered will be based upon the customs
revenue of Cuba.
The KuIdja FrOnfier-ShOrt Crops.
ST. PETERSBURG, January 25tb.-The Co
los states that large force of Chinese troops
has arrived on the Kuldja frontier. Twenty
Enplishmen are reported to be with the COM
mand
The GoIos reports that the crops of 1879
were unsatisfactory, and that this fact is
causing apprehensions of distress in several
provinces. The newspapers now discuss the
probability of the necessity arising for the
importation of American grain into Russia
next spring.
The MOntenegran-Greece Question.
LONDON, January 25th.-A st. Petersburg
correspondent reports that intelligence has
been received from a well-informed private
source in Vienna to the effect that Austro-
Hungary, England and France have agreed
TO make joint representations to the Porte for
q speedy execution of the provisions of the
treaty respecting the Montenegran- Greece
question of reforms Germany and Italy, it
is said, have promised their cooperation, and
there is reason to believe that Russia will act
with the rest OF Europe.
Terrible Distress-Deafhs from Hunger
A Battle Imminent.
LONDON, January 25th.-A Constantinople
dispatch asserts that terrible distress prevails
in Adrianople. Fifteen persons were found
dead from hunger there in one day. In some
cases pieces of wood were found in the mou tbs
of the corpses.
A dispatch from Teheran, dated the oath
states that very large force of Jekke
Turcomans has arrived at Dashberdy, men
acing the communication between Cfatte and
Tchiskislar, and that battle is imminent.
Still Missing.
CABUL, January 25th.-A correspondent
states that efforts to discover the whereabouts
of Abdul Rahman Khan have been unsuc-
cessful.
Ritter Feeling Against England.
LONDON, January 25th.-A correspondent
at Constantinople says that the people and
press of that city are very virulent against
England on account of the German mis-
sionary incident.
The Italian Parliament.
LONDON, January 25th.-A Rome dispatch
announces that protracted Cabinet Council
was held yesterday, when it was decided to
close the present session Of Parliament and
inaugurate new one.
Movements of General Grant and Party.
HAVANA, January 25th.-This being Sun
day, General Grant and party passed the day
quietly at the Palace. This morning General
Sheridan and wife, Mrs General Grant and
two young ladies attended mass at the Palace
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