The Portland daily press., 1880-04-01
EUROPE.
Parliamentary Elections in Eng
land.
REMARKABLE VICTORIES FOR THE
LIBERALS.
The London News Claims the Practical
Defeat Of Beaconsfleld.

LONDON, March 3l.-The Daily News says:
The first days polling resulted in great Lib
eral victory. There is Liberal gain of "a
seats and loss of nine, making Liberal gain
of fifteen. Counting ont thirty on the div
sion of the House, the vote of yesterday has
practically pronounced the doom of the Bea-
consfeld government.
The Times says: The Conservatives must
admit very grave disco ragement If the
tide of success flows as strongly as yesterday in
favor of the opposition the whole ministerial
majority of seventy-four will have melted.
LONDON, March 31.-The following were to-
day elected members OF Parliament without
opposition: Hicks Beach, Conservative; W.
Biddell, Conservatives: Alexander Ell. Brown.
Liberal; Thomas Burt, Liberal labor represent
tative; Lewis l.. Dillwyn, Liberal; Cecil For
ester, Conservative, W. b. Hughes, Liberal
Conservative supports governments foreign
policy: Stanley Leighton, Conservative; John
r. Browbray, Conservative; Viscount New
port, Conservative; John G. Talbot, Conserve
tiye Thomas Thornhill, Conservative; Benz.
Whtworth, Liberal, but has also accented
home rule; John B. Yorke, Conservative Hon.
VIM E. Baxter, Liberal; Fl. R. Brand, Liber-
all Fairfax w. Cartwright, Conservative. TT
f. Cowper, Liberal; Thos. F. Haisey, Conser-
vative-all reelected.
French Legislation Against the Jesuits
PARIS, March 31.-The religious societies of
France will probably contest in the courts the
legality of the DEGREES against unauthorized re-
ligious societies, on the ground that the laws
on which they are based are obsolete. The
Union, ChambordS organ, the Monde ORGAN
of the Papal Nuncio, and the Universe, Ultra
montana, are greatly exdsperated, and declare
that the Catholics will vigorously resist the en-
forcement of the DEGREES. The Pays. Cassag-
macs paper, says the DEGREES are only prelim-
mary to the re-establishment of the guilotine
for political adversaries, while the Orde and
Liberte, also Bonapartist, admit the legality of
the DEGREES.
Excitement Over DR.. Newman Halls
Marriage.
No little regret has been caused in evangeli-
cal and non-conformist religious circles here
by the announcement that on Easter Monday
Rev. DR.. Newman Hall was married to Miss
Knife, with whom his wife accused him having
been unduly intimate for many years. On the
trial of DR.. Halls suit for divorce from his
wife, with whom he had lived for nearly forty
years, he acknowledged that he had fallen in
love with Miss Knife, and that he intended tc
marry her if the divorce was granted. These
statements shocked many of DR.. Newman
Halls friends, and they urged him not to
marry the young lady, DR.. Hall is now 65
| years old, and his new, wife is about 80 years
The Czarina's Death Momentarily Elk
pected.
Private cipher dispatches received here
from ST. Petersburg state that the Czarina il
| very much worse and that her death is mo-
| mentarily expected The situation at the
winter palace is depicted as one of deep sor
row and general gloom. The Gear roams about
the imperial apartments in a state of deep de
| lection. He scarcely notices what is said t.
him when addressed. and seems to be absorbed
| in half-conscious reverie.
The Russians and Chinese Getting I'm.
comfortably Near One Another.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 31.-Advices are
received from Veroe, a Russian port near the
| Chinese frontier, that another skirmish ha6
taken place between Cossack pickets and the
Chinese troops on Kuldja boundary.