The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-12
EUROPE.

Russia Abandons the Merry Expedition.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1.-THE opera of
Ivan Kaloshorikof has been interdcted. The
Russian expedition to Merry is for the present
is abandoned.
Small Pox Prevalent in Paris.
PARIS, March 1.-THE prevalence of small
pox in Paris is causing much alarm. The
municipal council is taking measures against
its further spread.
The Nihilists Thank France.
The radical newspaper, the Mot D'Ordre,
publishes an address of the Russian revolution
airy committee thanking the French people for
refusing extradition in the case of Hartman.
A Home Rule Manifesto.
LONDON, March 1.-THE Home Rule con-
federation has issued the following manifesto
To the Irish PEOPLE IN Great Britain:
Beaconsfeld has issued in the guise of a let
Ter to the Viceroy of Ireland declaration of
war upon your country and your friends The
ministry is seeking to obtain renewed term
OF office by sowing disSension and hatred be-
tween Englishmen and Irishmen, and Bea-
consfelds vicious manifesto directly appeals
to the worst passions and prejudices for the
purpose of stirring up Englishmen against the
irish nationality. The ministry neither knows
nor cares how to relieve our distressed fellow
countrymen. BeacoHsfeld's foreign policy has
been an inglorious and disastrous failure Vote
against him as you would against an enemy
of your country.
The manifesto is signed by several members
of Parliament.
The English Budget.
In the Commons today the Chancellor of
the Exchequer introduced the budget showing
the revenue this year to be G195, 900 less than
estimated, leaving deficit of GO, 1856 900. The
cost of the Zulu war was a5 13S, 900, nearly all
OF which has been betrayed by England. The
estimates for the next year are: Expenditure,
eS1 1851 600; revenue, elS.560,OO0
Gladstone to His Constituents.
LONDON, March 11.-Gladstone has issued an
address to the electors of Midlothian. He says
in the electioneering address issued by Bea-
consfield an attempt is made to work upon
your fears by dark illusions to the repeal of
the union and the abandonment of the colon
les. Those who endangered the union with
Ireland were the party that maintained there
an alien church, an unjust land law and fran
chses inferior to ours. AS to the colonies the
liberal administrations gave them popular and
responsible governments, undertook to defend
Canada. with the whole strength of
uniting the several settlements of Brit
ish North America into one domain
The present ministry haved neglected home
legislation. aggravated public distress by con-
unued shocks to confidence and augmented
public expenditures and taxation. Abroad the
ministry have endangered the prerogative by
its gross misuse, weakened the empire by need
less wars, dishonored it in the eyes of Europe
by filching Cyprus from the Porte under
clandestine treaty, aggrandized Russia, lured
Turkey to ACKNOWLEDGMENT and ruin and loaded
India with the cost of an uniustifable war.
The ministry has done nothing TO improve
our social condition. You are promised the
advantages of ascendency in the councils Of
urope. The word "ascendency'' is best
known to US by its baneful connection with
the history of Ireland. ] must assert the CO.
eq ual rights Of independent allied powers but
in the mouth OF the present ministry the claim
is ridiculous.