The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-11
EUROPE.
The Liberals Making Answers to
Beaconsfield.
TWENTY SEVEN PERSONS BURNED
TO DEATH AT MOSCOW.

LONDON, March 1O.-William E. Forster,
one of the Liberal leaders in the Commons
has issued an address to the electors of Brad
ford, in reply to Beaconsfield's manifesto. He
denies the charge that the political opponents
of the Premier seek to disintegrate the United
Kingdom, and intimates that is made in the
hope of diverting attention from the michiev-
GUS foreign and Indian policy of the Govern
ment. He agrees with Beaconsfeld that the
strength of the nation depends upon unity of
feeling, but believes the power of England
can only be upheld by wiser foreign and CO.
lonial policy which will increase the public
welfare.
VIM. Shaw, Home Rule leader, has issued
an address to his constituency at Cork, in
which he characterized the letter of Beacons-
field as an electioneering manifesto, placing
false issues before the people, and tending to
excite the worst passions of the ignorant. He
attributes the famine in Ireland to the Govern
ment's culpable ignorance and neglect, and &C
cuses the Prime Minister with disappearing
the general opinion of the people of Ireland.
Shaw's ddresS concludes as follows: "There
is another Irish question on which the govern.
ment is more reactionary than others; 1 mean
the land question. / call on the Irish people,
North and South, to answer the insulting mis-
sive of the Prime Minister by returning an
overwhelming majority at the coming election
of men pledged to the settlement of a great
vital national question, pledged to give ampler
facilities for the creation of peasant proprleta-
ry wherever possible, to restore, define and le-
galize the tenant right in Ulster, and extend
it to the whole of Ireland. We must sink all
minor difference, put aside all personal feeling
and lend every energy to effect this great OBJ
ject
The Marquis of Harrington has issued a
manifesto to the Liberal party, opposing that
of Beoconsfeld. He knows of no party which
challenges the expediency of the imperial
character of the realm or which has attempted
to enfeeble the colonies by policy of decompo-
sitiou. Though opposing Home Rule he be-
lleves no patriotic purpose can be served by
exaggerated accounts of the agitation for that
purpose and that the attempt to reawaken nat
ional animosities by description, Dangers
worse than pestilence and famine unnecessa-
ry and unwise.
The Ferry Education Bill.
The Times Paris dispatch says: 1t was fore
seen some time ago that clause seven of the
Ferry Education bill would be rejected by
eight or ten votes, and the majority was swol-
len to nineteen by the debate, especially by
Ferry's impolitic speech. The unanimous
opinion of those who do not share in Ferry's
view is that his resignation is inevitable in
consequence of the defeat.
Members of the Left resolved that nothing
less than the passage of article seven of Ferry
Educational bill in its entirety could be 40
cepted and that an Interpolation be addressed
to the Government on the subject.
The Italia Irridenta.
ROME, March 10.-The police seized some il
legal irridenta emblems and arrested Signor
Fratte for making aviolent speech. This is
considered evidence of the governments in
tention to openly oppose the Italia Irridenta
movement
Disastrous Fire in Moscow.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1O.-A great fire
occurred at the weaving works in Moscow
Monday. The entiresbuilding was destroyed
Twenty-four persons burned to death and
twenty-nine injured.
Three-Fourths Of Herzegovinian Town
Burned.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March O.-Three-fourths
OF Vevesinie, in Herzegovina, was bnrned
yesterday, including the residence of the
commandant OF telegraph offices. Many per-
sons are homeless. No lives were lost.