Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-05

BY CABLE.
GERMAN DUTIES TO RETAIL
ATE ON, RUSSIA.
The Porte Suspected Of Good
Sense.
The Land League to Keep Within
the Law.
More Troops for the Beers.
The Queens Forthcoming Speech.
The Wreck of a Vessel Washing
Ashore.
More Troops for the Beers.
The Queens Forthcoming Speech
LAND LEAGUE POLICY.

LAND LEAGUE POLICY.
DUBLIN, January Sat a weekly
meeting of the land league yesterday
Davitt said 1t was understood that
several more meetings would be. pro-
claimed this week, and he counseled
all branch leagues to give the author
tiles no pretext for the suppression of
the meetings in consequence Of word
ing placards. If all the meetings
were proclaimed, he said, the branches
Of the league would be summoned to
meet fortnightly, and if these meet
ings were also prohibited, the only
remedy which would remain would in
evitably point in the direction Of il
legal meetings. If the habeas corpus
act was suspended, he was firmly con-
vinced that violence and outrage
would usurp the restricted influence
Of the league.
AN APPEAL DISMISSED.
PARIS, January 5.-The appeal Of
Debaudry D'Asson from the decision
of the judge, dismissing his action
against Gambetta fer false imprison-
ment, after he was elected from the
chamber of deputies also, has been
dismissed.
THE SINKING SHIP.
LONDON, January 5.-The Brazilian
is sinking in the sand at both ends.
The cargo in the hold is still dry as
the bulkheads keep tight.
GERMAN DUTIES.
The customs duties, which it is
thought the German government con.
template imposing as an Offset to the
increase of Russian duties, means the
adoption of retaliatory measures.
GERMAN WAR VESSELS,
BERLIN, January 5.-Men-of-war
will probably proceed to the Cape to
watch the course of hostilities in
Transvaal.
THE STUBBORN PORTE.
PARIS, January 5.-Thc Temps
says. Informationreceived at the last
moment concerning the disposition Of
the porte. warrants the hope that good
sense will finally triumph over the sui
tans hesitation to accept the arbitra-
ton on the Greek question.
TROOPS FOR TRANsvAAL.
LONDON, January 5.-Two more
regiments Of infantry have been sent
to the Transvaal from India.
The Times recapitulates the meas
ures which will be announced in the
QUEENS SPEECH
tomorrow, and says there will be the
Irish land league bill which will
neither involve the rash expenditure
Of public money, or to Justify the out
cry against spoliation on the part Of
the landlords. There will be scheme
Of army REFORM, involving some
extension of period OF service, and
also an amendment of the bankruptcy
law. Besides these frst-class bills,
there will be others for restoring order
in Ireland, and for renewing the ballot
act.
Several bottles of petroleum have
been found at Carriers & Huskissons'
docks, Liverpool. These, taken in
connection with ineendiary fires in
the lumber yards in the vicinity, ex-
cite alarm.
MADRID, January 5.-The election
of the various committees Of the SEN
ate and chamber Of deputies showed
animated resistance on the part Of the
opposition, several Of whom we're
elected. The opposition in the senate
demanded that the cabinet should
produce the documents in the nego-
tiations for treaty Of commerce with
the United States.
AMERICAN VESSEL LOST.
LoNDoE, January 5.-The Apple
ton. which sailed for Savannah on
December 9Th, has been totally lost
sE Lenvig, Denmark. Several bales Of
cotton aad boats marked Farnley, Of
New Castle. Oae IF the boats con-
tanning two dead bodies that bss been
washed ashore, belonged to New Cas-
lie. She was last reported December
9th at Dartmouth, from Savannah, on
her way to Reval.