The Portland daily press., 1881-02-25
Serious Accident to Mr.. Gladstone.

DUBLIN, Feb. 24.-At the Land League meet
ing on Wednesday telegram was read from
Mr. Parneli postponing the proposed anti-coer-
cion meetings on Sunday throughout ireland
until the terms of the new land bill are made
known.
A letter was read from Mr.. Eagan, now in
Paris, denouncing Mr.. Shaws manifesto as an
audacious assumption of leadership and ask
ing "who in Ireland ever for a moment be-
lieved that the handful OF renegades who fol-
lowed lMr. Shaw represented the country"
He adds: do the Shaws, the Erringtons, the
Blennerhassetts, the Bellnghams, the Col
thurts, the Martins the Henrys, the Fays and
the rest OF the traitors who baselv deserted the
Irish leader in the face of the enemy, think
that they can drag the country back into the
sums OF corruption and whiggery, or that
they will induce the people to adopt 'bomba'
Gladstone, to idolize Bright. the coercionist, or
tie offer Thanksgiving for what is well described
as mixture of buckshot and good intention
which is being offered them by Chief Secretary
Forster?" He says the cause of the League is
receiving support from the press of all shades
of opinion in France.
Mr.. Dillon announced that subcommittee
had been formed for the purpose of more COM
petely organizing the legal department of the
league. he said a number of letters had been
received asking if it was safe to send money to
the league. It might have been remarked
that sthere was a sensible falling off of sub.
scriptions from the home branches this week,
but not from America. 1t was natural there
should be feeling in the country that money
sent would be intercepted by the government.
He advised all country branches to send what
money they had on hand, and if any of it was
Intercepted they would give immediate notice
SO that no more would be lost. They had all
observed that there was conspiracy on foot
to intimidate the tenantry throughout the
country. 1t was represented that the tenants
were running to their landlords to pay their
rents, but all they could say was that they who
would have been supposed to know some
thing about such thing. if it were taking
place, had no knowledge thereof. Doubtless
some of the larger farmers had broken down.
but to say there was anything like general
BACK down OF the people was gross faisehood.
Mr.. Dillon stated that 80 900 cards of member
ship were being issued by the league every
week The amount received this week was
f1236. Only $500 was from the Irish branches,
the remainder being from America.
1t Is believed there were far more potent
reasons for abandoning the Sunday meetings
than anxiety to see the Land bill. The inn
preston prevails that the government intended
to take the opportunity to make some inn
portant arrests under the Coercion bill, and it
is quite probable great majority of the de-
monstrations would have been prohibited.
New YORK. Feb. 4-The Worlds LONDON
dispatch says that Mr. Parnell's letter to the
Secretary of the branch of the Land League at
Clara, Kings county, retracting his advice to
tenants to pillow up their lands in case of
eviction, is regarded as a sign of fear on his
part, as it is known to have been written at a
very early hour, or as soon as the dangerous
nature OF the advice was made known to him,
LONDON, Feb. M.-Premier Gladstone in
aighting from his carriage on his return home
from the House of Commons last night slipped
and fell backward, cutting the back of his
head severely on the iron steps of the ca
rIage. A doctor dressed the wound, and Mr.,
Gladstone was put to bed and remains there,
Traffic in Downing street has been stopped A
bulletin issued at noon says the doctor this
morning found Mr.. Gladstone free from fever
and doing quite well, needing only rest.
Germany's Attitude on Bimetalism.
LONDON, Feb 23.-The Paris correspondents
OF the News says that the Bourse states that
German favors the suspension of sales of
silver but the maintenance of stdtu quo on all
other bimetallist points, which seems to indi-
cate strong desire on the part of GERMANY to
regain the gold standard and currency with
out making any concession whatever The
international monetary convention meets in
Paris on the 22d of April.
The Expulsio OF American Pork from
= France.
PARIS, Feb. M.-The Temps explains that
the grounds for forbidding the importation of
American pork are that trichine were detect
ed last December in American pork, where-
upon an Investigation was instituted in Paris
and large quantity of infected meat discoy
cred,