The Portland daily press., 1881-05-16
FOREIGN.
Failure Of the Policy of Coercion
in Ireland.
OUTRAGES GROWING FREQUENT AND
GENERAL.
CONSERVATION in Italy Over the Fran
c0-Tunisian Treaty.
Fall OF the Liberal Party in Russia.

tie progress owing to the anxiety OF members
of Parliament. who know next to nothing
about the land question and who insist on
making set speeches Mr.. Parnell has not yet
spoke, but he will probablyEdo so on Thursday,
when division on the second reading will
probably be taken. Meantime the condition
Of Ireland grows daily moro alarming and re-
sistance to law is becoming more open and des-
pcrate.s
The Telegraph SAYS: "The rod Of coercion
has brnlSen ia the hand Of authority and the
disaifection shows that it has no fear What
is the actual result? The answer lies in the
ugly word--anarchy. The rod is at work, and
every day brings its batch of defiant out
RACES"
The Pail Mali Gazette, replying to this arti-
Gle, says: "There is one circumstance that
ought to stimulate and sustain public atten-
tion under the burden of the economical intri-
caces of the Irish land bill. That circum-
stance is to be found in the news that comes
from day to day from Ireland itself. The
items of this morning will do as well as those
of yesterday Or tomorrow. A bailiff on re-
turning from a wake about midnight on We'd
nesday was fired at from behind hedge at
Dooken, near Loughrea, the ball entering his
left side and lodging in the lung. He mas Since
died. On the same night a party of disguised
men visited the house CT a man named Cliff
ford, who had been censured by the Land
League at Killorglin county Kerry, and hav-
ing reused him out of bed cut off his ears and
course of the same day a violent ARRAY took
place al New Pallas between crowd OF some
1000 villagers and large body of police, and
all the authoTi Y of the officers was needed to
prevent the affair from ending in horrible
bloodshed. A plantation of valuable wood IS
set on fire and consumed A house is burned
down with barely time for the people inside to
escape with their lives. Threatening letters
and stonings are too frequent to be worth
enume rating.''
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has always failed: "It had no real effect on
the outrages. In former times as now, in
some parts of Ireland, they actually increased.
What put an end to them was only the legiS-
lation dealing with the grievances in which
the disorder had root. This moral is written
in capital letters in the history of the 1.-THE war
OF the last generation. 1t will be read in capi-
tai letters by our children in the history of the
rent war OF our own generation. Yet the cry
is now being raised for an increased dose of the
very drug whose Ewant Of efficiency is patent
and unmistakable. Coercion has failed. Let us
have more coercion is the cry. We have never
deemed that Ireland could be kept in order of
any sort by military repression. What We have
perSistenty urged is that modern feeling aud
the opinion in Great Britain would inevitably
prevent the use of the only kind of repression,
stern, sharp and brutal that could do what is
supposed to be wanted. A state of siege may
be an excellent device, but you will never
work it efficiently with q parliamentary sys-
tenn, and that is the one reason why it was e
foolish thing to try it,
The friends OF the government claim that
the land bill will have majority of ITO on its
second reading in the Commons.
Patrick Doran, Patrick Meehan and John
ReddingtOn have been arrested at Marybor-
ough, Queens county, Ireland, under the coer-
cion act. A detachment of 100 marines have
left Chatham for Ireland.
The Treaty Between France and Tunis
LONDON, May 1.-the Times correspondent
at Rome transmits summary of the Franco
Tunisian treaty as published there. 1t pre-
sents remarkable discrepancies with Premier
Ferry's statement in the French Senate yes
terday. 1t omits the Bey's guarantee of a war
indemnity, and says the entire territory, in
Guiding Bizerta. is to be evacuated as soon as
the execution of the treaty is assured, except
some points on the mountains in the Kroumir
territory 1t has the appearance of being
cooked to allay the excitement which, from
the tone of the press, seems to run high.
ROME, May 14.-The ministry have rendered
their designations. The stipuations in the
Franco Tunis treaty excite great indignation
here. Senior Sella has been deputied to form a
new ministry.
PARIS, May An. Roustan has been ga
zetted as Minister Pienipotentiary of the first
class, resident at Tunis. The newspapers all
approve of the treaty. The Republque Fran
caise expresses admiration at the manner in
fair, and points to the necessity of extensive
improvements in the regency with a view to
satisfying the people and preparing the way
for peaceful progress in Africa.
LONDON, May 1.-THE Central News states
that the British government has decided TO es-
press an opinion ON the annexation of Tunis in
a dispatch which will maintain the ground
hitherto taken by England that Tunis is
part OF the Ottoman Empire; but for the pres
ent nothing further is intended than to place
this protest on record.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 14-Assim Pasha.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, has told NJ tbs.
sol, French Ambassador, that the Porte has
war to Tunis. M. Tissol replied that Turkey
taking such a step would incur the RESPONSE
bility of grave complications.
TUNIs, May 15-The Bey declines to furnish
to foreign representatives copies of the treaty
with France. 1t Is stated the French will oc-
cupy Galetta. Great discomfort prevails. The
principal moslems are preparing to lodge a
protest with the Sultan.
ROME, May 15.-Some of todays newspapers
bear witness to the profound impression the
Franco-Tunisian treaty has caused. The Ber-
sagtiere says Signor Cairoli's ministry erred
solely through loyalty and integrity. They
could not have anticipated the conclusion of
such treaty after the declarations of France
The Popla Romano says: Italy is resigned
but hopes the day will be far distant when
France may have to display like resignation.
The Riforma Signor Crispis organ says: The
ministry now assuming power will have to deal
with painful state of things. Italy must col.
lect herself and be prepared If she wishes to
exist. We desiae peace but with honor and
securitG.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 15.--The Bey of
Tunis telegraphed to the Porte on Thursday as
follows: A French general had come to my
palace with body Of cavalry and submitted a
treaty recognizing French rrotectorate to me
for signature stating that he would not leave
the palace without an answer. Seeing that
was under pressure of superior force. a French
army being near my residence, was obliged
for honor's sake and for the prevention of
bloodshed to sign without examining or dis
cussing, but declaring that l was constrained
by force.
Several OF the powers have replied to the
Portes recent circular to the effect that the
Sultan's suzerainty over Tunis was not clearly
defined in existing treaties. The Porte has
resolved to protest against French abuse of
force.
Gloomy Condition Of Affairs in Russia
Relapse Into Absolutism.
LONDON, May 14.-The Times Paris cores
pondent asserts that the Liberal party in the
Russian Cabin ato ua thar f,1l a. =, ,>roc,,,ro