The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-26
FOREIGN.

His high mightiness the Lord Mayor Of
London had q genuine scare on the 18th on
the discovery, in the rear Of the Mansion
House, his official residence, of box contain.
ing 10 MS of gunpowder, 10 which fuse was
attached and the evident purpose of which
was to blow up that structure and the Lord
Mayor with II. As the charge was too weak,
however, to do serious damage, the London
papers are inclined to treat the affair as joke,
The Irish arms bil! has passed the Lords
and is now law.
In reference to affairs in Ireland Dublin
correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs
that An immense number Of ejectment process
es have been served in Galway and many 9th,
eI counties. Large bodies Of police are out
every day In Galway protecting the servers.
Many of the process servers have refused to
act. Lord Dunhandles was obliged to serve q
hundred ejectments himself, protected by .
large force of police There is vast amount
of misery among the people everywhere, but
they are determined TO hold out to the last.
The great spread Of the movement in America
has raised the spirit of the people TO an extent
never witnessed before Even the large farm
ers are permitting their cattle TO be seized and
sold by the sheriff rather than break the rules
of the league. Large crowds attend the sales.
but no one bids against the agents Of the en-
Urgency committee. The auctloneers refusing
to act, the bailiffs have TO manage the sales
The people regard the promised land bill a.
farce, and have no hope except IN the league.
Dispatches from South Africa announce tho
virtual conclusion Of peace with the Beers on
the terms that all arms, munitions, and other
property captured by either side during hos
tlties shall be restored; that Transvaal shall
be granted independence, subject to conditions
to be hereafter settled by royal commission,
and that the Boer government shall commence
after the commission shall have made Its re-
port. Meanwhile the British garrisons are to
remain in Transvaal without in any wise IN.
terferng with local affairs. The Boer forces
will disperse forthwith Capt. Elliott's muir.
derer is to be delivered up to justice.
The funeral Of the Emperor of Russia took
place on the 21st and Is described by George
Augustus Sala as 1.-THE most magnificent, most
Impressive most pathetic pageants on which,
in the course of a heightened career. accus.
toned to the pomps and vanity of royalty,
from royal bridals and feasts to royal funerals
| have ever been privileged to set my eyes on"
The coronation of the new car will take
place at Moscow on the expiration OF the pc
riod of deep mourning, the imperial party re.
naming IN Moscow until the end Of the year.
France yields to the request of the United
States that pork shipped before the passage Of
the decree shall be subject only to inspection.
Emigration from Germany to America is
so large that the steamship companies are
obliged to charter extra steamers.
The Italian opera house at Nice took fire on
Wednesday evening and was totally destroyed.
The fire broke out at the beginning of the per-
Torrance. The bodies Of fourteen persons
who were suffocated have been taken on, and
placed in church opposite the theatre. II Is
believed that one hundred men and women
persisted in the flames.
A newspaper of Berne gives an account Of
the shipment Of an orphan girl penniess and
OF weak MINI, to the United States, by the
commune of BOttsteln, canton of AyOOre,
Switzerland.