, 1881-09-18
A French Murder Trial, Strikingly
Similar to One Reported from
Troy This Morning.
Ernesto Rossi, the Celebrated Italian
Tragedian, Sailing to This
Country.
The Usual Sunday Mornings Budget of
British and European Gossip.
GREAT BRITAIN.
PARSELL'S NEW PROGRAM.


PARSELL'S NEW PROGRAM.
+ Special Cable.
| LoxDoN, Sept. 11.-Sma1ley:s special says
S'Mr. ParnelFs new program is Il desperate
| bid for the continuance of agitation. Fear.
! ing the detection of the tenantry he appeals
to the laborers to follow him in wilder So.
cialistic campaign, ,wlllehe incites the tenants
! By promises that he will abolish l0ndlordism.
lie declares his intention to hold the laborcrs
if the tenants fall off. The real object Of the
League is to secure legislative independence
! rather than peace and prosperity. This Oh
| ject is forced OIL the League by the action OF
American societies. Happily it is the natur-
al tendency Of these movements to shrink in
proportion tot their extravaganza. The
League excuses have already
REDUCED pAnSEL1's PARLIAMENTARY FOL-
LOWING,
while the Land act has shaken his hold on
the tenantry, Ulster having already declared
against him. Mr.. Parnelrs appeal to the
laborefs is a last resort The scene created
by the Leaguers at the Exhibition meeting
on Wednesday shows. notwithstanding the
money which the League voted it. that they
have no desire to promote the industrial
prosperity of Ireland.
THE TRADEs-USIoS CONGRESS,
the most~ representative body OF working
~tradesmen here, made a peculiar and em-
pllatic demonstration against the fair
trade" movement by the expulsion of 4 del
egate whose expenses were paid by the
supporters of the Fair-Trade League.
This was substantial condemna-
ton Of the Trades-Union Conference
promoted by the Fair-Trade League last
week: It is clear that the vast body Of arti-
sans are apathetlc in regard to the so-called
s'fair-trade movement The gross incon-
sistency Of the Tory advocacy of protection
is shown by Mr.. Lowther's following UP
his election on the protection platform
in Lincolnshire by declaring in Westnore-
land the other day that the time will never
agitation for land reform is spreading in
Scotland. The Aberdeenshire farmers are
refusing to pay rent unless it is reduced
Threatening notices have been sent III Ross
shire to farmers who pay full rent.
THE METHODIST ECUMESIcAL CONFERENCE,
though chiefly Of denominational interest, is
4 great success. The colored ministers are
Immensely Eratified by their reception.
Prominent amolIg the plans discussed at the
conference was 4 scheme for Starting huge
newspaper in the Methodist interest. Il
more practical project was the encourage
u1e1lt Of afethodsm among the rising genera
ton
p4RNELL's ATTITUDE.
Special Cable.
DUBLIN, Sept. 17--The Hcrn1tps special
SAYS: Mr.. Parnelis attitude ard the tope Of
the convention. which today completed its
work, half draws aside the yell from the pol
icy of the land agitators. No scheme Of land
reform will satisfy them. It becomes
abundantly clear that labor move
ments are only to be used for
the purpose of gaining the confidence OF
the people and creating a formidable organi-
cation which at some favorable moment
could be used to extort from the fears Of an
English Ministry the restoration Of the Irish
Parliament The proceedings today were
instructive in character. Representatives of
the labor organizations were given seats on
the platform in order that they might an-
nounce their adhesion to
THE POLICY OF TIE LEADING EXECUTIVE,
and assure the farmers of Ireland that if they
acted on the recommendation of Mr.. Parnell
and his friends they might count on the act
i've and loyal support of the whole laboring
population. Should the farmers be unselfsh
enough to put into practice the schemes
proposed for the amelioration of the
laborers' position, Secretary Forster will
probably have some difficulty in preventing
q wide and general application during the
coming winter of the unwrittcn law which
contributed so much last year to making
the land question ripe for solution
and bringing it within the sphere of
practical politics. On the other hand, re-
fusal to concede the laborers' demand may
nrobably lead to acts Of violence directed
against the farmers. In several districts
where the relations of the two classes are not
friendly, runlors of threatened rick burn
ines are beginning already to circulate. :.
PROTECTION.
Special CAb1<.
LONDON, Sept, 17.-Jenning's special says:
Tic Times announces that the u faiT-tratle
bubbIe'' has burst. The "fair-trade''
movement, the Times to tue contrary not
.withstanding, is not only living, but gaining
strength. The Golden Club has let luose
a food Of free-trade literature. No
cain, and judicial statement of
the case has yet appeared, and the diatribes
Of Mr.,Medley and Mr. Mongredien are for
too violent, and SAVIOR too. much of the par
tisan to be effective. The fair trade" case,
when examined critically, is ]anlentably
weak. 1t is true, no doubt, that English
industry is declining. but the impartial
bystander can see causes for that decay, which
cannot be removed by the imposition Of re-
ta1jatory- duties b.
ENGLAND is so SITUATED
t},ot = protective tariff is impossible. We
nroduce nothing but coal and iron, the basis.
of industry, but We have to import
the raw materials which complement