The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-11
NEWS OF The week.


The Arms bill passed in the British
House OF Commons forbids the possession Of
arms except by license, permits the searching
regulates the importation Of arms, dynamite
and nitro-glycerine. The bill is to have effect
for five years.
Detailed accounts of the engagement
between Gen. Colley and the Beers at Spitzkop
render il certain that the British were fairly
beaten. The fight ended in a rout, and the
most moderate estimate places the loss at 800
killed and wounded.
The losses by fire and robbery during
the riots in Lima and Calao are estimated at
$4,000, 600.
The correspondent who was with Gen.
Colley at Spitzko2, and who was captured and
subsequently released by the Beers, has writ
ten q very graphic description OF the engage
,nent. His statement shows that, with every
advantage on the side of the British, the Beers
carried the day by sheer fighting. Gen.
Colley had GOO men, and position that
was regarded as absolutely impregnable
Tho Beers, who numbered about 1000, made
several attempts to carry the position with q
rush, but each time they were driven back
with the bayonet. At last they made tre-
mendous charge and the British were routed.
1t was an instantaneous change from perfect
safety to total defeat
Drouyn de L'Huys, Minister of For
eign Affairs in France under the republic, and
again under the empire, is dead.
In the debate on the second reading of
the Arms bill in the British House Of Com
mons, Dillon defended his advice to the Irish
TO arm, and said that i'll the event Of their dis
armament they were resolved to disarm the
landlords also. He declared that were he a
tenant farmer he would keep rife to kill land
lords, and expressed his regret that the Irish
people had not resorted to civil war.
Advices from Honolulu report @ de-
plorable condition of affairs there. Smallpox
is epidemic, and many houses are quarantined,
and no one is allowed to enter or leave the
city.
The Pope has asked the Gar to grant
amnesty to the Bishops and priests exiled to
Siberia.
A cable dispatch from Rome says |:
"The loss of life by tho earthquake on the
island of Ischia is appalling. One hundred
and two bodies have been found at Cassama-
ciati up to the present. 1t is stated that 800
houses have fallen at Cassamaciat. One hun
dred and ten corpses have been recovered, and
sixty-seven wounded sent TO the hospital.
The assures in the streets were fifty centimetres
wide, and the people fled from town and en-
eamped in the fields"
The British Ministry has settled upon
terms of peace with the Beers, which were tele-
graphed Gen. Wood last week.
It has been showing steadily in Scot
land for seventy hours. Traffic is blocked, and
many shipwrecks are reported on the coast.
Harris, Boyton and Sheridan, the
Irish traversers, have reappeared.
About twenty Americans in the coun-
ties of Cork, Limerick and Kerry, Ireland, have
applied to the United States Consul at Queens
town for protection. They fear arrest under
the Coercion act.
The dreaded plague has made its APP
pearance in Mesopotamia.
The Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan is
preparing to occupy Candahar when the Brit
ish garrison is wholly withdrawn, and Ayoob
Khan's adherents are preparing to resist, no
that there are excellent prospects of lively
times in Afghanistan during the spring and
summer. 1t seems to be the settled policy
of the Gladstone Ministry to let Abdur Rah-
man Khan and Ayoob Khan settle their own
disputes.
The French Government has resolved
to recall its representative in Venezuela. The
cause assigned for the action is the bad faith Of
the Venezuelan Government to French credi-
tors.
The latest dispatches state that twenty
vessels were lost on the Scottish coast during
the recent storm and 200 persons drowned.
Notwithstanding the reports to the
contrary, il does not appear that the Irish
Land-Leaguers are much scared at the passage
of the Coercion act. Those agitators who were
in Ireland before the measure became law have
stood their ground, and others, like Dillon and
Brennan, who were in England or France, are
returning to the Green Isle.