The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-03-29
FOREIGN.
ParnelPs Methods Unpopular With
English Tenants.
PROSPECT OF A PEACEFUL SOLU-
TION OF THE GREEK QUESTION.
A New Rebellion in Afghanistan.

NEW YORK, March 2S-The Worlds Lon
don dispatch says the English land reformers
are not inclined to work with Mr.. Parnell, and
while his English Land League will doubtless
prove an efficient collection box among Irish
men in the cities and towns, it will not take
root in the counties. The fact is the Irish
leaders go further than the English agricu-
tural classes care to CO. He demands the pur-
chase of land by the government and its distri-
button among peasant ,proprietors, thus
completely wiping out landlords. 1t is need
less to say that such proposition would not
receive single English Radical vote in the
House of Commons. The English land re-
formers will support him in agitating for three
F's, but they know that they would only in
iure their cause irreparably by joining in de-
mand for government purchase. Moderate
Irishmen of the stamp of Mr.. Shaw, member
for County Cork, and large majority of the
tenants feel that Parnell is asking that which
he knows it is impossible for Gladstone or any
other English statesman to grant, and his
course is warmly denounced. If the Irish
tenant would join with his English brethren
in agitating for any reasonable scheme of re-
form the borough radicals would help them,
and no ministry could refuse their request
Parnell however, seems to be anxious to pre-
vent such coalition.
The Attempt to Blow Up the Mansion
House.
LONDON, March 2S.-Information in the
hands of the police strongly tends to confirm
the completely of three American Irishmen
named Mooney, O'Donnell and Coleman in the
recent attempt to blow up the Mansion House.
Detectives have been sent to the continent to
seek Mooney and O'Donnell, Coleman is sup
posed to have taken steerage passage in the
steamer Australia for New York.
Formidable Rebellion in Afghanistan.
A dispatch from Candahar to the Times saws
Ayoob Khan is perhaps already exiled or
prisoner Mohamed HaZen Khan, Governor
of Kushk, induced three Herat regiments sta
ton at Kushk to mutiny and join him and the
Aimak tribes in an attack on Herat. 1t may
be safely inferred that the murder of Mohamed
Jan, who commanded these three regiments
was the first act of the rebellion instead of the
result OF private quarrel. At last accounts
the rebellion was so formidable that Ayoob
Khan was virtually besieged in the citadel
This gives favorable opportunity to Abdur-
rahman Khan to reunite Afghanistan under
the supremacy of Cabul. Five thousand of
his troops are now on the road thither and
should be in full possession of the Candahar
province by the 10Th OF April: An immediate
| advance on Herat if Ayob Khan is not expell-
ed or killed before then, could, in the existing
state of affairs, scarcely fail to be successful
Turkey Preparing for the Defence of
Volo.
| CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 28.-Great activity
| prevails in the preparations for the defence of
Volo. The work OF placing torpedoes has
on the Turkish side of the entrance to the
Gulf of Volo, and an earthwork is being con-
| structed there for the purpose of commanding
the entrance.
The Nihilists to Avenge Picoffsky's
Death.
| PARIS, March 2S.-The Int ansigeant states
| that the arrest of Sophie Picoffsky has plung-
ed the Nihiists into grief. The Nihilist COM
mittee has resolved if she is executed the Gar
shall die
The Beers and the British.
New CASTLE, March 2S.-A messenger
from Potehefstroom reports that place surren-
dered on the day peace was signed after
hard hghlng, in which IL British soldiers were
killed and 80 wounded, the Beers captured 500
rounds OF ammunition and two guns.
Dillon Again Frees His Mind
monster land meeting was held at Thur
los, Tipperary county, today. Mr.. Dillon ad-
dressed the meeting. He indicated his at
tack on Judge Fitzgerald and counselled the
| Irish tenants not to pay unjust rents except at
the point of the bayonet.
The Proposed Alliance Against the In
ternationalists.
LONDON, March 28.-The Agence Russo of
ST. Petersburg draws attention to the unani-
nous approval expressed by the Russian press
of the resolution adopted by the Common
Council OF st. Petersburg to request the Rus
sian government to communicate with other
Powers in order to adopt measure in common
against the Internationalists. The Agence
Russo says: CAN European Powers are inter-
ested in the question, including Switzerland,
which country was constituted in the interests
of the maintenance of peace and the European
equilibrium, and as these interests form the
sole ground for the existance of the Swiss con-
federation it will naturally not wish to COM
! promise with them.''
The Crown Prince of Germany Threaten
ed with Assassination.
A desphtch from Berlin says that the Post
states that the Crown Princess Victoria has re-
ceived an anonymous letter declaring that
| Prince Frederick William will be murdered