The Portland daily press., 1881-12-23
FOREIGN.
A Gang of Postal Thieves I'M
earthed in Spain.
THE ST. GoTHARD TUNNEL COM
PLETED.
Iraland,s Affairs.

lr0lanQ'S Affairs.
LONDON, Dec. 21-The meeting of the land
lords in Dublin to-day was an imposing demon
stration. The resolutions adopted condemned
the way the land act is administered and de-
manded compensation and purchase by the
State.
Mr.. Stenson, late editor of the Boyle Herald,
and formerly secretary to Mr.. Sexton, has been
arrested at Sligo under the coercion act, and
conveyed to Galway.
Mr.. Parnell arrived at Armagh last night
and was escorted to the county Jail without be-
ing recognized
The St. Gothard Tunnel.
GENEVA, Dec. 22.--The last squad of work
men employed in the construction OF the st.
Gothard tunnel will be paid off tomorrow.
The tunnel will be officially inspected next
week.
The Panama Canal.
BRUSSELS, Dec 22.-The Nord says:-"No
guarantee of the neutrality of the Panama ca
nal can be eficacious unless exercised by all
the powers We fail to see how the controver-
sy raised by Mr.. Blaine's despatch can have
any other political result than such guaran-
tee."
A Too Fresh Newspaper Correspondent
CoNsrANTINePLE, Dec. 22.-Mr. O'Donovan,
a correspondent of the London Daily News,
who recently arrived here from Merv, where
he had been in prison, was arrested and lodged
in Galatia prison on the charge OF publicly IN
ooipihS eho OAAs' B.
An Attack on Professionals.
Cork, Dec. 22.--While number OF men
were repairing the Protestant church at Ogha.
Dialogue, which was wrecked few months
ago, they wsae attacked and took to hight.
They we're pursued when they took refuge IN
house which their assailants wrecked
Slaves Illegally Held in Bondage.
HAVANA, Dec. 22.-The Governor OF the
prov lnce of Havana has discovered false Ger
tifIofqa nv which 170 who Ouglt 10 De
free, were held in bondage. A judicial lnves
tigation has been ordered.
The English Established Church Solici-
tous Concerning it's Migrating FlocKs.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written
letter to the clergy, anxiously directing at
tention from Christian point. OF view 10 the
vast movements of people which for years
have been going from Europe to the British
colonies, especially between England and
America. He says an endeayor is about to be
made TO establish more direct communication
between the church at home and the colonial
church, with view to the spiritual welfare
of the emigrants. The archbishop says the
proposal has obtained the hearty consent OF
many Anglican bishops in America.
a Gang of Postal Thieves Broken Up.
MADRID, Dec. 22-The confession made by
post office clerk arrested for having stolen
letters in his possession has led to the dis
covery of gang of thieves and forgers VINO
used the contents of stolen letters to procure
money by forging acceptances. Five thousand
letters had been stolen. The cnlprit seized
han on clothes made expressly to conceal plum
der. Sixteen persons have been arrested IN
GLIDING several connected with the post office.
One hundred valuable letters directed to inn
portant firms in Madrid have been found in
the houses Of the accomplices
Foreign Notes.
An Alexandria despatch says there were
thirty-two deaths from cholera at Elwedl dur
ing the week ending on the 10Th inst. Some
of the caravans have broken through the quar-
antine by avoiding the ordinary route.
A shock OF earthquake was felt on Sunday
at Bex Glarus, Veyay and Lausanne in Swift
zerland.
In Roman circles well informed about Vati-
can affairs it is reported that the Pope has al
lowed Cardinal Ladochowsky, archbishop OF
Posen, to resign his See.