The Ottawa free trader., 1881-10-22
FOREIGN.

u FOREIGN.
a summary Of the news from Ireland up t
Tuesday is gwen on the 7tb page of today.
FREE TRADER. To bring it down to yester
day il remains to add, that the city of Dublin
was proclaimed on the 18th, all the citizen:
being warned to remain at home after dark
The liquor shops are ordered closed at dark
and the telegraph offices to be kept open all
night for the transmission of military orders
The executive board of the land league have
ordered general strike against paying rent
and 1t looks as if their order would be largely
obeyed, though archbishop Croke enters sol.
emn protest against it. Nlr. Blggar has gone
to England.
The garrison at Limerick has been strength.
ened by regiment and large bodies of mill.
tary and police patrol the streets.
| The land.league ipts from America were
nearly $4,000 last week, and Miss Parnell ca
bles her mother not to return to Ireland, as
she would be of more service to the cause in
the United States. The Land league offices
in Dublin have not yet been closed. The
Land league has been proclaimed criminal
organization, and Its meetings will be dlspers
ed by force. Two hundred tenants of large
estate near Neaugh have paid their rents. The
land court opened at Dublin with large at.
tendance, and the announcement was made
that the fee tor entering proceedings would be
only one shilling. Mitchell Henry, NJ p. for
Galway, offers his tenants a reduction of 10 to
20 per cent on partdue rents, and expresses
the hope that they will settle cheerfully Will
liam Doris, who was left in charge of the
Land league, has been imprisoned at Dundalk
A most destructive hurricane visited Eng.
land on the 14th, causing wide devastation
both on land and to Shipping. The London
parks are strewn with fallen trees, many boats
were aground in the Thames, and steamboat
traffic was suspended for several days Severe
damage was inflicted to property in all parts
of England and Ireland, reports of persons
killed were numerous and of many injured
Upwards of fifty Berkwickshlre smacks were
at sea during the storm, and it is feared that
most have been lost 1t is reported that twen-
ty fisherman were drowned at Dunbar, and
three pilots were drowned IN the Tyne.
The hurricane extended to France, Germany
and the Netherlands. Eighty-fve vessels
principally British, were lost off the coast of
the United Kingdom. Fifty-nine fishermen
belonging to Burnmouth and Eyemouth are
known to have been drowned, and l40 others
belonging to both places are missing.
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North German coast. Five vessels were
wrecked at Bremen and several at Altona.
The pope, at Rome, on Monday, seated on
the throne of st. Peters cathedral, received
two thousand Italian pilgrims. His holiness
was enthusiastically greeted. Replying to an
address, he renewed his declaration that he
could never accept accomplished facts without
failing in his duty. A deplorable state of af
fairs placed before him the alternative of en-.
during perpetual captivity, made harder daily,
or of going into exile. He therefore asked the
Catholics to watch and pray for the liberty and
independence of the pope. He concluded by
saying he was no longer secure in his palace
that he was outraged IN his person and dignity
in thousand ways. The gravity and earnest
ness of the pope made profound impression
He closed his address with his arms raised to
heaven, as though implorIng help. The pope
looked thin, worn, and anxious A gang OF
roughs pelted the pilgrims while they were
leaving the Church of ST. Vltale, shouting:
Down with the Vatican"