Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-12-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
Herbert Gladstone on the Land League
Question.

Herbert Gladstone on the Land League
Question.
LONDON. Dec. IL.
Mr. Herbert Gladstone. Junior lord of the
treasury. speaking in Manchester last even
ing. said he found during his tour that there
was very great exagseration in England IN
regard to the condition of Ireland. Alarms,
he said, took their standard from the werst
county Arrests had produced striking ana
remarkable effects in the districts where they
were made. He blamed the landlords for CO.
operating with the government In taxing
strong measures. He did not think more CO.
ercion was needed, and to talk OF martial law
absurd. The no rent movement was not
deep-rooted and was only gotten up oy IN
timidation. He believed that the prospect
was distinctly favorable.
Gold shipped to America.
Ten thousand pounds in gold was with
drawn from the Bank of England, yesterday,
for shipment to America.
The Times On Secretary Blaine.
The point generally remarked upon in Mr..
Blaine's dispatch to Minister Lowell. touch
ing the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, is the assump-
ton that the moment war should break out
with Great Britain she would disregard her
treaty obligations with respect to the neau-
trality of the canal. 1t is asked. in view of
this distrust in Great Britain, # she should
be asked to repose implicit faith in American
pledges not to impose discriminating duties
on goods in transit. The Times. after ad-
vancing this opinion. says, ''Mr. Blalne's
case is stronger some ways than he ventures
to make it, as the time must arrive when the
weak Central American countries will be alb
sorbed in the United States, and the coast
line will extend to the full limits that Mr..
Blaine fancifully indicates.
Lord Harrington Speaks.
Lord Harrington. in speech today. said
the government would bring the Irish diff
Guilty to a successful issue. The power of
the land lergue is broken. Guerilla warfare
will not succeed.
The American and British Rife Asso.
citations.
The council of the Rifle Associations of
Great Britain, warded to the president of
the Rife Association of America, a reso-
luton adopted by them expressing the pleas
ure they will experience in welcoming the
teams to Wimbledon. A committee was ap-
pointed to arrange for their reception.
Premium on an Overdue Steamer.
day ON the overdue steamer City of London,
from London, Nov. 18th, for New York.
Steamer Disabled.
Steamer State of Georgia. for New York,
before reported returning to Glasgow with
her machinery disabled, has arrived in Clyde
for repairs.
A MurderOus Communist.
PARIS. Dec. II.
Lieut. Lulier. communist, waylaid ST.
bour, a nephew of the murdered Archbishop
of Paris, and struck him. Lulier threatened
to murder Sibour if he refused TO fight with
him.
Declines to Call a Dublin City Council
Meeting.
DUBLIN, Dec. II.
The Lord Mayor has declined to call a
meeting of corporations Tuesday next to
consider the resolution to confer the freedom
of the city upon Parnell and Dillon, as
the question was recently decided by the
council.
Spaniards Indignant.
MADRID, Dec. Il.
Considerable surprise and irritation are
caused here by the difficulties which Spanish
residents in Frau have met with from the
French authorities investigating Saida claims.
The Liberal majority in the courts is becom-
ing impatient, and the cabinet is likely to be
reconstructed.
The Missing Balloon.
\ customs officer near Santiande reports
he saw, last evening, a balloon proceeding
in the direction of Bilboa
Prosecuting a Jew.
BERLIN. Dec. II.
Ad American Jew at st. Petersburg, per
forming in a circus, received orders to quit
the capital simply on account of protesting
the Hebrew faith. He has protested.