Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-04
BY CABLE.

| AONDONi OCtODeE 7.-DlT plaHOTu
Northcote, speaking at Hull yesterday,
said the Conservatives wished the
Land Act to have fair trial.
The condition of affairs was very
unsatisfactory as regards the Boer
Convention and Anglo French COM
mercial treaty, in regard to "free
trade"
ROME, October 4.-The Pope has
approved the resolutions passed at the
recent meeting of Irish Bishops at
Maynaath College, and expressing sat.
isiaction with the Land Act.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, October 4.-The
Commissioners to Egypt have taken
with them all ordinances relating to
Egypt, issued since the time Of
Mehemet Ali, They have also taken
the new 6rmen, the contents of which
are unknown. No information was given
the foreign embassies beforehand of
the intended departure of the mission.
Princess Louise sails from Liver
pool for Canada on the Goth inst.
In the Social Science Congress at
Dublin David Dudley Field
was supported in a vote
Of thanks to Lord O'Hagan
for his address, in which speech he
connected the recognition of Lord
0'Hsgan's ability with warm express
siOns of gratitude for English and
Irish sympathy for the death of Pres
ident Garfield.
DUB IN, October 4.-Patrick Mo-
ran has been unconditionally released,
after five months detention in the
Galway Jail.
PARIS, October 4.-General Fare,
Minister of War, received a telegram
confirming the report of the burning
of the railway station at Wadzergha,
and the massacreing of number Of
employees, including several British
subjects, by the insurgents at Tunis.
The attack on the station was made
by the Arabs who recently attacked
Ali Bey. The station master, an ex-
lieutenant in the French army, and a
chevalier of the Legion Of Honor, was
burned alive, and ten employees
mostly Maltese and Italians, were
mastered. R7ustan, the French
minister at Tuuis. invited the English
and Italian consuls to assist at the Off
cial inquiry into the dissster. The Eng.
lish aud Italian consular clerks, doc
tors, ETC., have accordingly gone to
Wadzergha for that purpose. Six
hundred French troops went there on
the Both ult., but the Arabs disap-
peared long before their arrival. The
massacre was undoubtedly caused by
the wholesale destruction Of the olive
forests, villages and vineyards, which
General Sabatier considered necessary
around Zeaghenan. The Tunician
authorities are evidently trying to
screen the Arabs accused of murder
ing the Maltese and Italians. No ar
rests yet.
Tebessa Cslumni's French troops
have already yentered the Regency and
captured Gapsa after a severe battle
with the Arabs. Ali Bey has sent a
messenger stating that he is not able
to hold out any longer, and demand
ing French escort to effect his re-
treat 1t is reported that his position
is critical, mutiny having broken out
in his camp.
CoRK, October 4.-Parnoll says
that the land league intend to form a
labor department, and with this OBJ
iect a number of laborers will meet in
a few days.
The Congregational Union of Eng.
land and Wales, assembled at Man
chester and consisting of 1900 dele.
gates, passeda resolution of coincidence
with Mrs. Garfield and the American
national woe.
A Berlin dispatch says that the
most important Chambers of Com
merce of the various States of Ger
many, the great majority consisting
of Free Traders and Protectionists,
reject Bismarck's new Protectionist
customs policy.
A Paris correspondent says. 1t is
clear that the Arabs have assembled
in force in a position which seriously
threatens the flank of the force ad
vancing from Mohmedra and Zagha
van on Kairwan.