Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-25
BY CABLE.

IN parliament will give Parnell a grand
Banquet on the occasion of the thirty
fifth anniversary Of his birthday.
LONDON, June 25.-In the house of
commons last night Rylands (liberal)
in moving for further papers in the
Angl o-Turkish convention commended
thatin spite of the failure Of Turkish
promises of reform the convention was
binding on US, and that in the not
impossible event of an Armenian
Instruction and Russian Intervention
we should be bound to go to Turkeys
assistance. He therefore recon-
mended that we should intimate
distinctly to Turkey that we withdrew
from the convention As conse-
quence of it, he said, we should
have to give up Cyprus, which he
strongly advised, holding that
our acquisition of Cyprus was an
infraction of public law, as he showed
from the conversations of Wadding-
ton and Salisbury at Berlin of the
present difficulty concerning Tunis.
Sir Charles Dixie said that
there were no papers which could be
laid before the house. He agreed
in much which Rylands had said in
regard to the Anglo Turkish conven-
ton, but he pointed out that it was
different thing to condemn treaty
and to reverse it, and to violently
upset the convention might endanger
the peace of the east. He hoped,
therefore, that the house would not
press any such course on the govern
ment. He also agreed that there was
no analogy between the acquisition of
Tunis and Cyprus, although our ex-
ample had bad effect.
! Gladstone, after warmly eulogizing
GOschen's services at Constantinople
stated that Lord Dufferin, the newly
appointed ambassador to that court
carried with him instructions to put
forward the settlement of the Armin-
ian question. Mr.. Gladstone violent
ly attacked the secresy Of the court in
regard TO the conversations Of Sails
bury and Washington, and said if
the French policy in Tunis had been
dangerous to public peace, and if it
had involved a breech ofpublic faith,
England, by the evil example she had
set, would have weakened her right to
protest against it. 1t was, he said, a
departure from European concert,
which the late government had there
by destroyed, and which the present
government had labored and would
labor to rebuild.
Sir Henry Walt Conservative said
to hand back Cyprus to Turkey would
be to restore it to misgovernment
There was no analogy between our
acquisition of Cyprus and the French.
A dispatch from Dortmunn, Prus-
STA, says an explosion occurred yes
terday in the Luise Tiefban colliery.
Seventeen persons were killed and five
injured.
| PEsTH, June 25.-The election for
members of the Hungarian diet COM
menced yesterday. The result, SO far
as known, is favorable to the govern
ment.
| MADRID, June 25.-The Gazette of
Sunday will publish decree abolish
ing the tobacco monopoly in the Rhil.
lippine islands. CASTELAR, writes the
colonial minister as follows; Il con-
graduate you on decree which will
give you a place among the great
emancipators of human labor, render
ing illustrious Jyour name for all
time
| VIENNA, June 25.-Count Ignatieff,
the Russian minister of the interior,
will propose to the council of the en-
1
pire the reduction of between $780,
100000 and 2OO,OOO,OOO roubles in the
military expenditure.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, June 25.-It is
stated that NJ. Trisset, the French
ambassador, before going upon his
furlough, informed the grand vizier
that the French would advance upon
Tripoli if fanatical intrigues were
carried on there. The porte has or
dered the authorities of Syria and
Tripoli to prevent the entrance Of
French political agitators.
The ambassadors of the powers have
protested against the menace contained
in the porte's note relative to the sup
preston of foreign postofiCeS in Tur-
key.
River kilograms.
Louisville. June 25.-River rising,