Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-20
BY CABLE.

University crew were guests OF the
London and Thames Rowing club at
the Criterion hotel, in this city, last
night. The Amateur Athletic Asso-
citation of Birmingham resolved to
send letter of welcome to the Amer
lean athletes.
In the House of Commons last
night, the amendment to the Land
Bill By the Attorney General for Ire
land, enabling the Land Court to
quash all leases concluded since 1870,
which it finds to contain unfair terms,
and to have been forced on the tenant
by threat of eviction, or by undue
influence, was carried by vote of POI
to 1O9.
The Times this morning in an edi-
torial says: It's little better than
mockery to think of doing honor to
such a man as Penn by grotesque pro-
pOsal to disturb his remains. The
thing is happily impossible, as the
trustees Of the burial place state
that they are not certain of the ex-
act spot where the remains are in
TERED. But even if it were possible
it would surely be instantly forbid
den by the instructive irresistible
sentiments of two great nations.
A Paris correspondent says that
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
before starting for London sent the
following protest to his friends:
THE motive of my expulsion can
only have been my presence at the
mass celebrated for my uncle on st.
Henry's day. At tie present moment
Spaniards who had come confding in
the protection of France to fructify
the soil of Algeria by their labor are
suffering intolerable treatment. Spain
is mourning for her massacred sons
aud dishonored daughters. But
France is not responsible for the acts
Of her government. She is the cradle
of my family. | love her dearly. |
remember all the kindness which has
lessened the bitterness of my exile.
Leaving the French soil 1 address to
my friends thanks and farewell"
1t is said that the Colonial Under
Secretaryship has been offered to
Lord Fitzmund, brother of the Mar
quis of Landsowne, who last year
resigned the Under-Secreta1yship for
India on account Of his opposition
to the Governments Irish policy.
A dispatch from Alexandria says
An anti-Slavery decree will be issued
next week. By this decree actual
slaves will remain SO, but no addi-
tons to the number will be permitted.
1t is expected that the correspond
ence between England and France
in regard to Tripoli will be
published before the close of Parlia-
ment, showing that England informed
France that Tripoli being Turkish
territory any attempt to repeat the
Tunis proceedings there would be
raised the whole question of the Eu-
ropean guarantee to the Ottoman En-
pire.
Bradlaugh has had an interview
with the Inspector Of Police at the
House of Commons, and informed
him that he does not intend to bring
a mob to Westminster on the Sd of
August, but says he cannot prevent
crowds from gathering. The police
will exclude the public from the pal
ace yard on that day.
O'Donnell, member of Parliament
for Dunganivan, writes to the Times
claiming that the Government has
virtually abandoned the emigration
clause of the Land Bill by inserting
the provision limiting the expenditure
to two hundred thousand pounds
be spread over a period of three years.
But for this concession, he says the
government could only have passed the
clause after expelling all the Home
Rule members. AS the clause now
stands, the Home Rulers regard it as
a complete fasco.
PARIS, July 20.-A dispatch from
Tunis says Bey's troops are deserving
him by the hundreds. The aqueduct
will guarded by French regiment, as
attempts have already been made to
destroy it. A number of interior
tribes have rejoined the rebellion.
The Tripolitan tribes which annual
ly migrate to Tunis at this time of the
year have joined the insurgents and
raided within twenty miles of the
capital. Spies report that the
rebels declare that they intend
to fight both the Bey and the French.
They plumber and massacre Christians