Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-20
Urom Our REGULAR Oorrespondentl
European Letter.
LONDON. Eng, April 5. 1881.


European Letter.
LONDON. Eng, April 5, 1881.
1t is stated on the authority Of great
financier who has sources of information
in every country in Europe, that the
nihilistic conspiracy is not widespread
that il probably numbers not more than
six hundred members. The influence OF
such conspiracy, however, is not to be
measured by the number of its abettors,
but by their determination. People are
not altogether in favor OF the idea of the
Prince and Princess Of Wales going to st.
Petersburgh to the funeral. There seems
no actual necessity for it, rs the Duke of
Edinburgh is there. 1t is probable that
the desire of the Princess of Wales to be
with her sister at this trying time may
have influenced the prince in his decision.
He has become so personally popular, and
it Is thought on all hands that he will
make so excellent king" that we have
no desire for him to put his head into the
lions mouth.
The trial of Most, the editor of the
Freihsit, on the charge of publishing "a
scandalous. wicked and malicious libel
concerning the Emperor Alexander" and
for urging people to commit murder
outside of her majesty's dominions," will
he watched With keen interest all over the
world" When the article WAS read in
court some persons present apphuded it,
for which they were promptly turned out.
Though Most is a socialist, the question
regards the freedom of the press, and the
English journals already fight shy of
commenting the action of the authorities
in this m liter. They consider that the
safest method of dealing with such cases
is to leave them to public sense and the
obscurity to which, as a rule, they are
doomed. But the temper of most author
tiles in Europe just now is toward repres-
sion Several of the French journals
we're sharply called to account and fined
for their panegyrcs over the act OF muir
der. The German socialists in Germany
have been remarkably quiet. 1t is Il bad
time for airing their theories there. As it
is. Prince Bismarck is ag lin b ginning to
poke them up and hustle them about,
notwithstanding his former friendship for
Lisal Q.
The works for the proposed tunnel from
Dover to Calais have made such satistac-
tory progress that its promoters ell
Beaumont, R. E., and Captain English. R.
E.,-are now able to employ three shifts
of men constantly throughout the twenty
four hours; and are confident of being
able to bore about thirty feet per day when
all the machinery is perfected. AT present
two drills worked by engines driven by
compressed air are at work, and about
thirty laborers are employed. The bore
| is seven feet in diameter and the soil
chalk. 1t is so firm that the engineers
are of the opinion no brick or cement
work will be required to shore it up.
Hitherto the difficulty they have had TO
contend with has arisen from the quantity
ofssater which has found its way into the
cutting, and which has been pumped up
by means of powerful engine placed at
the ,mouth of the shaft leading into the
tunnel. The shaft is about three hundred
feet long, and the boring already accom-
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new shaft is being driven through Shakes
peare Cliff, which, when completed, will
be about two hundred feet in depth. and
this will enable several additional hands
TO be employed, and the work to progress
much more rapidly than at present.
While Lord Donoonofiold is lingering
between life and death, Mr., Gladstone
with all his old vigor is laying before par.
Lament a measure to change once for all
the land system in Ireland. "because the
Irish land laws contain peculiar provis
ions which prevent the prosperity of the
irish tenant" He nay we'll say tha
" this is he most difficult question he evel
had to deal with in the whole course Of
his political life" lie is likely to find i
more difficult rs he progresse- with it
and granting it passes through the house
of commons without suffering much MA
terial change, it is likely to call up in th
house OF lords he bitterest Struggle eve
. known between the two houses. An en-
couraging sign that there is something il
/ the bill likely 10 meet Irish tenant want
( is the apparent good spirit with which Mr.
Gladstone's opening speech was receive
: BY the Irish members. Justice" b
= concluded. is the principle to guide En-
> gland in regard to Ireland" 1t is a lat
| discovery, but will be none the less wei
y come one 10 the Irish people. The bill i
introduced none too soon. There have bee
twenty FIVE families thrown out of sue
s homes MS they possessed within the pas
IA month. AUGUST.