The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-18
FOREIGN.

| tOhGAON.
In the Cork riM on the 10th, accounts q
which are claimed to- be greatly exaggerated
there is no question at least that 80 civilians
were severely injured and are being treated a,
the ntifmary. This riot, with the attempt &c
blow up the town hall IN Liverpool, serve OF
keep up intense excitement all ever the island
As to the Liverpool affair, the attempt APP
pears to have been made to blow up the town
hail with dynamite by two Irishmen recently
arrived from America, named McKevitt and
Roberts The business was so awkwardly
managed that it resulted only in slight dam
age to the windows. Importance attaches to
it only because, from documents found on
them, it appears the two accused are Fenlans,
apparently belonging to O'Donoyan Rosa S
"skirmishers," the design being, as the latter
says, ito show England that she can't send ar
mes into Ireland with lmpunity, tor she will
need them at home"
Satisfactory progress is said to have been
made in the consideration of the land bill In
parliament on the 18th, 14th and 10Th, a large
number of amendments having been disposed
of and "a lines of the bill passed.
In reference to the crops the LOndoa Miller
Of the 18th says that last weeks weather added
ten per cent. to the English wheat crop. In
Germany crops are not making good progress.
From Austria and Russia, advices are salts.
factory. In France the crops in the eastern
and southwestern departments were damaged
last week by rain
In the debate in parliament on the patent
laws on the 10Th, members commended high.
ly the American patent laws, and asked their
adoption by England. One speaker said
America, in the matter of invention, beats Eng
land all hollow that this country owes every.
thing to America, from a steamer CINE to al
Lorillard's ''lroquois" won new laurels on
Tuesday by easily winning the Prince off
Wales stake at the Ascot races against eight
competitors, making the distance, one mile and
five furlongs, in 3;05. There was the bitterestI
at the success of the Ameri.
can horse, with the slight alienation that
Archer again gets credit for the victory. Iro.
quois was again entered next day for the St.
James Palace stakes, but his former victories
appear to have scared off all competitors ex-'
cept Leon, a French colt, which he easily van
pushed, but whose owner could we'll afford
to run HIM for second place to secure the ST 900
appropriated to that position. Leon is the
property of Count +. de Lagrange, and is a.
chestnut colt by Gabler, dam La Favorite.
The new 1nman steamer City OF Rome VI
tonnage $500 and the largest steamer ahoatI
except the Great Eastern, was successfully
launched at Burrow on Tuesday in the pres
ence of $4,000 spectators. The launch was at
tended with bad accident, the bursting of q
small engine on deck killing three men. She
will sail for New York Oct. 18th.
In France Gambettas leadership has met a
'set back" IN the defeat by the senate of the
'scrutln de liste" bill--a measure by which It'll
was proposed to elect the members of the
chambers by general ticket instead of by dis
trlcts or ACCOMPLISHMENTS, as at present TheI
measure was opposed by President Grevy and
his party and Its defeat may lead to important
political movements.
Lorillard's great victory IN winning the
Derby and Ascot races in England with Iro.
luois, was offset by jim Keene, through his
bay colt Foxhall, winning the Grand Prix on
Sunday in Paris. Foxhall, the American rep.
won by head, with Tristan sec
md, and Albion third There was great en-
husiasm, and the vast audience, numberingI
over 100000 people, hailed the result with tn.
nultous vlvas and cries of "C'est pAmeri-
,aine" "Brapo rAmericaine!" The Amer
,an colony In Paris went nearly crazy with
900 900 francs, one-half of which is given by
he municipality of Paris, and the other half
by five railroad companies. Foxhall was
'oaled on the Alexander farm, in Kentucky,
and purchased and sent abroad by Mr.. Keene
asst year.
The federal sanitary commission of Switzer-
and has just reported its conclusion after in
vestigation with regard to American pork.
The report is very elaborate, treating of Amer
can breeds of hogs, methods of fattening,
packing, and inspection, founded on facts fur
lished by the American consul at Basic. The
result is that the minister has officially mott
fed the central government that no cause ex.
sts for prohibition of the importation of Amer
can pork or for inspection to guard against
Gen. Grant and party, including Mrs. Grant,
Col. Fred. Grant and Miss Sharpe, arrived at
Chicago from Mexico on Sunday, the General
,o;,p On b,a wav m New York Fred StOp-