Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
Great Britain.
THE LAND LEAGUE.

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| DUBLIN, May 1Sth.-At the meeting of the
Land League yesterday the attendance was
larger than usual The announcement of re.
ceipts amounted to eSS6 The fact that the
American dispatches had not come TO hand
| accounted for the comparative smallness of
the receipts. A casual reference by one OF
the speakers to the question of the advisable
| ity OF general strike against the payment
of rent elected applause.
THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE.
NEW YoRK, May 1sth.-A dispatch from
| London gives the main points Of the
Standards review of the revised Testament.
The writer of the article asserts that what
ever scholars may think of the labors of TIE
revisors, TIE impression produced upon the
public ,nird is one Of disappointment and dis
satisfaction IL Is dee pis TO be regretted that
| the revisors, juggling from tie york just pub
lished, have apparently forgotten the condi-
tions under which the task was intrusted to
them, 1t is obvious that great many of
the alterations adopted have been approved
for reasons of mere literary criticism, which
made us rather skeptical as to the infaliibil-
ity or even the good taste of the revisors.
They have nevertheless thought themselves
| justified in mending the English and improv.
| ing the grammar Of passages which have
struck deep root in the hearts and memory of
the English people. One word has been SUBJ
stituted for another at the within of the New
| Testament Committee moods and lenses
have been shifted about to satisfy some pc.
| dantic scheme of syntectical symmetry
sentences treasured up in the popular mind,
and enriched beyond description by pathetic
associations of hundreds of years, have been
tortured and crucifed into precise erammati-
cal accord with the latest refnements of
critical labor, upon comparison of the early
manuscript texts, and thus has been
robbed of all its true value. The sys-
| TEN upon which the revisors appear
to have acted, in our Judgment, is
altogether erroneous and deplorable. The
writer then points out the portion of the
| Scriptures known among the English-speak-
ing people. They have been known by them
and loved by them for centuries, he says,
and it is rash and reckless to shake this noble
growth of centuries by attempting to har-
monte it with the correctness OF
self-opinionated scholarship, or regulated
| by the doubtful standard OF taste
accepted by a motley combination of
theologians and professors. Even the Lords
| Prayer, which every English-speakipg
child learns to lisp at its mothers
knee, has not been spared. st. Paul's
praise OF Christ, unequaled in its
own kind for ringing rythmical eloquence in
the old version is mangled and made uure-
cogpizable by the senseless Substitution of
the word " love" for charity. The meaning
is really obscured, rather than elucidated, by
the change, while the music of the sentence
is irretriavably lost. Alterations of diction
of the old version, Involving gain in sense,
or scarcely perceptible, swarm in the revised
it is impossible not to feel that the
original TRANSACTIONS, however inferior
to those OF the present revisors in
precise and exhaustive scholarship. textual
| or general, were infinitely their superiors in
the rare and precious art of writing musical
and masculine English prose. Had they
purged the sacred text of errors which had
crept into it, and placed where it was neces.
sary the variorum readings in the margins,
| they would have performed a useful and ac-
| ceptable work, but in the effort to attain dry
and merely mechanical accuracy of express
sion they have so revised the noblest book in
the English language as to deprive it of much
Of its beauty, and they have destroyed many
| Of its historical stories. The Standard writer
says: at remains now forthe revisors to
| revise the text they have produced. II this
| new version is to be generally used and to
| surercede the authorized version, many of
the alterations that have been made must be
| discarded"
ORDER OF THE GARTER.
LONDON, May 1Sth.-The Queen has con-
of Sweden at Windsor Castle.
RAPID TRANSIT.
LONDON, May 18th = The Guion lire
steamer Arizona, from New York May 10th
| for Liverpool, arrived off Crookhaven at
o'clock this morning. having made the pas
sage in days, 5 hours and 30 minutes.
BuSsia.
THE COURT GOING TO MOSCOW FOR MONTH.
| ST. PETERSBURG, May 1S.h.-The Court
will presently go to Moscow for month.
THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY
| GENERAL IGNAT1EFFs CIRCULAR.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 1Ssh. = General
| Ignatieff. successor Of General Melikof, has
addressed circular, dated to-day, to the
! Governors of the provinces, explaining the
principles of the Imperial manifesto and an
nounciug the views of the Government en-
the internal condition of the country. 1t re-
fers to the dark sides of the present state Of
society. the irreligious education of the
youth, the inactivity of the authorities, the
| indifference of many holders of public offices
| to the general welfare, and their avaricious
management of public property. Herein. it
SAYS, is to be found an explanation of the
| painful feet that the great reforms intra-
dnced by the last Government did not
Weld the full benefit the deceased Emperor
had right to expect, but an autocrat,
! strong in the attachment and unbounded
| love of great people, can, with the enlight-
| ened cooperation of the best sons of the
| fatherland, successfully remove the great evil
| from which Russia is suffering. The first
| task to be accomplished is the extirpation of
the spirit of rebellion, which society must
| counterfeit of it's own initiation. The perse-
! cution of the Jews in Ukraine shows how
CT mpletely the people yield to the influence
| OF evil disposed persons, and unsuspectingly
serve their rebeilious plans. The task is to
strengthen faith and morals. The Govern
ment will take especial care to introduce
| order and justice into the institutions of the
late Gar. If there be cordial cooperation
between society and the Government, the
present difficulties will certainly disappear.
The nobility, who always listen to the voice of
truth and honor, will substantially contribute
to thstresult. The nobility and other classes
must have certainty that all their rights
will remain untouched. The peasantry may
be sure that the Government will not only
maintain all the rights accorded them, but
will relieve the people IS much as possible of
the burden of taxation, in order to improve
their condition. At the same time the Gov
| eminent will take measures to establish a
system for securing a participation of local
forces in the execution of the Emperor's
plans.
DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE MINISTRY.
ROME, May 1Sth.-A demonstration
against the new italian Ministry took place
yesterday at Milan. The troops charged the
people and several were wounded. In Flor
ence bariicades were raised. There Is to be
another great demonstration sooa.
Austria.
FURTHER oUTRAGEs SUSTAINED BY The JEWS.
VIENNA, May 1Sth.-A telegram from
Woloski. the Prussian frontier, reports
that the Jews have been attacked by the
populace, and all their HOUSES destroyed.
Three hundred and thirty families have been
rendered homeless and fed into oalicia.
Turkey.
MIDHAT PAsHA suRRENDERs.
CoNsrANJINoPLE, May 1S-h.-Midhat
Pasha has surrendered to the authorities, on
condition that he receive fair trial.