The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-12
FOREIGN.

though the Irish arms bill, under the oper
alton Of the gag, has been forced through IN,
: house OF commons, the debate on ii was char
ac'erized by rs exciting scenes any that attended
the debate on the force bill. IN reply to a tam
farncll declared on the 9th, that the ministry
could not drive men like himself and Dillon
outside the lines of the constitution, and thai
the arms bill would not prevent the shooting OF
bad landlords In another stage of the debate
Dillon, IN reply to charge Of Harcourt tina,
the land league meant TO arm the peasantry
confessed that he wanted arms to shoot land
lords and agents, and regretted tina, the Irish
had not arms enough to undertake civil war
and no disclaimers of Mr.. Dillon's confeder
atcs have yet diminished the effect OF this de.
claration.
On another occasion, ODonnel character
lied the constant interruption to which he was
subjected az beasly bowling, upon which a
demand was made tina. he be removed from
! the house. The Irish members closed around
to help him II attacked A physical row
was, however, avoided, owing to Mr.. Parnells
prudent advice.
! Arrests are beng rapidly made in Ireland
under the force bill. AT meeting in Dublin
on Monday between Mr.. Foster and q number
Of police magistrates aud inspectors. 1t was
agreed 20 proclaim az disorderly the counties
Clare, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim and Cork, and
up to Thursday fully forty arrests had been
made in those counties. Among them were
Mr. Walsh, the traverser, Michael Boyon
brother Of the swimmer. and who claims to be
an American citizen and has LAID his case be
tore the American minister Lowell.
II uansplres tina, while the English who
supposed they Lad gained an lmpregnablc po
si,ion at the top Of The Spitzkop Ia South Air
CO, with coo men, were driven from it by
loss oi more than halI their men, by iorct of
Beers no larger than their OWN and who lost
but one man i'll the operation.
Joubert the Beer military leader, after the
Splhkop affair sent word to Gen. Wood,
through President Brand, of the Orange Free
State. that he and bis people did not desire
war; that they do not intend to make any at.
tack, and in fact are anxious for peace but
Will not purchase peace by sacrificing their
freedom. On this hint, Gen. Wood had an in.
tervicW with Joubert and agreed on An arms
nce until March 14h, and meantime the Brit.
ish cabinet is SAID 10 have agreed upon terms
Of peace to I've offered the Beers and sent the
result to General Wood.
a series of storms and terrible shipping dis
asters occurred OH the Aberdeenshlre coast,
Saturday morning, when no less than nine YES
sells were wrecked and one hundred lives lost
One vessel was the Liverpool ship Ben Rhyd-
din, from Calcutta. All the crew, thirty in
number, persisted within sight Of land, the
rocket being unable to reach the vessel
There was an earthquake on Sunday on the
island OF lsChia, at the northern entrance of
the bay Of Naples, by which it is estimated
that 200 lives We're lost, with vast amount of
property.
The German parliament is startled by some
statistics just laid before them in regard to the
operation of the protective tariff" adopted a
year ago. II Is shown that the effect has been
SO to raise the price of living that the country
is threatened with depopula,ion by emf grafton,
the figures showing that 10G, 1871 emigrants left
Bremen in 1890 against $4,000 in 1879.