The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-23
FOREIGN.

lHc lIisn lauu DlH pTOSTtSscu curing lnt
week in the British House of Commons in
committee from clause If to clause 26. The
last is that which proposes to assist emlgra
ton and Is determinedly opposed to the land
leaguers by every means of obstruction within
their power. They put 1t on the ground tina,
it is no way to help country by promoting
its depopulation. They succeeded in having
Canada" stricken out Of the clause 50 that if
retained, emlgrants assisted by the govern.
men. are at liberty to go to the United States
or wherever else they please, Gladstone has
given notice that the bill will be forced
through the house by the end of July.
A depu,aton OF Irish laborers waited upon
Gladstone on Monday to ask that certain pro-
Visions be inserted in the land bill to protect
the Interests of Irish agricultural labOrers
The substance of his reply was that, admitting
the justice of their claim, the subject was one
not german TO the land bill and it must be
reserved for the future The same committee
subsequently waited on Cardinal Manning
who gave them very friendly talk, but as to
substantially with the premier.
The 18th inst the anniversary of the battle
of the Boyne, passed off quietly in Ireland.
There were, as usual, few skirmishes at Bel
fast and Lurgan, but the police were not called
upon to interfere
The great volunteer review by the Queen in
Windsor Park came off successfully on Satur.
day. There were more men under arms-5S,.
600 all told--than were ever mustered at one
time on British soil since King Edward
marched with his host to the INVASION of Scot.
land
Lefoy, the murderer of Gold, on the Brigh.
ton road, was captured IN miserable lodging
house in London, on Saturday,in halt starved
condition AS he was taken to London bridge
station, large crowd gathered, and but tor
the strong guard he would have fallen a vic
tim to that "IIamerican" barbarism, Lynch
law.
The crop prospects are not as rosy rs they
were week ago, either IN England or on the
continent France will fall below an average
Austria hopes only for fair crop, while In
Germany the harvest will be much worse than
it was last year.
King Kalakua, of the Sandwich islands, is
in London.
Though France had little difficulty in bring
ing the hey of Tunis to terms, his people, es
pecially the Arabs and more bigoted Mahom-
medans, are by no means disposed to submit
to French domination, and are everywhere in
instruction. They have gathered to the mum.
Der of $1,000 at Sfay, on the coast, and France,
With large naval as well as land force, has
been all week engaged in an Intellectual at
tempt to reduce the place to submission. As
to the object OF France in extending her au-
thority in North Africa at such Leavy out
lay in proportion to any visible advantage, the
Journal deS DebatS says: After France has
succeeded in convincing the natives of Sfax
and other places in Tunis and Algeria that she
is only anxious to promote their welfare, Count
De Lesseps will complete in Algeria and Tun.
is the task commenced by politics and the
army by creating an inland sea to the south of
Tunis and Algeria, thus making a substantial
frontier between the Sahara and their own DOS
sessions.
o., IL