Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
Foreign News,

Foreign News.
In the House Of Commons this afternoon tho
speaker read letter from Judge Lawson an
nouncing the committal of Mr.. Gray. Mr..
Gladstone stated that precedents in cases SIM
liar to that of Mr.. Gray show that the appoint
ment of committee is the proper COURSE At
the present period of the session, however, it
is too late to secure the appointment Of rep
resentative committee He did not, more
over, know any way in which the committee
could release Mr.. Gray if they wished to do
so. He therefore made purely formal mo-
ton that the letter of Judge Lawson be placed
on the table. A passing reference of Mr..
| Gladstone to an address to the Crown for the
removal of Judge Lawson as one of the possi-
bic alternative courses was received by loud
cheers from the Irish members. Mr.. Sexton
attacked Judge Lawson for preventing Mr..
Gray from making defense. He read tele-
grams reciting afidavits sworn TO to-day de-
claring that several Of the jurymen who con-
victed Hynes were drunk, and he repeated the
accusation of jury-packing, and said that as
long as the lives of the Irish people were at
the mercy of legal chicanery no minor reforms
would satisfy them. Mr.. Gray's imprison-
ment, he said, was scandal and disgrace to
justice.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 17.-General Garnett
Wolsey has decided that the British advance
shall be made from Aboukir. The troops will
embark on Saturday and will land and attack
the Abcukir forts on Sunday. The attack
will be made in two columns, one along the
route Of the last reconnaissance and the other
by the way Of Lake Aboukir, taking Arab at
point where his right rear rests on the
Mahmoudieh canal.
The first division, with one regiment from
the second division, will embark tomorrow.
After the bombardment of the forts at
Aboukir, for which all the memo war but two
will be withdrawn from Alexandria, it is in
tended to land the first division under the
personal command of General Wolsey, while
the second division, under Major General
Hamsley, with Major Generals Wood and
Alison commanding brigades will cooperate
from Ramleh.
| Arab Pasha Is said to have one hundred
guns in position at kafrel Dwar. The English
staff credits him with eighty at least.
| Negotiations are proceeding for the sur
render at Meks OF two thousand Bedouins
now with Arab.
| There is reason to believe that the young
Italian naval officer who was reported missing
on the 10Th instant, absconded, with the in
tention Of giving Arab Pasha assistance.
deserter from Arab Pasha's force who
came in here to-day gives graphic descrip-
ton OF the misery prevailing in the latters
camp, where the wounded, crawling about,
their sufferings unheeded, present sad pic
ture OF distress and neglect. Some of these
! poor creatures are said to have been shot by
| their comrades to free them from their agony.
Many Egyptians have been compelled against
their will to fight.
Advices from Corea say that The popular
discomfort has eliminated in general insur-
rection, and that the King and Queen have
been assassinated. The Japanese legation
was attacked by natives belonging to the anti
foreign party. Japanese men of-war have
been dispatched to Seoul river. A Japanese
military officer in the Corean service Is among
the killed.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 18.-The main expedition
against the Egyptian lines ordered by General
Wolseley is to start this morning, but its exact
destination was not discovered. The suppo-
sition last night was that the feet would go to
Aboukir and the troops to the Suez canal
The force Of Arab Pasha is stated at SO, 900
regulars, $4,000 militia and $4,000 Bedouins.
Raef Pasha, the new governor of Suez, has
arrived at his post.
popular subscription is being made In Ire-
iahd 10 pay the fine imposed upon E. Dryer
uray. Judge Lawson's sentence is severely
cehsured by the London Pail Mall Gazette.
Law oihcers are considering whether any ac-
uon should be taken in regard to speeches
made by Messrs. O'Gorman, Mahon, Healy
and Dillon. family named Joyce, in county
Hallway, have been murdered because they
were suspected of having given information.
Smallpox is spreading at Cape Town.
Trouble between Turkey and Persia is feared
owing to the escape of the Kurdish chief. Alb.
dallah.
Parliament adjourned without any formali-
'les' and not quorum was present to hear
The royal assent to bills.
AdYices from Chilli received at Buenos Ayres
state that several skirmishes have occurred
between the Chilians and Peruvians, in all of
WHICH the Chilians were victorious except in
one instance, where body of rs Chilians was
attacked by 1900 Peruvlans, and refusing to
surrender, all persisted.