The Portland daily press., 1882-05-25
FOREIGN.
New Regulations Concerning Jews
IN Russia.
A SPLIT REPORTED IN THE IRISH
PARTY.
Hostile Preparations Continue in Egypt
The Situation Growing Worse.

ST.. PETERSBURG, May 24.-The Official Mes
senger publishes the regulations agreed upon
by the committee of ministers and approved
by the Emperor the 15lh inst They provide
that Jews shall henceforth be prohibited from
settling outside of towns and villages except
where jewish settlements already exist. Jews
are prohibited from trading Sundays and
Christian holidays This regulation only ap-
ply to governments where Jews are permanent
ly settled. All contracts of purchase or tenan-
cy with Jews are Professionally suspended.
The Official Messenger to-day says the EN-
peror is resolved to punish all outrages against
the Jews and their property.
a Split in the Irish Party.
New York, May pa London special says
there is a complete split among the irish mem
bers consequent upon the Kilmainham COM
pact. The disposition shown by Mr.. Parnell
and his immediate followers to assist the
government is resented by the more advanced
section of the party, by which the arrangement
is repudIated altogether. Mr.. Parnell, it is
reported, contempiates retiring to private life.
but the best authorities state that he has no
such intention at present.
All the papers comment upon the significant
divergence among the Irish members in the
division last evening in the House of Com
mons on Mr. Gladstones motion that the re-
preston and arrears of rent bills have pre-
cedence over other business. Besides Messrs.
ODonnell and Arthur 'Connor, those refusing
to follow Mr.. Parnell included Messrs. Thomas
rover " Oonnor, REDMOND, flnnlgan hlcnaro
Power, Sexton, Mccarthy Biggar, O'Sullivan,
Moore, Healy, Sullivan, Leamy, Callan and
Shiel. The following abstained with Mr.. Par
nell from voting on the division: Messrs.
O'Kelley, Cummins, Synan, Molloy and
Marum.
The Situation at Cairo Growing Worse.
LONDON, May 24.--A dispatch to the Times
from Cairo states that the situation is hourly
becoming verse.
CAIRO, May 24-The ministry continue
hostile preparations. A line of torpedoes is
being laid along the coast Native carpenters
and smiths were summoned to the citaLel to-
day. All the officers were summoned to the
Abdin barracks yesterday and required to
swear to defend the government against inter-
vention. An attempt has been made to exact
a similar undertaking from the Bedouin
sheiks, but they refuse to pledge themselves
to resist Turkish intervention. The united
squadron has contracted for three months
provisions.
PARIS, May 24.-According to private tele-
gram received from a trustworthy source
secret Turkish emissary has arrived at Cairo to
exhort Orabi Bey to resistance. The crisis in
Egypt is engaging the earnest attention of the
English and French governments and in i'm
portant decision may Immediately be expected.
Proceedings in the Commons.
LONDON, May A.-In the Commons this
afternoon Forster made personal statement
denying the government had negotiated with
suspects clandestinely to him as alleged by
James Lowther. Dillon resumed debate on
the repression bill. Gladstone severely de-
nounced Dillon for endorsing outrages by re-
fusing to assist the government in carrying the
bill. Dillon declared he had always de-
nounced outrages. Gladstone replied with
great passion. After severe denunciation of
the bill by several Home Rule members the
debate on motion to go into committee on the
repression bill was again adjourned until to-
morrow. The utterance of Dillon that pro-
voked Gladstones attack implied that evic-
tions were more culpable than outrages.
A Darwin Memorial.
LONDON, May PA fund has been started
to raise memorial to the late Charles Darwin
by establishing fund associated with his
name the proceeds of which to be devoted to
the furtherance of biological science.
Foreign Notes.
lev. Wm. Hanna, LII. D., of London, an
eminent Presbyterian divine, is dead.
Edmond Hoefer of Stuttgart, the German
novelist is dead.