The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-14
FOREIGN.
NO Immediate Changes in the
British Cabinent.
THE AUsTRo GERMAN ALLIANCE
PROLONGED.
CetaWayO Reinstated King OF Zulu
lad.

LONDON, Dec. 13.-This afternoons Pail
MAIL Gazette says the announcement of
changes in he ministry are premature.
Cetawayo to be Reinstated.
Advices from South Africa say Cetawayo has
signed the Zulu settlement and will return to
Aululand early in January. A British resident
ana a military escort will accompany him to
oianol where he will be installed as king.
The Austro-German Alliance.
The Cologne Gazette states on what it says
is good authority that the Austro-G German al
nance, originally concluded for five years and
wnlcn ,, expires Oct. 10, 1884, will be pro-
advantage and furnishes strong guarantee for
the maintenance of peace
Postmaster General Fawcett Better.
The condition of Postmaster General Faw-
cettt was more favorable this forenoon.
Probability that Proceedings Against
Davitr, Etc, Will be Stopped.
Ibe Times Dublin correspondent telegraphs
tnat, as the case against Messrs. Davitt,
healey and Quinn has been postponed, owing
TO the absence OF the Judges for the asszes, it
would not occasion surprise if the proceeding
against them was allowed to drop.
Changes IN the Russian Ministry.
The Daily Telegraph's st. Petersburg de-
spatch says 1t appears certain that M. Bunge
mas definitely resigned the post of minister of
hnance, and that M. Toisky will succeed him.
1t is generally stated that Gen Ignatieff will
re-snter the ministry of domains.
Emigration to Canada.
At a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute
yesterday the Bishop of Saskatchewan deliv-
cred an address on Northwest Canada He re-
ferred TO the growing importance of the ques-
tion OF emigration and the desirability of di-
recting the stream of emigration to Canada in
preference to the United States.
The Proposed Modification OF the Spanish
Constitution.
despatch from Madrid to the Times saws
the oeOate on the resolution declaring against
any modification of the constitution having
shown disastrous differences among Marshal
SerranoS followers, and seeing that he could
not count on more than l6 votes, he decided to
withdraw.
Archbishop Of Canterbury. -
The Press Association says the Bishop of
winchester has declined the archbishopric of
Canterbury owing to his advanced age.
Mr.. Gladstones Public Services.
The Times this morning, on the occasion of
the oOth anniversary of Mr.. Gladstone's en-
trance into public life, prints a retrospect,
covering six columns, Of his career. Many po-
Htical associations have feictated Mr.. Glad
stone. and nearly all the London papers and
the greater portion of the provincial press de-
vote leaders to the subject of a recount of the
lnnuence Of Mr.. Gladstone during the last
half century.
The Sultan Afraid of His Life.
9 A despatch from Constantinople says the
Sultan has had built for his use an armored
carriage, bullet and grenade proof.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Dec 13-The palace is
practically in state of siege. Nobody is al
lowed TO enter unless summoned. The Sui
tans alarm is owing to sedition among the
troops who are angry at the way the palace
guards are paid, while they are in rags The
reappointment of Osman Pasha, who Is nm
popular In the army, as minister of war has
added fuel to the flames.
An Irish Farmer Sentenced for Life.
DUBLN, Dec. 13.-At the Connaught assizes
yesterday farmer uamed Kilmartin, residing
on one OF the Arran Islands, was convicted of
grievously wounding a bailiff and sentenced
Dy Judge Lawson to penal servitudesfor life.
Sentenced to Hanged.
Patrick Higgins was to-day found guilty of
participation in the murders of the two Hud-
dys at Lough Mask and sentenced to be hanged
next month.
Would-be Assassins Released.
VIENNA, Dec. 13.-The Italian authorities
have liberated two men named Levi and Pare
eDZlni, imprisoned at Venice for connection
with the recent plot at Trieste against the
life OF tn Emperor of Austria.
In Opposition to Nihilism.
The Pesther Lloyd says an anti-terrorist as
sociation, the object of which is to oppose the
projects of the Nihilists, has been formed at
st: Petersburg Branches have been estab-
iisned at Paris, Nice, Geneva, Zurich, Lon
don, Berlin, Konigsberg, Bucharest and Con-
stantinople,
Egyptian Troops off for Sondan.
CAIRO, Dec. 13-The remainder of the
Egyptian force assigned for service in Soudan
has left for that section. The staff follow to-
morrow.
The Exiled Egyptian Rebels.
CAIRO, Dec. 13.-The Government requests
Araoi and other prisoners sentenced to exile to
be ready to start within ten days. Allowances
nave been granted the prisoners from their
properties which were confscated The prop
erty belonging to their wives was. not confscat-
go. Inc leniency shown to the prisoners has
produced good effect on the Arabs.