Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

LONDON, March 27.-Theo. O'Don-
ough, member of Parliament for
Tralee, in replying to Justice Mes
Carthy's circular to home rulers, urg
ing them to vote against the Clotine,
says: ''The defeat of Gladstones
ministry would be fatal to the best
interests of Ireland. It would hand
over the land act to those who would
do their best to defeat its workings. y
Theo. ODonough considers that if
wise counsel had prevailed, Ireland
would already be contented, and that
the Clotine is the legitimate and neces-
sary assertion of the power of the
majority.
Dispatches from Ireland report a
case in which the hand of dis
guised man cut off the nose of a
man because he was in favor of the
low>guardian contest. He canvassed
in opposition to the candidate of
the Land-leaguers.
A desperate affair has occurred at
Clayon, in Kings County, Ireland,
between soldiers and some "emer-
gency men" The latter discharged
their revolvers. There were several
arrests. An attempt was made yess
terday to blow up the house belong
ing to Mr.. Malone, agent of Lord
Clarbevels estate. A quantity of
dynamite was placed in the window
and exploded. The inmates, five in
number, were uninjured, but the
house was partly demolished. No
arrests have been made
The Times, commenting on the
approaching completion of five
American monitors, says: America
owes 1t to her honor and greatness
to possess a fleet which shall be more
than phantom.
Canon Fleming, preaching at West
Minister Abbey last eveoing, said !:
| There are now so many objects of
common interest which makes Amer
lea and England one in friendship
and sympathy that Longtellow's S
death will be as sincerely mourned
here as it is in the United States.
The Times says that thirty-thtee
home rule members of Parliament
have promised to oppose the Clotine.
In the House of Commons this
evening, Gladstone. replying to
Healy, member for Wexford, said the
liberation on parole of some of
the suspects, to enable them to at
tend to private business, forms no
precedent for iberating Parnell, Dill
lon and O'Kelly, that they may par
ticipate in the division upon the
Clotine.
LONDON, March 27.-The Times
says the reform club has decided to
suspend all the elections for member
ship in the club until after the meet
ing to be held to reconsider the
method of election. This is in conse,
quence of the recent overwhelming
blackballing of the two brothers Of
MIR. Chamberlain, president of the
the Board of Trade, which created
great scandal, exposing as it did the
divisions in the Liberal party. Mr..
Parnell has declined to write letters
from Killingham jail unless under
very exceptional circumstances, as
objects to imposing on the governor
of the Jail the unpleasant duty OF
reading private letters.
The statement recently published
by the Central News that the Home
rule members of Parliament propose
to go to Ireland in body on Easter
is declared to be untrue.
MADRID, March 27.-The conser'
vative opposition will, this evening
move vote of censure in the Cham
Der of Deputies, against the min
istry.
LONDON, March 28.-A Pesth dis,
patch reports that 60 houses and 81
outbuildings at Boezenfa, and 24s
houses at Parks have been burned
and several hundred families are il
a destitute condition.