The Portland daily press., 1883-06-29
FOREIGN.
The Pauper Emigration Question
in the House of Commons.
Giving Away German Military Secrets.
Robbery and Attempted Murder of
an English Clergyman.

LONDON, Jane 2S.-0wing to the late hour
at which the steamer Alaska arrived at Liver
pool last night the reception to have been
given to the American rifle team who were Oh
board did not take place. The team left
Liverpool this morning for Birmingham where
thsy will remain for practice, the ranges at
Wimbledon not being available.
The team arrived az Birmingham this noon.
They are the guests of the Midland Rifle Club.
The team will remain until Tuesday.
Negligent British Naval Affairs Dismissed
A court martial which has been investigs
ting the cause of the stranding OF Her Majes-
ty's despatch steamer Lively near Stornoway
in the early part OF this month finds that the
vessel lost through an error of the pilot,
but that officers Of the Lively are answersbe
for her loss in not closely watching the pilot.
The commander and navigating lieutenant of
the Lively are therefore dismissed.
No Paupers Sent by the British Govern
ment.
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in
the House OF Commons said the reports about
the landing of paupers In America we're great
ly exaggerated. He said the steamer Anchoria
took no inmates OF any workhouse and that
all the emgrants sent by the commissioners
had been supplied with funds. No paupers had
been sent out by the boards OF guardians. He
also stated that no definite offer tor sending
emigrants to Canada had been received from
the Dominion government.
MIR. Trevelyan also said kilograms from
America the subject should be received
with great caution. He said the Furnessia
took out 421 temigrants of whom only five
families had been sin the workhouse and in
each of these cases friends in America had
offered them homes. He had himself seen ell
the tickets OF the emigrants including railway
tickets from the other side. They had also
checks for the amount of landing allowance
which for adults is one pound and for children
10sIshillings. Trevelyan said the questions
relating to the action OF the American govern
ment In the matter should be addressed to the
foreign office as his business was simply to as
certain whether the administrative details OF
Irish emigration were carried out as far as
possible.
Lowther, conservative, gave notice that he
would at an early day call attention to the sub
ject
Marriage with Deceased wife's Sister
Defeated.
The House of Lords to-day rejected the bill
permitting marriage with a deceased wife's
sister ON its third reading-li5 nays, 40 yeas.
The westmeath County Murderer.
MULLrNGAR, June 2S.-In the Smythe MUIR
der inquiry the prisoner Elliott was Unidentified
as man who was observed going towards the
scene OF the crime with gun.
German Experts.
BERLIN June 2S.-The German government
will probably send medical experts to Damiet-
Ia to investigate and report whether the mala-
| only cholera morbus.
The Pope Indisposed.
LONDON, June 2S.-The Standards cores
| pondent at Rome says the Pope is indisposed
| He is much disturbed by the state Of affairs In
Ireland and France.
German Conspirators.
| The Central News correspondent at Berlin
| says the arrest of M Krazewski the Polish
| author, and others, has led TO the belief that
conspiracy exists for betraying secrets relative
| to the German military organization. Twenty
arrests were made at Berlin aud Dresden,
| yesterday, of persons supposed to be oonnec-
| ted with the conspiracy, and other arrests have
been madetat Halle, Hanover and Colonge
The Tuke Fund Emigrants.
DUBLIN, June 2S-The secretary of the
| Tuke fund declares that all emgrants who
| have been assisted to go to America by the
| fund have been sent direct to relatives or
| friends In that country and been provided
| with money on landing.
Parliamentary Candidate.
The Waxfordborough club has chosen by
| unanimous vote brother of Mr.. Redmond
| the Irish National Leagues representative in
| Australia, as candidate OF the national party
| for a seat In the House of Commons for the
borough made vacant by the resignation Of
Healy.
| The Second Isthn,us Canal,
| LONDON, June %. AT meeting of the Brit
| ish ship-owners today opinions were received
| from eminent English counsel which were de-
| cidedly against Count De, Lesseps monopoly of
| the work of constructing canals across the 18TH
| mus OF Suez. The committee of ship-owners
| will forthwith demand power to construst q
second canal.