Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-14
ENGLAND.
IN HI COMMONS.


LONDON, July IS In the Commons this
afternoon; Childers, Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer, in r ply to Sir Stafford Nortbcore,
said the Suez canal agree meni would be sub
mitted to the House by a motion made 10 the
Commeus that the sun TO b loaned to the
Sues Canal COMPANY by the government for
betldIte the new canal b. caarged on the
consolid .ted fund.
Northcote gave notice hat when such mo-
lion was made he would ask the sense of the
House on agreement
This aunonnos ment was received by cheers.
! WlilIam Fowler, Liberal, spoke in opposi-
tiou TO the cana scheme,
WILL NOT FORCE IT.
The newspapers ke;e say they believe hat
the aceeptsnce OF The agreement entered
iu'0 by the governmrut with De Lssseps
will not be forced on ihs Parliament,
H CATTLE DISEASE.
1t is believed The s>eefGflsnt will refuse
to 'n.r rron legisla ion touching the cattle
diL=ss4 at his session OF Psrliament,
A vIeoRoUs PROTEST.
AT 3 called meeting of merchants and
shipo ansrs, n T.lnydss, q fesolation was
Pass d strongly objectiog to tbe agreement
betAeen DE- Lssseps and The government on
1nancial, commercial and p~oli,icsl grounds.
The lord mayor OF Londen was asked to call
a meeting that further prbie6t sgaius; Tie
sgreshent can rs Biade. The Chancellor of
the hxchequer, IN response 20 q deputation,
stated that The government had made the
beat bargain possible with d. Lesaepa. They
we're BUYERS from u t over anxious sellers,
and had obtained solid advantages for Brit:
ish shiposners and c~onsunsrh.
fhE Miners STRIKE ENDED.
The miners' strike at Stsffordshire has
ended. There are sigt ) hat the iron men will
5000 resume work.
IRISH EMIGRANTs.
The steamer Grecian, from Glasgow, takes
on board al Foynep, 1%relant, It's emIgrants
from he Enuis Union. Destination, Boston.
L~ANsDowN's ART
The Marquis OF Lsnsdo@n sails October
10Th for Canada, to assume the duties of
Governor-G eneral.
THE QUEENS CONDITION..
The Lancet fmedieal tournal) says there ia
no hing in The Q1een'r condition to excite
lie slightest anxiety. Princess Beatrice, on
"Wednesday, goes to Aries Baines, Savoy, and
will remain there three weeks.
MEN-oF WAR AT MADAGASCAR.
LONDON, July 1S.-ft was stated in the
Commons that the government had no pres
ent intention of increasing the number of
mfn-of-wsr iu the waters of Madagascar.
"
The Starving Peasants of Donegal.
Alice NJ. Hark, writing TO the London
Chronicle Of June Suh, says, GAS l have only
just returned from visiting, with my husband,
Gweedore and the other distressed districts
Of Donegal, j should be glad if you would
allow me to say q lew words as to the actual
condition OF The peasauis in that part of Ire
land. Last year the potato crop was lost
throughout he whole Of Donegal, and to add
to this disaster, following ss it did on four
successive bad h~arvests, a terrible storm
swept over Donegal on October 1st, unrooicg
and ~leveling tn cottages, ani sweeping away
the whole of the oats and hay. The people
thus found themselves obliged to face the
winter with no store OF food for heir fami-
lies and stock, and no seed potatoes for the
following spring. Enormous exsrtions have
been made by DR.. Logue, the bishop of
Rapboe, and his clergy, 10 find funds where |
witht feed the people and TO buy seed-pota-
toes, and 10 these sffStts they have been sided
by the Society of Friends and by Mrs. Power |
Lalsr. Owing to their ~exerlion a great e1-
ten, OF Donegal has been resown with
p~otstoes, and up to the present time tenant |
fatmers and their families have been kept
tIom actual starvation by selling their stock
and by receiving gifts of Indian meal. The
fluids in the hands OF the clergy are, how |
ever, nearly exhausted, and how TO keep off
the lamine till the newly sowu potato crop |
has been gathered is filing their minds with |
the grav5st snxiety. For Jhree years. said
the bishop TO us last week, i have been
lighting The famine, and now it seems that at |
the moment of vic DRY SIS il it would prevail |
10 GHeedore, to which Capt. Hill has sent
HIS bailif to collect rents, the tenants are re-
ducsd 10 the lowest BIB Of poverty. Ia an
estate, every inch Of which is either cog,
rock, or sand, come portion Of the land has
been brought into a state Of cultiv alton BY
the untiring labor Of the peasants. To-
farms in strips, often not more than eight |
feet or ten feet wide, run from the bog TO the
shore, and are being year by year encrosched
upon by the sea sand; others lying more |
inland have been reclaimed from the
bog by years of toll. Everything-building,
draining, ditching-has been done BY the
tenants unhelped. To stimulate industry
the rents on the property have been raised
from lime 10 time from s400 to nearly $1,000
q year, and TO teach the grim lesson of pow |
erty, l2,OO0 acres OF mountain commonage
grazing, which belonged 10 the tenants from
time immemorial, were some years ago taken
from them without compensation, aud thus a
people who once owned iocks and herds, and
were proud of their hospitality to str rangers, |
have been reduced 10 a state of penury most
pitiable to behold. While Capt. Hill is press !
ing for rents, hundreds Of his wretched ten
antry are being kept from actual starvation
by doles OF a pennyworth OF meal day, and
all the children on the property are being
fed by the gift of two biscuits each per diem. |
Poverty and misery, such as are now 10 be
seen in Gweedore, are enough 10 make the |
most stony-hearty weep. In me sin-
gle-roomed cottage we entered a re-
versed tub and a board did duty for n
table, and a broken iron pot, containing stir. !
about, was the sole cooking ~utensil, the only
article Of furniture 10 the place being the
wooden cradle, in which The wretched mother
rocked her newborn baby. The father, in
rags, was busy planting out the seed potatoes
just given him. But it is not only in Gwee-
dore that the peasants are starving. In
Glencolumbkill $500 persons are being fed
bT public charity out Of q population Of !