The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
FOREIGN.

In the French Chamber of Deputies
Paul de Cassagnac called Prime Minister
Ferry liar and the worst of towards, for
which he was excluded for fortnight
James Carey, the informer, has failed
topay his taxes in Dublin, and been declared
bankrupt
The joint committee of the British
Lords and Commons on the channel tunnel
has rejected the scheme-6 to 4.
The British Government and M. De
Lesseps have entered into an agreement for
the construction of a new Suez Canal, paral-
lei to the present one.
The House of Lords committee
on the Land Act reported that the immigra-
ton clause is n failure, that the modes
of valuation are Enthusiastically, and
that the relations between tenant
and landlord have not improved
adopted that the importation of live cattle
should not be permitted from countries
where the sanitary condition or preventive
laws did not guard against the foot and
mouth disease.
A bill has been introduced in the
for piers for a railway bridge to England
across the Straits of Dover.
In battle in Zululand Cetewayo's
forces defeated those of Cham, who was
made prisoner.
Twelve soldiers were killed at Tripoli
by the explosion of n bomb which was being
removed
Even the English newsgatherers adj
NIT that the paupers just sent back by the
American authorities are an undesirable lot
The agreement between De Lesseps
and the British Government for a new Suez
canal provides that the latter party will lend
the canal company Is, 100000 for fifty years
at 81 per cent, and that the work will be
completed in five years England will en-
deavor to secure fresh concession of land
from Egypt.
Gladstone informed the House of
Commons that the French Admiral, after
the seizure of Tamatave, Madagascar i'm
prisoned the Secretary of the British Consul,
and caused the death of the latter, indi-
rectly, and that an English missionary was
also thrown into prison He said they
awaited further details of the alleged out
RACES, and expected such communications
from the French Government as the case re-
CURED
A cable dispatch of the 18th inst. says
that cholera has appeared in towns thirty
to forty miles from Cairo The British Gov
eminent will send to Egypt Surgeon Gen
eral who has had long experience in India
France will dispatch Louis Pasteur, the
chemist, toinvestigate the nature and origin
of the disease
De Cassagnac has Invited the French
Premier, Ferry, to fight a duel, owing to the
heated debate on the Tonquin question, but
Ferry declined
Sexton, member of Parliament for
the County Sligo, has made speech voic-
ing the glee of the Irish over the peremptory
action of the American authorities in re-
turning the paupers recently deported by
England on the Furnessa and other vessels
The British consul at Zanzibar is re-
sponsible for the sensational statements of
the acts of the French in Madagascar made
by Mr. Gladstone, for which Lord Granville
has demanded an explanation. In an inter-
view at Paris, Prime Minister Ferry ridi-
culed the idea that any French Admiral
would insult the British flag, and expressed
the sinsere belief that the occurrences at
Tamatave were exaggerated
A telegram from Lisbon announces
the loss of a bark near Fayal with the
drowning of several people.
In the course of debate ON the policy
Of the Government in the Spanish Chamber
of Deputies, CASTELAR,, the Republican leader.
declared that his views remained un-