The bee., 1883-01-20
Foreign Mewa,

! LONDON, Jan. 4.-Mr. Davitt appeared be.
! fore meeting at Oldham last evening to
! deliver an address on the Irish question
! When he commenced to speak he was howlet
down by an organized gang present, who at
tempted to storm the platform, but were re
pnIsed with chairs bv the occupants of the
platform. A free fight ensued, in which
chair legs and brass knuckles were used and
many persons were hurt. Mr.. Davitt called
the disturbers cowardly crew. and declared
that if twenty men would follow him he
would clear the hall of the gang. He there.
| fore advanced toward the latter for that pur-
pose, but was restrained by policemen pres
ent. Addressing his opponents again, Mr..
Davitt said they were miserable, contempt.
bic cowardly dogs. When they we're sitting
in taverns, he said, he was fighting the Brit
ish government. They were drunken black
guards, and were disgrace to the name Of
nationalists. If Ireland were made up of
such. she would earn the contempt of the
civilized world. He said he had Travelled
throughout England, and Englishmen, al
though his enemies, had given him a hear
ing. What q spectacle for the English, he
exclaimed, was afforded by these professors
of blackguardism, at time when Ireland
was asking for self-government! The police
finally succeeded in removing the disturbers
from the hall. A vote of thanks to Mr.. Da-
witt was then passed.
During the performance yesterday at cir
Gus in Bcrditscheff, in Russian Poland, fire
broke out in the building, and before the
spectators could escape the whole structure
was ablaze. Three hundred persons lost
their lives.
The Prince of Wales unveiled the statue at
the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich on
Saturday erected to the memory of the
French Prince Imperial by the subscriptions
Of 25,OOO officers and men of the British army
vt cost of e4.31O.
The floods in South Hungary are assuming
greater proportions. The town Of Hcusittz,
on the Danube, is submerged. ana SoTncbore,
Semln and Panchova are in inmiuent dan
ger, as are also number of villages.
The Paris Temps says England has pro-
nonnced the deposition of France in Egypt.
It is possible that Mr.. Gladstone's Egyptian
enterprise may lead to reopening of the
Eastern question.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-Patrick Higgins, one of
the murderers of the Huddys. was hanged at
Galway.
Further arrests for conspiracy to murder
officials in Ireland have been made at Dublin.
Thirty persons were injured by railroad
collision near the Stipney railroad junction,
London.
Senior Francisco Pelaez, district attorney |
of the upper court of Havana, Cuba, has been
assassinated in his own house by a negro and
two mulattoes.
Mr. Sexton. speaking at Mallow, Sunday.
predicted Mr.. Parnell's supremacy in
Ireland, and said that at the next election
the Irish would have two-thirds of the seats
in the House of Commons.
note has been issued in regard to Egypt
and the freedom of the Suez canal.
The Journal des Debots. of Paris, says that
England has practically taken possession of !
Egypt.
Paris newspapers have made ill-natured
comments on the unveiling by the Prince OF
Wales of the statue of the late Prince Impe
perial.
LONDON Jan. 1G.-.The Paris Figaro pub |
lished manifesto signed by the Prince Ma. /
poleon ("Plon- -Plon"), claiming the Napo-
leonic inheritance. He was arrested and will /
probably be sent out the country.
Several earthquake shocks has been felt |
at several points in Europe.
Two hundred and sixty lives were |
lost by the fire in the circus at Berditscheff |
last Saturday.
The Anarchists on trial at Lyons, France,
remain defiant.
It is believed that the wrecked steamer,
The Pride of the Ocean, was blown up with
dynamite.