The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-03
THE OLD WORLD.
Something About What is Going On in other Lands
Than Ours.

a dispatch from London says that the offers
relative to emigration from Ireland, which
Lord Carlingford declared in the House Of
Lords Monday the government was fayorably
entertaining, are from the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company and land companies inter-
ested in the opening of the Canadian North
west. The proposal of these companies is to
settle 5000 families, numbering IN the aggre-
gate $4,000 persons, on government lands,
under the homestead law, which gives each
family 100 acres of land free The promoters
of the scheme would become security for
81 ,000,000, to be advanced interest free, by
Great Britain for ten years, to be devoted to
loans sufficient to start each family, or they
would become surety for 92,000000, with
which they would relieve the crowded dis
tricts of Ireland of $4,000 persous--The
trial of Timothy Kelly, charged with participant
ing in the Phoenix Park murders, was con-
Guided on the oath ult The Judge, in sum-
ming up the evidence taken at the trial, spoke
most strongly against the prisoners claim of an
alibi. The jury, after being out a short time
returned to court and announced that they
had been unable to agree on verdict. They
were sent back four times and then dis
charged. This is Kelly's second trial. the
jury in the first instance also disagreeing
The trial of Michael Pagan, another of the
Phoenix Park murderers, resulted on Friday in
his conviction, and he was sentenced to be
hanged on the 23th inst.-The police have
evidence duplicating James Carey, the witness
for the crown in the state trials in progress
here, in the murders of Talbot, the police in
former, of Clarke, the Fenian informer, and of
the brickiayer Behan, and also in the at
tempted murder of Murphy, the bookkeeper of
the Irish People 1t is, therefore, likely that he
viii yet be tried for one of these offenses The
assassination of Behan was not connected with
the political troubles.-Joseph Hanlon, one of
the Phoenix Park prisoners, has made state
ment duplicating other prisoners Patrick
Delaney, sentenced to ten years penal servi-
tuae, for assaulting Judge Lawson, has been
charged with a more serious crime.-1t has
been stated that a request will be made from
Dublin for the extradition of dozen persons
from the United States.-More arrests have
been made in Dublin in connection with the
murder conspiracy.-An anonymous letter
has been received in London threatening to
blow up Guildhall on May 6with dynamite
The steamship British Commerce, bound from
England to Melbourne, was sunk off the En-
glish coast in collision on the 25th ult and
twenty five lives were lost.-An explosion of
gas occurred on the night of the 25th ult in
the green-Toom of the Ambigu Theatre, Paris,
while performance was being given. Twenty
persons were injured. The noise of the explo-
sion did not reach the auditorium, and the
audience departed quietly, it being represented
that one of the principal actors had been taken
ll.-The French council of state has decided
to stop the salaries of all bishops and clergy
men-Jules Goupil the well-known French
painter, is dead.-The Gar and the Grand
Duke Constantine, uncle of his majesty, have
become completely reconciled through the
mediation Of the Princess Dolgorouki