The Portland daily press., 1884-10-24
THE OLD WORLD.
News by Gable from Different
Countries.
Parliament Opened-The Queens Speech
Read.

LONDON Oct. 22.-ParliameDt reassembled
to-day. Following is the Queens speech:
continue TO maintain relations of amity with all
foreign powers. Information from Soudan includes
painful uncertainties, but the energy. courage and
resource conspcuOusly displayed by Gen. Gordon
In the successful defeuce of Kharto, m deserve my
warm recognition The a4vauce OF my troops TO
Dongola has for its object the and security
of that gallant officer and of those who have so
faithfully co-oporated with him. am using my
best endeavors in Egypt TO mote the fur ther i'm
provemeut of affairs in that country. have given
my support to the Egyptian government in the dit-
icult financial position in which it was ef through
the failure of the recent conference L regret the
occurrences in Transvaal and considering with
the Cape governme t. the means to secure the OBJ
setvance Of ths convention
Gentlemen of the ,use of Commons Operations
in the Soudan render it necessary to ask you
further pecuni try provisions.
My Lords and Gentlemen-A bill for the extern
sion of pari franchise will be at once in
tr duced. May the blessings of God attend your
labors.
TO Touqain.
PARIS, Oct 49, AT meeting OF the CabineJ
yesterday 1t was decided TO send to Gen. Briere
dc PIsle reinforcements of 1900 men, the
first contingent OF which shall De drawn from
Algiers.
The Situation at Tamsui.
LONDON, Get 23.-Dspatches received here
state that in the eng cement at Tsmsui oD
Oct. 10Th, In which the Chinese, under Lin
Ming Schuan, defeated 1900 French troops,
the Chinese forces captured the French, IN
der Admiral Lespes, ale irving to cut Chinese
communication between Tamsui and Kelung.
A dispatch to the Times from A mOy says
OUly two French vessels are anchored at Tam-
sui. gale prevented operations for week.
The Chinese have repaired their earthworks
and reorganizsd their s. stem of defence. They
have sunk more junks IN the harbor. Hill
men are pouring down. Gen. Lun is very COO
fident and is friendly to Foreigners. An edict
just issued prohibits the decapitation OF
bodies.
PARIS, Oct. 23.-Fuller sdvices fIom China
give tne following particulars OF the French
defeat at Tamsui, Jes 18th: Lin Mug SchuAn,
the Chinese general, sent some of his soldiers
disguised as COATES to offer to assist the
French in their work of buiIoiug forts. Mean
while the rest OF the Chinese soldiers formed
besr at hand. Presently the signal previously
agreed upon was given whert upon the sup
pt tsed Coalies and the soldiers in ambush
made sudden attack npon the French aud
hemmed them in on all sides. The French
were overwhelmed and rushed into the SCI il
the widest confusion. Admiral L-spes admits
that lO6 of his men were killed. He offered a
reward OF six dollars for each corpse restored.
The loss of the French flag was greatly de
plored and Admiral Lespes endeavored to
recover it trom the Chinese by offering them
two new flags in exchange for it, but the
Chinese refused 10 entertain the bargain.
The Irish Parliamentary Party.
meeting of the irish Parliamentary party
was held in London yesterday. Mr.. Parnell
presided. The meeting expressed sympathy
with the family OF the late A. NJ. Sullivan, aud
resolved tn press the Catholic education ques
tion in Parliament. No formal resolution was
adopted regarding the franchise policy OF the
party, which will probably be decided upon
after the fret reading of the franchise bill.
I'm the Commons.
In the House of Commons to-day Mr.. Glad
stone gave notice that next Monday he would
ask that priority be granted to the franchise
bill throughout the session. Mr.. Timothy
Harrington (Homerule) gave notice that he
intended to offer an amendment to the address
in reply TO the speech from the throne to the
effect that the administration of law in Ire
laud was unsatisfactory and that an inquiry
into the murder that would lead to greater
conteHtment among the people.
Gladstone insisted that redistribution must
follow the passage OF the franchise bill, and
deprecated the disorders in Birmingham and
elsewhere, but said he hoped the opposition
had seen that the country wanted the fran
chise bill passed. He would warn them that
while insisting that their labors should include
the redistribution scheme, they should not in
clude another question, the issue OF which he
was unable to foresee. Speeches made by 9TH
er Conservatives showed that they obiected to
Gladstone's menacing tone.