Daily Republican., 1885-07-21
Across the Atlantic.
THE NATIONAL POETRAET GALS
IaHY TO BE THASSrEWRED
TO BETHNA Az GREEN.
SPREAD OF THE CHOLERA

LONDON, July 20.-The sole object of
the tories just now appears to be to
popularize their regime, and they are
straip.ng every nerve to eaect this OBJ
iect. Another bid for popular favor
was made this eveningin the House OF
Commons by the Right Hon. David X.
Plunkett, NJ. p. for Dublin University,
and first commissf oner of works and
public buildings in the new govern
ment.
He declared that the national por
trait gallery is badly and unsafely stu
ated in its present quarters In Exhihi-
ton Road, South Kensington that II o
rare and valuable paintings 1t comprist o
are so crowded together as 70 be seen to
very poor advantage, and that this
priceless collection of busts and por-
traits is in con tinuai danger of destruc-
ton, because 1T is not contained in q
stric city frepIoof building. For these
reasons hs aunounesd that the Govern
ment had determined TO remove the
portraits to Bethnal Green Museum.
THE AFGHAN QUESTION.
LONDON, July 20 [CABLE DE.
|sPATCH Although there is little
public excitement about the Angie
Russian question, it is evident that the
subject is occupying great deal OF the
by another Cabinet council being held
| to-day. This makes two special coun-
!, ellis within two working days, which is
la most unusual circumstance, and
both were confined exclusively TO dis
cussing the Afghan situation. Lord
Sails bury arrived at the council late
and in great haste, bringing big box
containing dispatches and latest letter
| received from Baron de Staal.
AUGMENTED KING.
LONDON, July 20.-A crisis is immi.
nens at Munich, owing to the f. arfuI
freaks of King Ludwig, the music mad
monarch of Bavaria. II has just been
ascertainsG that this sspremely selfish
sybarite has squandered the last .00o,'
500 marks (near $1,000 900), which was
voted to him expressly to pay his debts,
in building fresh palaces and keeping
new m is s7esses. The common people
still look apon the King who is hand
some ) youpE giant. with large, droop-
ling must ache, as a sort Of demi-gods
but the solid burghers and moDeyed men
tof Munich are disguised beyond endur-
ance.
The banSero have absolutely determine
ed to lend him no more money; and he
was recently refused loan OF III ,250, 900
by an american insurance company
because he could nos give satisfactory
Icollaterala. New whence Of his fn sani-
ty are cropping out daily, and it is
more than probable that he will soon
be Gepossti- on this 2eouut, leaving the
throne TO HIS younger brother. Prince
. Otho, who Is said to be a decent and
capable man FOR prince.
I HOW IT sTIII1Jls Two,oITIES.
: PARIS, June 20 The publishers IF
La Teleyrapbe are reprinting fac
+ smile of the Pail Mall Ga kette, contain
I ing that papers exposure of immortality
J in Lond on, and the paper is being ex-
tensively circulated among a certain
: class OF ?arisiana, At Brussels, certain
d papers are to be prosecuted for printing
Indecent extracts from the Pail Mall
II Gazette.
u CHoEERA SFaEADI.iti IN sPAIN.
i, MADRID, July 20.-There were in
Spain yesterday 1850 Dsw cases of chole-
ra and 76l deaths OF these, 356 new
cases and 1873 Deaths " ere reported from
the province of Saragosss.
Cases have appeared at Puerto Real
in the province of Cadiz, and at the
city of Valencia and Valladolid, and IN
the vicinity of CadiB.
SMALL CROPS, IN RU SsIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 2o.-The Rms
sian harvest prospects continue discour-
Il aging. The reaping of the winter
?, W heat in the Southern provinces gives
l. barely q middling return. The present
n outlook is that the summer wheat crops
l. vii! everywhere within the Empire
# yield poor harvests.