The Portland daily press., 1885-12-26
FOREIGN.
An Outbreak Among the Servlan
Troops Imminent.
Bulgarian Troops enthusiastically
Received at Sofia.
The French Ministerial Troubles Not
Yet Ended.
plots Against the Spanish Throne

Plots Against the Spanish Throne.
LONDON, Dec. 25.-Despatches from the
Cable News correspondent at Madid, which
were suppressed by the Spanish authorities
but afterward forwarded via the French
frontier confirm the reported discovery OF a
Republican plot in Tarragona. The troops
stationed in that province are said to be
thoroughly imbued with revolutionary
principles Several officers have been ar
rested and their places filled with known
loyalists. The plan of the conspirators in
cluded six simultaneous risings, in which
the troops were to declare for Gorilla and
the republic of Spain and to invite the
pOpuace to flock to the Republican standard.
The leaders were surprised before their
plans were matured, and were captured in
the same way as the seditious officers of the
Cartagena garrison who were sentenced to
death but reprieyed by the Queen Regent.
The Spanish government processes to believe
that the conspiracy is without Importance,
and asks the press to ignore it so as to avoid
a panic.
Ex-Queen Isabella has interfered i'll be-
half of her partisan, the Duke of Seville, who
was arrested on last Sunday for publicly
speaking against Queen Christina after her
refusal to grant him an audience. The eX-
Queen has intimated to her royal daughter
in-law that she will not allow anything more
than a nominal punishment to be inflicted
upon the Duke.
The Situation in the Balkans.
LONDON, Dec. ga correspondent of the
Post who visited the Servian lines, reports
startling lack of discipline is shown by the
army and that an outbreak among the
troops is not at all improbable, The life OF
King Milan, the correspondent adds, is con-
stantly threatened.
A portion of the Bulgarian army has re-
turned from the front and entered Sofia
Triumphal arches had been erected In the
Al L nrad
the victorious soldiers were enthusiastically
welcomed by the people.
Failure Of the Customs Conference.
VIENNA, Dec. 25.-The eAustro-Hungarian
customs conference has proved failure,
The delegates could not reach an agreement
and have therefore separated.
Affairs in Burmah.
MANDALAY, Dec. 25.-Tyned All, the Bur
mese prime minister, has been, dismissed
from the English service.
The Madras cavalry while marching along
the river bank was compelled to retire by
Dacoits below and reinforcements have been
dispatched to the scene.
Changes in the French Ministry
PARIS, Dec. 25.-It is stated that Admiral
Galliber minister of marine and the col
onies, has rendered his resignation because
Premier Brisson announced his decision to
create'a colonial ministry.
A majority of the newspapers predict that
the Brisson ministry will resign after the
session of the chambers is resumed, in favor
of M. de Freycinet
Rumored Trouble Between French
and German Soldiers.
PARIS, Dec. 25.-Le Nation prints, though
without giving full credit to the report
telegram from Lisbon announcing that
German man-of-war has just been de-
spatched from the island of st. Thomas, in
the Gulf of Guinea, for Batego in conse.
quence of conflict between a party OF
French sailors and the crew of the German
corvette Cyclogo.
Foreign Notes.
The Russian government has issued a
decree ordering the establishment of po-
litical agency in Boka.