The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-07-16
and that he is deceiving the Car in regard to

and that he is deceiving the Car in regard to
his real intentions.
News of the hostile demonstration on the
part OF the Russians, together with Lord
handolph ChurchllPS assertion in the House
OF Commons last evening that England
would assist the Ameer if he asked for as
sistance, has created much excitement.
The Daily Telegraph says that negotia-
tlonss between England and Russia regarding
the Afghan frontier question have become
serious Russia is preferring new claims
and refuses to yield to Lord Salisbury
whose tone, although studiously friendly, is
firm.
The Standard, in commenting on the same
subject, declares that England will never
condone the Penjdeh outrage,
TEHERAN, July ia large number of
Russian reinforcements have arrived at
Msry during the past fortnight. -Four regi-
ments from Cabul have reached Herat and
four other regiments are on their way to
Herat from HaZara.
The Partisan Celebration.
PARIS, July 15.-Yesterday, during the
celebration of the Fall of the Bastile, AL
sace,L Lorralners marched in procession,
climbed the Strasbourg statue and crowned
it with immortelles amid hussas. At least
$4,000 people were out. There was com
plete absence of German flags everywhere
The populace displayed some impatience
during the speeches at the unwilling of the
Voltaire statue because they were not al
lowed to enter the inclosure around the
statue.
Cholera Reports.
MADRID, July 15.-There have been 1877
new cases of cholera and 673 deaths in Spain
since the last report.
The London Sensation.
LONDON, July 15-The lord mayor has
discharged large number of newsdealers
who have been under arrest for many days
awaiting trial on charge of selling alleged
obscene literature Pail Mall Gazette.
The eminent commission met this morn
ing and began the work of special private
inquiry into the evidence upon which the
Pail Mall Gazette bases its charges of iniq-
uity in London. The lord mayor and city
meeting.
The lord mayor presided at the inquiry.
Robert Reid, member of Parliament, was al
so present
The chief director of the Pail Mall Gazette
commission was examined at great length
and the committee then adjourned until next
week.
An Egyptian Loan.
LONDON, July 15.-The Daily Telegraph
DelleveS that the government has received
sufficient assurances from Germany and 9TH
er powers and will, within few days, issue
an Egyptian loan Of 100000.
The Waterford Riot.
WATERFORD, Ire, July 15-The soldier
who bayonetted a man to death during a CON
fiict between soldiers and citizens last Sun
day, has been committed for trial on the
charge of murder.
Foreign Notes.
The Arabs of the upper class at Cairo be-
lieve Ell Mahdi is dead
The famine in Kordofau has become terri
BILE and has extended to Khartoum
In Dublin, yesterday, the Earl of Carnar-
dresses from the Irish Academy and Pres
bytery of Belfast. The Presbytery's ad-
dress contained an expression of strong re-
gret at the disgrace to the Irish name caused
by the suspension Of the Munster Bank. The
suspension was pronounced an outrage and
a crime The address, however. referred to
the political affairs in Ireland as more hope
tul than they had been for many years: