The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-06
BISMARCK PROPOSES TO CRIPPLE ENG
LAND IN THE EAST,
And Prey ut q E'rench War Of Revenge on Ger
many-The Election Of the British from Egypt
apart Of the Plan-Parnsi!s Friends Aroused
by Irish Eyic,ions.
specsa: Cable Dispatch to the y. y. Star.

apart Of the Pian-ParneiIS Friends Aroused
by Irish Evic,ions.
Special Cable Dispatch to the y. y. s.or.
LONDON. September 2S.-Mr. Paruells
letter to Mr.. Fitzgerald President Of thc
league in America, is h0tly ass&lled by
some of the leading government organs.
The main Tory argument is that evictionS
are not general and are diminishing. Jhe
Parnellites are charged with trumping up
imaginary cases of eviction and represent
Ing state of affairs that has no foundation
in fact The landlords. on the other hand.
are held up to public admiration as lenient
and forbearirg under circumstances of eX-
treme provocation. They are described
as reduced to the verge of ruin by the re-
fusal of their tenants to pay the rents Justly
due. Finally. the statement that evictionS,
instead Of being general, are rapidly diml1-
ishing, is capped by the bold assertion that
it would be next to impossible for Mr.. Par
mel, to point out in these days really
harsh eviction.
A singular illustration Of the value of
these declarations is furnished in the col
umns of the !StuadurG itself. the most in
fuential Tory daily in the kingdom Here
we find a matter of fact report of a case Of
eviction, which for cold-b,ooGcd cruelty it
would be difficult to beat lr the instance
referred to, one Of the members OF the
family to be evicted was dying woman.
The knowledge that she was at the roint
of death had no weight with the evictors.
The scene that cnsueG caused keen distress
among the onlookers, who were powerleSS
to interfere without bringing on themselves
serious consequences. There have been
many well authenticated cases Of eviction
of persons whose removal was almost GER.
tain death; but the Tory papers ignore
them in their attacks on the case made ont
by the ParnelliteS. A reference to the
latest published returns of the Irish land
commission falls to bear out the assertions
of the champions of eviction, and fully sus-
tains the allegations Of the Parrcllites. a
reduction Of the number of evictions is
shown in certain localities, but over the
whole country the number is increased.
The Tories appear to have taken the soli-
tary cases of reduction and applied them
to the country at large. The Liberal press
generally, except the extreme Unionist
press, favorably notice Mr.. Parnells letter.
Reports current tonight at the clubs
point to an extraordinary attempt on the
part of Bismarck to cripple British influ-
ence in the present crisis in European af-
fairs, and the center of interest again shifts
from Bulgaria to Egypt Bismarck. with
the view of inducing France to enter into a
friendly understanding with Germany, and
abandon her schemes Of a war OF revenge.
has undertaken, according to the reports
mentioned, to direct the attention of French
statesmen to scheme of foreign conquest,
the main object Of which is the election Of
the British from Egypt, and the anneSa-
ton of that country to the French empire.
Bismarck's Journal d Alsace openly ad-
vises the French to prepare for campaign
to drive the English out Of Egypt and seize
the short cut to India. An enissa.y sent
by Bismarck to Paris has been preaching
the same doctrine to NJ. de Freycinet, with
whom he had three interviews before he
returned to Germany. The De5ats frankly
adopts the suggestion, and judging from
French susceptibility on the Egyptian
In the meantime, Sir DCummond Wolff,
working hard against French and Turkish
int-igues, has unquestionab]y improved the
; English position at Cairo. Russia is also
suspected of playing into the hands OF
France, in order to divert English attention
from Bulgaria.
Matters in the Balkans are unchanged.
A sharp contest is going on between the
Kambars party and the regency, and in
spite of reports of seeming weakening Of
the Alexander party the latter, backed by
England, have not yet yielded OF any ma
terial point to the Russian representative.
Thomas Power O'CoNNoR, N. P.