The Portland daily press., 1886-10-21
FOREIGN.
England Excited over Changes in
Armaments of Foreign Powers.
A Memorial Church in Honor of
the Queens Reign.
Bishop NuIty Delivers "a Powerful
Sermon on the Moonshiners.

LONDON, Oct. 90 English officials ar
much excited over reports of sweepin
changes in the armaments of continents
| powers, and are laboring to keep abreast
OF the new Shrapnel shell field guns alread
approved and shortly to be issued, the large
of the two sizes throwns 13 pound shel
containing 176 bullets. 1t explodes by de
vice which is kept a secret, but probabl,
much similar to the French bomb.
Naval authorities are also experimental,
with steel shell of French invention, whicl
penetrateS an Is inch comp OSite armor plate
nine feet of timber, and five inch plate a
the back, and which would sink any iron
clad aioat.
The English are going to test the new
Schulotf rifle. Used singly it fires "a shots
minute. By the movement of a spring it il
converted into double acting gun, firing 5.
shots. This gun will probably be adopted
by the Austrian army.
In fact every military paper is filed will
rumors and reports of startling invention:
for slaughter. Never before has there beer
such activity in this line. The English art
also going to get number of Mexican sad
dle-trees for the mounted infantry, VIII icl
are recommended by Sir Owen Lanyon, who
saw them at San Francisco.
Memorial Church in the Queens
Honor.
A meeting of notable persons was held
Monday at Lamberth palace, the residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for the
purpose of organizing the movement to erect
amemorlal church in honor of the attain
ment OF the fiftieth year of Queen Victoria S
reign, which will be completed on June goth,
1887. The meeting was addressed by the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Arch
bishop of York, and by the bishops of Lon
don and Carlisle. An executive committee
was appointed to manage the business apper-
tanning tO the mOVpmpnt and t0 cplnat si
Mr.. Gladstone declined to permit the use of
his name as member of this committee
Mr. Gladstone and the Standard.
Mr.. Gladstone will not attend the Leeds
convention.
The Standard says that his latest contri-
button is not calculated to strengthen his po-
sition. Nobody denies that the Irish par
lament of 1900 was bribed. says the Stand
ard. THAT was no reason for abandoning
Ireland now to the tyranny Of the league and
American conspirators." Referring to the
coming struggle on the rent question be-
tween the League and Lord Clanracarde the
Standard says, 'There would be little occa-
sion for regret if the league resolved to pre-
cipitate conflict that would be certain to
end in its own defeat"
Bishop NuIty's Powerful Sermon.
DUBLIN, Oct. 2O.-Most Rev. Thomas
Nulty, Roman Catholic bishop of Meath,
preached powerful sermon in Dublin Sun
day, against the Moonlighters. He de-
nounced in the strongest terms the acts per
petrated by the moonlighters ana called them
the greatest enemies Ireland had today. He
said the outrages they committed served but
to perpetuate landl0rdism, which otherwise
was doomed. He asked the Moonligthters to
restore the arms and other property they had
stolen to their rightful owuers. you can
do this quietly" continued the bishop. "You
can make this restitution through me if you
wish or you can make it through your Irish
priests who VII ibnO not IbetFay your secret
Moonlighters fail to desist from their out
RACES, am determined to organize a COM
mittee to watch them and bring them to JUS
tice. know many of these men myself.
1t is impossible for them to escape. Our
country is on her trail. Her prosperity and
happiness for centuries depend on the good
behavior of her people during the coming
winter. AS soon as Ireland shall have
proved herself able to govern herself we
shall have the whole English democracy on
our side. Then home rule will be certain"
Severe Earthquake Shocks Ein Cash.
mere.
LONDON, Oct 2O-Severe and prolonged
shocks of earthquake occurred in ScrindguI
Cashmere, early this morning. There were
brilliant meteoric showers during the night
lasting until sunrise. The shocks caeated
pdllIC bilO pOUp4Cs IuC OAbCut VI tAO
damage to property is not known.
Dissatisfied With Military opera
tons.
LONDON, Oct. 20.-General Lord Wolseley,
adjutant general, has issued circular to
the officers of the English army, intimating
that the Duke of Cambridge, commander in
chief is dissatisfied over the small progress
made in their military training during the re-
cent inspections, The circular states the
duke observed that many officers of all ranks
evinced much want of knowledge of the du-
ties vitally important to military efficiency,
and he strongly insists that the officers shall
devote more time and attention to the in
structlon of their troops.
Foreign Notes.
The theatre Flo Dramatice at Ravenna
has been burned to the ground
Earthquake shocks have been felt in AL
SAGE, Lorraine, the VosgeS mountains and the
Black Forest.
cablegram was received by Archbishop
Duhamel at Ottawa, from Rome Monday,
stating that the Pope wished his attendance
at the Holy See as hurriedly as possible.
The Russian Princess Galatzine, who re-