Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

country. The following il one OF the sem
fences contained in the address, and one
which indicates pretty plainly the ou.nne OF
the Irish policy: although the d1mcuIues
of the task make it impossible to anticipate
success with confidence, we shall draw com,
fort from the knowledge that we are engaged
in the great work Of peace"
The most distressing intelligence is recelv-
ed from Gaspe, near Montreal, Canada, re-
earding the starving condition OF the hsher-
men and their families, who have been
of Robinson & Co. To make matters worse,
another firm, Leboutillir Bros, have also
suspended, SO that s. 1000 souls are literally on
the verge of starvation. The dominion gov
eminent has been petitioned to come to the
assistance of these people. commumca.
ton has been received by the mayor OF
Montreal from the rector of New Carlysle
and Faspediace, asking for aid, and intimat
ing that unless assistance is provided the
provision stores will be pillaged mob rule
will reign, and life and property Will be en-
dangered.
The new English cabinet is officially an
nounced as follows: Mr.. Gladstone, prime
minister, and first lord of the treasury; Sir
Farrar Hirschell, lord high chancellor; Earl
Spencer, lord president If the council; Mr.:
d. c. d. Childress, home secretary; Earl
Roseberry, secretary for foreign affairs; Earl
Granville, secretary for the colonies; Earl
Kimberly, secretary for India; Mr.. r. Camp
bell, secretary of war; Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, chancellor of the e1chequer; Mar
auis of Ripon, first lord of the admiralty;
NJ j. Chamberlain, president of the local
government board; Mr.. G. 0. Trevlyan, sec
rotary for Scotland; Mr.. A. J. Murdel. pres
ident of the board of trade; Mr.. John More
ly, chief secretary for Ireland. Joseph Cham
berlain declined the Office of first lord of the
admiralty.
The Polish policy Prince Bismarck has
announced in the German Land Tag has
produced general excitement throughout
Germany and Austria. An immense estate
containing 50, 4O6 hectares, or W,O acres,
one of the largest estates in Prussia, is
offered for sale next April as the result of
the expulsion of the Poles. The inhabitants
of the estate for years have been mainly
removing the tenantry and depriving the
estate of its revenues, has thrown it upon
the market. Prince Bismarck hes announced
the policy of purchasing for the crown all
the real estate owned by Polish mobiles In
Prussia.
A dispatch from Belleview, Ont, says:
Owing to the cold weather of the past week,
the mouth of the Moiria river has been COM
pletely blocked with ice, and in consequence
the water IS now eight feet above the ordl-
nary level. Every cellar in the principal bust
ness portion of the town has been submerged
and the back yards and premises in the rear
of the stores on front street are also inun-
dated.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal states that
it has reason to believe that Gladstone has
agreed with Parnell to join forces in parlia-
ment for the passage of bill which shall es-
tablish native parliament in Dublin, to
deal with Irish affairs. The new legislature
is to be constituted so as to add to the pres
ent safeguards of integrity of the empire,
and rights of the crown.
The French government mas appointed
permanent commissioner to examine into
the questions in relation to the monetary
standard at home and abroad.