Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-03
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Irish Problem.


New York, December 2d.-T. P. O'Con-
nor's London special to the Star says The
approval by Archbishop Walsh of the anti
rent campaign secures thej adhesion to the
popular movement of every priest in the
country, many of whom have held back,
unable TO see their way clearly, and fearing
to be suspected of obsuucting the law. All
the priests from this time forth, will be
agents and advocates of the National
League. The popular movement thus re-
enforced will henceforth be irresistible
There are growing indications of the weak
ening of the Government in its programme
of repression in Ireland. The number of
cases in which the assistance of the police
and military is refused is increasing. The
authorities in many parts of the country,
where the tension is greatest, are urging
the landlords to give way temporarily,
with the assurance that if they do they will
later on receive Government aid in getting
rid of their estates on better terms than
they can ever hope to do if the struggle is
indefinitely prolonged. The consent of
the Government to postponement of the
Dillon case is regarded as another sign of
indecision and vacillation on the part of
the authorities. 1t is certain the matter
has not been pressed with the vigor for
merly shown in such cases and there is
growing disinclination among the English
Tories to sanction further prosecutions.
There is reason to believe the Government
would secretly be glad of any decent excuse
to abandon the proceedings against Dillon.
This excuse Mr.. Dillon does not intend to
furnish.
Views of Prominent Irish Nationalist.
LONDON, December 2d.-A dispatch from
Dublin gives an account of an interview
L Al r..
asked what, in his opinion, had caused the
present action of the Government, Mr..
Sexton replied that he had no doubt that
the successes of the Nationalists' campaign
compelled the Irish landlords to appeal to
the Government, which had yielded to
their entreaties. When asked whether he
thought the League would be suppressed,
Mr.. Sexton answered No. If the Gov
ernment attempts to suppress the League
through the Viceroy, it will find itself in
ruinously untenable position. Moreover,
if the League be suppressed and its meet
ings proclaimed the Government will find
the situation more difficult than ever, as
public Indignation will make the success of
the tenants all the more rapid"
Matters Bulgarian.
SOFIA, December 2d.-The deputation of
Bulgarian notables instructed by the Gov
ernment to visit the different Powers and
personally place before them the facts of
the Bulgarian situation, has started on its
tour. 1t is reported that the deputation
has been instructed to demand that the
Powers shall either consent to have Prince
Waldemar, of Denmark, elected to the Bull
garian throne or else permit the return of
Prince Alexander.
CONSPIRACY FAILS.
BUCHAREST, December 2d.-The new plot
formulated here on November 18th by Rus
sian refugees from Bulgaria, headed by
Stankoff, and having for its avowed object
the overthrow of the Bulgarian Regency
and the fomenting of revolution, has proved
abortive. Russia refused to furnish. any
money for the enterprise.
Annoying the British Lion.
LONDON, December 2d.-The French
Government is pressing the English Cabi-
net hard for satisfactory assurances as to
the withdrawal of the British troops from
Egypt and final definition of the English
interest in that country. Lord Iddesleigh
is understood to have shifted his ground
and met the French communications with
direct proposition TO make the future of
Egypt an International question, like that
of Bulgaria, thus thwarting the attempt of
France TO force the hand of the Queens
Government and compel its admission of
the right of France exclusively to inter
yene. In this England is stated to have
the support of Germany, Austria and Italy.
No Faith in Pasteur.
PARIS, December 2d.-DI. Colin read
paper before the Academy of Sciences to-
day, showing that the annual average
number OF deaths from rabies in France is
twenty-six, and that since NJ Pasteur be-
gan his course of treatment the same num-
Der Of patients have died. According to
official statistics, the number of persons
bitten by mad animals last year il France
was 451, while NJ. Pasteur has treated III
patients. DR.. Colin concludes that the
Pasteur system is of doubtful efficacy, and
he is alarmed for the results OF virulent in
oculation.
Too Much Sugar in Russia.
NEW York. December 2d.-A recent
copy of the London Times has the follow
ing: The great crisis has come about in