News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-18
FOREIGN Matters.

A shock of earthquake was expert
enced III the province of Beira, Portugal
on Thursday. Much alarm is felt III
Lisbon IN consequence.
The statement that 700 soldiers at
Cadlz, Spain, had refused to embark fol
CUBA Is false. There was no mutlny
among the troops, their shipment being
merely suspended.
The negotiations between Germany
and Portugal for defining the bOunda-
RES between the German and POrtu-
gueSe possession in South Africa have
been amIcably concluded.
The socialists of London announce
tlat monster demonstration will be
held IN Trafalgar Square on the 21st
INST; They also announce that a social
ISL reputation will call upon Lord Sails
bury.
The civil law is inadequate to restore
order III Burmah, and severe measures
OF repression are imminent. The da-
colts subject to cruel torture all natives
VINO are suspected of loyalty to the
British.
A dispatch from Genoa says floods
have caused enormous damage in that
region. The railway at Ventimlglla
appears to have suffered severely. 1t
the road.
A tradeSman of Dublin, who had gone
into bankruptcy, explained to the court
on Friday that his bankruptcy was due
to his being boycotted by the national
league, the effect of which was to re-
duce his business sixty per cent. The
judge, before whom the case was tried,
said that, under the circumstances, an
offer to the creditors of five shillings on
the pound would be reasonable.
The Spanish police are watching all
the ports, owing to rumorS that Spanish
revOlutlOniStS abroad are preparing to
return to Spain, and that Gorilla is pro-
noting rising. The depots for arms
and the barracks and telegraph offices
are strongly guarded. The colonies
commanding the troops in Valencia and
Barcelona are suspected of disloyalty,
and being closely4Eatshed.
Mr.. Gladstone has written to the Lon
don Press with reference to the false
statements published concerning him
in the Yorkshire Post, a conservative
journal. The chief point in the libels
was to the effect that Mr.. Gladstone
had gone mad. The paper stated that
when Mr., Goschen visited Mr.. Glad
stone, he found him running around a
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power, power p" Mr.. Gladstone says
: [ will leave the article to speak for
itself. 1t is less ill-natured than some
others which haveappeared in the lower
class of tory journals which have been
unnOticed." Mr.. GOSchen wrote, totally
denying the statement attributed to him,
and insisting that the Post withdraw it..
The Post admitted that its statements
were wholly false.
Mr.. Phelps. United States Minister to
England, delivered a lecture on Friday
before the Institute of Philosophy at
Edinburgh, Scotland, in the course of
which he said that law is a reflex of
public opinion and should be thus main
tanned, or it would perish in free
country. Liberty is not a privilege of
the strong, but protection of the weak.
Nor are the rich chiefly interested in
the maintenance of the rights of prop
erty. The less property man has the
more important it is to him that it is
safe. No property will be safe when
once the general security that protects
all alike has been lost. 1t is a delusion
to suppose that this security can be i'm
paired to certain extent and preserved
for the residue. There can be no mid
die ground. Either title to lawful prop
erty must be universally protected, or
it ceases to be protected at all.