Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-24
THE PAPAL CONsIsTORY.
Il 10 Looked Forward tn With Great Inter-
est-Other Foreign Matters.

l LONDON, Dec. "A Rome dispatch says
| that IN reply to q remonstrance from the court
of Austria against utterances by church au-
| thorities in favor of republican government
the pope has replied that he will not withhold
his apostolic good will from any form of gov
ernmeny which affords due protection to the
church in the fulfillment of its mission on
earth. Father Hyacinthe does not agree with
Cardinal Lavigeries language in support of re-
publican government, OH the ground that the
cardinal quoted az a model state the republic Of
Ecquador in South America, where freedom of
worship is not permitted Pere Hyacinthe
would prefer monarchy to such q republic.
Dublin correspondence states that the coming
pspal consistory is looked forward to with
great interest in Ireland. az it is believed that
the pope viii at length promote Archbishop
Walsh to the dignity of cardinal. The English
opposition to this course Is not so strenuous as
it was. now that the home rule issue is looked
upon by the party in power as dead: but re-
port from Rome states that the Vatican Is not
altogether pleased with clerical activity in the
Kilkenny election.
IMPORT ENTRIES IN THE CONGO FREE STATE.
The decision of the Dutch government to
sign the agreement permitting the Congo free
state to levy an import duty of 10 per cent was,
it appears, arrived at under the influence of
France, which country had formerly urged
Holland not to sign. in order to bring about
crisis in the finances of the Congo state and
compel it to sell out to France; One reason
for the change of heart is that France is not at
present in financial condition to buy the
Congo state.
SOPHIE GUNsBERa TORTURED.
A letter received from a Russian exile at
Zurich charges that Sophie .Gunsberg, the
nihilist who was condemned to death for being
concerned in a plot against the life of the car,
had been subjected to torture in prison and
that her cries were heard by other prisoners,
who managed to make the fact known. The
object Is supposed TO have been to obtain rev.
Citations regarding other accomphces.
VARIOUS FOREIGN TOPICS.
The committee of the French chamber of
deputies have reported against consideration
of the MOreau bill for the abolition or taxation
of titles.
The abnormally cold. foggy and wet season
has increased Londons annual death rate from
Is to &c per goo.
The French government has asked the cham
Der to vote 2, $50. 900 francs for the encourage
ment of the silk-worm raising industry in
France.
Nine. Iaguerre Laisant and st. Martin. FORM
erly adherents Of Gen. Boulanger, have formed
a separate group in the French chamber and
will adopt an opportunist attitude.
At Osterberg. Saxony, last night a citizen
named Kresler, his wife and three children we're
suffocated in their apartments by escaping gas
from coal stove.
1t is reported that many persons have per-
ished in Russia owing to the extreme cold and
that party OF thirty were frozen to death
while crossing bleak steppe.
Advices from India state that the British
merchants there view with growing concern
the great influence exercised by the Germans
in Siam, where the consul representing Ger
many has Just been raised to the dignity of
minister.
THE GEAR GRATEFUL 10 AMERICANS.
c. n II
sen9sr says the car has sent to the American
colony of this city. through United States Min
lister Smith, the expression of his thanks for
resolutions expressing gratitude for the full
liberty enjoyed by the colony for half CEN
fury. The resolutions we're adopted upon the
occasion of the celebration, on December 10
last, of the fifth anniversary OF the establish
ment of the British and American Congrega-
tional Church.
PROF. KocHs VACATION.
BERLIN. Dec. 2.-Prof. Koch has left Berlin
for a vacation OF ten days.
THE AUsTRo-GERMAN TREATY.
VIENNA, Dec. 24.-The suspension for the
Christmas holidays of the negotiations rela-
tive to the Austro-German treaty of commerce
finds them so far advanced that satisfactory
issue Is foreseen.
CRISIS IMMINENT IN GERMANY.
announces the inability of the government to
accept the amendments offered by the COM
mission to which was referred the governments
communal bill. The threat made by Herr
Herrfurth, minister Of the interior, that if the
landtag supported the amendments its disso-
luton would Immediately follow. Is thus con-
frmed. The Hamburg Nachrichtsn, in an ar
ticle inspired by Prince Bismarck, urges the
dissolution of the landtag as a necessity. 1t
contends that the accomplishment of the dis
solution will be In line with BisIna-cks views
by effectirS the return of a national liberal and
radical majority, which Will lead i'll the contest
to be fought out between the lantag and the
government. The ex-chancellor also attacks
proposed concessions to Austria, which, he in
sists. would be equivalent to the payment of
tribute for her alliance. The landtag. he be-
heves, should appeal to the country on this
question.
THE SCOTCH RAILWAY STRIKE.
GLASGOW, Dec. 24.-There is no change for
the better in the strike situation. On the con-
trary it grows hourly more serious. Seventy
five hundred men are now out and accessions
are steadily being made to their numbers.
Business is greatly paralyzed. On the North
British railway traffic, both passenger and
freight, Is entirely suspended, and on the other
roads the movement Of the trains is Of the most
irregular and uncertain character.
SUBURBAN RESIDENTS FORCED TO WALK.
People living In the suburbs OF this city, but
engaged in business here, are compelled to
walk into town, all the ordinary rail facilities
being cut of. Coal has advanced seven shil-
hngs a ton, and gas famine il imminent.
Already the supply Of fuel in the great ship
yards and public works is so low that, unless
relief comes speedily, they must shut down.
Strong police guards are placed over the depots
and other railroad property wherever it is ex-
posed to danger from interference by the
strikers. Such few trains as are being moved
are manned by porters.
COMMENT on JAMESoN's DIARY.
LONDON, Dec. A.-The Times says no one
reading Jameson's diary will believe him capa-
BILE Of the cold-blooded atrocity attributed to
him by Assad. though he cannot be acquitted
of grievOus blame. Except for the favorable
light thrown upon q character married by one
indelible stain. the diary cannot be read with
anything but pain. 1t is a relief to find that
Barttelot and Jameson, however misguided,
were inspired by an unfaltering confidence un-
der the most trying circumstances and by an
honest endeayor to do their duty even at the
cost Of their fortune. regulations and lives.
THE DUBLIN CARRIERS STRANGE STORY.
DUBLIS, Dec. 24.-The two carriers who tell
a story Of having been compelled by masked
men TO drive to Phoenix Park and there de-
stroy the copies Of the Insuppressi6e, with
which their wagons were loaded, have been
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