Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-06
FOREIGN TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Gossip About the Irish Leadership-Other
Matters Across the Sea.
A prominent Irish deputy says that Mr. Par
nell and Mr.. Mccarthy will retire from the
leadership of their respective sections in favor
Of Mr.. Dillon, whom all win obey. The M
tional league committee in Dublin has sent
circulars to the various branches Of the league
urging that a reorganization be effected in
view of q general election. Mr.. Edmund Leamy
and Mr.. Timothy Harrington, both of whom
| are warm supporters of Mr.. Parnell. will on
Sunday next address a meeting at Stradbally,
Queens county, the stronghold of the Nc
Carthyites. It u expected that the meeting
will be of lively nature. Mr.. Harrington has
made an appeal to the national league branches
situated in county Cork urging them to reor-
| ganZe in view of the coming general elections
and the possible passage of the land purchase
| bill during the present nationalist crisis.
Mr.. William o Brien, in a letter to the Lon
don Times, says that the plan of campaign would
| have ended in 1887 il the land act OF that wear
had not vindictively excluded tenants who had
| resorted to the plan Of campaign from tho ben
| efits accorded to others. Mr.. Morley gave
notice in the house of commons yesterday of q
| motion to ccnsure the Irish executive for its
ton being calculated to bring the law into con-
tempt and being violation of the rights Of
! citizens.
GILLIAN INSURGENTS AGAIN DEFEATED.
dispatch to the Gdulois of Paris from
Buenos Ayres says that the Gillian rising was
due to violence on the part Of the Gillian reg
| ulars. The rising occurred at Castro. The
| battle between the regulars and the insurgents
| lasted three hours. Seventeen Of the former
and 100 of the latter were killed. Profting by
the revolt the hostile sections of the CHILEAN
ata<I
settle an old quarrel, and the insurgents around
the city joined in the fighting, which lasted
two days. The lyceum and hospital suffered
severely. The number of persons killed is not
known exactly, but is large. Ancud is now
quiet. The harbor is patroled by volunteers
who are partisans of the president assisted by
1000 sailors. The revolt appears to be re-
duced to the principal harbOrs. Beaten on all
sides the insurgents intend to retreat to the
mountains, assume the defensive and march
toward Santiago, which is now denuded of
troops Friends advise the president to con-
yoke congress-. which would settle the quarrel.
GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN AFRICA.
in the reichstag OF Germany yesterday Chan
cellor Won Caprivi said, referring to the African
policy of the government: "Our efforts are now
directed toward developing what we possess.
We are beginning from the coast and not from
the lakes In the north no difficulty is expert
enced in constructing caravan routes, linked
by small stations. The country to the south is
not yet pacified and we do not know how long
the work Of pacifying it will last. 1t is neces-
sary to re0rganize the troops and we shall ap-
point man invested with the largest possible
| powers. Throughout east Africa an attempt is
being made to divert trade from Zanzibar. Be-
| fore that Is accomplished several decades may
elapse. We shall have trouble and toll for a
| long time to come. yet nothing need defer us
| from work. We have selected Dar-es-Salaam as
the center of administration"
FRANCES PROPOSED TARIFF LAW.
The French tariff committee has decided that
the system of temporary admission of special
goods, instead of being left to the discretion Of
the government, is TO be under the enactment
of the chambers The committee has exempted
guns from duty and has imposed duty of 8
francs on fOurs, francs on beans and Is francs
on yeast. NJ. Jules Ferry on taking the chair
| as president of the senate customs committee
yesterday made a speech in which he declared
| that the idea of Frances maintaining an atti-
tude of economic isolation was utOpian, and. if
carried out, would prove disastrous. Tariff
| changes, he said, must not be based upon
revolutionary methods. Let us be prudent, not
| impetuous."
EX-PREsIDENT MITRE's PLANS.
| Gen. Mitre, ex-president of the Argentine Re-
public, in an interview yesterday, said that he
| expected to be in Buenos Ayres and in posi-
presidency of the Argentine Republic by March
20. Gen. Mitre declared that Senior Roca, the
Argentine minister of the interior. whose name
has been mentioned in connection with the
position, Is averse to standing as a candidate for
the Office.
FOREIGN DRKvITIEs.
Gen. Count Alfred Won Schlieffen Of Germany,
who succeeds Gen. Won Waldersee as chief of
the general staff, is regarded ~ one of the most
able officers on that stat.
Bishop Wieczowicki has been appointed Arch
bishop of Posen.
A new Southwest African Company has been
formed at Hamburg with capital OF %, O00, 900
marks.
Archbishop Labastida Of Mexico died yesrer-
day.
The pope contemplates making large ac-
cession to the cardinalate early in the coming
summer. The death Of Cardinal Cristofori
leaves thirty-two Italian cardinals and twenty.
eight foreign cardinals
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