The record-union., 1896-11-08
Crops Are a Failure and Wholesale
Evictions Have Begun.
The Queen'S Jubilee Accession Fetes
in June Next to be One of the
Grandest Spectacles of Its Kind
the World Has Ever Witnessed
Cecil Rhodes Seeking Election to
Parliament.
Parliament.

LONDON, NOV. THE Bishop of
Raphoe, in recent appeal for subscrip-
tions in aid of the Irish party fund,
spoke of the bleak prospects before the
agricultural population as operating
against the fund. The Bishop hardly
seems to have realized how desperate
the situation is. The correspondent of
the Manchester Guardian" one of the
most trustworthy and least sensational
papers in England, declares that no
such appalling prospect has presented
itself during the present generation.
Concurring reports show that the pro-
longed and continuous rains of the au-
tumn have ruined the crops from north
to south. The rich lower lands have
been flooded for weeks at a time when
the harvest ought to have been proceed
ing. Stocked corn and haystacks have
been submerged and potatoes are rot
ting in the fields. In the poorer hill
lands the small farmer and cotter popu-
lation are again face to face with one
of those failures of the potato crop
which has too often brought the utter
most horrors of starvation and famine
and disease among them.
nothing The Irish Secretarys tour in
the west and northwest occurred before
the bad weather set in, and at a time
when little could be predicted of the
harvests. Since then he has obtained
reports from official sources-from
landlord sources-which can only be
described as misleading.
The farmers on many of the large
estates have apprised their landlord s
agents that no rent can be paid this
year, because no rent has been EARNED.
But the landlords have entered into d
combination for wholesale pressure on
the tenants. Using their utmost privi-
leges under the Land Act, they are ap-
plying for ejectment DEGREES by the
thousands, and an eviction campaign
| such as rarely has been witnessed even
in Ireland is now in progress in many
districts.
AS soon as the rigors of winter set N
the demand for relief will be clamorous.
With this famine impending it will he
no wonder If Irish discomfort assumes
a more active form than mere talk over
legislation for home rule.
THE TURKISH QUESTION.
The negotiations for the holding of a
conference of the Powers on the Turk
ish question progress on the lines before
| mentioned in this cable correspondence: !:
that is to say, the proposals made by
Lord Salisbury that the clauses Of the
treaty of Paris giving the Porte power
to refuse the passage of the Dardan-
lies to warships shall be rescinded
that the administration of the Turkish
provinces shall be under the supervis-
ion of the European Powers and that
the consideration by any conference of
these proposals shall not include any
reference to the British occupation of
Egypt.
THE EGYPTIAN OCCUPATION.
Judging from the best information Oh
tainable, it is believed that the Cars
influence has brought about an ar
rangement of the Anglo-French differ
cnces regarding Egypt. This implies a
prolongation of the British occupation
OF Egypt, with free hand to extend it
to the whole of the upper Nile.
A NOTABLE WEDDING.
The. engagement Of Sir Albert Kaye
trland was announced in this corre-
spondence some time ago, and was de-
MED by request of Sir Albert immedi-
ately thereafter. The reasons for the
denial lay not in any prospect of the
engagement being broken off. but in
private family arrangements which
made it desirable that nothing prema-
ture should be said about It,
Sir Albert's only daughter has been
engaged for some time to Captain Eli
SON. She has a fortune of f3. .0G0 per
annum from her mother and thera was
question OF an additional dot from
her father. The settlement as now com
p'eted enables the marriage Of Miss
Rollit with Captain Ellison to come
first. Then Sir Albert will relieve his
solitude by marrying the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland.
They are both experienced in matri-
mony. He will be her third husband
ana she Will be his second wife, Sir AL
bert has political ambitions. He had a
chance in the formation of the Sails
hury Ministry to obtain a prominent.
almost Cabinet post But his chance
goes with his marriage to the Dowager
Duchess.
Though in some respects a most
estimabie lady, she has not the cachet
which is thought essential for posi-
ton in the Salisbury set. If he makes
his way upward 1t will be in spite of
ms marriage connections
THE QUEENS JUBILEE.
the queen has decided that ST. Pauls
Cathedral and Westminster Abbey shall
be the great central scene of the func-
tions associated with the Jubilee access
sion fetes in June next. Westminster
Abbey was selected for her maiesty's
recent jubilee on account of its associa-
ton with her coronation. Thu pro-
gress of the Queen and all the Euro
pean royalties from buckingham Palace
to st. PauPs will be. possibly. one Of
the grandest spectacles of its kind the
world has witnessed
The Duke and Duchess of York are
arranging to visit Toronto in the fall
next year The extension of their tour
from the Dominion to Australia and
Lomeward via India is under consider
ation by the Government.
RHODES AMBITION.
Cecil Rhodes is seeking through GER.