The morning times., 1896-11-08
Crops Are Blasted Throughout
the WhO e Country.
LANDLORDS NOT MERCIFUL
Serious Trouble Not Improbable
As a Consequence Ncgotia-
tions Oh Turkish Question Still
in Progress british Occu pa
ton of Egypt Prolonged.

cf the Irish party fund, spoke OF the bleak
prospects peioIe the agric uitural population
as operating against the fu nd.
The DIslop ndruiy sccfns 10 nave realized
how desperate the situation Is. The CORE
spondent of tie Manchester Guardian. one
OF the most trustworthy and least scnsa-
tiondl papers in England, declares mat no
such appalling prospect has presented itself
during tne present generation. Concurring
reports show that the prolonged ana con
tnuous Gains OF Tie autumn have ruined Tile
crops from north to south. The rich lower
lands have been flooded for weeks at a
tine Wien the harvest oughrto have been
proceeding.
Stocked corn and hay stacks have been
Submerged and potatoes are rottinS III
The fields In the poorer hill lands the
small farmer and cottcr population are
again face 10 face with one OF those ran
ures OF tie potato crop, which has Too
often brought the uttermost horrors ot
starvation and famine and disease among
them.
LANDLORDS PRESSING TENANTS.
As usual the oyernment is doing nothing
The Irish seCreiarys tour in the west ana
northwest occurred lefore the bad weather
Set in and at a time when little could De
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 es-
tates have apprised their landlords agents
that no rent can be paid this year. because
no rent has been earned. But the landlords
have entered into a combination for whole
sale pressure on the tenants. Using their
utmost privileges under the land act, they
are applying for ejectment DEGREES by the
thousand, and an eviction campaign, such
as has rarely ever been Witnessed i'll Ire
land, is now in progress in many districts.
As foon Is the rlgors OF winter sets In
the demand for relief VIII be clamorous
The government VIII be ompelled TO inter
venc before Parliament opens, or face an
accusation OF reckless indifference TO suf-
fering such as ought TO oyerwhelm any
English ministry.
With this famine impending, combined
with the revelations of the foreign rela-
tons commission showing how Ireland
is annua lly bled OF millions Of money to the
advantage of Great Britain, ii will he no
wonder if Irish discomfort assumes a more
active form than mere Jabber over leSts-
lation for home rule
ONE VIEW OF THE ELECTION.
The leading weekly papers re-echu the
opinions expressed by the daily papers
on the election of Mr.. Mckinley to the
American Presidency The St James
Budget, under the caption of "a Curious
Allegation publishes letter from an
American, who declares that the true in
wardness OF the defeat OF Mr.. Bryan was
the use OF money to turn tbe FARMER vote
OF the central West
The writer states that the insurance com
panies owning mortgages on farms In Iowa,
Indiana, Illinois and neighboring States
directed their agents to see every farmer
whose lands were mortgaged, and to offer
to them, if MI Mckinley should be elected,
five years extension OF the mortgages at
low rate of interest
This plan succeeded, and Mr.. Bryan. who
otherwise would have been elt cted, was
defeated. Continuing, the American says
that the loss of interest to the companies
woulI be great, but they expect to scllhc
a mass of deprecated securities on the
boom from which London is benefiiing.
Lord Salisbury, in his speech at the
Guiidhall on Monday. on the occasion Of the
banquet TO be given by the new lord mayor
of London, will not, according to the be-
lief of the ministerialiSts, make any allu-
sion To the abandonment by Great Britain
of the Island of Cyprus.
Indeed, II the statement made yester-
day 10y the officials of the foreign office
be true, that there is no foundation for
the report, which was first published in
Truth and then confirmed by the Daily
Graphic, it does not require any political
acumen TO that no reference Will be
made To the evacuation of Cyprus.
1t highly probable however, that Lord
Salisbury will in his speech attack the
porte, as destroying the value of the Anglo
Turkish convention of 1878, under which
Cyprus was turned over to the British for
administrative purposes.
CONFERENCE ON TURKISH AFFAIRS.
The negotiations for the holding of con.
ference OF the powers on the Turkish qucs-
tion progress on the lines before mentioned
in this cable correspondence that is to say
the proposal made by Lord Salisbury that
the clauses of the treaty of Paris giving
the porte power to refuse the passage of
the Dardanelles to warships shall be re-
scinded: that the administration of the
Turkish provinces shall he under the super
vision of the European powers, and that
the consideration by any conference on
these proposals shall not include any ref
erencc to the British occupation of Egypt.
Judging from the best information obtain
able. it is believed that the cars influence
has brought about an arrangement of the
Anglo-French differences, regarding Egypt.
This Implies a prolongation of the British
occupation OF Egypt, with a free hand to
extend II to the whole of the upper Nile.
Since DR.. Temples appointment MS Arch
bishop of Canterbury 1T has transpired that
he is shaping the coming educational bill
SO as to aid increasingly denominational
schools from the public rates At one time
considered by nnn-conformists cburcbman
of extremely liberal views, with a dis
tinct non-sectarian bias, DR.. Temple, al
he has grown toward pow er, has veered
toward conservatism and churchism
He may now be described as prelate to
the core. He has gone over heart and soul
to denominationalism, was one of the
authors of the last education bill, and ap-
pears likely in preparing that for the next
session TO land the government in serious
trouble rather than accept any compromise
with the dissenters.
a section of the Cabinet. desirous of
avoiding the long and futile conflict of last
year, wants the educational bill to be q
simple proposal Of a yearly grant of addI-
Eonll aid To voluntary schools This single
clause measure could be introduced as soon
as the House meets and passed before the
close OF the cure mt financial year But the
bishops privately are fighting for more than
this, and are likely to overcome their oppo-
nents in the ministry.
MATRIMONIAL ENTANGLEMENTs
The engagement of Sir Albert Kaye Rol.
lit to the Dowi..c Duchess of Sutherland.
was announced IN this iscorrespondcncc some
time ago, and was denied by request of
Sir Albert Immediately thereafter. The
reasons for the denials lay not in any pros.
pect OF the engagement being broken off
but In private family arrangements which
made it desirable that nothing premature
should lie said about it.
Sir Alhert's only daughter has been on.
gagged for some time to n Capt. Ellison
She has fortune OF G3 900 per annum from
her mother and there was question of AT
additional dot from her father TIL,
settlement as now completed enables thu
marriage Of Miss Rollt with Capt. Ellisol
to come first.
Then Sir Albert Will relieve his solitude
by marrying the Dowager Duchess Of suth
erland. They are both expcrienccdin mat