GENERAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2851, 21 November 1885, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

EXPULSION OF THE POLES. TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS to WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECTED. London, October 17. In B-riin, the Progressists in the Reichstag have resolved to make the Gr vernmeiit’s action in expelling the Russian Poles f.om P; ussia a leading parliamentary question, as soon as the

sessions of the Reichstag are resumed. Deputy Mueller proposes to appeal to the German Government to withdraw the edict of expulsion. The municipal authorities of Konigsberg have resolved to send a strong protest against the expulsions to Prince Bismarck, the author of the edict. The protest wi 1 describe the terrible sufferings to which the unjustly exiled Poles are subjected, and declare them a stain and dishonour upon the German name. Many of the expelled Poles have to pass through Konigsberg on their way to the frontier, and a great majority of them roach that city in such abject distress that the town has been compelled, from motives of charity, to maintain a public Relief Committee for their assistance. As many as 800 penniless and starving Polish exiles have been in the custody of the committee at one time. The German newspapers are becoming thoroughly aroused over the subject, and the most of them, without regard to party affiliations at present, protest against the barbarity and inhumanity of the expulsions. Vienna, October 17. In the Lower House of the Reichsrath, to-day, Count Von Taafe, President of the Council, stated that Austria bad asked Prussia to explain the cause of the expulsion of Austrian Poles fiom the latter country, and that Prussia had replied that she regarded the expulsion as a purely internal affair. The Prussian Government promised, however, to favourably consider exceptional cases, and to afford the persons expelled facilities for settling their private affairs. CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE TORIES. London, October 17. The public declarations of Cardinal Newman concerning the Established Church is certainly one of the most extraordinary occurrences of the British political campaign. He advises Catholics to assist the Conservatives in maintaining the Established Church against the attack of its enemies, declaring it is one of the greatest bulwarks of England against atheism. “I wish all success to those defending the church, and I and my friends will join in defending it,” said he. Many affect to see in the Cardinal’s exhortation nothing more than the political adoption of the Roman Catholic Church’s principle that any religion is better than no religion j but his words have attracted universal attention here, and will undoubtedly assist the Conservatives, who, as a party, stand by the church, to secure an alliance with the Irish party. PROSECUTING THE BOYCOTTERS. London, October 17. The Irish Government is making the most determined effort to check, thiough the operation of ordinary jaws, the extensive system of boycotting which has been revived in Ireland. The long lists of prosecutions which are every day published show the activity of the police. In all cases wherein good evidence is procurable against the boycotters they are summoned and committed to trial or bound over to keep the peace. The license is revoked of everv keeper of a public-house who is proven guilty of refusing supplies to persons under the boycotters’ law. So many publicans have already lost their licenses on this account that the league now exempts publicans from obedience to its boycotting orders, although in all other respects this method of punishing persons is put sued unchecked. So offensive has boycotting become that the Government lias determined to revive the “ White Boy Act.” The “white boys” of Ireland performed their work at night and masqueraded in white. The act inflicts seven years’ penal servitude on persons found guilty of breaking it, Dublin, October 17. In pursuance of the Government plan of the suppression of boycotting, 200 respectable inhabitants of Stradbally, County Queens, have been arrested. The Dublin branch of the National League sent a lawyer to defend the prisoners, but the magistrate before whom they wore brought convicted all of them, and ordered them to find sureties for their good behaviour. The defendants elected to go to prison rather than furnish bail. The Magistrate hesitated to commit them, and Anally gave them a fortnight in which to consider the matter. A CHILD KILLED BY AN EAGLE. Toronto, October 17. This afternoon, while the wife of Jean Baptiste Rorailly, residing ton miles from here, accompanied by her two-year-old child, was feeding her fowls, a large bald-head--d ent.de swooped down and bore the little one .If in its talons, The neighbors turned out with

shot guns, but, the. only effect of the firing was to accelerate the eagle’s flight. The bird alighted on the top of a barn a mile away, and was seen to make several strokes at the child’s head with its 1-eak. The neighbors had got pretty close by this time and succeeded in frightening the eagle away. The child’s body was recovered, but life was extinct, a hole having been made in its skull, and a portion of the brain devoured by the bird.