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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 194, 16 August 1881, Page 2

["Age" Specials] (Per Albion at the Bluff.) London, August ?. A very strong feeling is growing in England in favor of modifying the present free trade tariff with a view to establishing reciprocity with other countries. Complaints are made tbat owing to tbe policy of protec tion maintained in the United States and several of the most important colonies the exnort trade of Great Britain is seriously injured, and her industrial supremacy threatened. In the manufacturing districts au agitation has been set on foot for the purpo»e of securing reciprocity, and with this object a league has been formed called the National Fair Trade League, which is receiving influential support. Mr Parnell has returned to Ireland after his suspension from the Housa and in addressing a crowded meeting in Dublin delivered a very inflammatory speech. He unsparingly condemned the Irish Land Bill which he declared would not give satisfaction to the people of Ireland even if left uncurtsiled by tlie Lords. He bitterly denouueed Messrs Gladstone and Forster, and condemned tbe Government as a whole. A strong anti-Jewish feeling is still manifested in Germany and the Jews are sub jected to much maltreatment. At Barmwalde the Jewish synagogue was Ettacked on Saturday by an infuriated mob who wrecked tbe building and assaulted ths worshippers. August 4. Owing to the wholesale bribery at the last general election in several borough constituencies, the Government have determined to act upon the recommendation of the Commission appointed to investigate some of the most flagrant cases, and will propose to the House of Commons that seven boroughs be disfranchised. The trial of Hickcrman, who was recently brought before the Bow Street Police Court chared with having sent threatening letters to Mr Forster, ha 9 taken {lace, and the prisoner was convicted of the offence. The strike r.mong tbe nailers in Staffordshire still continues, and both masters and men exhibit a determination not to give way An immense meeting of the men was held to-day attended by fully 30 000, and addresses were delivered inviting the men to stand firm, and not to consent to any reduction of wages. The men declared that they would never yield, and that starvation was preferable. Another plot to murder the Czar and^is family has been discovered and frustrated through the actmty Of tho Itußskn police A short time ago the Czar removed from

Caetle Gatchena, where he has resided since his accession, to the Palace at Peterhoff, a Email pott at the mouth of the Neva, fifteen miiea weßt of St. Petersburg. The utmost precautions were tpkeD, but notwithstanding these it was only at tbe laet moment that the suspicions of the police were directed to the inmates of a coMege near the Palace, and they wore suddenly arrested, and from evidence there discovered the police arrested sixty persons on suspicion of being concerned in the conspiracy. Subsequently the police received further information, in consequence of which they arrested two Geneva Nihilists who were believed to be engaged in a similar design. A movement is on foot for the purpose of developing the industrial resources of Ireland. It is proposed to establish a Company with a capital of £4,000,000 -to purchase a large quantity of the waste lands of the country and reclaim and cultivate them. The prospectus of the Company has been published and the project has been favorably received. Mr Bradlaiigh is confined to his house through illness. He complains of an injury to his arm and his medical advisers report that erysipelas has set in. It is proposed to hold an International Exhibition in ISB3 in Shanghai, the chief foreign settlement in China. Tbe project is warmly supported by foreign merchants who believe that it will do much to develope trade with China. The Indian tribes in the United Stateß territory in New Mexico are on tbe war path and have made raids on the white settlement inflicting considerable damage. Troops have been despatched against them. The heat c£ the BUtntner in the United States has been altogether unprecedented, and an unusual number of deaths from sunstroke have occurred. August 8. Unprecedented vfeaiher continues in tbe United States. On Saturday there were no leas than sixty deaths reported to have been caused by sunstroke and other illnesses induced by the intense heat.