TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 803, 20 December 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 14. A fund has been started for the relief of distressed Irish women. The Queen Mas subscribed' L2OO, and other large contributions have already been received. Intelligence is to hand from Tunis that certain Tunisian Government officials have forcibly expelled the workmen of Mr Levy, a British subject, from his estate at finfida. Dec. 15. News is to hand from Ireland that the police have seized the whole of this week's issue of the United Ireland. tliP organ' of the Land League published in Dublin, and have also arrested the remainder of the staff of the paper. Mr O'Brien, the editor, was arrested in October last Dec. 16. A despatch from the United States Secretary of State to Mr Russell Lowell. Minister to London, on the subject of the projected Panama Canal, dwells in forcible language on the growth of American interests in the Pacific, and

draws attention to the solicitude witch has been shown by England to con vol j the route to India via the Suez Car kl. I It asserts the right of the United Stales | against that of European Powers Jto control the Isthmus of Panama, *a|d points out such control would offer ablfelute neutrality of the canal. The djr* patch concludes by stating that t|p claims of America cancrlied everything l which, might be deemed: to, forbid: her tor.tijying; hen control of the projected hiyj)way between, the Atlantic and Pacific. Paris, Dec. 14. The French ultramontane Press have lately published, articles in reference to the situation of the Papal See. The papers, poneur instating that the Pope's position has beconve unbearable, and that the question of His Holiness' departure from. Ronae is now seriously mooted.. Deo. 15. Forty-five thousand persons, comprising the families ot the Tunisian insurgents and a number of the insurgents themselves, have entered Morocco and have requested the Sultan.to permit them to settle permanently in tbat country.