NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1314, 12 March 1885, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The French Cabinet have under consideration a proposal to grant 25,000,000 francs to find employment for unemployed v/orking peeple in the various towns of France.

The walls in Paris are placarded with calls to the unemployed working men and women to meet in the fashionab'e places, where they boldly flaunt their misery and rags in the face of everyone. At the present time there are 300,000 workmen idle in Paris, and at least 1,000,000 in the provinces. Discontent, consequent on this state of affairs, is spreading, and riots areexpecled to break out in all sections.

The windows of a gunmnker’s shop in the Rue Lafayette, were broken into on February 10th by a band of a hundred young met;, who helped themselves to guns and revolvers. Several woie arrested. Six of them were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. George Brown, agent of (he Rossi seclion of the Irish League, died in Paris on February 11th.

On February 9th M. Waddington, the French Ambassadors presented to Eirl ' Granville the amended counter proposals of France regarding Egyptian affairs. The proposals embody increased demands on the part of France, They insist that an International Commission shall be appointed to investigate the finances of Egypt, and an International Conference be called to meet at Cairo’to nationalise the Suez Cana). An advice from Paris says modifications of the French proposals had since been made in such a manner as would, as far as possible, avoid wounding the sensibilities of the English. The Pall Mall Gazette denounce the French demands as humiliating to England, The demands, it declares, England will never accede to. The Gazette maintains that France and its allies have seriously taken in hand the task of coercing England, A German deputy named Schoderer asked the President of the Reichstag, on January 29th, to expel from the Chamber all newspaper people, who, he said, were lounging about the corridors writing lies about their proceedings. The journalists refused to continue on duty, and signed an address to the President demanding an apology. The Pesident did apologise, but it was considered inadequate, and newspapers to th e number of without the reports of the parliamentary proceedings. The Government was astonished at the boldness of journalists in depriving their readers of what politicians regard as the most important news of the day. Some officials urged the Reichstag to retaliate by withdrawing Government advertising from the newspapers, and establishing a more rigorous censorship on the Press. The Press gained its point on on Feb. 3rd in a vote of censure on Schoderer bv the Reichstag, Two anarchists, Reinsdorff and Karehler, convicted of an attempt to assassinate the Emperor at Neidervvold, wore executed by the sword at Halle, on Feb. 7th. Rupoch, a third convict, had his sentence at the last moment commuted to impiisonrnent for life. Reinsdorff went to his fate with the utmost nonchalance, smoking a cigar and humming snatches of serio-comic songs. His last words were “ Down with barbarism 1 Long life to anarchy.” Karehler broke down completely, ■ Despatches from Vienna, dated Feb. Ist, say that there is a variable reign of terror in Vienna in consequence of the rigorous measures which the Austrian Government has deemed necessary to adopt for the repression of anarchism. Hundreds of political' spies have been lately added to the regular police force. Most of the spins are political adventurers, who are without a trace of conscience or principle. Ho one is safe from their accusations, and the people have become timid about discussing political affairs even with intimate friends. An alleged anarchist named Thelman was tried on January 31« ton a charge of circulating pamphlets inciting to assess!* nation and the destvijctioiq of public property by dynamite. The trial was conducted with closed doors and without a jury. Within two hours Thelman was tried, convicted cf high (reason, and sentenced to penal servitude for six years. Count Taffe, the Austrian Premier, used the following language at an interview on February 7th : —We must protect ourselves against being flooded wiih American food stuffs and petroleum. I have studied the American question, and am satisfied the American railway tariff is so low as to make it impossible for our farmers to compete. We are bound to protect our peasants, and we intend to impose high protective dutiea on imports without heightening the cost of food, It is no time for arguing about political economy when our very existence is at stake, not to speak of our wealth. We must take immediate measures in self-defence.”