THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3498, 11 March 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880.

A considebabie portion of the news in our San Francisco mail summary has been anticipated by cable, but there is still a large quota which will be quite new to our readers. In the first place, looking over the Parliamentary items, we notice that the Imperial Government intend aiding famine • stricken Ireland with a grant of £750,000, which with the voluntary contributions coming to hand from all over the world should go a great way towards alleviating the dire distress of the inhabitants of that unhappy country. We are told also that in addition to the famine the people of Tipperary and the South are scourged with fever. The, worthy philanthropist, John Bright, seems to favor Parnell's scheme for purchasing Ireland for the Irish, proposing that the Government should advance three-fourths of the purchase money for the farms— both principal and interest to be repaid in 35 years. One event of Imperial importance is the announcement of the probability of England, Germany and Auitria forming a modern "triple alliance." This indicates that the great powers evidently fear aggressive action on the part of Russia, who continues arming. Wars and rumors of wars are the constant theme of conversation throughout the whole of Europe. France, who has with wonderful rapidity got over the effects of her disastrous contest with Germany, is again armed to the teeth and ready for any move on the great chess board of nations that will give her a chance to revenge her injured honor, and recover Alsace and Lorriane. The war cloud hovers thickly over Asia, and both China and Japan, we are told, are ready to cut each other's throats. Afghanistan, affairs appear to be still in a most unsatisfactory state, but the recent understanding between Persia and Great Britain, will probably aid our legislators, in bringing the difficulty to a satisfactory conclusion. Nihilism and Socialism are still rampant, and Russia is in a state of siege from its social troubles. The country is evidently on the eve of a violent revolution. Calamities appear to have been plentiful, the most dreadful being the accident to a Russian transport on the Caspian, whereby, 2000 persons lost their lives. There is also the usual complement of railway atcidents and colliery disasters. '