LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3695, 28 October 1880, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Per s.s. Ringakooma at the Bluff.) London, Octob.er 18. THE DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

Mr Foster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in response to an invitation to attend a banquet at Dublin, has wriiten a letter, in which, while declining the honor, he honor, he sets forth the view of the Government upon the condition of the country. He states that they fully recbgnise that the situation is alarming, the agitation and subsequent outrages throughout the south and west of Ireland having assumed proportions which call for prompt and severe repression. The Government were fully determined to maintain order in the country, but he repudiated the suggestion that special coercive measures were necessary, as he believed the power which the Government possessed would be sufficient to enable them to cope with the difficulty. At any rate, until the operation of the existing law was exhausted, he did not J purpose having recourse to special legisation. GENERAL SUMMARY.

Serious disturbances have occurred at Smyrna owing to the excited religious feeling. A number of fanatic Mahomedans attacked the Italian Consul, and severely maltreated him before he was rescued. The Italian Government ha« demanded reparation for the outrage. The French Government have determined upon the enforcement of the decree of the 29th of March last, which provided not only for the dissolution of the Jesuit religious establishments, but required other Orders to come under the authority of the State. The decrees relating to the Jesuits have already been carried out, but the late Premier, M. De Freycinet, was desiroas of withholding the operation of the decree as against the other Orders for a time, and retired rather than be a party to their enforcement. M. Ferry has now given official intimation that the decrees will be suitably enforced, and the State will exercise to control the education of youth. The Bathlites, an order of monks chiefly devoted to the education of youths, and the Carmelites, a medical order of friars, who hare had under their control several important educational establishments, hare also been expelled from Paris. The relations between the Czar and Czarewich, are very strained, in consequence of the Morganatic marriage of the Czar with his mistress, the Princess Dolgorouki. The Czar is extremely anxious that his son should acknowledge the marriage. He has offered to appoint the Czarewich co-regent of Russia, on condition that he will do so. The answer to this proposal is not known. Prince Gortschakoff, Russian Chancellor, is dangerously ill, and his physicians give little hope of his recovery. Extensive strikes have taken place amongst artisans at Wolverhampton, to resist the proposed redaction in the rate of wages. Several large establishments have been closed.'