ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(Pee. s.s. RoTOBtTA at the Bluff.) '

London, April 11. An announcement comes from New York of a plot amongst the Irish Fenians in the city to murder Mr Gladstone. The proposal is said to have been pre: v.ously entertained, and to be credited by the New York police, but here- the matter is not thought lo be genuine. Precautions are, however, being taken. The German Chancellor, Prince Bismarck, has propounded a scheme of bounties to Gbrman shipping, to promote the encouragement of shipbuilding in the empire, and the extension of its commerce. The plan is similar in principle to the one recently adopted in France, acd the idea meets with much support in Germany.

April 12,

Moody and Sankey have announced that they will visit England in September next, and that, after holding a series of meetings, they will proceed to Ireland on, a revival tour. .

April 13. Outrages continue to be reported from Ireland throughout the county of Cork. A most disorderly feeling prevails in the western baronies. The peasantry have attacked and severely injured a number of process-servers employed to serve the notices of eviction.

Mr Parnell ia visiting some of the principal cities in England where there ia a large Irish population in order to extend amongst them the principles of the Land League. At Manchester he addressed an assemblage of • 5C09, and spoke at length on the condition of Ireland..

April 14.

Lord Oranmore and Browne, a prominent landlord in the county of Mayo, and who has made himself obnoxious to the Land Lsague by press letters on the Irish land question, has more than once had his life threatened. The police have succeeded in arresting the would-be murderers of Lord Oraumore. Miss De Laraine (Ouida), the well known novelist, is dead.

- The Irish Land League is extending its operations in England. In addition to various branches already in existence, one baa been lately opened in Sunderland. In accordance with the determination lately arrived at by .the Government to suppress the Land League in Ireland, several travesers of late prosecutions, as well as others concerned in the proceedings of the Land League, have been imprisoned under the provisions of the Coercion Act.

The police have lately been maintaining a vigilant watch over the Woolwich arsenal, which they have reason to believe was threatened by Fenian agents. They have now arrested several for being concerned in another plot for its destruction. Consequent on having accepted the Turkish offer on the frontier question, the King of Greece has incurred great unpopularity by a part of bis subjects, and his conduct in tlie matter has subjected him to very general abuse. . the reforms promised by the Emperor Alexander 11., great dissatisfection still exists in Bussia.

Serious riots have been caused in Moscow by the students, which have been suppressed by the police after a good deal of trouble. , Extraordinary, attempts have been made to destroy the Church of Madrid, by throwing bombshells into it while the congregation was assembled for public worship. . .