LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3955, 1 September 1881, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

(PjEB B.S. EoTOMAHANA, AT THE BLUFF.)

Paeis, August 10,

At a meeting held at Belleville, one of the Parisian suburbs, M. Gambetta essayed to deliver an address, but the assembly refused to listen to him, drowning his voice with revolutionary songs. .....,■ London, August 17. General Ignatieff, President of the Council of Ministers, replying to representations made concerning the ill-treat-ment to which Jews have been subjected in ' South' Eussia r expressed sympathy with the unfortunate people', and declared that, by direction of the Czar, instructions had been given to the authorities to suppress any disturbance. Guiteau, who attempted the assassination of President Garfield, and who has since been confined to' gaol, n?«de a murderous assault on his gaoler yesterday. The prisoner had managed to secrete a weapon, and when, the warder entered his cell, Guiteau sprang on him, and a desperate „ encounter took place. The warder was severely injured, but, with assistance, Guiteau was disarmed, and safely secured. The strike among the sailors of London has terminated in shipowners agreeing to consider the grievances of the men, and eventually a compromise was proposed, which was accepted by the sailors as a satisfactory settlement. ' , The spread of Socialism in Switzerland excited the alarm of the authorities. The leaders recently made themselves very prominent, and severe measures of repression are contemplated. Mr Forster is a favourite subject for vindictive attack by the Irish Home Rule members and their organs in the Press. In the House of Commons, Mr Biggar, j member for Cavan, in submitting a motion that the salary of the Giiief Secretary be reduced by one-half, assailed the hon. gentleman in a most imperative manner for his administration of the Coercion Act. The motion met with with little support, and was rejected by an overwhelming majority. A project has been*formed for laying a second cable to Suez and Alexandra under English auspices. The proposal has been warmly taken up. A large number of arrests of persons suspected of Nihilism have been made by the Eussian police. Two hundred and twenty of these unfortunates, who have been cast into prison, on suspicion only, are now about to be transported to Siberia without "trial. .;■_