LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3960, 7 September 1881, Page 3

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

(per s.s. te anatt, at the extjff.) i ; London, August 24. ' ; Id the leading article on tbe settlement of the Beform question in Victoria, (lie Standard points out tbat the events have justified the refusal of Sir M. Hicks-Beach to acquiesce in the views urged by Mr Berry. Referring to the Bill as amended iby the Council, the Standard remarks that the "Victorian Democrats are by no means at ease as to whether the Upper House will not gain than lose authority, by having consented to a wider basis on which it rests. Sir Gr. Duffy has publicly declared that 'his opinion on the Irish Land Act, which ' has"just received the Boyal assent contains the germs of immeasurable good to Ireland. He urges bis countrymen to remember that the British Parliament has never bejbje . gi?en Ireland a good of such magnitude. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting! Upon this address, in an'article headed " Timely Words," expresses the opinion that SinG. Duffy has spoken well and opportunely, and eulogises his remarks as admirable, and concludes by advising every householder throughout the Kingdom to read his! eloquent "appeal. O'Donovan Ross, the editor of the United Fenian Journal, published in New York, baa issued a proclamation which intimates that an organisation exists to destroy hundreds of English ships by means of dydamite. The Cobden Club had expunged from their list of members the name of James Kedpath,-the special correspondent in Ireland for several New York papers, who .has recently made himself notorious by -his inflammatory harangues on the Irish land difficulty* The .heavy rain's which threaten to so seriously injure tbe prospects of a good harvest still continue. Prayers for the weather have been ordered to be offered in all the churches. The Government, in consequence of the pressure brought to bear on them in Parliament, have agreed to grant £1000 to Edmund Galley, as compensation for his long detention in a penal settlement in Western Australia, for a crime of which he was innocent. August 28. . The Saturday Beview deals fully with the political situation in Victoria. It takes notice of the teaching of Professor Pearson, which it describes as calculated to excite the selfish passions of the working classes and a few demagogues, who declare to have succeeded in producing more discord in the community than has been done by Mr Berry in Victoria. His demand that the second Chamber should be composed of men nominated for five years by the Government of the day was audacious. Such a House would have represented merely himself. The fall of the Berry Government must be an immense advantage to the colony. It expresses the hope that the new Ministry would be at any rate less mischevious than "their predecessors, and trusts also h fhat the example of; New South Wales, Vwhich flourishes under a free trade tariff, will promote sounder economy. It shows that; the Victorian Legislative Council tinder its new condition has acquired additional powers. It will become a check upon the caprices of universal suffrage. a ion August 30. The conference of members of the National Land League of Great Britain has been sitting at Newcastle. Addresses in favor of Land Reform in England were delivered by Mr Joseph Cowen, the Eadical member for Newcastle, and Mr Justin McCarthy, the Home Rulo memberfor Longford.