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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4368, 3 January 1883, Page 2

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[Pee Press Association.] London, December 19

Mr Biggar, member for County Cavan, has denounced Earl Spencer, LordLieutenant of Ireland, as bloodthirsty for permitting executions of several Irishmen recently convicted and sentenced to death for murder.

The military activity recently shown by Russia on the frontier of Germany and Austria, and the consequent strengthened alliance between those two Powers, has caused great fear of war to be felt. The Austrian Government h endeavoring to allay public.alarm. The German Government is making great efforts to push fo*-* ward ths Prussian railways on the ■P-ussiaa. frontier, and. the garrisons of -the frontier fortresses are also being increased.

■ A serious explosion^ has occurred in tiie cartridge factory of i'orfc Valerein, one of the Paris fortresses. Fifteen women were killed. ■

Oberdank, who was arrested for attempting to smuggle bombs into Trieste on the occasion of the Emperor of Austria's visit to.that city in September iast, and for being concerned in a plot to mnrderxthe Imperial party, has been executed at Trieste.

M. Duclerc, the French Premier, has declined to formulate the French demands in respect to Egypt. Forty-fire Socialists have been arrested at Prague, and eleven Socialist rioters at Montien Les Mines, France, have been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.

Lord Derby, who has assumed the direction of the colonial office, has placed Agents-General of.the colonies on the same foating as Ambassadors.

The Republic of Mexico is seeking to attract a portion of the Irish immigration to America.

The International Exhibition to be held next year at Calcutta will be opened on December 7th.

220 branches of the Irish National Land League have been established. In Ireland, England, and America other leagues are invited to amalgamate with the organisation.