Show TELEGRAPHIO I a FOREIGN The Marseilles Aflair General Gen-eral ilatttirs London 21Th is great excitement at Rowe over the MarseIlles riots During Dur-ing the furore over Tunis Italy was hampered by the neeps ity of having to float a new loan of 644000000 lire 130000000 for the resumption of specie payments which she thought fhe would have to raise in France Sincethen however how-ever Baring Bros and Hambro Co of Loidon bare taken up the loan which will be issued in London Vienna Paris and New York in July and both the government and the people are in a position to speak plainly with regard to the conduct of France Depretfs the premier is being urgtd by men of all shaded of opinion to make a forcible statement to the French government On the other hand the cooler heads point out that nothing would please the Ferry ministry better than to appeal at the coming elections in Franca for popular pop-ular approval of their course in Tunis and that as Italy is notoriously unprepared for a collison lacking both army organixation and money the French people would not hesitate to declare de-clare for war The Italian radicals headed by Crispi maintain on the contrary con-trary that if Depretis took a determined stand against the French programme in in i north Africa he would be supported not only by united Italy but indirectly by the monarchists and extreme radical fin f-in France who are anxious to efface Gambetta In these various contentions at Rome the electoral bill the only great domestic question before the country is forgotten and there is nothing heard in the streets or at public meetings but denouncements de-nouncements of French agrftndizement and treachery Today the Chamber of Deputies received with radical comments the testament of Signer Warsini minister of foreign affairs that tho non duct of the Marseilles authorities and of the Italian consul bad been perfectly correct cor-rect and that they had done their utmott to prevent insult to the escutcheon Mancini entreated the chamber to aid the ministry in maintaining peace and said France had offeied to renew negotiations nego-tiations for a treaty of commerce He had sent instructions to the Italian ambassador am-bassador in order that the most energetic measures for the protection of Italians might be taken and ho did not doubt that the French government would be Entrusted in preventing acts calculated to disturb the good relation between the two countries This afternoon a mob attempted to raise an antiFrench demonstration in Rome but a large force of military and police came on the scene and cleared tho streets making a number of arrests Mr Parnell and his friends in the House continue to help the government with the land bill and their assistance with that of Mr Shaw of Cork and Mr Charles Russell Q C the member for Dundalk is of LO little value The League executive at Dublin has virtually ceased to exist Mr Sexton M P remains re-mains in charge but no meetings are being held and engagements ot paid orators have been cancelled Extr mea me-a itatorB are greatly incensed at Archbishop Arch-bishop McCabes terrific onslaught onthe League but their elf rts to overpower his influence with the people are vain and foolish The breach btween extreme and league agitators is widening every day Tho former who aro mostly fenians and believers in the doctrine of dynamite have lost their grip and their appeals to the peasantry to take up arms are denounced de-nounced on every hand by the clergy It is whispered moreover that some of the leading firebrands maintain peculiar relations rela-tions with the castle These rumors have led to a revival of the discussion as to James Stephens standing New York Fenians vouch for him but some of his old comrades in the trouble of 186567 do not hesitate to charge him with being a castle spy His alleged escape from Richmond jail in November 1865 was said to have been due to the connivance of the turnkey and the castle tidied 8 reward of 1000 for his recapture but no one acquainted with the Irish prison system can be induced to believe that it was a bona fide escape and Quinlan clerk in tho chief secretarjs office who was dismissed for having blabbed to Dublin reporters is authority for saying that Stephens was let out with the knowledge and by orders of the executive and that the information he furniahed was used at the trial of Luby and six days after tho escape of John OLeary and Odonovan Rossa at the same special commission Nagle was the only informer who appeared in the witness box ButQuinlan says Stephens was in close communication with the crown officer and that Mr Burt the prisoners counsel more than suspected as much Be that as it may the people are just now very distrustful of the advocates ad-vocates of force and Stephens treachery treach-ery is quoted by the clergy in Dublin as one reason why the peasantry should have nothing to do with the professional patriots At todays meeting of the league the executive Mr Sexton admitted ad-mitted almost in as many words that the organization was on the verge of bankruptcy and made a strong appeal for funds to the Irish and the United I States Other speakers said that the league should disown connection with Ute skirmishers and that the Irish in America should be asked not to give their money to the skirmishing fund The league party under Mr Parnell and the force party which has its headquarters head-quarters at New York are so completely at sixes and sevens that combined action ac-tion in the future appears to be out of the question |