English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 58, 19 August 1875, Page 6

English News.

The Sultan of Zwzibar, while in England, completed nnother treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade. Chinese pirates attacked a British steamer at Foo Cboo, and were repulsed, after killing the Custom House officer aboard. The wheat and vine crops inVilleFrancbe and Matjon, in France, are completely destroyed by floods. Two hundred and sixteen bodies have been found of those drowned in the floods at Toulouse. Admiral Bon? has writted to the Times defending cock fighting, which it becoming more prevalent. "Sir George Grey's return to pnblic life," writes the London correspondent of the Star, " has caused a feeling of very general satisfaction amongst old colonists in England, and his remarks on the new colonial honor are approved of." The Radical Clubs in London held a conference and called a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against the grant for tbe expenses of the Prince of Wales in India. A* special despatch from Berlin says the German Government has ordered that delegates, on submission by the Catholic clergy to new laws, shall be kept strictly secret,to secure them from persecution by TJltramontanes. Gumzenberger, of Vienna, has written to the Post Office Department at New York stating that he had discovered an apparatus for directing the passage of air Baloons. He wishes to be allowed to make a trial trip between New York and San Francisco. A desperate attempt was made to rob ah express car at Long Point, Illinois, on the Bth July. The engine and car were cut loose, and the engineer was killed. The expressman, Burke, barricaded the doors and kept the robbers at bay till help armed. At a meeting^at Hyde Park to protest against the grant for the Prince of Wales' visit to Indiß, 12,000 persons were present. Mr Bradlaugfc made a violent speech. A resolution of a similar character was adopted almost unanimously. Eight persons who voted against it were set upon by the crowd, and the police had to interfere. Mr Mackenzie, the Canadian Premier, in a speech at Dundee, referred to the great resources of Canada. He recorded that it was qhite consistent for nations to exist on the North American Continent governed differently, and with differing political inatitions, and was convinced, so long as Oreat Britain maintained her present attitude towards the colonies, that friendship and confidence would be maintained. "With reference to the Turkish revolt,the -Standard publishes advices from Tara, the capital of Dalmatta, which represents that Panslavic emissaries had spread reports among Herzegovinians that the Turks intended to exterminate the Christians, and this falsehood had caused the insurrection, which is taking great dimensions. Masses of the insurgents surrounded the towns of Callso, Nevessioni, and Holata. 600 families fled into Croatia and Servia. 1200 arrived in Dalmatia at different periods along the frontier. Prisoners at Dartmoor being permitted to j^^ffefcf of their friends for twenty mi* t0 Wmfsk c every six months, Mr Guilford r' JP^^ 1 aß *» aD( * r Anthony Bid- ~ '3&liwri*?' ted -Arthur Orton on May 20th. flraHgftpfcrted him to be very much thinWMSf»lsidently in good health, though ■' ■ffcwSig' it careworn expression. He expressed his horror, Mr Biddulph says, at the society of the felons with whom he was obliged to come in contact Punctually at the expiry of the allotted twenty minutes, Orton was again marched off to the monotony of the sewing machine, which he works as a tailor. An extinct volcano in Iceland opened for weeks, and ejected fire, lava, ashes, and muddy boiling fluid. The farms and villages within twenty miles were destroyed. A thousand people had to flee for their lives. This volcano ceased, and another opened a hundred miles away, and devastated tbe country for fifty miles around. 800 people are homeless. In the centre of the Island several new mounds have been thrown up to a height of several hundred feet, and poured out their burning contents over two hundred miles of country, rendering thousands of people homeless, seveeal hundred people are reported to bave perished. The famous Geyaers have dried up since tbe terrible eruption, and, instead of water, emit immense volumes of hot smoke and ashes, which at night appear like gigantic columns of fire, and are visible for a hundred miles. The eruption is said to be the most wildely- extended volcanic action known in the world. Forty thousand inhabitants on the.coasts of the island are too poor to support their destitute fellow-countryman, and the Copenhagen Government has made an appeal for the auflerers. The Jury in the Beecher case came into Court at 11 o'clock on the 2nd July, when the forman, Mr Carpenter, said it was impossible to agree. They were discharged. Nine were ior Beecher and three for Til ton. 'he Tribune says that the evidence in Coder's trial for conspiracy so seriously im.cates Moulton that Beecher's counsel tavv {•already taken steps to indict him for perjury. Judge Barnard, who was removed from the Supreme Court Bench in 1871. is accused of having tampered with the Beecher Jury. Beecher and Barnard were enemies, and Barnard boasted of baying fixed the jury so that one would stand out under all circumstances. It is rumored that the Negro named Wooly will be arrested for perjury. B *echer was serenaded at Peekskill on the 13th July, and received an address from Judge O'JKTeil, reposing confidence in bim as a Christian Minister. Beecher replied in a speech of an hour, justifying himself, and expressing his trust in the future. He stated the expense of the trial would amount to 7500 dols, which he could hardly pay. A child having been nearly worried to death by two bulldogs at Bradford a few days ago, an incensed crowd chasad the animals into a quarry, where tbey were fired at and stoned until quite dead. The crowd then broke into the house of the owner of the dogs, a gentleman named . Smith, and did a great' deal of damage. Next day they invaded his house again, smashed his furniture, emptied his cashbox, ripped up his beds and' pictures, etc., and in short wrecked the entire place. To crown all, the magistrate sent him to gaol , . for a month. He kept a herd of twelve „, . bulldogs, whose dispositions are described \ asSatonic trobably.be will choose gender creatures as his pets now.

An enumeration has just been made of the number of trees planted during the past season in the avenues and | Bouvelards of Paris to replace such as have died, and the total is found to be i 178,000. j Sir Wilfred Lawson's Permissive Bill j was again defeated by 371 against 86. j Mr Delaney has not resigned the editorship of the ' Times.' r Some doctors have advised the Prince of Wales not to go to India, as injurious to his health. The House of Commons rejected the ! the bill for the repeal of the Contagious ; Diseases Act by a majority of 182. j Yellow fever is reported to have broken out in Norfolk, Virginia. It is *aid to have been introduced by a vessel from Barbadoes. Garibaldi, on his arrival at Cevita Vecchia on his way to Caprera, was drawn to his hotel by the people. The town was illuminated. Beecher has been serenaded. He said he was thankful for the heart-felt sympathy and progress offered him. The trial had cost him 7500 dols. The Radical Clubs in London held a conference, and called a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against the grant for the expenses of the Prince of Wales in India. The details of the earthquake in Columbia show that not a single house was left standing. In Cucuba five thousand persons were killed . A large extent of country was desolated by a violent storm at Valparaiso. In the harbor many boats sunk, and there was a great loss of life and property. The rumor published that Mr Gladstone would resume the leadership of the Liberals is considered unfounded. Sir Chas. Dilke, the English "Radical, comes to America in September for another journey round the world. He means to devote some of his time to study in Japan. It is proposed to bombard and destroy St. Cyprian quarter, Toulouse, to prevant danger from the crumbling walls. A subsequent telegram says the first reports are exaggerated. The number drowned is estimated much lower. A despatch from Vienna reported that the peasants of Deva and vicinity, in Transylvania, revolted against the nobles and defeated a battalion of military. Many persons were killed, including two judges. Regular troops were sent to the scene of the outbreak. The Utah authorities are prosecuting the Mormons for the Mountain Meadow massacre. Lee, the woman originally accused, has turned State evidence. Some horrible particulars and the convictions of many leading Mormons are expected. Telegrams to the London ' Times ' say that 900 persons perished in the flood at Toulouse alone. An outbreak of an epidemic if feared. It is believed that 2500 houses have been swept away in the town and its environs. A ' Daily News' says the lowest estimate of deaths in flooded districts is 2000.