ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 174, 9 November 1877, Page 7

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Gigantic frauds by Midland Railway officials, extending- over many years, have been discovered. Harvest prospects have improved, and breadstuff's are declining in con- 1 sequence of the excess of importations and the fact that the English harvest will give full average yield. Bismarck nnd Rasyfield had a four hours' conference at Salzburg. The result of the conference is that the Emperors of Germany and Austria regard the necessity for a common understanding between the three Imperial Courts for preserving the peace of Europe There are no treaty stipulations, but the three Emperors completely agree on a common course of action. Austria is not to impede Turkey's actiou towards Servia if the latter breaks the peace. It is denied that the three Emperors entered into an engagement on ihe Eastern or any other concrete question. The Porte has ordered the expulsion of Russian monks from Mount Athos, and has reinstated the Greek monks. The Dutch budget shows a deficit (f £2.700,000 owing to the Ac been war. The Porte has sent a note to ihe Khedive respecting the articles of the slave trade convention in England, and granting the latter the right of search. The Porte contests the Khedive's authority to grant such privileges to foreign Powers, particularly in Ottoman waters. MacMahon means to retain his power, and enforce his authority till 1880, when the constitution may be peaceaably received. The French President's manifesto condemns the thorough European Ultrarnontanists elected. The Prince Imperial has visited Belgium. The French police were instructed to watch his movements. It i? believed that there is a plot; to precipitate a coup d'etat, when Napoleon the Fourth will appear as a tranquiliser, and not as a disturber of public peace, and the Empire will be restored without an appeal to universal suffrage. The Imperialists are divided into a Chiselhurst faction, and the Bonapartists will be led on by Prince Jerome. Theirs left an address to the French people condemning the Administration, and justifying the opposition. He declares t.I)A Republic to be the only Government possible. The Press prosecutions continue, bur the administration fails to silence the criticism of the opposition newspapers, who are censured for publishing their address. The new fortifications of Paris are nearly complete. An exhaustive report on the works has heen published by the Russian War Department. Tliß fortifications of the Italian frontier are rapidly being placed in a state of defence. UNITED STATES. Spvpral savings banks have failed owin-'< to fraudulent management. .. The cattle plague is prevalent at Ohio. A cyclone in Texas did considerable damage. The wind's velocity was 53 miles an hour. The mining strikes in Pennsylvania have terminated. The Favor Monto, one of thp finest steamers on the western water?, has b^en burnt at the Bt. Louis wharves. Thf Spanish steamer San Diego was burned , at sea between New York and Liverpool. ■ Top crew were saved. Thirty horses, wei'e burned. It is reported at Ny>w Jersey that 11 were killed and wounded in a railway collision between, a Chicago and Western express/ •' Recent investigation states that; the Mine and Custom-house at San Francisco revealed gross frauds aad mismanagement. I The United States Grand Jury have indicted ;':seyeral,nrominent nien/fpi;_-;con,-'

sun of frmi inlont navy pay certificated ro a iargv* amo-int. in v figiu wir.li -cattle thieves at Kausn? seven thieves were killed and one was hung. The National Association^ of wool mJUjufWuraiw sifc H-isroti drcrhtred that they cannot contend r.i the markets of the world with the cheap lahour of i Europe. There was a great storm in the Atlantic on Ictober 4th. The steamer Massachusetts, which cost 400,000 dollars, was wrecked, and crew and passengers saved. 120 small crafts sunk at. anchor in Lewis roadstead, Delaware Bay. The crews were rescued from the riggings next raor-'iing. Se--veral la rye vessels foundered, and a mini her of houses were blown down. KepubUcan office- holders in South Carolina have hewn indicted by the .Republican Grand Jury for fraud and corruption, and /Malfeasance. Surprising* revelations ol political and moral turpiru le are promise 1 at the trial. Th« members of the Louisiana Returning Board are charged with destroying' and falsifying 1 the returns to secure Hayes election to the Presidency. The accused declared they acted under instructions from the Secretary. A hand of 500 insurgents crossed the border, and took the town of the Ei Paso, Texas, and a baud of olticiais established- a reign of terror. There is hourly danger of collision. between Texas and Mexican troops, patrols of whom line the Kio Grande. The Land Loan Bank Saving' deposit; has failed. President Duncan, an old Uuliforniiin, and Benjamin Ltnvard, exLieutenant in the British Navy, his son-iii -law, and the cashier failed. A. wholesale system of fraud and forgery has been discovered. The loss falls on. the depositors, many of them poor per> sons. High dividends were paid from the' start out of the deposits.