EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 298, 28 July 1875, Page 7

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN.

I » (From the Duned'm Dailies.) London, June 21. Messrs Moody and Sankey are preparing to visit Eton to conduct a service specially addressed to the students. Their intention has caused a great sensation and much controversy. In Dublin, on June 18th, at midnight, a fire broke out in the Excise Bond Stores, which contained 1800 puncheons of whisky. There was a series of tremendous explosions, and the flames spread with great rapidity to adjoining buildings. Liquor flowed into the street, ignited the whole neighborhood, from 15 to 20 buildings, in Mill and Cham-bers-streets, and put them in flames. Vast crowds surrounded the burning buildings. The mob rolled several barrels of whisky out of the stores and helped themselves to the contents. The police mustered in force, and troops were ordered out to preserve order. Five thousand casks of liquor and 35 houses were destroyed. The Pacific Island Protection Bill has been extended to. New Guinea. The Times publishes two columns of a review of the New Zealand Handbook, and praises Sir J. Vogel in unmeasured terms. Bodies much mutilated continue to come ashore from the wreck of the Schiller. Three hundred thousand dollars in specie has been recovered. A terrible earthquake occurred in South America. The earthquake violently visited the city of Riccala, Columbia. In New Canada a portion of the church fell down, and many houses were destroyed. Caucena was also destroyed, and the loss of life was frightful, thousands perishing. There is much excitement in Panama over the calamity. The city of Ciccula was completely destroyed, and but few families were saved. A ball of fire issued from the volcano and set fire to the houses. Another mouth was opened in the volcano on the side fronting Santiago, in the ridge called Guachane. Sixteen thousand lives are estimated as lost. The Pope suffers from lumbago. He is not confined to his bed, and holds audiences as usual, but much anxiety prevails. The Corporation of London have resolved to invite the Mayor of New York to an international municipal banquet next, month. The town of Macao, Province of Gaang Fang, was visited by a terrible hurricane. Considerable property was destroyed, and the shipping in the harbor suffered severely. The g'torm was unusually violent, and lasted several hours. A number of lives were lost. The steamer Vicksburg struck on some icebergs off St. John's, Newfoundland. The vessel sank, and fifty men were drowned. Ono boat with five men was picked up, and another with thirty reached land. The men in the boat picked up were in a very exhausted state, and their feet and legs were so much swollen that their boots had to be cut from their feet. James Crowley, one of the rescued men, says at 9.30 p.m. on Monday the ship was stopped among the heavy ice, and was hove-to. After she got clear, and while going at full speed, she struck the bergs. The engines were immediately reversed and the ship struck heavily on the port quarter, carrying away the fans of the propeller, and a hole was knocked through the plates in that quarter, through which the ship made a quantity of water. The captain gave orders to launch the boats, with their respective crews, and told them to mind that the distance from St. John's was 120 miles north-west. The ship sank about ten o'clock floating boat No. 2 from her davits, with the chief officer and about thirty people in her. They got clear and pulled to windward. After the ship went down they saw the captain and some other persons floating on a bale of hay among the wreckage, and they tried all they could do to pick them, up, but owing to the boat being half full of water and the ice about they were not able to do so. Interviews with several survivors of the wreck show that those of the crew and passengers who escaped in the boats abandoned the vessel and those on board to their fate in a manner somewhat discreditable. The steamer City of New York was launched at Chester, Pennysylvania, on June 5. She is the second of three in course of construction for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the contractors for the Australian mail service. Every known precaution has been taken for the speedy extinguishing of fire and for the saving of life. She has ten metallic lifeboats, calculated to accommodate 500 persons. A disastrous fire at Toronto burncdbalf a block, from Young to Victoria and North Stewetter streets. Accounts relative to the grasshopper plague continue to be of a most disastrous character. A Nebraska despatch says an immense army of grasshoppers covers an area extending in breadth from one end of the State to the other, and crossing the Union Pacific Railway in a northerly direction. A large number covers the ground from Omaha to Columbus, bringing utter destruction to many beautiful fields of grain. Many farmers lost their entire crops in a half-hour's time, while others in the same vicinity suffered little. Reports from Florence say the fields 'were atripped of everything. ,lri Washing-

ton County, the grasshoppers are reported as having left in a body, after devouring everything green. The grasshoppers in Petaluma devoured the top* off live acres of potatoes. The Artie expedition has sailed. A special prayer will bo used on Sundays in most of the English Churches for the crew and their success. The nation is intensely interested in the event. As admitted by the London Times the Bessamer steamer, which was to do away n ith the horrors of sea sickness in crossing the English Channel, is an undoubted failure. A terrible disaster has visited Holyoake, in Massachusetts, in the burning of the French Catholic Church, which was bo fatally swept that 60 men, women, and children were either burnt or crushed to death in the panic. Nearly at the close of the service* a taper caught fire in the light trimming of the altar, and spread rapidly over the walls. The 700 people present riished wildly to one narrow entrance, while those in the gallery jumped down on the mass below, from whence they were driven by the increasing flames, only to live for a few hours. In the streets were relatives of those burnt in the conflagration. The flames of the burning building, the gathering of the dead for identification, and the comforting of the dying, made a scene never before witnessed. By an earthquake in Asia Minor 2,00 C lives are reported to have been lost. The Archbishop of Canterbury has recognised with approval the services of Messrs Moody and Sankey. The British Polar Expedition sailed from Portsmouth on May 29, to ma,ke further explorations in the Artie Sea. Preparations been making for the past six months under Sir Henry Rawlinson. The enthusiasm at Portsmouth at the time of sailing was immense, thousands of people being present. Her Majesty'ssnt a telegram to Commander Markhain, wishing the expedition sucess.