LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Volume 641, Issue 641, 31 July 1874, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Via California.) London, June 20. Mr Disraeli has announced, in the House of Commons, seventeen domestic Gills, and urges diligence, to avert a protracted session, Tho Earl of Yarborough, who had boo n missmg, was discovered on Jersey Island. He has left for London, in charge of his friends aud a policeman. Mr Gladstone has presented a petition, signed by 8,002 laborers, asking for assim. Ration of the county and borough franchises. lo’ ty deaths from cholera are reported from India. Mr Mosley’s cotton (mills, near Manchester, have been burnt—loss, 50,000k It is stated that a slave ship, with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by the Euglishjman-of-war Daphne, in March Fourteen slaves were put on board with only two days provisions, and tho voyage was prolonged to o’ght. Their suffeiiugs are alleged to have been indescribable, and many died in groat agony, Indian tolegranh reports relative to growing crops areJfsvorsMc. A. “special” to the •* 1 imes ” says the Government conliuue to furnish assistance (o 500,000 natives. There can bo no crop in Tesiool until December, ai d the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.

A duel between two editors took place in an open street in Sau Francisco, aud one of them was shot.

Snii-li-pox is causing great distress in Canada.

An attempt was made to assassinate 1 1 into B smark while travelling in an open carnage in the neighborhood of Kissengen. He was fired at and slightly injured in the wrist, Ihe attempted assassin was immediately arrested, and was found to be a young man who was unknown.

Tho assailant of Prince Bismark was a journeyman cooper from Magdeburgl), a member af a Catholic society. He confessed his intention was to assassinate Lismark. A priest is supposed to be impli-

cated in the plot, and has been arrested. Much excitement has been occasioned in Beilin, and there are strong manifestations of sympathy. There have been ’extensive inundations m H nigary, and many villages swept away. The Turkish steamer Kars, with 339 persons on board was run into, in tho sea of Marmora, by sn Egyptian vessel, and sunk, 320 lives being lost. The Emperor of Austria has summoned an International Congress, to consider sanitary measures for tho prevention of cholera. Despatches from Algisra state that tl e insurrection in Fez was extinguished by tho Sultan bombarding the town. N nety inhabitants were killed. Despatches from India announce famine nVs at Darjeeling. Tho troops fired on the rioters, and several were killed. A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states there were 80,000 Christians in China, but that 10,000 have been strangled, burned, or drowned. Ho adds be docs not expect to escape from martyrdom.

T ho Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages for reconciliation with tho Italian Government, has said he will yield nothing.

The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals. A London special despatch from Berlin says that the Government of Germany, in the interest of Sorvia and Eoumauia, has confidentially informed the other European Bowers that they have concluded an agrcomciit to mutually protect their interest against the designs of Turkey. Despatches to the Daily Telegraph, from Berlin assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porto arc serious, and intimate that grave complications in the East arc probable. 1 bo Times Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month to consider the subject of international rights in lime of war, will first codify the recognised usages of international law, wiiich affect the actual conduct in war, and then enact a now code in the form of an international t-eaty, which promises to become a first 'aw common to the whole. A draft of the treaty has been made, It has seventy-six clauses, slating the ingots and obl-gaßons and mutual claims of belligerent Slates, and individually specifying what arms may bo legitimately used. They are making a regulation for the treatment of prisoners. There is great distress in America in consequence of the incessant rains since the disappearance of snow. The farmers have been eating seed grain. Many cattle have died. Fears of a famine are entertained. Thirty disguised men entered the gaol at Louisana, took out two murderers, and bung them in accordance with lynch law, Mrs Moyer has boon released from tbc lunatic asylum, A year ago she murdered her husband and three children in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven before herself. Small-pox is very prevalent; it has broken out in an .gsylum containing six hundred patients. At Toronto, ladies’ fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers.

An excursion train, with 700 people, ran off the tracic at T.onisville. Three iictogs were killed and ten injured, and ten whites killed.

Another railway accident has occurred at Syracuse. Thirty people were injured by one car jumping off the track.