ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 652, 16 October 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Yia San Francisco. The following English News we extract trom the Dunedin Daily 1 -Papers The great German Sangerfest was held at Waterloo on the 2nd September. The eruption of Mount Etna shows no signs of abatement. • The inhabitants are fleeing from the villages at the foot of the mountain, but it is thought that no harm will be done, as the direction taken by the lava stream is remote from the cultivated parts of the mountain. The anniversary of the battle of Sedan was celebrated throughout Germany as a general holiday. The Prince of Wales was present at a banquet during the evening. The Czar of Russia has sent special agents to the head quarters of tho Republicans and Carlists, to report on the mili’ tary position of the contending parties. It is reported that an order will soon be issued from Berlin, expelling all foreign priests, monks, and nuns.

A rumor is afloat to the effect that Spain proposes to sell Porto Rico, in the West Indies, to Germany. This has since been contradicted, but not officially. Marshal Bazaine will proceed to England shortly.

Victor Hugo declines an invitation to take part in the Congress at Geneva. He says that peace cannot be established until another war has been ft light between France and Germany. He points to the hatred between'the two countries as declared v.ar between the* principles of Monarchy and Republicanism. The great strike amongst the cotton operatives at Boston has begun. four mills, employing 15,000 persons, have stopped. The Trades’ Unions throughout the manufacturing districts are collecting subscriptions for tho idlers. A letter from the Marquis Dcsafrage, Charge d’Affaires of the Carlists, regarding the shooting of some Republican prisoners inOlothe, says the Republican soldiers had previously shot and bayonetted wounded Carlists lying m the hospital at Olothe. No one regrets the sanguinary character that the war has assumed more than Don Carlos; but, when "the enemy will not respect the ordinary usages of civil warfare, there are no means left for Royalist Generals but retaliation

There are apprehensions of a second year’s Indian famine, owing to tho partial failure of the crops in some districts, but no greater than in ordinary years. The steamship Alexandra has been sunk in the Mersey by a collision with the Spanish steamerj Torres. She has been raised and taken into a dry dock. The Torres has also been docked.

The ship Euxine, on a voyage from Shields to Aden, look fire and was destroyed ;21 of tho crow escaped. Two of her boats arrived at St. Helena after a voyage of one thousand one hundred miles, during which neither boat saw the other ; a third boat, containing the remainder of the crew, has not been heard of.

Five hundred laborers, English agriculturists, saibd for Canada. The German Government is not to interfere with the international affairs of Spain.

A letter from Bazaine reviews the late war between Germany and France. Bazaine complains that he was the victim of the army, and the nation had but two supporters— the Emperor and M- Thiers. He says that he would not have attempted to escape, had Marshal Macmahon seen fit to lessen the severity of his captivity, and considers now, that during his trial he should have employed the same weapons as Macmahon, and shown how the latter was defeated, aud had evacuated Alsace. He was one of the first authors of the army’s disasters. Macmahon was as unfortunate at Sedan as he had been at Metz, as Trochu and Uucrot were in Paris, and as Bourbaki aud Clinchart were in the East, but forgot all this when he became President.

The operations for the Presidential elections are again commencing in New York. The champion swimming race between America and England, for the three miles’ championship and 1000 dollars, was won by Johnson, a Londoner. Scenes of violence and murder have taken place in the south-west States, the “war of races ” being the exciting cause. The details of the Austrian Polar Expedition show that after abandoning the ship the party travelled seven months in sledges, and spent two winters on the ico. Only one died.

The Belfast strike has ended, and 10,000 workmen have gone back to employment at reduced wages. A fearful railway collision has occurred near Norwich. 20 persons were killed and 50 injured.

Arch’s agricultural strike ended in failure and disaster, the farmers getting labor for harvest and leaving strikers unemployed. The Union announces its inability to support them, and many are emigrating.

Outrages are reported at Dundrum, Ireland, agai st the farmers who use agricultural machinery.

An encounter has taken place at Brazil, between the troops and religious fanatics. The troops lost forty men, and were defeated, abandoning the artillery. The well-known dancers, the Zavistowskis, have married and settled down in San Francisco.

Tho Gourlays are at M 'Quire’s, drawing good houses, and are much appreciated. At the recent meeting of the British Association a clear statement of his religious views. In it, he charges religion, especially Christianity, with being inimical to human progress, and does not hesitate to assert his belief that in the nature of things there cannot be any harmony between scieuco and religion, and that if man is to progress, the latter must be sacrificed in tho interests of the former. Ho ignores faith altogether, and in short declares himself a materialist.