ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 744, 21 July 1876, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

A Vienna correspondent reports that one of the last decrees, signejl by, the late Sultan, was a secret order for the invasion of Servia, and the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople succeeded in having o ders withdrawn. Prince Hassan, son of tho Khedive of Egypt, has resigned his commission in tho Prussian army, He goes to Egypt, where he will bo made Minister of War.

The Mexican Government has leased tho mines of San Luis, Potosi, Guanagnato, and Jacatecas, to an English Company, for LIOO,OOO per annum. Trade is prostrated, and the Government is unable to pay its employes. A vote for the Duke of Connaught’s establishment, on his marriage with tho Princess Frederica, daughter of the ex-King of Hanover, will be submitted to Parliament this session. The memorandum has been withdrawn. England and the other powers agree upon certain points, among which is one not to exercise undue pressure on the Porte. The Spanish police have discovered two depots of cartridges at San Sebastian. A Paris letter says George Sand died in great pain, which caused her to writhe and shriek.

A torchlight procession has taken place in Dublin in celebration of the escape of Fenian convicts from Australia, and Disraeli was burned in effigy. The King of Dahomey will pay the fine imposed upon him by Commander Hewitt for maltreating British subjects. , An exploring expedition toNorth Western Africa has left England. The main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting the water of the Atlantic to a portion of the desert of Sahara.

Winslow, the Boston forger, has been discharged. A pleasure boat capsized at Eastbourne lately. Twelve people w»re drowned. The cereal crops in the Provinces of Badajos and Cuidadril are entirely destroyed by locusts. ' Over 600 tons of locusts have been burnt with Petroleum in trenches, and 15,000 soldiers have been occupied in destroying them. .

Serious inundations have occurred in Switzerland, caused by heavy rains and melting of snow. In the mountains, the railways were much damaged. The whole canton of Thurger is .submerged. Many bridges and houses have been carried away. Several persons were drowned at Fraufeldt, capital of the Canton, and four inmates of houses were killed by falling walls. Heavy failures have occurred in the United Kingdom. Liabilities of firm of Malcolm and Co., Belfast, Portlaw, and Waterford, Ireland, linen manufacturers, are estimated at L 1,500,000. Johnston, Furie, and Co., yarn merchants, Glasgow, Scotland, liabilities, LBOO.OOO. Gnrlutt, colliery owner, Darlington, L 170,000. The Under Secretary for the Foreign Department announced in the House of Commons that a peremptory demand had been made to the Peruvian Government for the release of the crew of the Talisman ; peaceful relations between the countries to end if the demand were not complied with. A fire broke out in the carpet manufacturing woollen works at Ayr, belonging to James Templeton. The fire, which was caused by friction of machinery, spread to all parts of the building. The operatives were at work at the time, It is he’eived that all the men escaped. A number of women rushed out, there were others ins’de unable to escape. Soon at ter wards the roof fell in. Twenty-four were burned in the ruins and perished. One woman, who leaped from the upper window, was so badly injured that she died soon after being taken to the Hospital. It is repotted that an overseer named' Barr locked the door of the room in which the female operatives were working. Barr himself perished in tbe flames, and it is impossible to learn tbe truth of the report, but as the women had time to escape it is otherwise inexplicable. The works were entirely dcat.oycd. A dispatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Gulwood village on Bombay and Baroda Railway, Of 200 inhabitants, 100 died in three days. Some dynamite stored in a joiner’s shop on Burbank road, Glasgow, exploded, killing six workmen and wrecking several houses.

A Circassian named Hassan, incited, it is believed, by the mother of the late Sultan, attempted the assasiuation of the Ministry who deposed him. He called upon the War Minister who was attending the Council at the Prime Minister's residence. The guards believing him to bo an aide-de-oamp, permitted him to enter. Hassan fired point blank at Hussien Anvi Pasha, Minister of War, with a revolver. While other persons present were pressing forward to seize the assassin, Kasohid Pasha, Minister of Foreign affairs, a servant of Midhat Pasha, named Ahmed Ghab.v, and a soldier were killed, and Kaiser Tepasha, Minister of Marine, and another soldier wounded, Hassan has been executed. AMERICAN NEWS. A fire at St, John’s Canada, destroyed the entire business part of the town, a mile long, six hundred yards wide. Two hundred families are homeless. Many barely escaped with their lives The Indians in Nebraska made a descent on the settlers, killing one hundred within one week. The Protestant Churches in Mexico have been burned by fanatics. 30,000 people daily attend the Centennial Exhibition. The foot and mouth disease amongst hogs in Canada is slaying hundreds. Poole, the celebrated London tailor is dead. The ship M‘Means struck the sands off Winterton and was abandoned by the crow, who landed at Yarmouth. In the meantime the ship got afloat, but tho crew were unable to recover her. The lifeboat succeeded in boarding and saving the ship.

It ia officially announced that the Board of Trade has awarded to Captain Gifford, of the American trader Young Phcenix, a cup, in acknowledgement of his kindness to the survivors of the Strathmore. The sentence of the Court Martial at Salonica, condemning the Governor of that city to one year’s suspension from office, and other Turkish officers to 45 days’ imprisonment, has been sot aside as insufficient on the representation of Franco and Germany. The parties aro to bo tried again at Constantinople. v - A (firo at (Moscow destroyed over 50 houses. No precise particulars of the damage have been received, but the loss is believed to bo enormous.

An explosion of coal gas occurred on board the ship,' Atlanta, laden with*[coal for Hoag Kong, while that vesssl was lying in Perth Docks at Cardiff. Six men were killed and several injured. The vessel was seriously injured. Christian’lKlentz, aged seventeen, murdered Almira Street, also seventeen, the daughter of his employer, residing near Claremont Mills, confessing his crime, was taken to a neighboring tree and hauled up ; but being cut down asked for a gun to shoot himself. It was suggested that he might as well hang himself, when ho immediately climbed the tree, placed the rope around his neck, bade the company good bye, and dropped.'* A fire at Quebec burned 1000 houses, and rendered hundreds homeless.

The Paris correspondent [of the London Times of June 19th, in a letter, reviewing the present attitude of the Eastern question, concludes as follows The Czar yesterday, in taking leave of a lady who wished him a good journey, replied, with undisguised satisfaction : “I hope I shall spend more tranquil days at Sugenheim than those I have passed at Bms.” Such a remark as this is tantamount to a specific promise, and it may be inferred that the European powers are determined to remain spectators of what passes between Turkey and her subjects aud vassals. This does not mean that the pacification of Turkey is an accomplished fact, or that we are on the eve of its being effected. The insurgents do not seem disposed to laydown their arms, nor Montenegro and Servia to abandon their pretension of annexing—one Herzegovina and the other Bosnia—with the consent of Turkey herself; but what is known to-day appears to indicate that none of the European powers will support the insurgents and their neighbors, though none will endeavor to thwart their designs. M aeu insurgents and Porte come face to face, and Europe is seen to become a spectator, this insurrection wilt perhaps finish as it begun—that is, without anybody knowing the reason why. At the present moment everybody, particularly the six Powers, are convinced that peace will not be disturbed beyond the frontierjof Turkey.