ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 851, 9 August 1878, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

At the supper to Vera Sas.sulatch at Geneva all the speeches were of a violent character. The' municipal authorities of the Canton are uneasy at the presence of Miss Sassulatch, and have intimated to her that her early departure would he agreeable to them. She arrived at Geneva in disguise only two days ago. She related an extraordinary story respecting her adventures after her acquittal at St. Petersburg upon the charge of shooting General Trepoff, the Perfect Police, in the riot which followed her acquittal. She says she was seized hy some secret agents of the police, who were disguised as medical students, and who persnaked her that they were her ftiends. They hurried her through an unfrequented passage-way to a carriage that was standing near, and she was driven with them to a house in a suburb of St. Petersburg, where she found herself detained in a sort of honorable confinement. 'At length it was intimated to her that she was to he transported to Siberia, but some informant told her that for certain considerations, which she consented to give, he would arrange for for her escape. She was provided with the attire of a Sister of Charity, and with pacers showing that she was authorised to visit a parish on a mission. With these aids she managed to eioas the Russian frontier and to find her way to Geneva, and her arrival there was made known hy ccr tain Russian exiles and caused some excitement.

Advices from Bosnia report that there are 40 000 Turkish troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 20,000 between Novi Bazar and Pristina. The Austrian army nf occupation will muster 141,000, owing to the hostile attitude of both Provinces, but no military resistance is anticipated.

Instructions from the Porte to Turkish plenipotentiaries in Congress authorise the latter to consent to the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria on condition that tho duration of the occupation should be previously determined ; the strength nf the army of occupation to ho fixed, and tho occupation to be confined to certain limits. The Congress unanimously adopted the proposals of the Fraereh plenipotentiaries that Europe should refuse to recognise the independence of Servia unless the Servian Jews were relieved from their present disabilities. Tho bam of Little York Mumningy Company’s mill, in Nevada County, caught Cue about midnight on June 2G. The flames spread and soon communicated with the powder-house, containing 14,0001h of dynamite, which blew tip with terrible force, completely demolishing the company’s offices, and shaking severely tour mills. Tlie shock made everything on Dutch Flat rattle, and the explosion was felt for a distance of three miles. Thirteen dwellings an i one boarding-house were burned ; six horses killed. The company’s barn was fired at both ends, apparently by incendiarism.

The German Government, with a view' to the repression «t social democracy, intend to enforce a more rigid application of the passport regulation, and simultaneously a strict enforcement of the'law relative to the Press and to public meetings. A woman and two men have been sentenced to imprisonment for treasonable utterances against the Emperor—the woman to four years, one of the men to two years, and the other to eighteen months.

The explorations in the Woodpit colliery, after the explosion, revealed sickening sights. The bodies of many of the poor fellows were found lying clustered together. Carts were kept employed all day conveying bodies from the pit to the shed, where they wore washed and coffins provided. During the interval between laying out of bodies and the arrival of the carts with another load, the relatives and friends of the deceased were admitted to the shod for the purpose of identifying the bodies. Tins was not so difficult a task in many cases as with those previously recovered, for some of the m'en were hardly disfigured. The explorers came across bodies of nineteen men in one of the slants all close together. These poor fellows had evidently hoard the explosion or felt the “suck,” and bad immediately left their working-places to run for the pit, Ac.; but being overcome by the afterdamp had fallen and died. It is said that had these men managed to travel a short distance further they would, in all,probability', have been saved. From eight o’clock this morning to four o’clock this afternoon (June 23) fifty bodies have been got out cf the pit.

The Duka of Cambridge reviewed the European and Native troops at Malta, numbering 30,009, and expressed great satisfaction at tbo appearance of the Indiana. An archdeacon lias been charged at Bowstreet with having swindled people in Jamaica to the'tune of HO,OOO by bogus drafts on England. ’ At the sitting of the Congress on June 28, Prince Gortsohakoff,(who had to be carried into the council-room, "and who spoke with effort and in a trembling Voice)’said that the remarks he was about to make were prompted by a love of truth and fur his country. ~ His colleagues had granted concessions in the name of Russia far snroass ing what she thought of making. He was far too well aware of the feeling which actuated his colleagues to raise objections to the concessions they had derided it to be their duty to make. He wished to state that Russia made f he sacrifices from a desire for peace, and that she had no narrow or selfish aim to servo. Lord Beacon*field followed with a speech in which ho expressed admiration at Prince' Gortschakoff’s sentiments, and acknowledged, in the name of the Congress, that a desire for peace actuated Russia, and he hoped that the same sentiment would', continue. This was Prince GortschakolT a last appearance at the

.Congress. ... . „ "" ; Vera Zatoulitsch, at a, supper'given in her honor at Geneva, at which she sat at the right of Henri Rochfort, made a speech in which she said thqt. she had given herself up, body and son!, tp the cause of Revolution, and that in her opinion its triumph was not far distant. . The Russian pcnp’e she said are fast becoming undeceived. The Wood that, had been, shed in the late war was the last that wo.n7dhe.shcd in combats instigated by the ambition of princes; The next combat would- bo that of people against kings. . • Some politicians believe that Prince Bismarck’s advocacy of the Austrian occupation of Bosnia.aiid Herzegovina is part of a vast political programme according to which Austria becomes a great Sclavonic power and leaves her provinces to Germany. The inhabitants of B-itoura telegraphed to Mr Layard asking for the protection of England, and declaring that they were resolved to hoist the British flag and open lire o:i the Russians.

The Emperor of Morocco is fiend. Ivussia has paid Sorvia L 120,000, Icing the balance of the promised war subsidy. Spain went into mourning over the death of the Queen Mercedes. She was about to become a mother, ami died in the arms of the king.

During an interview between Ooi tsohakoff Junl Bismarck, a large Danish dog belonging to the latter flew at the Bnssian Minister’s throat. Gortsehakoff was rescued with some difficulty. It appears that Bismarck stamped his font impatiently vhilo talking, and the dog mistook this for a signal that his master was in danger.

It is asserted that the Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to abdicate, leaving the management of affairs to England, if the civil list and his "sou’s succession was assumed. The otl'or was declined, and the Khedive revoked It.

The Russians recently requested tho British Consul at Doivig to billet some soldiers, and in consequence of his refusal threatened to tear down the British 11a". Minister Layard instructed the consulate to confine himself to a protest. It is rumored that Princess Thyra of Denmark will marry' Urn Prince Imperial, and Princess Beatrice the new Duka of Cumberland i