GREYILLE’S LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2285, 2 September 1870, Page 2

GREYILLE’S LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

A whirlwind has carried away eighty houses in Transylvania. Up to this time 200 bodies have been found in the fields, and fourteen in the river at Shartsburg. In one week 12,000 immigrants landed at New York from Europe. France had on the 31st December, 1860, among her ironclads of first rank, seventeen ships and frigates, also, eight ironclad corvettes. At present are being built, five ironclad frigates, the Friedland, the Richelieu, the Suffren, the Colbert, and the Trident ; also two corvettes, the Galissonniere and the Victorious. These men-of-war arc said to be very fine models. It is asserted that the monthlj financial report in the House of Representatives at Washington will show a reduction in the debt of eleven million dollars. In Prussia, the number of recruits for the contingent of 1870 is 95,540, or more than in France. On the 6th of June, died at Dorpat, the famous Russian navigator and Polar explorer Admiral Baron Wrangel. Bandits have again attempted to kidnap two English officers near Gibraltar, but were frustrated in their attempt by the fortunate and timely arrival of Spanish guards. A frightful accident occurred in the city of Leon (Nicaragua), when several persons were fatally poisoned through a chemist having, by mistake, mixed up with his medicine arsenic i-stead of some other drug. A dreadful fire raged in a quarter of tho city of Bremen, whereby a great number of houses and warehouses were destroyed. The lower house at the Hague has adopted, by forty-eight against thiety, the Bill for the abolition of capital punishment. The revenue by sale of tob cco in France last year has amounted to 248,000,000f , L 2,920,000 sterling. The Parisians alone have consumed, either in smoking, chewing, or snuff-taking, 40,000,000f., say L 1,600,000 sterling.