NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2706, 19 October 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The English journals discuss the success of Chinese labor in America in relation to the recent strikes in England. The newspapers comment savagely upon the many disasters which have recently befa'len the British ships of war. It is reported that the entire shipbuilding of the port of Hull is transferred to a company whose leading officers are Messrs Spencer, Robinson, and Naval Contractor Reed.

The following are the two principal conditions of the treaty made between Russia and Prussia at Versailles, early this year: Should Austria be involved in a war by intervention or otherwise, Russia will act with the Germans, furnishing a specified number of troops and ships. The contracting powers were to make peace only on the following terms : —Austria was to renounce in favor of Germany all Bohemia Moravia, Silesia, and the Duchy of Salsburg. Austria was to renounce in favor of Russia the pro viuces of Gallacia and Dalmatia. When these changes became accomplished facts, Russia was to cede to Germany five towns and harbors on the Baltic Sea and part of Courland. Prussia was to regard the Treaty of Paris as null ; to pledge herself to armed participation in conquests in the the East with a force equal to Russia, and to subsequent partition of the conquered te:* ntory. Prussia was fooled as was France in 1866. A Madrid letter contains information that an imprisoned Republican, named Jose Lopez, has hinted in a handbill, which has been placarded, that the ass issination of General Prim was effected by the Duke Montpensier, who is charged with being a party to the negotiation had with a company of desperadoes called a secret society, and whose object was understood to be to putting Prim out of the way and placing Montpeusicr on the throne of Spain. A short time subsequent to the killing of Piim, one of the men connected with the society, named Jauraga, complained to Montpensier that all that the society had agreed to do was done, but what his aide-de-camp had agreed to do was not done. The latest foreign mails have further intelligence of the progress of the cholera in Russia. In some places the proportion of deaths continues very high. At Boresolegbsk, a town of 12,000 inhabitants, for a short time 150 persons died every day. In one village in Veronesh, 70 persons have died out of a population of 200. At Novgorod one cate proves fatal every day. In some places the people are panic-stricken, and do nothing but look upon the scourge as a Divine presentment, to which they are about to submit. Everywhere there is a want of medical aid. In the district of Navakoperski there is only one doctor for a population of 50,000 inhabitants. He has visited patients who are forty or fifty ipiles from each other. In St. Petersburg the number of cases has c-msidcrably diminished. The correspondent of the London Times, August 27th, rcfvring to, the intrigues of Gambetta for political ascendency, says that he has been surreptitiously stirring up the country to agitate and petition for the immediate dissolution of the National Assembly. The effect of this agitation all through the country seems t<» have pricked the conscience of Faidlpcrbe, anil he tendered his resignation. A significant feature of -this is that itistha first step towards the resignation of the whole extreme left en masse, for it is thus that they hope to force the chamber to dissolution. This stop gained, their project is for Gambetta and Faidherbe to come forward as candidates in all the eighty-six departments in France and claim the Presidency and Vice-Prcsidency of the Republic on the strength of (being elected in a majority of them. A hand of brigands who were imprisoned by the Papal Government in 1824 were liberated in August last .by the Italian Government. Only seven out of thirty-six of the original number survived their captivity of 47 years. A correspondence of a London paper, writing from >hiraz under date June 23rd, says “ The famine in Persia may now he said to have almost come to an end, but the distress caused by it will continue for a long time. The price of bread has fallen considerably, but all the property of the poorer classes, excepting only necessary clothing, has long since been sold or exchanged for bread, and it is but too evident that starvation will be the fate of a great many more. On the road from Bushire to Shiraz one can see at many places half-interred bodies. At a caravansary, about thirty miles from Shir iz, many people it is stated two hundred —died of starvation in a week. Kazeroon, a town eighty miles from Shiraz, is half depopulated ; many of its inhabitants went to Shiraz, Bushire, or other large towns. Great numbers died on the roads, on the highways crowds of beggars in the last stages of destitution waylay travellers. Sanguinary lights, often resulting in the loss of life, take place over the carcasses of mules donkeys, or horses, which died on the road. Robberies witl( violence are frequent. At Ycjed and Kermau the famine raged more than anywhere else. In a letter dated Yezed, April, it was stated that corpses, had been resorted to for food, and in many cases children have been killed aud devoured by parents.