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Mr Gladstone has published another pamphlet discussing the question of the Papacy, lie makes a strong attack on the Papacy, from which he predicts future trouble to Grea; Britain and on the Continent, declaring that the Papacy will seize the first opportunity through bloodßhed to maintain its rule, and it necessary even plunge the world into war. J'ifty mills have been closed at Ashton, Eng. land ; 8,000 operatives are thrown out: fiftyone nulls closed at Dundee, and 12,000 persona are thrown out of em ■ •loyment. fcoth employer* and operatives have resolved not to yield. The Oldham strikes extend to all the mills. 20 COO persons will be out of employment. ' The riot in Glasgow originated over the OLoniiell celebrations, and the oombatanU were Orangemen and Home Jlul«rs. An additional hundred thousand dollars of specie has been recovered from the wreck of the bchiller.
A lawyer of Hiithei-Jeigh, Devonshire, is the winner of the Queen's prize at Wimbledon this year.
The Agent-General of Canada is cautioniug immigrants against going tlieie in <he present state of trade. He says to do so ju*t now is almost criminally disastrous to immigrants and the Colony.
n^ t i- lh^!S <mnell c, - nteu "y celebration at Dublin, 40,000 persons lined the streets. Members of the Fenian Amnesty Association marched with a banner at their head hung with chains, and flags draped with crape. Lord Uttnghan was to have delivered an oration, but was unable to attend. The Mayor e sayed to speak, but was cried down with shouts for Mr Kutt. Tho Mayor withdrew under the protection of the police, but the other members of 1 arliament addressed the crowd. No disturbances occurred. A sermon was delivered by Vr Oroke, late Bishop of Auckland, now Archbishop of Cashel. It was much admired for its eloquence, but was sharply criticised by Liberal Catholics for drawing a new I ltramontane line, which virtually excludes the Liberals from the Church. The Dublin 'Mail'Bays nine parts of the discourse were devoted to tho Church, and one to O'Connell. A grand banquet at which the Lord Mayor presided was given at the Exhibition Palace. The evening proceeding? w»re marked by no incident of interest, until one of the regular toasts viz,, "Legislative Independence of Ireland, was reached. This the Lord Mayer announced, and called on Sir Charles Gavan Dufty to respond; but he, on rising, was f ***** r, wlth tremen dous uproar, and shouU for Mr Butt. For twenty minutes there was a scene of wild disorder. The Lord Mayor made repeated attempts to gain a hearing, but iu vain, and vacated the chair. Mr Butt then rose and began to Bpeak, when the gas waß extinguished, and tho company dispersed in great confusion before the sorios of regular toasts was finished.
A Spanish Government decreo is promulgated ordering a levy of 100.000 men for military service. Thi levy includes youths who shall be nineteen years old before the 21st December next. Another decree directs tho Minister of Finance to redeem the floating debt. •he man-of-war Victoria is bombarding the city of Lexiscayon. The Pope has written to the Archbishop of Raples anathematising the ItaUan National Catholic Society. The clerical party in Italy have had a vie tory in the recent elections. They have formed offensive and defensive alliances against the Liberals.
According to an account from Damascus, cholera is raging there. Four hundred oases are reported daily, but the real number is co»cealed. lhe Christian quarters are deserted, fcmiaen deaths wore occurring in the Btreeta, and there are no physicians or medicines to supply the patients. The disease is also bad at Autioch Deerham, Hauia, and Salipb, and among the Druser 'lhe Mission Schools are closed and the children dispersed. Atclcgiam of th« latest date says all the lurkish regiments in garrison in Uoumania and Bulgaria have been ordered tofitoarch to Herzegovina, The insurgents burned some villages, and massacred the whole of the Mahumedan tamilies. The Austrian Government has notified a treaty for the suppression of the insurrection in Herzegovina. A Central Asian despatch reports that a revolution has broken out at Kokowa. The Khan has fled, aud his forces joined the injurgents.
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ti \r j £ AN August 17. The Vasco do Gama is the first boat of the new line, and leaves on October 9. San Francisco papers protest against the dangers of the Fiji and tfew Zealand coastal service, and also regret the appearance of Mr Halls name m connection with the new service. They deny that Air Hall has SuS any special concession from the overlanTS
-urther litigation w probable in the Beecherlilton case. Beecher has failed, owing to a cessation in the demand for the «Chris Sal Union,' and his " Life of Christ." PiJtei m, : rican Central Board of Finance at Philadelphia announce that they require a milion dollars more for the Exhibition building. 1 hey appeal to the citizens for aid I * l^iS™ B^o^ 8 were ra 2 in K in * ndi * at the beginning of August. At Terre Haute the river was swollen to three miles wide. Six million bushels of wheat are reported drowned out. beven houses at Keelsville were washed away, and • miles of railway embankment
and thirty bridges d93troyed. On the Evansville seven bridges were destroyed, and a large bridge at Tteelsville. Embankments were washed down in all directions. In Mississipj i, Missouri, and Illinois tho railroads are similarly damaged by floods. A lynching case is reported from Nashville, Tennessee, on tho Ist August. The most prominent men in Rutherford became disgusted at the slow process of trying Jesse Woodson, accused of murdering Mrs Carrot, and, taking forcible possession, hung him on the same tree as Joo Copeland and Joe Woods, two notorious ruffians. When taken down seventeen shots were found in his body. Measures are to bo taken to punish the members of the mob. A fatal explosion occurred at Bridesburg arsenal, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of August. The building was blown to atoms, and several lives were lost. The scene of the accident is near the mouth of the Delaware. The explosion eriginated in a laboratory. An inquiry into the latest revolutionary movement iu Peru shows that the Arequipa friavs of the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy were actively concerned in a revolution. Soma forty conspirators were captured in a monastery, and the Bishop of the diocese has been appealed to to close the rebellious institutions.
A massacre has occurred at San Miguel. Panama telegrams regarding it state that after the barracks had been taken nothing was heard but the savage yells of the assailants dispersing in all directions, breaking open doors and windows of houses of merchants and others, robbing, pillaging, and assassinating in a fiendish manner ; applying torches to houses, and whatever else their victims possessed; and amidst this tho cry "Death to foreigners," "Death to heretics," was constantly heard. The town remained for three days at the mercy of the assailants. During that time all sorts of crimes were committed, and even thoso who took refuge in the church were threatened with assassination by the mob. The losses in property will not fall short of one million of dollars. Foreigners in the place addressed their respective Governments for the purpose of making the Government responsible for it. President Gondoles, of Salvadero, had about fifty of those engaged in the recent fanatical outbreak shot in squads at towns between San Miguel and the capital, causing the padres who occasioned the riets to witness the executions. Many of these victims confessed that they were set on by the padres telling them they might rob the rich, provided they gave part to the church. Great sorrow and indignation is expressed throughout Central America at the events in San Miguel; in which respectable clergymen joined.
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Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 2
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