LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4048, 16 February 1876, Page 2

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

The Pacific Mail stealer Granada, which left - San Francisco <<n January 9, brings the follow* ' inglate telegrams:■»- ;,• ~ ,--.'t. ..ii ( ; .''.,„ ■■.■. I'ONDON, January fl.. The British steamer Dante, from Liverpool f<* Bombay .while going, down St (jeorye's Channel on December. 31, came into collision > with the ship Grau a aver, ,aad sank- shortly ;♦ aft-r. Thirty persons were drowned. '. The new Fugitive Slave Circular issued'by ' the British Admiralty causee.alm st as much dissatisfaction as the first one. ' The Times' •Morning Poet,' *J>aily r News? and •*Sta& ;y dard,'. all condemn it, and the Antl-SkverV ' Society of Birmingham and theliiberal'Associationhave protested against it Ihe Wtter.. stigmatises the circular as opposed to human * freedom and English feeling, and as disgraceful to the'vaiion. > ■ • r rr >' lhe Times' statesjthat the amount of bullion deposited in the Bank of England dating the past year on balance was the largest ever recoided. ~■■,'.' , ;The Fa<fcead Flour-mills at Wappxng were destroyed by fire on th« 2nd The loss is -estimated at L60,0p0 One fireman was Jtillea and' * several i'ljuted. Eighteen buildings adjacent to the mills Were badly damag-d. . ;; ! ' The Bishop of Gi essen and Posen, who was recently con viotei of violation of the German' Ecclesiastical laws and condemned to si* months' imprisonment, has been arrested and ; sent to prison to serve out* his term of bentence. •■..-...• ; Rumors are afloat of negotiations between Germany and Belgium, which are supposes to '; indicate preparation for the absorbtioa of the ' latter by the former • i.ir,.r : • Prussian officers, it is said, have been taking ' military noted along the Swiss frontier. •".;* -r ; The members of the Home Eule party in the';< Commons h»V4 resolved to snpportMr Butt** Land 'Bin", the basis of which i* fixity of tentt'e : and fair rent. ■;(■. r. -.<> ; Rectntly forty-two tons of fresh meat were sold in a few days at SmltbfieJd market. The meat had been shipped from New YorkifoJ'vi L ventool, « n d thence by rail to London. : MrTEharles «uthws. cottonßpnner. atrOld ham, hns ;aileifor Lt,000,000;, ! ;_," ■ British vessels are wrned to keep'off the S t anfch obeSt X&Hosem* batteries, lhe shore, fire at anything appearing. " ' Sever.l officers anAioldwrehave been shotat B %r h S, f< *. c ,' t ark*. The Grand Vlsiectrf Turkey ha« requested ™ 8 JPope to use his good <ffi(.es with the Catholic insurgent* in Herzegovina; with a view to peace lhe Pope has directed inquiries to be made, •<■[-., : KiDg "Victor Emmanuel, in his, New Year's speVch, mention- d the possibility of events Itf < Europe that would require the 00-operation of thelt^ian army. •• -- . ";\<... - , .A Ministerial crisis is impendinjr in Vienna, ;; The Hcnrarians'wißh to establish*'feation»|> baiik; with power to'iss'ue notes, Husy'* trian Ministers oppose it, Hijd threaten "to re- T sign. The f«e!insr' at Vienna 1b ' very 'bitrSr' ; • Ail the journals declare that a complettfiN!«."'•• natijn of Austria and Hungary in preferablfe'tb " a cbhipl\an(!ewl"hHun^arv ¥ Bdemkndfbr^rorbed >r ciieolation of Wes'itf Austria; and * thebattkruptoy whichwooldinevitablyeittle. ' . ' :"'' .' ■■■en v'■ J,!-, rr.,, •. (( . i ; AMEBitCAN SITftIMABY. < • ' I;; '. '■'" !^ r SAN'KRAite)bi Jkimary'i 11 '' 1 L T L? 2*9 the r ftonV* and tteieby save a tttgeeum »%e lVwiury.

The war of rac<a conlmroyin Mississippi. On the 10th ult. a conflict took place near Vlckburg betwefn 300 blacks and •76 whites MBulting in s'x of the former being killed. Ab i American war ve sel has bem ordered to the African coast to protect Liberia (colonised by slaves from the United States) from the in--1,0 at' tlle natives of th « interior. A Japanese war vessel, the Trukuba! arrived at San Francisco on the 14th December, afterSi passage of thirty-seven davs from Tokio. It Isapiacticetripforthe native cad ts, tbhtyBlx of Wuom are on board. The vessel carriei twelve guns, and has engines of 200 horsepower.

At a recent meeting of the Plymouth Church Mr Beecher expressed a desire to re-open the whole investigation of 1874. • he band of deiperadots known as the Molly Maguires, thai has made life and property fn th« Pennsylvania coal regions so long insecure was formally excommunicated on the 21st D cember, by the Catholic Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia.

, A hoirible massacre is reported to have occurred near Atok t. F-rar persons, two of whom were women, were found on the prai ie, shot to de ith, _ and burned beyond recognition. The prairie had been fired after ihe murder to destroy the tra hj A fatal explosion of a gas main occurred in South Boston on the 22nd December, tearing up th* pavement for 150 ft or more. Ihe street was thronged with p ople at the time, and were buried under the debris. Seven persons were killed. Fresh beef is now beta? shipped to Europe from Philndelph a successfully. The last shipment reached Liverpool in very good condition. MrE. L Patterson, Kepobir-an member of the Legislature, from Natchitoches, Louisiana, wns shut and instantly kifiVd on the 26tu by MrCosgrove, edtorof the 'DemociaticVindicator,' of the same p'ace, The Rev. Henry Bcehm, over 100 years <f age. ani probably at the time of his death the oldest clegymm in the world, died at Richmond, Statin Island, N. Y., on the 29th December.

Joseph Bo<k, utytreisurer of Buffalo, New York, is in default between 300 000 dollars and 400,000 dollars. He has fled int6 Canad i. On the 17th December, about 1,000 unemployed peopl-y mnsily French Canadians, as enabled in fr nt of the Montreal City Hall, cryinr: out, •' We sire suffering, and want food." They cleared out the oontento of a waggon, and made short work •with several D«rreb of beer. Toe Mayor, in a speech, counselled moderation, but it was no* until a lively fight hid taken place between the mob and the p lice, in which several persons were injured, that the crowd disposed. Theie is a great deal of miser/ and destitution among the poorer cl-wes.