TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. The riot in Glasgow originated over the O'Connell celebrations, and the combatants were Orangemen and Home Rulers. The mail steamer Boce struck the rocks near the Isle of Man, and was wrecked. The crew and passengers were saved. The clerical party in Italy have had a victory in the recent elections. They have formed an offensive and defensive alliance against the Liberals. An additional hundred thousand dollars of specie have been recovered from th? wreck of the Schiller. A Central Asian despatch reports that a revolution has broken out in Khokand. The Khan has fled, and his forces have joined the insurgents. The electoral excitement in Colombo is likely to lead to war. 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 the doors and windows of the houses of merchants and others, robbing, pillaging, and assassinating, in their fiendish occupation applying torches to the houses, and whatever else their whims proposed. Amidst this the cries " death to foreigners," " death to heretics," were constantly heard. The town remained for three days at the mercy of the assailants. During that time all classes of of crimes were committed, and even those who took refuge in the chiirch were threatened with assassination by the mob. The losses in property will not fall short of one million of dollars. The foreigners in the place have addressed each of their respective Governments, for the purpose of making the Government responsible for it. President Gon doles, of Salvador, has had about fifty of those engaged in the recent fanatical outbreak shot in squads at the towns, between San Miguel and the capital, causing the padres who occasioned the riots to witness the executions. Many of these victims confessed that they were set on by the padres by telling them they might rob the rich provided they gave part to the church. Great sorrow and indignation ia expressed throughout Central America at the events in San Miguel, in which respectable clergymen joined. Mr Gladstone has published another pamphlet discussing the question of the Papacy. He makes a strong attack on the Papacy, from which he predicts further trouble to Great Britain and the Continent, declaring that Papacy will seize the first opportunity through bloodshed to maintain its rule, and if necessary even plunge the world into war.
Fifty mills have been closed at Ashton, England, by which 8000 operatives have been thrown out of employment, und fiftyone mills have been closed at Dundee, and 12,000 persons thrown out of employment. Both employers and operatives have passed resolutions not to yield. The Oldham strike extend to all mills; 20,000 persons will be out of employment. The Pope has written to the Archbishop of Naples anathematising the "Italian National Catholic."
A telegram of the latest date says that all the Turkish regiments in garrison in Roumania and Bulgaria have been ordered to march to Herzogovina. The insurgents have burned some villages and massacred whole Mahomedan families in Herzogovina. At the O'Connell centenary celebration at Dublin forty thousand persons lined the streets. The members of the Fenian Amnesty Association marched with a banner at their head, hung with chains, and flags draped with crape. Lord O'Haghan was to have delivered an oration, but was unable to attend. The Mayor essayed, but was cried down with shouts for " Butt." The Mayor withdrew, under the protection of the police, but other members of Parliament addressed the meetin?. No disturbar.f- , t --w , " ot!i A o<.r~jii was delivered by the late Bishop of Auckland, now Archbishop of Cashel. It was much admired for its eloquence, and was sharply criticised by the Liberal Catholics for drawing a new Ultramontane line, which virtually excludes Liberals from the church. The Dublin Mail says nine of course were devoted to the Church > n d one to O'Connel. A grand banquet was Md in the evening, at which the Lord Mayor prided. The proceedings were marked by no incu^ n t, of interest until one of the regular toasts viz, "Legislative Independence for land," was reached. This the Lord Mayor announced, and called on Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to respond. Sir Gavan Duffy, on rising was greeted with tremendous uproar and shouts for Butt. For twenty minutes there was a scene of wild disorder. The Lord Mayor made repeated attempts to gain a hearing, but in vain, and vacated the chair Dr Butt then rose and began to speak, when the gas was extinguished, and the company dispersed in great confusion before the series of regular toasts were finished.
The inquiry into the latest revolutionary movement in Peru shows that at Areq'iipa the friars of the convent of Our Lady of Mercy were actively concerned in the revolution. Some forty conspirators were captured in the monastery, and the bibhop of the diocese has been appealed to to close rebellious institutions.
According to accounts from Damascus, cholera is raging there. Pour hundred cases are reported daily, but the real numbers are concealed ; the Christian quarters were deserted, and sudden deaths were occurring in the streets. There are no physicians, nor medicines to supply the patients. The disease is also bad at Antioch and. other places, and among the Druses the mission schools have been closed and the children dispersed. A Spanish Government decree is promulgated, ordering a levy of 100,000 men for military service. The levy includes youths who shall be nineteen before the 21st of December next.
The man-of-war Victoria is bombarding the city of Lexiscayon, on the coast of Abyssinia. They are preparing to invade Egypt. The Khedive has sent reinforcements to the border.
Extensive floods are reported in Punjaub, India. Travelling by the railways is interrupted. A lawyer of Hatherleigh, Devonshire, is the winner of the Queen's prize at Wimbledon this year. The Agent-General of Canada is cautioning immigrants against going there in the present state of trade. He says to do so just now is almost criminal, and disastrous to the immigrants and the colony. AMERICA. San Fbancisco, August 17. The Vasco de Gama is the first boat of the new line. She leaves on October 9th. San Francisco papers protest against the dangers of the Fiji and New Zealand coastal service, and also regret the appearance of Mr Hall's name in connection with the new service. They deny that Mr Hall has secured any special concession from the overland railway. Further litigation is probable in the Beecher-Tilton case.
Mr Beccher's publisher has failed, owing to the cessation of the demand for the Christian Union and his Life of Christ. American Centennial Board of Finance, Philadelphia, announce that they require a million dollars more for the building, and appeal to the citizens for aid. Disastrous floods were raging in Indiana at the beginning of August, At Terre Haute the river was swollen to three miles wide, and six million bushels of wheat were reported as drowned out. Seven houses at Reelsville were washed away, and miles of railway embankment and thirty bridges are destroyed. On the Evansville seven bridges were destroyed, and at a large bridge at Reelsville the embankments were washed down in all directions, and in Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois, the railroads were similarly damaged by the flloods. A lynching case is reported from Nashville, Tennessee, on Ist August. The most prominent men in Rutherford became disgusted at the slow process of the trying of Jesse Woodson, accused of murdering Mrs Garrot, and taking forcible possession hung him on the same tree as Joe Copeland and Joe Woods, two notorious ruffians. Measuies are to be 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 originated in the laboratory. COMMERCIAL. New Yobk. Wool is more active. Prices are variable. Sales of Californian spring, 18 cents to 35 cents; Boston sales large; no Australian quoted ; spirits of turpentine, sales 32 cents, and steady ; rosin, no life in the market. San Francisco. The wheat market is weaker, but there is no pressure to realise. Little is offered for less than 2 dols 25 cent 3 ; flour, superfine, 5 dols to 5 dols 50 cents. Liverpool quotations, wheat, 1103 to 1203. The usual amount of barley is offering ; San Francisco brewing, 1 dol 65 cents to 2 dols 80 cents ; wool, choice long, 24 to 27 cents per pound ; good shipping, 16 to 18 ; Oregon salmon, 7 to 8 dols in lbs, 4 dob 50 cents for half lbs ; petroleum, Dovoe's nozzle, 25J cents. SHIPPING. London, July 26. Vessels on the berth for Canterbury Duke of Edinburgh, 1117 tons'; Queen Bee, 726 tons ; Waitaugi, 1128 tons; Langstone, 746 tons. Cleared—Himalaya. Arrived—July 13, Waimate and Pleiades, from Lyttelton ; July 24, Avalanche. The Duke of Edinburgh is appointed to sail on the 4th of August, and the Waitangi on the 21st of August.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 389, 10 September 1875, Page 2
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