DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 392, 14 September 1875, Page 4

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

The news from Spain is confirmatory as to the defeats which the Carlists have sustained. It is officially announced that the Royal troops captured at Cantavieja two guns 504 shells, 1166 muskets, 62,000 cartridges, 600 sheep, a quantity of military engineering material, and a manufactory or a'ms. It is also officially announced that General Arrando routed Saballs in the recent engagement wear La Junquero. TheOarlists, it is stated, were driven from all their positions, and lost three guus. The Carlist account of the affair has been given by General Saballs, who, telegraphing on the Bth, says ;—“ La Junquera, garrisoned by 2500 of rny forces, was attacked by 6000 or the enemy. We resisted the attack for six hours. 1 decided to withdraw from want of munitions. We took 400 prisoners. Our losses are insignificant.” The Madrid Official Gazette says that a panic prevails at Bstella, where the news has hitherto been kept secret of .the Carlist defeats, and that the artillery is being removed. It is also stated that Dorregaray is hemmed in near Huesca, and that he will be completely surrounded upon the arrival of'General Martinez Campos. The Spanish ambassador at Paris, the Marquis de Molins, has been urging upon the French Government that it should double its precautions on the points of the frontier where it is supposed that Dorregaray will endeavour to pass in order to enter Navarre. The Spanish ambassador also asks that all Carlist soldiers who may follow Dorregaray shall either be driven back into Spain or be interned in France. It was reported on Wednesday that Dorregaray had entered French territory, but a later despatch from Bayonne says that he has been unable to do so, and has returned in the direction of Barbastro. The despatch adds that a portion of his rear-guard, composed of 172 men, including six officers, was compelled to take refuge in France near Gavarnie, where they were at once disarmed. They will be interned in France. Troops have been sent from Pau to watch the frontier. A Madrid telegram, dated Thursday, says “It is announced that General Quesada, after having fortified the Nanclares railway station and the villages of Yallareal and Penacerrada and the line of communication between Vitoria and Logrono, will resume the offensive against the Carlists. Advices from the theatre of war published here allege that Carlist soldiers and Carlist officers of various grades are everywhere surrendering to the Royal authorities. The Pope is asserted to have refused to grant the request of the Carlist Junta of Guernica (Biscay) for his benediction. ’* A letter from Pera in the Allgemcine Zeitung says that there is now no doubt that the epidemic which has broken out at Hama, in Syria, is Asiatic cholera, and that it originated in the military hospital there. This proves, as was shown once before in the epidemic of 1871, that the old theory of Asiatic cholera being always introduced into Asia Minor by persons coming from India is incorrect. The disease has also made its appearance in Damascus and other parts of Syria. The International Sanitary Commis sion has found it impracticable, owing to the customs of the population and topographical reasons, to block up the streets where cholera is prevalent, but all goods sent from the Syrian harbors to Constantinople and other Turkish towns are examined by the sanitary authorities on arrival. A report from Dr Padovani, the sanitary inspector of the province of Bagdad, dated the 16th of June, says that the plague is rapidly disappearing ; in Nedjef there had been no new case during the whole of the preceding week, and the increasing heat of the weather will doubtless put a speedy end to the epidemic. The correspondent adds that the new postal organisation of the Turkish Government will probably be abandoned, as the Porte seems to have supposed that the foreign post-offices at Constantinople made large profits, whereas it has now discovered to its surprise that they are only kept up by their respective Governments at considerable expense. Moreover, the Turkish Government has no officials capable of undertaking the duty, and no steamers to convey the mails. The negotiations entered into with the Austrian Lloyd could not lead to any result, as the Porte offered a smaller subvention to the company than it receives from the Austro-Hungarian Government, besides which the Government demanded the establishment of five new lines of steamers. The Porte now wishes to contract a loan for the Azizie Company, in order to fulfil by means of its steamers the duties prescribed by the Berne Convention ; but this plan does not seem any more promising than the other. The Azizie Company consists of but one shareholder,’the Sultan, who bought all its shares when it was on the verge of extinctipn. Since then all the gross receipts have been credited to the civil list, while the arsenal has to bear all the expenses of salaries and offices. The history of the Azizie is nothing but a series of blunders and misfortunes, and it would be a rash step, indeed (concludea the correspondent), to entrust the postal communication of the Turkish Empire with Europe to such a company. The heavy and incessant rain of the past few days has been followed by floods in various parts of the kingdom, attended not only by a vast amount of damage to property, but by loss of life. In Devon and Cornwall many of the valleys are several feet deep in water ; and in the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, business is suspended owing to the inundations, and it is feared that some lives have been lost. In Monmouthshire, at a place called Cwm Cam, a small village about ten miles from Newport, a reserve pond for supplying a canal has burst its banks, swept with impetuosity down through the neighbouring valley, and drowned no fewer than thirteen persons. The water has risen to such a height in some of the streets of Monmouth that in the lower part of the town boats have been called into requisition for the purpose of getting through the thoroughfares. Last night the rain was still falling in torrents, and the Wye and the Usk were rapidly rising. From many other counties similar accounts have been received. It is now believed that the total loss of fife as the result of the floods in the South pf France does not exceed 600. The total loss of property is estimated at 100,000,000 fr At Glos and Lisieux, in Calvados, the rapid rising of the river Toucques has caused some loss of life and great damage to property. Seven persons have been di owned, many houses have fallen, and two bridges have been carried away. The villages and country round-were completely submerged, and of course the crops are destroyed. The subscriptions raised by Mdme de MacMahon and the Jwmw/ now amount to 3,597 ; 227fr,

1c is said that Colonel Burgess Hunt, a public official of Lexington, Kentucky, recently refused a bribe of 14,000 dollars a month, offered by the “ crooked ” whisky distillers, for his influence in protecting them from prosecution. The Russian Government are contemplating the foundation of a University in Siberia. Dr Radlof, the Berlin scholar, who spent so many years in Western Siberia studying the languages of the country, which he was the first to make known, will, it is believed, be the first rector.