ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1455, 15 October 1878, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[Per Arawata via Bluff. London, August 30. The paper mills of Messrs Bagshaw, Norwich, have been destroyed by fire, also a portion of the Great Eastern Co.’s railway works at Ipswich. In a terrible fire at Birmingham four persons perished, and at Pimlico there has been a great timber fire. The want of cordiality in the relations between MacMahon and his Ministers has given rise to rumors that the President will resign in the autumn. The Marshal refused to attend the service at Notre Dame on the anniversary of the death of Thiers. MacMahon has signed eighty pardons and commutations of sentence for persons compromised during the Commune. At Bcme an International Conference is deliberating on measures for the destruction of phylloxera vastatrix. The pest is committing great ravages among the vines in the noith of Portugal. Violent shocks of earthquake were felt last Monday morning at several towns in the Rnino Valley, and in Belgium, at Karmen, a house had the roof displaced, the furniture was shaken, and shop goods overthrown. The late Queen Christina will be buried in the Escurial with Royal honors. Villirino, leader of a late rising in Estremadura, has been tried by courtmartial aud_ sentenced to life imprisonment. The other insurgents have been condemned to various periods of imprisonment. The silver wedding of the King and Queen of Belgium has been celebrated with great festivities. All the European Governments were represented. Lord Torrington delivered to the Queen autograph letters from Queen Victoria, with the ladies’ order of the Star of India. The fete extended over several days. During the past three months 563 persons have been prosecuted for insulting the German Emperor, of whom 521 have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Cardinal Pranchi is believed to have been poisoned in drinking a glass of sherbet. His successor has had several suspicious attacks of illness. .. , _ In the Austrian occupation ot Bosnia, on August 21st. General Joursuivick’s division, after severe lighting, relieved the garrison shut up in i-'tolac. On the 2ord the insurgents attacked Gilleptery’s division in its position on the Bosnia River, but after nine hours’ fighting they were driyenoff Afterwards they attacked the Austrian centre, but were effectually repulsed. They incessantly assailed and barrassed the Austrians. The losses incurred by the Austrian army have excited groat exasperation in Hungary, and the press indulges in loud upbraiding of the Government,