ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1818, 18 December 1879, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ban Domingo advices to Bth November state that a fight occurred between the forces of President Guillermo and the revolutionists at St. Pedro. Guillermo was dielodged from his position and had to retreat to the capital. The revolutionists advanced, and were besieging the capital. Mr Gladstone commences the election campaign at Edinburgh, on November 24th. The “ Standard’s ” despatch from Theyetemeyo, Burmah, says a serious affray occurred on the 13th, at Mergyon, on board a steamer, between the crew and a number of Burmese coolies, in which six persons were wounded. The insurgents were again defeated Cuba. In a gale on Lake Ontario, on November 17th, twelve small vessels sank and thirty, one persons were drowned, Other wrecks, with loss of life, are reported along the Atlantic coast. The Russian Press allege that neither the Government nor the people want war, the bad financial system of the Empire enjoining peace, but every day convinces them that a great struggle is impending. Winter has set in very severely in the Eastern and North-western States. Two men of questionable character have been lynched by the vigilantes at Deadvdle, numbering 700. The thieves and bad characters have also enrolled, numbering 750, and threaten to avenge their comrades’ death. They also warned persons suspected of participating in the hanging to leave the town or they would burn it down. This would be an easy task, the place being built of wood with insufficient water facilities. Navigation of the St. Lawrence to Montreal closed on November 22nd for steam boats. Meetings held in England sympathising with the Irish political prisoners were not very enthusiastic, except at Birmingham, where 20,000 persons attended. The prisoners were before the magistrates at Sligo on Nov. 24th. Reporters only were present. It is rumored at Berlin that the British, jointly with Persia, will occupy Herat next spring. Prince Napoleon is surrounding himself by a complete diplomatic court, putting on the airs of a pretender. There is a great improvement in coal and other industries in England. At the Guildhall Police Court, Edward Eroggatt, solicitor, whose connection with turf frauds will be remembered, was brought up on a charge of misappropriating to his own use £BO,OOO, which had been entrusted to him as trustee under a marriage settlement. One hundred thousand copies of| a proscribed publication are reported to have been discovered in Moscow. The pamphlets had counterfeit permissions of the censor. The famine in Upper Silesia is [assuming alarming proportions. A Copenhagen despatch reports that the police arrested a student upon a charge of writing to the Queen of Sweden demanding 20,000 crowns, and threatening in case of refusal to assassinate the Crown Prince of Sweden. In consequenoe of the menacing attitude of Abyssinia towards Egypt, the British gunboat Sea Gull has been ordered to Mocha, to protect the property of British subjects.

The St. Petersburgh “ Gazette” is for--bidden in the streets of towns in Germany, on account of several articles entitled “German women,” which are full of insults to the German nation. The French revenue for the two months of the present year ending October exceeds the estimates by 123,000,000 franc*. The Austrian budget produced a bad impression, the deficit being nearly double the amount stated. The Finance Minister being unable to cover the deficit by increased taxes ■ had recourse to loans. Prince Bismarck has requested the Eussian Government to withdraw the force of 20,000 cavalry from Poland, on the borders of German territory. Eussian officers on leave of absence have been ordered to rejoin their regiments immediately. Letters from Constantinople confirm the ' reports of the extremity of the distress in financial matters. The pilgrimage to Mecca, which has hitherto been provisioned at the expense of the Government, is unable to get any assistance—an event which never before occurred since the establishment of the Ottoman empire. The Zorussia sailed from Liverpool on the 20th November, for New Orleans, with sixtyfive farmers and families, bound for Texas, mostly from Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Durham, with a few from Scotland and Ireland. Alexo Pasha visited Constantinople, and promises to report there annually on the condition of Eastern Eoumelia. He abolished the gymnastic soeiotioi in the province. Political riots in Italy resulted in several deaths. The French Government has sanctioned a lottery of 200,000 francs, arranged by a committeo of journalists for the benefit of sufferers by floods in Murcia. Considerable alarm is felt in Belgium at the fortifications which have been begun at Dunkirk, Lille, Mareberg, and Valenciennes. The Danish War Minister is expected to resign, having said in public that Germany would seize the first opportunity to occupy Denmark. The German Minister of War has ordered a rosurvey of the Baltic coaet, to see if further fortifications are needed Preparations continue to be pushed forward in India with undiminished vigour. Thenewly undertaken railroad is open for engines nearly to Jellalabad, and is being constructed at the rate of over a mile per day. A large number of cars and a quantity of war material are being shipped at Bombay for Hurrachen. It has been finally settled that the railroad from Queltah shall be extended to Kandahar. The Viceroy of India telegraphs that an expedition has started for Gbuznee, wherethere are malcontents, stirred up by the Mollahs. The investigation into the massacre of theBritish legation continues. Forty Afghans have been hanged for complicity. The enquiry into the Ameer’s conduct in relation theretoprogresses. It has been discovered that on the night before the battle of Charasick ho was visited in his tent by Nall Mahomed, who commanded the enemy next day. Yakoob Khan is now practically a prisoner. All hi* attendants, except four, have been dismissed,, and a sentry is constantly on duty inside hisquarters, while a strong guard is posted outside. Terrible hurricanes and storms have been felt in the North-eastern and Western States of America, the damage being great. At Lawrence, in Kansas, on November 12th, the river rose four feet in two hours, carrying away the northern pontoon of the temporaryrailway bridge across the river. The hurricane struck the bridge, and blew throe spans of 160 feet into the river. The Peace Commission, to arrange terms with the hostile Indians, has failed, and as. Indian war in Colorado next spring is bable. Twenty-five whites have been killed and eighteen wounded by Apaches in New Mexico. This band of Indians raided New Mexico, and after slaughtering people therefled to Mexico, pursued by the whites. General Grant was struck in the face with an egg at the public reception in his own Stateof Illinois. A severe storm in San Francisco on November Bth did considerable damage to the shipping. The Eepublicans were nearly everywheresuccessful at the fall elections. They swept the States of New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Mississippi, and Virginia. Adelaide Neilson, on completing her San Francisco engagement, goes to Australia. An engine and passenger train, with 162 people about were precipitated in the Hackensack river, the drawbridge having been left open by the keeper. The loss of life wae small, but many were seriouslv wounded. Two freight trains collided during a fog on the Pennsylvania City road, wrecking the oil cases, which caught fire. A tank exploded and did damage to a considerable extent. The line was blocked till the oil burnt out. Another freight train on the same line broke in two going up a steep grade, and twentyfour cars were destroyed, and the brakesman killed. A New York express train jumped off the track near Poughkeepsie Eiver, and went into the stream. Many passengers were injured. All these accidents occurred the same day. Seven children were burned to death in a candy factory, Kansas City, through an explosion of starch. Chicago pork packers have struck for higher wages, and many have been shut out in consequence. Mr Farroon, ex-Mayor of London, has received a letter threatening him with death if he speaks againet the Irish at any public meeting. Advices from Scotland apparently afford ground for the belief that the American demand for iron has temporarily stopped shipment from Scotland to all other parte of the world. The revival of trade in England is general, but the reveuuejjdefioiency is said to give Mr Gladstone an opportunity of attacking the financial policy of Government, for which he is preparing a great speech. Alderman Nottag a and other representatives ef the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company have begun proceedings against the Lord Mayor for slander, growing out of a scene in. the Lord Mayor’s Court recently, wherein" a bookseller was summoned for exposing photographs complained of as objectionable. An accident occurred at Dewsbury on the night of 18th November on the occasion of Sergeant Simon addressing his constituents in the Skating Eink. Two persons are dead, one is dying and thirty or forty more are injured, nearly twenty seriously so. The cotton millers of Oldham have resolved to discontinue the short-time movement. Baldwin Buckstone, the famous comedian, is dead, aged 77. Charles Tomlinson, of the suspended firm of Tomlinson and Ce., Liverpool, pleaded guilty to two charges of felony, in obtaining £IO,OOO on cotton already hypothecated, and forging two acceptances of £4OOO each. Ho was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. At a Guy Fawkes’ riot in Exeter, the troops were called out, the Biot Act read, and rifles loaded with ball. The police quelled the riot by the use of clubs, under caver of the military demonstration. Lord Derby has received a hint to withdraw his name from the Carlton Club. Lady G. Gooch, wife of Sir Franeis Gooch, well-known in connection with the attempt to palm off a spurious child on her husband, is dead. The Preston cotton trade continues to improve. The mills are resuming, and new machinery is constantly arriving. The spinning mills at Kirkcaldy, in Scotland, have begun work on full time, after operating on short time for two years. The linen trade has also improved so much that all power loom manufactories are in full motion, which has not been the case for three years. The Shrewsbury Cup was won by rooh. Bight horses ran. An explosion of fire damp in the Stout Heaths Colliery, Wolverhampton, caused the death of six men. Heavy gales took place on November 12tfa, at Scarboro’, Liverpool, Kirkwall, and Dundee, causing damage to the shipping. The widow of Charles Dickens died at Gloucester crescent, Eegent’s Park, after an illness of eighteen months. Winter has sent in all over the northeastern part of Europe. Snow is deep in Berlin. It was wet and snowing in London and throughout .the United Kingdom for several days before November 23rd. At the Lord Mayor’s show the crowd vigorously hissed the cx-Lord Mayor along the entire route. The former confederate cruiser Shenandoah was sunk off the Island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean. The date of the disaster U unknown. Most of the crew were drowned. The Shenandoah belonged to the Saltan of Zanzibar.

The Irish agitation has attained alarming proportions. Seventeen warrants are reported to have boon issued for seditious language, including five clergymen. The garrisons of Westport, Clare, Castlereagh, Belfast, and other places have been strongly reinforced, and Constabulary are under arms day and night. The nows of the arrest of the three agitators. Davit t, Keillor, and Daly, caused great excitement in Ireland, and among the large Irish population of Dundee, who had been addressed by them. The English Press, except the “Daily News,” approves, and the Irish Press is divided in opinion. Many Irish landlords are leaving the country through fear. Three additional regiments are under orders to proceed to Ireland, A new source of apprehension concerning the military has arisen. A large proportion of the soldiers about to be sent to Ireland are Irish, and hints are thrown out that if they are ordered to fire upon their countrymen they will refuse to obey. In the barraeks of these regiments the Home Buie and Nationalist journals of Ireland are frequently seen, and emissaries from Ireland are frequent visitors to the soldiers- A despatch from Pittsville, Ponnyeylvania, dated Nov. 22nd says, “ There will be a general turning out of the Irish Nationalists throughout the State to morrow.” At a recent meeting of Nationalists at Mahoney City it was resolved to take [up the cause of Davitt, Keiller, and Daly. In nearly every village, town, and city in the coal and iron country, are lodges of Irish Nationalists or branches of the Banian confederacy, and meetings o f organisations have been called. The leading officers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians say that hundreds of members are anxious to get to Canada to invade the British possessions, in retaliation for the arrest and imprisonment of the three advocates of Ireland’s liberty. The British Government’s arrangements for watching the Berdan movement in America are very perfect. The mystery ns to what has been done with the todies of Major Oavagnari and his companions it not yet solved. The Manchester “ Guardian’s ” London correspondent believes that papers were found in Oabul compromising the Kussian foreign office. Lord Beaconsfield is urged to publish the documents, but declines. A Oabul telegram of Nov. 20th says the inquiry into the conduct of the Ameer, Yakoob Khan, and his Ministers, in connection with the massacre of the British Embassy, has terminated, and the report of the Commission of enquiry has been forwarded to the Viceroy. Nothing has transpired to alter the unfavorable opinion hitherto current regarding the Ameer’s course of action. The first number of “Aurora,” a daily paper planned and issued by the Vatican, will appear on Jan. Ist, as a more authoritative exponent of the Pope’s views than the existing clerical papers. Marshal Oanrobert having been elected to the Brench Senate against a Bepublioan candidate, resigns his connection with the Brench army. Henri Martini has been elected a member of the French Academy, in the room of M. Thiers. Prince Gortschakoff’s retirement from the Bussian Chancellorship was not unexpected by foreign diplomatists. It was known that he would resign as soon as the Gorman intrigues against him ceased. French influence at the Court of Eussia has shelved Count Sohouvaloff. Prince Gortschakoff is suffering from mental depression, and there is little hope of bis recovery, Baton Dombriel, Bussian Ambassador to Germany, has been summoned to St. Petersburgh to explain the relations of Eussia and Germany. The Moscow Volunteer Cruiser Committee has called a meeting to discuss the ways and means for raising subscriptions in continuation of the cruiser policy, in view of Eussia’s relations with England,