ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 885, 2 August 1879, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[new ZEALAND TRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, June 23. The FrCncb Government has determined to require the oath of allegiance from the ttrniy and officers, owing to several generals attending the requiem mass for the PritWe Imperial. ; . July 6. The ariti landlord agitation in the West of Ireland is causing some apprehension. The Chief Secretary for Ireland, replying to a question in thO House of Commons, stated the Government were fUlly awal'e of the necessity of dealing prdriaptly with the.matter. The Rev Do Witt Talmage preached at the Agricultural Halt to two congiegations bf 80,000 people each. His presence is creatibg quite A furore throughout Great 'Britain; The Protestant SchoolbOusO in Mayo, Galway, has been sacked by . 30 persons, who came from a distance. The Bibles were thrown into the sea Government opposed Q’Cbnnor Don’s Irish University Bill, atid r introduced one of tieir own,, drafted by Lord Cairns. The Home Rule u members determined to oppose it, and.the Irish Catholic Hierarchy and .Press delare the .Bill to be maumis-sahle iu it present form., Mr F. i -Reynolds, proprietor of the London Miscellany is d^hd. The will of the late Baron. Rothschild disposes of personality worth £27,000,000 in England. At the funeral of Lord Lawi&nce today in Westminister Abbey Dean Stanley officiated. The site of the grave is near the graves of "Lord Clyde and Pollack. ... The American representatives -at the Cobden Club advocated Free .Trade as beneficial to the United States... A six days’ walking match, at the Agricultural Hall, London, for the Astley Belt and championship, ended bn June 21. Wes tori (American) covered 550 miles, with five minutes to spare.; Brown (Englishman) 2nd, 453 miles. Weston won £SOO from Astley. The belt goes to America •again. Rowell was out of the race, owing to having hurt himself, Paris, July 6. ’ Lesseps has just sighed,s treaty rgm iug him the concession of the lsthrauS, granted by the United States of Colombia. The Dew company will be ,im* mediately constituted with a capital of 40,000,000 francs- In ; st long conversation Lesseps repudiated all intervention on the part bf theGovermpeut, were aUch intended. He said he fully recognised the truth of the’ statement that the United States was entitled to. exercise a large and important influence in the management af the Canal. He declared that the enterprise had rio character of special nationality, but was a private speculation, though universal in its utility. Paris is silently accepted as the centre of operations merely because the French laws are’severe, andoffer great security to shareholders on account of the greater control over the-, administration of funds. Lesseps proposed to offer to give General Grant the position of Honorary President of the company. Two million francs were subscribed in Paris on the first call of the Panama capital stock. M. De Lesseps states that they can now go and obtaip concession from the Columbian Government and begin Work. . ■ • Fererin and De Lesseps lectured at Amiens, and stated that the first:«bd of the Panama Canal would be tinned oU July Ist, 1880; and, with 40,000 navvies, including some Chinese and 15,000 Brazilian negroes, the work should be completed in eight years. New York papers declare that the United States, will never permit Europeans to acquire the control in the inter-oceanic canal across the American Continent. The States are strong enough to force its will against European Powers. The Editor of the Troboulet has been sentenced to six months imprisonment and 200 francs fine for caricaturing President Gevy, and Ministers Fery, Lepere, and M. Gambetta. Simla, Juiy 6. Three employees of the Government Book Depot at Poona have confessed that they caused the recent fires to destroy evidences of defalcations. They have been sentenced to life transportation. The Chinese have retaken Cassaga. A portion of the Mussulman population fled, hut many people were massacred and, large number of citizens are shut up in thecitadel. The inhabitants of Kuldga have determined to fly if the town and province is restored to China by the Russians. Spain is sending out a flotilla to enforce demands for reparation against San Domingo for taking two rebel

generals from the protec 1 ion of (ho Spanish consular flag and murdering them. The New York Times suggests that Spain might take the island. Rojti?. July. 5. Bills haVe been passed, after two months* debate, empowering the Italian Government Id spend ,£2,400,U00 annually on the construction of railways to be completed in 21 years. TheAntonelli will case, on appeal, was decided against the Countess Lambertini, cn the grftund of Vicing the daughter of the late Cardinal’s sacriligeouS child, atid had ndt even the right claim Of parentage. Tax riots have occurred at Cantkinbino,, Sicily, The troops quelled the ■the riots, and 18 rioters were killed, and 60 wounded. 70 arrests were ■"ma'de. , • Bektis, d uly 5. ' Prince Alexandra, of Bulgaria, was the bearer of the letter from the Czar and the Emperor of Germany expressing a desire to become reconciled as for as ecclesiastical affairs were cen cerned with the Pope. It is rumoured that the Government will grant an amnesty to a number ot Catholic priests punished under the Falk law, and permit banish bishops to return to their seeSi A clause of the Tariff Bill, passed yesterday, enables the German- Governtnent to make reprisals against any State which may object to German merchandise or shipping to feel any disadvantage. Bisttiarck has forbidden the circulation in (he Empire of the Stormbell, a Russian revolutionary organ, printed in Geneva. Cojnstantixople, July 28. The rumor that the ex-Sultan, Murad has escaped seSnls, to be corioboroted lay the extraordinary military measures taken and searches made on board ships in. the'Bophorus. HiO Czar presented Bulgaria with a portion of the Russian flotilla on tl/e Banulwt The Russian Commander of Eastern Rduibeli IfrKS ordered to delay the completion of. the evacuation-till the 3rd of July. Another Ministerial crisis is imminent in Russia. According to Odessa papers, the crops in South Russia have been scarcelyever so bad as at present:

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