GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 240, 9 October 1874, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Pilgrims arrived at Pontignyon the 2nd September. Ihe party n ambers 313, including Archbishop Manning, Earl Gainsborough, and other members of the nobility. A great German saugerfest was held at Waterloo on the 2nd September. , The eruption of Mount Ktna shows no signs of abatement, and the inhabitants are fleeing from the villages at the foot of the mountain, but it is thought that no harm will be done, as the direction taken by the lav* stream is remote from the cultivated parts of the mountain. . The anniversary of Sedan was observed throughout Germany as a holiday. The Prince of Wales was present at the banquet in the evening. ' Bnssiahaaaeot special agents to the Republican and Carlist head-quarters to report on the military positions of the contending parties. It is reported that a-i ord«r will soon be issued at Berlin txpelling from Ptuosia all foreigapriestß, monks, and nuns. There is a rumor that Spain proposed lo sell Porto Rico, in the West Indies, to Geimany. This has since been contradicted, but not officially. Bazsine proceeds to England shortly. Victor Hugo has declined an invitation to the Peace Congress at Geneva. He says that ptace omnot be established until another war has taken p!ae between France and Germany, and points to the hatred between the two countries. War, he believes, will bs declared between the principles of monarchy and republicanism. ;/ ./.There is a great strike amou? the cotton operatives at Bolton, and four mills employing 13,000 persons have stopped. The trade unions throughout the manufacturing districts are collecting subscriptions for those who are idle. A letter from the ' Marquis of Desafrange the Charge d'Affiires of the Cariists, regarding the. shooting of gome Republican prisoners, raya* thatithe fiepublican soldiers had previously shot and bayoneted Cariists who were wounoed and lying in the hospitals at Olotiie,. No one regretted the sanguinary character the war had assumed more than Don Carlos, but when the enemy would not respect the ordinary usages of civil warfare, no mtana were left for the Royalist Generate but retaliation. AH apprehensions of a second year's Indian

famine are endefl.. There is a piTthl failure of the ci ops in some districts, bat not greater than in. ordinary years. The newspapers ia Paris publish an official despatch ; acknowledging that the Royalists fired on the German gunboats Albatross and Naotihis. - The 'despatch declares that 'the vessels were endeavoring to effect the landing of armed men under th© pretext of exercising the crews, and in conclusion says that the Carliats will exact respect for Spanish territory and resist the bravado with which the German Government have endorsed the act of the gunboats. The steamship Alexandria has been sunk in the Mersey by a collision with the Spanish steamer Torres. . She has been raised and tiken into the dry dock. She had only ballast on board. The Torres has also been docked. The ship Euxine, on the voyage from Shields to Aden, took fire and was destroyed. Twenty-one of the crew escaped in two boats, and arrived at St Helena after a voyage of 1 100 mileV during which neither boat saw the other; . The third boat, containing the remainder of the crew, has not been heard of. Five hundred laborers belonging to the English -Agricultural -Union have, sailed for Canada.' ! ". \ - ■ ' ' ••• % '-■ r> .i- -- The German GovernmehtwiHj&ot)uiter.lere with the internal affairs of Spain. A letter from Bazaine reviews the Me war between Germany arid France. He complains that he was the victim of the army, and that •the nation had but two supporters, ,-namely, the Emperor and Thiers. He says lie would not have attempted to escape had Macmahon seen fit to lessen the severity of his captivity. He considers now that, during the trial, he should have employed the same weapons as Macmahon, and shown how the latter was and had evacuated Alsace, and was io^erof the ;i ftrst authors of the army's disasters. Macmahon was as unfortunate at Sedan as he (Bazaine) was at Metz, as Trochu, Ducros were in Paris,' and as Bourbaki was in the East, but he forgot all this when he became President. \