ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 26 February 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

[Per Garonne.] Numerous accideuts have taken place near iiy. About 50 persona were immersed in

the river, and six persona were drowned, but the saddest disaster of the kind happened in a rural district in Prance, where a crowd of 500 children sliding in a deep pond were engalphed, and 48 perished. A project has been set on Jfoot in Ireland to present the Duke of Connaught with a huuting box furnished aud ready for occupation. Late accounts confirm the terrible 1093 of life by the collision between the English steamer Renardo and the French steamer Byzantine in the Dardanelles on the 18th instant, when the latter was sunk. About 2SO persons were rescued, but fully 150 perished. Cardinal Asquini, the favorite companion of the late L'ope, died last Sunday, aged 87. Cardinal Ferriere succeeds him as Secretary of Briefs. All the great offices of the Vatican are now held by the liberal school of Cardinals. The lunatic Madden, charged with having threatened to kill the Queen and change the Government, has been committed for trial. John Duucaiit aged 00, who was tor many year* Secretary of the Greenock Guaranteed Hallway, and who pleaded guilty to the charge of fabricating a fictitious statement to the value of upwards of .416,000 was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Trades Union has approved of emigration to New Zealand. COO locked out, men are to be sent out at once aud the public has been invited to assist the movement. The Russian Government is treating with great severity thosii Mahomtnedan Caucasians who joined the insurrectionary movement at Daghestra duriug the war, many are banished for life to Siberia. Their deportation excited riots which the Russians suppressed. The Macedonian insurgent although defeated at several points are reported to be rallying their forces for further action. Their resources in men, arms, and provisions arc derived mainly from Bulgaria. A Mahommedan Mufti, who headed the Bosniaus at the battle of Dobeyantuga has warned the authorities of Scrafl.es that he is collecting a force of 4000 men to inflict vengeance on the Musselmen who have sub - mitted to the A?istrian rule.