NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3189, 9 May 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(from the home news.)

FOREIGN MEMOBATOA.

Count Schouvaloff has entirely failed io procure the support, of Prince Bismarck lo his scheme of-a Supplementary CodDue de- Feltre, a Bonapafifct Deputy, is about to mariy* Mdlle. ae Cambaceres, daughter of Comte de Cainbaceres. The Khedire of Egypt has aounded the British and French" Governments as to .what arrangements might be made with, him in case of resignation in (avoir of hit ■on. „ . t , ...... Numbers of Socialists are being arrested in Austria, where hquse-to'house visitations are being made,"and confiscations of Socialistic,pamphlets wherever the/ are found. ' x» ■ •'<■-• ,/ The King of Sweden has undertaken to act : as mediator ia the negotiations which are pending been Prussia and Denmark relating to the., settlement of the North Schleswig question. . A . memorial tablet to. Keats has just been unreiled in Borne.' Sir Vincent Eyre,. Sir Augustus, Paget, and about a hundred English, Americans, and Germans, were present. Prince Bismarck called upon Lord and Lady Dufferin the day after their arrival in Berlin at their hotel, and invited them to a dinner at his official residence. The betrothal of Princess Marie Ame'lie, daughter of the Comte de Paris, to King Alfonso, is announced. ,_ The Princess was born in September, 1865. ~ The- Austrian Government. has ds> structed its. representatives, abroad \to support tfce arguments a~hd complaint! put forward by Lord Salisbury in his despatch recently made public. -. General Loris Melikoff has telegraphed to the Russian Governments that, in consequence of the favourable result of the inspection of the inhabitants of Waitlianka by the Physicians, the quarantine I'there has been raised. \ ~ A Eeuter's telegram from Gibraltar states that typhus fever is still ,very r prevalent in Morocco, and .was racing at Mogador; . The" Italian . consul fit,that place had sucoumbed to the dispaje^tie Frenchi consul beiag alsodaogerpialj^ . Very,, alarming, reports, Jiava rbeea re* ceived at Copenhagen with regard to the state of the Danish islands in-the SWeit Indies. - The negros are on strike all over the islands, and a fresh general insurrection is feared. r' v <~ ■« ? '« Advices from St. Petersburg received in Berlin state that General Kaufmann, seeing.the utter failure of the Russian policy in Afghanistan, has tendered his resignatian. Accounts at St. Petersburgh confirm the report that .the Russian*! ace moving upon Merv. f *'■' "• • *"3*j-.' Khereddine Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier, has intimated to M. de Tecquevillethat if the SO.OOO.OCQf., diftalUfo first-installment of "the advance'matle to the Porte, are npt ( paid within four days, the proposed convention wilLbe nullified. Communications from" * Constantinople that^he Ottoman- .Government is beginning to Bestow considerable attention on.affairs in Egypt, and there ip much talk,.of f the probable overthrow,of the Khedive at an early date, . ' * ' The Government of Switzerland have signified their intention of appointing a commission with the view of furthering the] efforts of Swiss manufacturers who may propose to exhibit at the forthcoming Melbourne Exhibition of 1880. ■' \; The strongest denials continue to come from St. Petersburg as to 'the "alleged royal quarrel, and 4s confidently stated that the Czar and the Heir Apparent are united in the opinion that no steps are to bo taken in Constitutional reform daring the present reign. * '< ■ "-. -. ' ■ Beouf Pasha and General TodWben have agreed that General'Skobeleff shall remain at Adrianople with a small Russian force for some time, in order to eo-6p4rate with the Turkish authorities in the maintenance of order. ' ' iWi ti'.VL Tlie Goloi publishes a statement br the week s mortality in St. Petersburg; aeoor. ding to which typhus is also prevalent, and there have been two fatal cases of Siberian -plague. >• ,-.-;-- ■,*---- Intelligence received from Cracow announces that seventeen arrests have been made in that city in connection with the seizure of a secret Socialist printing press at Kieff and the armed resista*e made to the police and gendarmes on that i occasion. ■-}* --The' Pope is' underitoolOb have decided that the foreign episcopate shall be largely represented in the Sacred College, and in conformity with this decision it is expected that seven of the ten cardinals to be created at the approaching Consistory 1 will'be" foreign prelates. v r T :■■; jr f n General Todleben has left Adriano§le. Before leaving, the General was presented r w;th an address by a deputation repre'setting; the Turkish, Gr^ek,-Bulgarian, Israelite, and Armenian inhabitants of the city. The address requested the General" to express to the Emperor the unbounded gratitude of the inhabitants for the generous protection afforded to-thenJbj.the Russian authorities, and the/eqtatible <aad friendly conduct of the Russian troops during their stay, at Adrianople. Her Majesty, the Queen has been graciously pleased to give directions for the issue of a Royal Commission, of whioh 7His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has consented to be the executive president; in" furtherance of the International about to be held in Sydney during the autumn of this'year, and in Melbourne in 1880. 'c ' l!j nv:'

"If all the world were blind, what a melancholy sight it would be!" laid «q Irish clergyman.