NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3429, 18 December 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(P*a i.i. Cira of Srovir at Av|k« LAKD.) *' :i

• Loito»x, Horpmbn 99tk* it The French Amtmiudor to &«rmaay has received a full explanation frt»a Bifraarclc, relitive, to tfc», AMti9-G«rmanie alliance, which* was net iliM^aguait France,

The Ex-Empress Eugenic JSsiwd'-A" Paris on November 3S, en\iprteJM. Spain. She kept strictly private. The Government sanctioned her pretense through, representations, of the, English Embassy^ ■ '" .•: < >J= iriilrT The conservatives of the Spanish Cortes baring joined the > planter deputies <W. oppo«e emancipation of slaves., The Premier Campos intends making emandpatioa and colonial free trade bills, a nuaMte4ial< : question. It is understood that LbfaVPeasaaee's order.under which Bcr M aeFnSja ■]»*«**■ first condemned was irregular;* Oae J of the Bishop of' London's euwplata's appeared at 8t Albaas, Hqlbofa.oa Kswemher 23rd with written mstructibas to perform service. The: perpetual curate presented him with* taaa)eaV<settiag forth* the reasons why he' could not reedgnise Lord Pensanees Cowt. The Bishop's Chaplain withdrew, .and. MacKonaehe proceeded' with tlieV' service. 'This raised the question of jurisdiction. A terrific explosion... of gaa ocourred iv the tunnel of the narrow ffuage railroad at Santa Cruz Mountains, California/and resulted in killing over' thirty Coinaiuea working within, and frightfully D«raiaf some fifteen or twenty more besides two white, men. < The tunnel is now .2,700 feet long; without ventilating shafts. light months ago an explosion took place in the same tannel killing five and wounding thirteen men; and in 1 July Je¥t tile, gas burned fiercely for a, fortnight in th« tunnel. These accidents are caused by escape of petroleum gal from the fisrarot produced by blasting the range Ma? fall * of rock oil. " - - '- ' ■ '■'* --: Labouchere, editor of Loadoa Truth, bus been expelled from the Beefsteak Club by a majority ;«€, one; the ,?•••, being 77 to 76. Labottchere Jus.ODta^ed a., writ from the Master of theßollsiMJoining the dub not to expel him. Aoeom* „ panying the writ was a notiM ,oi pa^am to reconsider the vote. • . - - Mr Farwood, ex-Mayor of London, has reeeired a letter threatening him with, death if he speaks igainit the.Triihat any public meeting. -W*l. At the Ouildhall Police Court, da Tuesday, Edward Erpggatt, aolieitor, wboaa connection with the turf frauds will bo remembered, was brought up on a ehirn of misappropriating to his own us*..the.* sum of £8000, which had been eatruttod to him as trustee under a marriafe settlement. The case for the prosecution. was completed, and the prisoMr waa fbrmally remanded until the 13th'iast. The reriral of trade in Enslaad is general, bat the rerenue deficiency is said to gire Mr Gladstone an opportanity of attacking the fiaaaclal policy of ttio Go> Ternment, for which he is pnaarmg a ' great speech. The Colonial Office, replying to a memorial against the" exdasion of mis* sionaries from Zulnland, has promised to inform Sir. Garaet Wolseley that it is desirable that any interference with missionary operations should be avoided. ' Lord Derby has reeeired a hint to withdraw his name from the Carttoa Olnbii- ,'." . --■ . ' j' 1 ';".. . ■ f'Lady Goocb, wife of Sir Francis Gioeh. :; well known in connection with the attempt,'■■' to aalm off>; a spurious ishildoa he has- ' ba"d, is dead. -,; -, A. grand dinner was gireaosi Bswisy fortnight at the Ministry of Fsreia% Affairs in Paris, ia hoaoar of Mr Glad* ■toae.