DENMARK.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3567, 2 June 1880, Page 2

DENMARK.

Professer Nordenskjold, the Arctic explorer, arrived a u Copenhagen on April 16. He Lad a brilliant reception. Tne Danish Geographical Society gate him a banquet, and he after wards, dined

with the Km g and was feted by the Bourse and the Associated Btudenti. 20,000 people witnessed the arrival of the \ega. TURKEY. The Porte owes her army contractors £1,000,000 for rations, and they threaten to stop supplies unless paid. There is no money in the treasury. Mesopotamia and Kurdistan are sufier* ing from famine, and large numbers of starving Christiana are crowding to Bagdad for relief. Mr Whittaker, of the Levant Herald, has been imprisoned for eighteen months because he published a new number of his journal, notwithstanding its recent suppression. ifnglish officers in the Turkish gensdarmerie have been informed that their con* tracts will be renewed if they will consent to 45 per cent, reduction of salary. AUSTRO-HUNGARY. Distress is increasing in Hungary, and the Magyars are emigrating to the Untted States by the thousand. SPAIN. The Queen's pregnancy is officially declared. There were public rejoicings in consequence, and amnesty for all Press offences. CHINA. The situation is very threatening. The future of all business is unsettled and in a critical state, owing to uneasiness by affairs-at Pekin and the probaOlTfty of a war with Russia. Englishmen are advised from Pekin to look after themselves, and prepare for any emergency. BURMAH. Reports are contradictory. Some say King Thebau is dead, and Prince Tbeomalua has succeeded him ; others, that he is still suffering from some dangerous disease, and attempts are being made to stop it by sacrificing virgins. BRITISH INDIA. General Stewart has defeated (on the 12th nit.) Mooshki Alum's army, and virtually closed the campaign. The visitors had taken possession of Ghuzni. The submarine telegraph cable from Singapore to the Philiippiae Islands is laid. , CANADA. Sir Joha Mac Donald denies that there is a scheme afoot to establish a Canadian army reserve of 10,000 men, liable to serve not only in the Dominion, but in England and abroad, in ease of necessity. Gold' watches have been sent by the Queen to the aide-de-camp and groom who assisted the Princess Louise at the time of her late sleighing accident in Quebec.

American meat cattle ere prohibited to be imported from the United States. Swine are admitted by a later order. JAMAICA, Yellow fever is increasing ad Colen (Aspinwall). The Liberal success in England gate great satisfaction to the Jamaicans.