MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4737, 13 March 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

At a banquet of leading members of the scientific press, De Lesseps slat .i that the scheme for creating"a'sea in the desert of Sahara would shortly be realised. Roduaire, the French hydo&rapher, wn# conceived the project of cutting through the sand* dunes which separate the Mediterranean from the desert in order to transform the arid sands into a fertile eoufetrjr, is about •to start from Tinis with a firman from the Sultan to begin operations. In Spain, Ganovas del Castillo is doing his best to provoke * revolution.- He has snubbed the Catalonian protectionists, has prohibited .Republican dinners, which have been allowed for the last five year*. *nd has sanctioned the imprisonment forcight ye mri S of editolPa?f mildly critioat articles. Jhe news, up to January 27, suggests greater boldness and cleverness by the Nihilist murderers than even the first accounts. The chief Miasma of Colonel Sudeikin obtained bis Uagthy report oa the organisation by enticing away his wiFe, ami one page of the great deteetire's man,usoript left has led to several arrests oi hitherto, unsuspected persons. Tb* Czar .is makjipg persistent attempts, to conciliate the nabi'ity. Despatohos from Pekih, Febrwiry 15, says't-wTbrpedoes have been placed in the »iver here. If Bacninh is attacked tha memb rs of the French Embassy will receive their passports. The approaches ta Bacninh are guarded by dynamite. The n©vrs from Mesico is sanguinary. Fort; prospectors, among whom were a number of. Californiaus were murdered, on the 29ta. January near the Dolores mining district, of Pinoi Alto*. Their bodies w*>re hor.ibly mangled. An assassin of the Gnitcta stamp made two attempts, on the same date, to kill Gove*» mv Terrasus, of Chihuahua. The assas* 1 sins who murdered, the American mine owner nea Guadalu|» y Calve, have been apprehended, and will b« executed.