NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 998, 13 February 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

;' (Per Submarine Gable.) ■ «<Agre'?.; Specials. DESERTERS FROM THE AUSTRIAN / ■.' ... ■ ; AfcMLv ; BERLIN EXOirED AT RUSSIAN PERFIDY.. THE POPE'S TROUBLES. TURKISH DELEGATION TO VIENNA. TREMENDOUS GALE IN RUSSIA. GOO FISHERMEN 'MISSING.' jr .HOUSES BLOWN/DOWN. IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF: PROPERTY. JEALOUSY BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. THE JEWISH PERSECUTIONS. GREAT SNOWSTORMS IN AMERICA. London, Jan. 31. < A very uneasy feeling exists in the Austrian army, now operating in the insurgent provinces, Many of the troops sympathise strongly with the Slav rising and object to fight against their fellow nationalists. Dalmatians are deserting from the army in large numbers. There is great exoitemont at Berlin owing to the alleged assistance given by Russia to the insurgents in Bosnia, and Herzegovina against the' Austrian Government. ; . h is believed at the- Vatican that negotiations of Prince Bismarck with; the Italian Government to enable the Pope to , remain at Rome are not likely to succeed. .from Turkey has visited. Vienna, and has been received by Count Kalnoki, the Austrian Foreign Minister. The delegates assured him that the relations between the two countries were: most excellent, an* that Turkey had.no suspicion of any hostile designs; on the part ot her neighbor. They altogether disbelieved the designs that had been frequently circulated of Austria .contemplating an advance on Salonica.: The Caspiau sea has been visited by a tremendous gale. At the mouth of the Volga, in the province of Astrakhan the force of the wind did an immense amount of damage. Fishing boats were scattered in all directions, numbers of them being destroyed, many lives were lost. No IeBS than 600 fishermen being repprted aB missing The storm swept over,a large part of Russia, and has wrought great destruction everywhere, Moscow experienced the full force of the gale, and houses were wrecked, blown down, and a vast amount of property destroyed. The insurreotionnry movementofßosnia, Herzegovina, and Dilmatja has produced ■ very sirained relations between Austria and Russia. Austria aoonses Russia of intriguing to stir up a general panslavio movement, the ohjeot of which is to sever from the Austrian sovereignity and form an independent State under Russian protection. ;.!;.',' Sir Michael Costa, eminent composer, and for many years conductor of the 1 Royal Italian Opera at Londou, is dangerously ill, and his medical advisers consider his'recovery douotful. ■' • ' . '< A largely attended meeting was held at , the Mansion House to consider what steps 1 should be taken on behalf of Russian ' Jews, who are treated with every sort of 1 violence and opposition by the populace of Russia. A number of .prominent pub--1 Ho men were present, and on the.motion • of Cardinal Manning and.Canon Farrar a resolution was carried requesting the Go- ' vernment to use its friendly influence with 1 Russia in favor of the persecuted race. t The insurrection whioh recently broke 1 out in the Yemen district, in the outh--1 west of Arahia, is spreading, notwithstand- > ing the defeat which the insurgents lately s sustained. New York has been visited with snow 1 storms almost unparalleled in violence. The Bnow was so deep on the ground that t traffic nf every kincf was altogether impa- ' (led, and business completely suspended.