VIA CABLE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1111, 30 September 1873, Page 2

VIA C ABLE.

LONDON

September 18. The Judges and jurymen in the trial of the Claimant of the Tichbornc estates have been anonymously threatened with assassination if the Claimant is sentenced. The Judges have forbidden him to attend public meetings.

The steamship Great Eastern has failed to repair the Atlantic cable of 18G5,

A despatch lias been received at the Admiralty, under date the 20th August, stating that the town of Bamas, on the West Coast af Africa, has been destroyed through the inhabitants treacherously firing upon an exploring party, several of whom were wounded, including Commodore J, E. Counrill, C.8., severely. The Times correspondent at the Gold Coast describes the affair as a serious disaster. The enormous mortality amongst the English troops has been of great advantage to the Ashantees, by lessening the numbers opposed to them. In several boats filled with men endeavoring to effect a landing on the coast, not a single man escaped unwounded. Colonel Sir Gardct Wolseley intends to construct a wide road and railway to the Ashantee capital. The Duke of Edinburgh has gone to Livonia to meet the members of the Russian Imperial family. AMERICA. Advices from New York report another serious conflagration at Chicago. Yellow fever is raging in Louisiana. FRANCE. One hundred and twenty deaths occurred in Paris from cholera last week. The last German soldier quitted France on the 18th instant. By the arrival at Paris of the British traveller Stornes, the public have learned that at the commencement of July Dr Livingstone was alive and well.