NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1730, 3 September 1875, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

FEARFUL S™*||^ HAi [L LrKE France has not been aione in suffering oerils of waters Tremendous storms have I desolated the neighbourhood of Buda-Postr in Hungary, the crops being complete]>; costrovcdL and many houses battered in and i ; tpn4fc?' killed or buried alms by the b «j, | which fell ia stones like walnuts and ; the violence of cannon balls. Wheh J v~\ | that subscriptions are opened for the Wtn.ja- i rian sufferers and for those who are in/.r Minor enduring a famine which t.arer v.-. o ( j depopulate certain districts and country without inb.nbit.ants, it *i«: I o sn i that ther^ is plenty Tor the ban^.;.:, •~: , with their money, and thuftthe gfcws w '..c~ j li-h sympathy are nob fast oica*. <- j -hink vian we heard afterwa *« f one fee | recent Indian famine has mac," people o, little | more suspicious of first accounts ; there U*j j much temptation to special eprtftspssdoivs uo ! malw a harrowing tale; so tnnch sndnr • ncr to magistrates fco win r«?n?artnn £«' i^w reward by letting it bo fcnov™ how Jc oicaUy they have met a, ens' ■ ■ ••, h •--•-.•.< -- •:•'■</ themselves helped to ■ :«;tfge» 5«, THS .TERRIBLE I i^'.;-!»,^ 00D------i"" sTRAKCi-: *k? .'v>vf ' The terrib^ llc.:-..ur;> iv.^ r::>at-»; a^ i< ra:r ■* | continue to avr-t "'' Br££ : sympathy V. v;. '• , ,-':" ' ■ , i,he^,^. ... uo.^ulj i-H ;d d its iW«^ with mcit^ ; '->- "!1;:-;' ■;;l. ); ; u,,^:' ' *,*--..»' f . •;., ;.;-;f- ■.--'■'.'/:■.•- on.i? of naauy -On<s j .'..,"- -:-" ,7iif r, .o-Vm&a'fj van,, wKjug. ■'.>: OTiwa !»y t);a Oprocne ut ilriiHsr .: - *~:■ .^u->(; -'-'Vf /; Toulouse, nr.;s:,<*\\ ~:v . rj; T'Xt> cempF.n.," Inh&bitmg it l*a,<i_n.oti v ., ; .'. .~- ;a -, 2 frrrr. SKc?r i.tfn?i"ar-.'; :-;' ' ■--'• i - onfoi'ciirßtf :.v»t<".h«iog efiairica :c fcfce ! -"■!„ v,«... hr-'-':afe.> altriofit into r v pa!p. All "■, ,»"t.rara" were r.towrflri. w^ hi V».?.skets, '■p":--.v. ' with tp.rpa«:iu, wbicii served, aa ; /^y, 'j..- .i,/, rirownftd players, and ••:a*:ri e. ,-,-j :4-t. and gaady "ia' the mitlr-ti of j r« wrcoi-ed" objefitr? n«apbd a'ooat.iot trapsI nr^'i^oion <;o v o mayoralLy A lifcfcle gir], I ;-ut.-pnss<i- if, nave be«a a dancer, bad not i v/Ksfcen :W""- -3Cfi on going !>en 5 and ohe i verdillicn \7*,r; brig'afc, rk ;i baked in fast | colours upon b« ghantlj- cbsek. Eem.ale I "iacf; r. pair y'r.vt;iHcial legs, uo wb?.cu Lsr .:e-j<; were%'tra^pci, tt^s in her tineelI n .-iwn xxiC •"'cc/zH o r, erift-.: n cctton vcl^ei, ! Khe end bVr h^hacd had probably sat up i Iftt-.. and 773 re aaly thicidng of divft-tinß I thsßSseiw.- r»" their SiiCfy wben a wave swept I over the plain, and ::c Lr-s -.'ecoil draw them. ; i;/(/> th?i central current. CHE-BURIAL OTSCUSSIOtt. -.. th&v step lias been taken in the " earth " ; isci 3aion. Yoar readers will have Keen, prohs-Wv Mr Seymour Haden's pebHs'iicd l-s.tt-«v*~, urging a more genuine oom!:rlt«ai &t tio body at death to the earth, and ,2 &b: u;i :< neni; of f:he foolish efforts to keep |v ;. .;ra decomposition. The directors of the I': fokinp Cemetery announce that they are t v -iircd to bury upon this plan, and further I to conduct funerals without the intervention ! :i the undertaker. SEW BOOKS. Mr. 'Darwin's ne^ book on "Insectivorous Plants" has appeared. It is published by Murray at 1 5s. Not only has Mr. Tennyson's new drama excited general attention, but it i<r to be put f;n the niage in the autumn. Thr- othstr night Mr. Henry Irving, who has achioved the rsrr^.rkable fpat of playing Kamlat 500 nights with unbroken success, came forward' to announce that " Macbfith " -would follow, and that in "Qneen Mary" he f.onUl also sustain & principal part. Mr. i Gladfetoua'a article in the Contemporary on the qudcfcio-.—" Is the Church of England worth preserving ?*' ia rather severely dealt with by the critics ; one of whom says that the only real question is—"ls the Church 6/ Engr land worth preserving by William Ewnt Gladstone ?" RUSSIAN ENCROACHMENTS. A Berlin correspondent says the whole policy consists now in conjectures, and indeed many and rao^t fantastical plans are started. In the fir3fc place it was the possibility of an Anglo-Russian alliance which kept the wh^le Pre?B in considerable excitement. The Central-Asiatic question, wb:cl" up to the present time Iwd been little thought of, bag all of a pndden acqw' ed great importance for all European diplomatic iiransacfcionß. The prr»ca<»'tmc;a of Rusaa iv Central Asia sincr 1840 have led to the conquest of Turkirteft anri the occupation of Khiva, and bf.:; secured the comraunfeationa to the sonr.b.-'wertt of Cbraa The B«a----sian Power h&s gone ou spreading out tarfcherand farther, ao thrvt at this only a few hundred.-miles sepacata .the empire of && Czar from the Britisli-Indian property. Buspw, of i>OTir?e, protest,its unwillingasfa to go beyond the territory of o Jgbaßietan, but England knows hhs-fc tiseve is uo rp.'ying on sucb promise!!, Iv.&ss>:a \ aa3, sifter the Freneh-Csrman vr&r, broken I the Treaty of Paris, has enlarged its navy on the Black S?-a. and hais coaott3re4 5 *v&, i from "whicTi it hue. promised vc dv- t bsck roe army. Snglaua is therofoys saite ;usti •-.: in its mistrust. li&ssia, oi'cocr^R, ~r-aktc; conquer tb2S• n?ist?aßfe, .-u-'l ;rcir '~Vc ■::..- i c | the question of r ; ,n .alh'p.".;.ce b^ts?<;ea .the Swo j ,'^rsfrtP^we c isay r.vcenprcrgL IntlzeEr-pthli | Pre&s tkiF subject ban 'ov^cfi S Te?s' coc1- jeebpr j fcioa, and t^ie Kaes1 bn.s fitecsl; aomplefely : refected it. Gu-j these jqarnala which I- working against Qa'rmsny adopted tiie idea • T/f.th pleasure, aa they .^p.v? in*it tthe means I fco destroy the three Enapsrbrs J..allirvD.ce v A \ great; anaiber of art;iclesl were . published j For ana v^s-mst line, tnafcter-s withoat l bringing to light any new facts ; «nd ao j decision in tbe Central Asiatic question i 3 to ! be expected shortly; A longtime may elapse before it will fee solved satisfactorily for all parfeiss, "Perhaps .thi«i questior: and tkat of the BoEpliorHS will come, .iso their Snal solution. a« the sara©- moment.