GENERAL ENGLISH AMD FOREIGN SUMMARY.

Press, Volume XXVI, Issue 3391, 17 July 1876, Page 2

GENERAL ENGLISH AMD FOREIGN SUMMARY.

All the liberals of the Btfqae provinces, ia Spain, whog supported Alfonso, will be exempt from conscription, the remainder of the population will be liable to militia duty the same as the other Spaniards. Mr Scbofield, member of the Houee of Comnaons for Pembrokeshire, is dead. A Vienna correspondent reports that one

of the last decrees signed by the late Bultan was a secret crder for the invasion of SerTia, aud the Austrian ambassador at Constantinople Bucceeded in having theord<ra withdrawn. Prince Hassan, son of the Khedive of Egypt, resigns hie commission in the Prussian army. He goes to Egypt, where he will be made Minuter of War. The Porte has promulgated full amnesty to all insurgents, who lay down their arms, and renew allegiance to the Turkish government during the next cix weeks of the armistice. The Bassian ambassador baa complained to the government of Anetria of the unmeasnred attacks upon Russia, published in certain newspapers, principally those of Hungary. TLe Mexican government has leased tee mines of San Louie Potosi, Guanaxinato and Sacatecas, to an English company for one hundred thousand per annum. Trade is prostrated, and government ia unable to pay their employees. The Servian army consists of about 125,000 men, aid the militia consists of 100,000 more. The Servians are convinced that war is a moral necessity. A vote for the Duke of Connanght s establishment on his marriage with Princess Frederica, daughter of the ex King of Hanover, will be submitted to Parliament this session. The Berlin memorandum has been withdrawn. England and the other Powers agree upon certain points, among which is one not to exercise undue pressure on the Porte. Russia, Prance, and England have made successful representations to Servia for the maintenance of peace. The Porte has courteously asked Bervia to explain the meaning of her armament. This request was not made in a threatening manner, nor as an ultimatum. The Czar has prevailed upon Servia to adopt a peacefnl policy. Turkey has spontaneously offered the insurgents two' conditions included in the memorandum—namely, three months' armistice, and direct negotiation. The Spanish police have discovered two depots of cartridges at Ban Sebastian. A Paris letter says George Sand died in great pain. Correspondents agree that all dangsr of an immediate outbreak on the Bervian and Montenegrin frontier is removed. Eighty. Spanish senators were in favor of the amendment for totally suppressing the privileges hitherto enjoyed by the provinces of Biscay and Navarre. A torchlight .procession took place in Dublin in celebration of the escape of the Fenian convicts from Australia, and Mr Disraeli was burned in effigy. A Berlin despatch says the insurgent leaders have accepted the armistice and appointed Wessilitzke to arrange a guarantee with thenorthern powers. - A Vienna special reports that the Turkish, Governor of Herzegovina has offered 2000 florins reward for the capture of the Russian organiser of the insurgent forces, and the Khedive has consented to visit Constantinople, as requested by the Sultan. The Grand Vizier has notified to the Im T perial Commissioner in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the reforms already granted for those provinces will be maintained in their integrity. The King of Dahomey will pay the five imposed upon him by Commander Hewitt, for maltreating a British subject. The Princes of Boumania and Servia have sent telegraphic despatches to the Porte announcing that they will be represented at the investiture of the Sultan. Winslow Borton, the forger, has been discharged. '■;■'- An exploring expedition to north-western Africa has left England; The main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting the water of the Atlantic to a portion of the desert of Sahara. A pleasure boat capsized at Eastborn, by which twelve people were drowned. A letter from Madrid gives details of the recent prosecution against the press. It says :—" Within" last month three leading liberal journals'have been suppressed; the latter for sixty-five days. Of the six liberal papers published in Madrid, five have been suppressed or are on trial within forty days ending June let. The toleration clause in the Constitution may possibly pass the Senate, but by a very small majority if at all. Buiz Gomez, supported by Velloa and Duke Ferrau Neumez, intends to propose a measure for establishing liberty of conscience and public worship, making native Protestants eligible to professorships and State employment. Great riots have occurred in Belgium through the success of the Catholics in the elections at Antwerp. The mob attacked and wrecked the Catholic Institute, and the gendarmes charged upon the rioters and several were woundedjand a number of arrests made. The cereal crops in the provinces of Badajo3 and Ciudad-Beal have been entirely destroyed by locusts. Over 600 tons of locusts have been burnt with petroleum in trenches, and 15,000 soldiers been occupied in destroying them. Serious inundations have occurred in Western Switzerland, caused by heavy rains and the melting of snow in the mountains. The railways are much damaged, and the wl'ole Canton of Thurgan is submerged ; many bridges aud houses have been carried away end several persons drowned. At Frauenfeld, the capital of the Canton, four inmates of houses were killed by falling walla. There have been heavy failures in the United Kingdom. The liabilities of the firm of Messrs Malcolmson and Co, Belfast and Waterford, Ireland, linen manufacturer?, are estimated at £1,500,000 ; Messiß Johnston, Furie, and Co, yarn merchants, Glasgow, Scotland, have failed, liabilities, £800,100 Gurbutt, colliery owner, Darlington, has failed ; liabilities, £170,000. The Dnder Secretary of Foreign Affairs announced in the House of Commons that a peremptory demand had been made on the Peruvian government for the release of the crew of the Talisman. Peaceful relations between the countries were at an end if the demand wero not complied with. Afire broke out during the day in the carpet manufacturing and woollen works at Ayr, belonging to Mr James TempletoD,caused by the friction of the machinery. It spread to all parts of the building. The operatives at work at the time believed that all the men escaped- A number of women rushed out sayiog there were others inside unable to escape Soon afterwards the roof fell in. Twentyfour women were burned in the ruins and perished. One woman who leaped from an upper window was so badly injured that she died soon after being taken to the boppital. It is reported that the overseer, named Barr, J locked the door of the room in which the female operatives were working. Barr himself perished in the flames, and it; is impossible to learn the truth of the report, but as the woman had time to escape, it is otherwise inexplicable. The works were entirely destroyed. A despatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in a village on the Bombay and Baroda railway. Of the 200 inhabitants 100 died in three days. The Spanish Senate has adopted the clause of the constitution establishing religions toleration, by a vote of forty-three to forty. Some dynamite stored in .a joiner's shop on Elmbank road, Glasgow, exploded, killing six workmen and wrecking several houses. The latest Atlantic cable telegram to Juce 21st, states Turkish in3urgenta have refused an armistice. Austria resolved to withhold relief, and the money Herzegovina is exhausted. An insnrgent leader defeated the Sultaa't* troops at Peterovo, and killed 200 Turks, captured 200 head aheep and cattle. Nikeic has been provisioned, and the Turkish army has received six months' arrears of pay. The correspondent of the Moscow Gazette telegraphs to thai paper from Cettinge that the Turks in Bosnia have unfurled r the green flag for a holy war against the Christians. . ' A Berlin epecial-reports that Austria has ordered the concentration of 158,000 of the Landwehr in the eastern and south-eastern provinces for antumn drill.

A despatch from Belgrade says the Servian Government's decision in favor of peace is opposed to the wishes of the people. The position of affairs is becoming dangerous for Prince Milan. Beports have been received from Sclavonic sources that Prince Karageorgevitz has destroyed the town of Allapusa, and killed 200 Turks. The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes a private letter from Jerusalem, which says great excitement and anxiety prevail there, in consequence of the excesses of the Turkish authorities, and threatened rising of the populace. On 2nd of June the Christians, fearing an attack, barricaded their houses, and the foreign residents kept armed watches throughout the night. The Germane met at the Consulate, and made an organisation for mutual defence, and sent to the Government a formal application for military assistance. Turkish soldiers have since been permanently encamped in the public equare. A Berlin despatch states that accounts received from all sources are full of apprehensions of further violence, and perhaps of a general uprising in Constantinople. The Turkish fleet, consisting of eight first class vessels, will sail for Crete within a week on an important mission. A Circassian named Hassan, incited it is believed by the mother of the late Sultan, attempted the assaaination of the Ministry who deposed him. He called upon the War Minister, who was attending a council at the Prime Minister's residence. He proceeded, and the guards believing him to be an aide-de-camp, permitted him to enter. Hassan fired point blank at the Minister of War with a revolver. While the other persons present were pressing forward to seize the assa'sain, Baschid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant of Midhat Pasha named Ahmed Ghahar, and a eoldier, were i J killed;] and Kaiser Tipasha, Minister of I and another eoldier, were wounded. I Hassan has since been executed.