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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 74, 9 December 1875, Page 6

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Turkey Wants mure money. . Cardinal Noble Vftelli Schir is dead.

The Emperor William and King Victor Emanuel . reviewed 200,000 troops at Milan. A large number of heavy failures are reportecf in -New York. Stronsberg, a great Russian contractor, fias 1 failed.

The Duke de Audifred Pasquir has been elected President of the Assembly.

The Queen of Holland is seriously ill with fever.

Robert Von Maber, the statesman and political economist, is dead. The British' expedition to punish the Congo River pirates has been very successful.

Over 200 sailors were lost during the recent gales in the North Sea. The loss by cattle disease in England is over 1)000,000 dol.

It is rumored that General Dorregary has been shot by order of Don Carlos.

Tripoli apologised to the United States for the insult to the Consul.

Montreal is again greatly excited over tbe Ganbard affair.

Von Armin's sentence has been confirmed. His family are asking for his pardon. Sir Charles Wheatstone, the inventor of electric telegraphy is dead. The Chinese trouble with England has been satisfactorily settled. Spain and. ? the Pope have come to an understanding.

There have been disastrous floods in India; 20,000 people are rendered houseless.

Talmage's church is crowded daily to hear Moody and -Sankey, and they have secured Gilmore's Concert Gardens in New York.

The ' Times '_ reports that a Manchester firm is likely to import calico from the United States.

. Scientific observation stations are to be established in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.

The King of Greece decorated all the 'Prince of Wales' party duringTtheir visit to Greece-

M. Rouher has made another violent attack on the Government, and declares publicly for the Bonapartists.

Toronto is in the hands of a gang of ruffians, who are committing depredations in every direction. The explorers on board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin's men on the beach of an island.

A great Fenian demonstration is to take place in New York on the 23rd November, in honor of the Fenian prisoners hanged at Manchester. The Crown Prince of Germany is to visit the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. A German squadron will form an escort at Munich.

Serious charges are preferred against Governor Tilden, of New York, in connection with the St. Louis, Alton, and Tite Hate Railway. Europe has five millions of soldiers all ready for fighting, with fifteen thousand cannon, and a million and a quarter of horses ; its united fleets consist of 2,036 vessels, manned by 28,000 sailors, and carrying 15,000 guns. The cost of these immense arrangements is five hundred and sixty million dollars annually, three-fifths of the amount being consecrated to the armies.

The steamship Pacific, of Goodall, .Nelson, and Perkins' line, was lost 40 miles south of Cape Flattery, with all hands except one, on 4th November. Henry Frederick Jelley, the survivor, states that he took a passage on board in British Columbia, at Victoria, for San Francisco. There were about 200 on board. Between 8 and 9 o'clock the Pacific came into collision with a vessel, and shortly afterwards sank. By lashing himself to a piece of the the wreck, he floated for some days, "when he was" picked up by the ship Messenger, and landed at Port Townsend.

Australian preserved meat has at length attained the dignity of a newspaper of its own. The first number of 'Tallerman's Table Talk,' has appeared, and a most worthy advocate of the good things we obtain from Australia it is. In it we are told all about the Australian meat movement, in a most interesting paper written by Mr John Plummer. Then there are recipes in abundance, whilst the opinions of all sorts and conditions of people, from the Queen to the working man's wife, are almost overwhelming in their abundance. The idea of bringing out such a paper is a^capital one, and we wish the publication all the success it deserves, and its deserts are very great.

Notwithstanding that profane swearing was always held to be sinful, the practice continued rampant until it became unfashionable or ungentlemanly to utter an oath. It is interesting to know that it is still an offence against the law of the country, and that Magistrates are able to impose a penalty for its commission. The Bench of Brentford, in the neighborhood of London, have just fined a person named Shorts, •who described himself as a gentleman, 5s for having been guilty of profane swearing. The following is the scale of fines which may be inflicted for this offence :— " Every day-laborer, common soldier, and common seaman, Is * every other person under the degree of gentle-nan, 2s ; for every other person of or above the degree a gentleman, 5s.V

Grant's visit to Utah has determined him upon a strict policy with the Mormons.

. The hog cholera is taking off thousands of pigs in India. Howard Glover, the well known composer is dead. The French ironclad Magenta has been.destroyed byfire. M. Emile Ollivier will be a candidate for the Assembly at the next elections. The German" arsenal at Redersburg bas been totally destroyed by fire. An English commission has been organised to settle the Alaska boundaries. r

Mrs Black, the original Byron's "Maid of Athens/ died in Greece, aged 76, H.M.s. Albatross has been ordered to Panama to protect British interests there.

Recent storms on the English coast have been terribly destructive. Seventy thousand Spanish troops are under orders for Cuba.

Russia limits its exhibits at Philadelphia to specialities unknown out of Russia.

Stanley has been very successful in his exploration in Central Africa.

The s.s. Pandora has arrived at Portsmouth from the Arctic regions. The plot to place ex-Queen Isabella on the Spanish throne has failed. The indictments have been sustained against the great firm of H. B. Claffin and Co., New York, charged with smuggling.

Colonel Cowen, of New York, has been asked by the British Government to undertake the work of rising H.M.S. Vanguard.

A Royal decree introduces compulsory civil marriages. The Congregational Churches, to the disgust of world, are about to renew the Beecher Scandal by a sacerdotal inquiry. The King and Queen of Denmark and the Princess Thyra have arrived in England

Russia insists that steps must be taken by "Christian nations to proteot Christians in Turkey.

Sixty tons of small arms and ammunition ior the Chinese have been shipped at London as merchandise. The Government is after the shippers. A large number of workmen were fatally injured by an overflow of molten lead at the Walsal Ironworks.

It is officially announced that Don Carlos has dismissed from his service Generals Dorregary, Mendiri, Velasco, and Magrago. The Ohio, lowa, and Nebraska people return overwhelming majorities on the Republican ticket. This is a heavy blow to the inflation of the pet scheme of the Democrats.

Letters have been received from Henry M. Stanley of an exceedingly interesting character, and are dated Ulgalla, in Ugunda. They give an elaborate and picturesque account of the continuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of Victoria and Nyanza, and confirms Speke's view that the great lake is one large body of Water, and not a series of small lakes, as held by Livingstone. Stanley's observations and reports on this point of African geography are to be made the subject of discussion before the Royal Geographical Society.

The latest mail advices from England contain gloomy reports of the recent floods in the Midland Counties. At Nottingham 13 persons were drowned. More than 3000 houses were inundated, and 50 factories stopped. Near Oxford the railway lines were all inundated, and the village of Batheny was entirely flooded. A* Burton-on-Trent six persons were drowned, and at Derby the water is still several feet deep in the streets. Above Gainsboro' the Trent has burst its banks, arid all the surrounding country is flooded. The loss of property is enormous. The main line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railroad was washed away, and all traffic was stopped for a time.

The Prince of Wales has certainly made rather a curious choice of gifts for presentation during his visit to India. We are informed that the cargo of the Serapis will include "eight' of the best fire-engines that this country can produce," with the Garter and Collar of his Royal Highness and the Star of the Order of India emblazoned on each, What use the native princes will make of those extraordinary presents it is difficult to imagine. Probably each engine will have an ornamental house built for its accommodation ; while if they prove superior to the attacks of rust and white ants, ii may hereafter come to pass that the fire-engine worship will be an excepted creed amongst the people of Hindostah. A 8 it is evident from this odd selection that the Prince is in search of novel, gifts, we would venture to suggest the following as no£iess likely to prove useful than tlie in question :— An assortment of Pool's pantaloons j a few Ulstters of double thickness j some- dozen cases of razors; a gross or two of tooth-brushes ; several pairs of top-boots; a hearse, with plumes complete ; two are three hundred sets of knives and forks j a consignment of eyeglasses ; and most important of all, some score of stove-pipe hats. By presenting these articles to the. native princes of India in full durbar assembled, his royal Highness would create such a sensation ih the land of India as has not being knowu since the Sepoy revolt.-— * Examiner/