MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 211, 8 September 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

At Athens many villages in the district of Volo having refused to pay the taxos^ the Turks placed six guns before the gates ol Volo and threatened to bombard the town on the first sign of insurrection. Great uneasiness prevails in Thessaly aud Epirus. A despatch from Rome, dated Ist August, states that there is great uneasiness regarding the Pope's health. He has seen only Cardinal Simeoni and his owq domestics for the past few days. Cardinal Risrip Shorza's (?) chance of succeeding Pope Pius improves daily. The rioting in Londonderry on the 13th of August was on the occasion of the opening of the 'Prentice Boys' Memorial Hall. There were a number injured and fatally stabbed. The military were called out. A telegram from Montreal on 27th July says steps are being taken to prosecute prominent Orangemen as members of an illegal association. Secret societies are being prohibited in the province. The American Cabinet has prohibited the sale of arms to Indians. During Sunday school hours in a Swedish Lutheran Church at Jamestown on 12th August, the lightning struck the building, killing one person and prostrating four others. The lightning also set the attic on fire. The Russian Government has issued an internal loan of £50,000,000, but it is now stated on undoubted authority that all exertions have up to this time failed* to procure more than £10,000,000 of subscriptions. A telegram from Alexandria says it is reported that the Egyptian Government have made an agreement with the Suez Canal Company to erect two forts commanding the entrances of the canal, and that the Khedive undertakes to pay the cost by instalments. A tigress escaped from a train in which she was being conveyed to Liverpool. Some soldiers sent from Wecdon barracks found the animal at Long Buckley and shot her. A petition was presented to the Queen, with 41,000 names, protesting against the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council being binding in ecclesiastical matters. There is much talk concerning the next papal election. The German Government is reported to be considering what step to take in view of its occurrence. It is said that in anticipation of the event, Prince Bismarck is preparing to seek the support of the Great Powers, claiming for them all right of veto against any obnoxious candidate. The British steamer Cashmere has been lost in the Red Sea. Seven passengers and the chief officer were drowned. The Rev. Mr. Tooth has obtained a rule nisi in the Queen's Bench for prohibition ot further proceedings against him under the Public Worship Act.

At a public meeting on 22nd July, at Exeter Hall, resolutions strongly condemnatory of the introduction of private confession into the Church of England were passed. Mr. G. M. Waterhouse, formerly Premier of New Zealand, has arrived in Europe. He is at Carlsbad. Ou the visit of Mr. Thomas Russell to San Francisco he decided to extend the operations of the New Zealand Insurance Company thfoUghuut the States and British America. . It is said that the South British Insurance Company are about to open in San Francisco.