GENERAL.

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

GENERAL.

An English and Foreign Conveutiou for the suppression of the slave trade has been signed between England and Egypt. The Cattle Plague Committee of the House of Commons agreed to stop all importations from Gciinany, Russia, and Belgium, and enforce the slaughter at the ukce.of landing of all cattle from other countries". A communication from Sir Stafford Nortlrcote to Mr. O'Connor Power' rives hope of a release of the remainder ot the Fenian prisoners. A despatch says the famine in Madras and Mysore will rage at least six months longer. The situation in India is very critical. There is great danger of an almost universal famine. Dr. Cornish, Sanitary Inspector, says that already a million and a half of people are being fed, and half a million are dead oi starvation. At a meeting in Mndrns a resolution wax adopted that all the principal cities of England, Scotland, Ireland, and India tie informed of the urgent necessity for assistance.- It is snid that more people are fouud dead iv n .single morning in Madras than had died in the whole of the Bengal famine. Rioting in Londonderry occurred on 18thAugust. The military were called out, and several rioters were wounded. The Clydtf shipwrights have refused to submit their dispute' with the masters to arbitration. A great strike is anticipated. A special from Alexandria says that the Abj-ssiuians are massing troops on tho Egyptian frontier, and threaten invasion unless the traitor, Walhlmniknll, is delivered up immediately. Rioting has occurred at Belfast for several days up to the Bth August. The military wero called out. The village of Garnsell, near Mariesordor, was burnt, and 800 fftmifles are homeless. The towu of Su'nsoold, in Svvedon was totally burnt. In consequence of troubles in France, repressive measures have beon taken against the Press. The police forbad tho street sale of the portraits of Thiers- VAt Berlin a French ccftip d'etat is talked of as probable. Rumors of dissensious in the Cabinet between Fourtier and De Broglie are officially denied. Tho Moniteur says the questiou of a state of siege was never raised, aud denies that Germany, or any other Government, has inndo representations of the presence of De Broglie at the head of the Cabinet, aud also affirms tho determination of the President to fotaiu the Ministry of the 16th July until ttie elections. The adversaries of Rouher nave submitted to his direction of affairs for the present. A rendezvous of the Bonnpnrtists was held at Chislehurst on August the 15th, when th« Prince Imperial deliveted an address.