REMOVAL OF THE LATE POPE'S REMAINS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 26 July 1881, Page 2

REMOVAL OF THE LATE POPE'S REMAINS.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF MIDHAT PAbHA. PROPOSED CENTEAL AUSTEALIAN EAILWAY. PLAGUE OUTBEEAK AT ST. PETEESBUEGH. EXTEAOEDINAEY EAILWAY OUTEAGE IN AMEEICA. [special to melbournb aegus.J London, 13th July. The remains of Pope Pius, IX., who died on February 7th, 1878, have been removed from the sacristy of Bt. Peter's, and entombed in the Church of St. Lorenzo Miranda. It is reported that Midhat Pasha, who has been condemned to death for complicity in the assassination of the lato Sultan Abdul Aziz, has attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Emigration to the nowly-opened territories of Canada and the United States continues to bo enormous. Mr. Fletoher, of Adelaide, who went to England Borne months ago, in an unofficial capacity, to try to float a company to conBtruot a line of railway through Central Australia, from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, upon the land grant system, has succeeded in interesting a number of leading capitalists in the scheme, which they regard with favor. He will probably come out by the next mail steamer, with authority to submit his proposals to the South Australian Government. 14th July. Meetings of Orangemen, at which the proceedings of the Land League are strongly condemned, are becoming much more numerous in Ireland ; but, up to the present time, but little rioting has occurred in connection with them. The imbroglio in North Africa is likely to be intensified by the arrest of a French emissary at Tripoli, in whose possession important documents, compromising the French Government, were found. The Great National Assembly of Bulgaria has ratified the three conditions upon which Prince Alexander alone consented to retain the throne of the principality. They confer almost absolute power upon the Prince for a period of seven years, and greatly curtail tho influence of the National Assembly. A fearful outbreak of the Siberian plague has occurred in St. Petersburg, and men, as well as oattle and horses, are dying in great numbers. 18th July. An extraordinary railway outrage has made a great sensation in America. A party of thirteen ruffians attacked a train near Chicago, killed the conductor, and then pillaged the train. Property to a large amount was secured. The robbers decamped without molestation The condition of affairs in the Transvaal is critical. An alarming deadlock has resulted from the action of tho Eoyal Commission.