CONTINENTAL ITEMS. THE JEWISH PERSECUTION'S. LESSEPS AND THE PANAMA CANAL. SHIPMENT OF INFERNAL MACHINES TO ENGLAND.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, 17 October 1881, Page 2

CONTINENTAL ITEMS. THE JEWISH PERSECUTION'S. LESSEPS AND THE PANAMA CANAL. SHIPMENT OF INFERNAL MACHINES TO ENGLAND.

Londo.v, 25th September. Russia ig constructing telegraphs in China by permission of the Chinese. An ExtraordinaTy Commission has been appointed tt inquire into the canse of the anti-Jewish feeling in Russia. The German co'ony at Odessa has prorosel to levy a penalty of 50 roubles onanjone letting lodgtnsrs to Jews. The King of Wurtemberg has been converted to Catholicism. At the interview between the Czar and the hmperor of Germany, it is stated that tho Czar promised neutrality in case Germany was drawn iato a war, and to maintain the attitude of Russia as in 1870. M. Gambetta, in a speech, said if the virtues of patriotism, independence, and disdain for material enjoyment 3 more largely prevailed, Sedan would have been wiped out. Prince Jerome Napoleon leaves France for Constantinople. He is preparing a manifesto, renouncing his claims in favour of his son Victor. A meeting of deputies, reoresenting all the

principal Jewish communities in Russia, will be hpld to consider their apparently hopeloas condition. Connt Henrico Campello, Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Peter's, has publicly abjured Citholicism, and entered tho Methodist Church at Romo. At tho Geographical Congress at Venice, M. Lesseps spoke "on the certainty of tho Panama canal. A rosolution was adopted in favour of tho Corinth canal. . * * > The authorities at Copenhagen aro advised that infernal, maohines are to bo. sent .there from America by Nihilists and Fenians, for re-shipment to Russia and England.