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London, Jan. 21. The steamship Australia was detained. ; for 38 hours in San Francisco on account of the non arrival of English mails. Birmingham library was burnt, 80,000 i volumes destroyed. Heavy floods in England and Scotland. The Thames is filled with floating ice. Princess Caroline of Hesse is dead. The troops at Peshawur and Afghanistan are settled down at winter quarters, j An imposing durbar was held at Jella- ; labad on the Ist inst. by General S. I Brown. The feeling ia frienaly, and the I health of the troops good. Stewart's command is camped at Ghuznee road, after marching through Candahar. It is reported that Yakoub Khan has fled from Oabul, and his army is disorganised. Russia wants a prolongation of the time of occupation. The German Government will force the Samoans to grant satisfaction of all demands. The American steamer Bulgarian is totally wrecked off the Welsh coast. The Marquis of Tweedale is dead. Dean Stanley returns to America. The Oldham cotton strike is over. Dublin presented General Grant with the freedom of the city on account of the Cork affair. Grant was elaborately feted in Belfast. The distress in England is harrowing.
6500 persons are daily relieved at Manchester alone. Sir J. Stephens, Judge of the Hi;h Court of Justice, W. Lake, and Sir Anthony Cussaby have resigned. Gladstone will contest Midlothian at the next election. M. Comas and Co, London, merchants, have failed for LBO,OOO. Twenty persons were killed by a recent collision at the Warsaw railway. A run on the London and County Bank was caused by a mob assembling in front of the building to hear a dispute between cabmen and their fares. A second vessel, fully laden, has left New York, for Sydney, with American articles to exhibit at the August International Exhibition. The ship Donnerdale aad barque J. D. Peters has been chartered. The Oxford Boat Club declines to row the Harvard Club. The directors of the Glasgow Bank are being tried for theft, fraud, and embezzlement. The vote of Switzerland is in favor of subversion to the St; Gothard and other Alpine Railways. The Rev. Mr Buller intends leading England shortly for New Zealand. The Rev. J. Berry has commenced lecturing in England on New Zealand fields of emigration.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3276, 15 February 1879, Page 2
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