ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume VII, Issue 434, 28 September 1872, Page 2 (Supplement)

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NEWS.

The Turkish authorities have ordered two agents of the British Bible Society to leave the country, seized their books, and prohibited the sale of Protestant works. The Spanish Government have decided to abolish slavery in the Spanish dominions. The Provincial Correspondence consider? that the approaching meeting of the Emperors of Germany, Russia, and Austria will prove to he a guarantee of peace, La Europe adds that it is the purpose of Germany to maintain a good feeling between Russia and Austria, for, whose friendshpi she prepared the way. The Pope has written a strong letter denouncing the intention of the British Government to prosecute priests for participation in the Galway election. Cholera is raging in Russia. Eight out of nine died of the disease. It is reported that gold has been found at Kinsale, Ireland. The Cuban insurgents defeated a column of Spanish troops during the last fortnight. Of the Spanish 200 were killed ; 3G rebel prisoners were taken. * A Suez despatch reports that 2000 Egyptians were advancing on Abyssinia with a yjew to conquer. The Emperor Kassai was marching to meet them, but it is thought that his defeat is certain, and that Magdala will eventually fall into the hands of the invaders. The great armed election disturbances between French and British residents at Quebec have been quelled. Several were killed. Details of Mexican outrages given before the commission were shocking. Men werekilled for a dollar of tribute. The strike of agricultural laborers continues in Oxfordshire.- The Government have placed a number of soldiers at the disposal of farmers, and crops, the saving of which was endangered, are harvested. The German Government intends to hold possession of Belfort, although willing to allow compensation to France. The differences between Brazil and the Argentine Republic are not yet settled. Both countries are preparing for the contingencies of war. The San Salvador troops under Mendina captured Omoa, Honduras, seized women and children, and threatened them unless the fort surrendered, which they did. Mendina then proclaimed himself President. His troops commenced to pillace. Jose Maria Mendina, the real President of Honduras, is likely to attack Omoa. The British and Spanish consuls ask for war vessels to protect the British and Spanish residents. One day’s later news to Greville, hitherto unpublished, states as follows : London', August 18—Several despatches were received from Belfast yesterday and this evening. The p'ipulace is now divided into hostile Catholic and Protestant mobs, and whenever they come in contact a fight ensues. The police are using every effort to put a stop to the disbnrbances, and have been compelled to fire on the rioters on both sides, wounding twenty of them. During the whole of yesterday, constabulary were pouring in from all parts. Two or tlu-ee persons have died in hospital from the effects of their wounds. The excitement is intense, and the principal streets are now occupied by troops with fixed bayonets, as it is only by those means that the mobs can be kept apart. A regiment of dragoons and the 40th Light Infantry have arrived. Hew York.— The establishment of Hockeusack has been, robbed of 15,000 dollars’ worth of jewellery, V Fifteen persons have died in two days from sunstroke., s , I Several vessels have arrived with yellow fever. One reports fourteen adults. The Marquis of Lome has come out as a preacher. ; . Steam cultivation is rapidly extending in the Highlands. Six thousand persons were imprisoned for debt in England last year. The deaths from accidents in British mines exceed 1000 annually. A railway is about to be constructed, across the Scandinavian Alps. Six out of the 1100 students at University College, London, are ladies. A free library has been established in Bradford by the Corporation. Oyster beds are about to be systematically cultivated in Cromarty Firth. • The female out-door workers at Forres have struck for Is, 3d, per day,

The statistics of British pauperism show a decrease this year of per cent. The soil of Ireland exclusive of town sites, is divided am0ng,19,547 proprietors,, i More than a quarter of a million of persons , emigrated from Britain during 1871. A law trial in Russia has just been concluded after lasting fourteen years. The population of Japan, according to the last census, is a little over thirty-seven millions. Lord Dufferin, the 'new Viceroy of Canada 1 ,, has been warmly received at Quebec. A London policeman has been sentenced to live years’ penal servitude for burtdary The death is announced of Mr Dixon, of Costorphine, an eminent agriculturist. During a thundersorm at Newcastle, it hailed pieces of ice two inches in length. Bricks from coal shale are being very extensively manufactured in Staffordshire. The deepest well in the world is at Sperenberi:, near Berlin. Its depth is 419 ft. Glasgow Clerks’ Association is reported to he in a highly flourishing condition. Mr Holyoake, the Secularist, is about to write the history of the Co-operative movement. There are in the United Kingdom 114 Schools of Art with upwards of 20,000 students. The Sandford paper mills, near Oxford, have been burned. The loss is estimated at £30,000. The Houses of Parliament in London are said to be “ rotting away with unexampled rapidity.” A Servants’ Aid Society has been formed in London, under the Presidency of the Marquis of Townsh nd. Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral, in which he refers in strong terms to the growing infidelity in Ireland. The journeymen bakers in London are agitating for “ twelve hours a day, and the total abolition of night work.” A telegraph clerk was lately advertised for at Lausanne, the salary offered being 200 francs (£8) per annum. An insurance company to indemnify landowners against losses from volcanic eruptions, has been formed at Naples. Processor Oakeley, of Edinburgh University, has had one of his legs broken by a carriage accident in Switzerland. Cricket is becoming acclimatised in Geneva, though its popularity is retarded by the Swiss terror, for swift bowling. A weaver at Whittlefield, Lancashire, was dismissed without notice for attending to his dying wife instead of his work The Custom House returns show an enormous increase of late in the amount of tea consumed in the United Kingdom. It is rumoured that the Spanish Government have declared themselves in favour of the separation of Church and State. A movement is on foot for the amalgamation of the whole of the Chesire Salt Works. It has been discovered that some of the candidates in the Civil Service examinations in England sent deputies to be examined for them. The heat in Calcutta has recently exceeded 100 degrees in the shade, At Bombay even the crows have been seen to drop off trees with exhaustion. _ . An attempt was lately made to poison the. animals in the London Zoological Gardens by placing poisonous fungi jn their cages.- •The animals, howeiver, refused to cat them. In the competition for the International Challenge Trophy, at Edinburgh on Juno 21, the following was the result The English team, 1194 ; Scotch, 1191 ; Irish, 1116. In a leading article, the Daily News says : “ The rise established in the waolesale prices of certain kinds of leading raw material during 1871 was : For best bar iron, 24; copper, 28 ; tin, 12 ; English wool, 70 ; tallow, 9 ; and raw cotton, 20 per cent.” In a recent speech in the House of Commons, Mr Mundella said :—“The of women at the collieries was utterly degrading, and a disgrace to a Christian nation. He could not conceive anything more humiliating than the spectacle of a lot of these women, dressed in the garb of men, unsexed, and blackened, and •smoking their pipes, walking with the men into a public-house, and turning out of it again, and lighting, perhaps, in the street.” Spain, in which $20,000,000 were expendedm a single year as secret service money, can scarcely Be a pleasant place to live'in just now. ■ It appears that there is a universal police spy system, which has discovered that every prominent Spaniard is mixed up in polilical intrigues.