GENERAL ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1329, 17 July 1876, Page 2

GENERAL ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY.

All the Liberal* or the Tfcuque Fro« vincea in 8pain who supported Alphottto Mini I he exempt from conscription. Thu remainder of the population will he liable to militia duty, the name at other Hpanl> ards. Mr Bchoffleid, member of the Home of Commom for Pembrokeshire, in dead. A Vienna correspondent reports that one of the last decrees iigned by the late Sultan was a aeorot order for the' invasion of Servia, and the Austrian ambnusador succeeded in having the order withdiawn. Prince Hassan, ton of the Khedive of Egypt, resigns his commission in the Prusaian army. He goes to Egypt, where he will be made Minister of War. The Porte linn promulgated a full amnesty to all insurgents who will lay down thoir arm* and renew their allegiance to the Turkish Government Uuvmg the next six weeks of armistice. The Russian Ambassador bun complained to the Government of A nutria of tho immensured attacks upon Russia published in certain newspapers, principally those of Hungary. The Mexican Government have leaned the mine* of Sun Louis, Pottosi, Guanaguato, and Zacateons, to nn English Company At L100,000 per annum. Trade \n prostrated, and the Government is unable to pay its employees. The Servian army conninti of about lfl«,000 mtn, and the militia of 100,000 more. The Servians arc convinced that war is a mornl necessity. The vote for the Duke of Connnught's establishment on his marriage with Princess Fredcrica, daughter o( the ox King of Hanover, will be submitted to Parliament this session. Tho iJorlin moinoranduin haa boon withdrawn. England nnd othor powers agrco upon certain points, am«ng which in 0110 not to oxorcisu unduu pressure on tho Porte. Russia, Franco, and England have made successful representations, to Servia for tho maintenance of peace The Porte has courteously a«kod Korvia to explain tho meaning of bur ainiaintmt. This request wan not made m a thronttm* ing manner, nor us an ultimatum. The Czar has prevailed upon Hcrvia to adopt a peaceful policy. Turkey bo* spontaneously offered the insurgents two eon- < ditionfi included in tlio monioiaudiiiu, namoly, three mouths' assistance, and direct negotiations. Tbe SpaniHh police havo dinoovonid two dopota of cartridges at San Huhnntiau. A Paris letter says Goorge Hand died in great pain, which caused hor to wi itho and shriek. Coneapondonts ugree that all da>j|<ei of an immediate outbroak on the Hen oan and Montenegro frontier in removed. Eighty Spanish senators wore- in fiwot of an amendment for totally suppressing tho pimlugcH bitlieito onjoyul J>y thu Provinces f>f }<i«cay and Navarre. A torchlight procession took placo In Dublin in celebiation «>f tho oscape of the Foniftn convicts fnun Australia, and Disraeli was burned in efligy. A Herlin dispatch says the Insurgent icndoi'H ba\e accented tho armiMtice, and appointed Wessililykc to arrange a guarantee v ith the Northern i*»wors. A Vienna ajiocial report* that tbe « Turkish Governor of Her/.ogovnla oflerod 2(KKJ florins reward for the capture of tho Russian organiser of the insuigont forcoa. Tho Khortno ban cons(>nted to visit Constantinople, as requested by the 8ulan. The (irand Xi/wv has notified tho Imperial Cominissioiior in lioHiiin and Her/.ogovinia that the reforms aheady granted for th»si> ptovincoM will be luaintainod in their integrity. The King of Dahomoy will pu.» tho fino imposed on him ],y ( '(»/iiiinnder Horwitt for maltreating a Hri*^h subjoct. The Princes of J{oiinmn'« «nd Hervia have sont telegraphic despatches to tho Porte, announcing tbqT will be roprosont«(I nt the inveatituro i>f the Hultau. Window Uor»«>n, the foigor, U discharged. An exi))«ring exncdition to northwostorn Africa has left England. Ita main object in to ascertain the feasibility of admitting the waters of tho Atlantic, to ft portion of tho desert of Sahara. A jplcaauro boat capsized at Eastborn on Saturday. Twelve people wer« drowned. A letter from Madrid gives the details of the recent prosecutions Against the Press. It (Mf* " Within the last month three lending liberal journals havo b««n •tipprHtfU Opt of ttom for OB days. Of

tho six liberal papers published at Madrid flvo have boon surpressod, or aro out on trial within 40 days, ending Juno 1st. Tho Toleration olauso in tho constitution may poiaibly pass the Senate, but by a very small majority, if at all. Ruiz Gomoii, supported by Volloa and tho Duke of Ferran Neumog, intends to p*oposo a measure for the establishing of libortyof oonsoienoe and publio worship, making native Protostauts eligible to professorshipi and state employment. Serious inundations oeourrod in western Switzerland oausod by the heavy rains and molting of snow on tho mountains. The railways woro much damaged. Tho whole of the Canton of Thurger is nubmergod, many bridges and houses havo beon oarviod away, and several persons drowned. At Fraufoldt, tho capital of tho Canton, four inmates of houses woro killed by tho falling walls. Thert art heavy failures to report in tho United Kingdom, among which aro the firms of Malcolm and Co, Belfast, Partlaw, and Waterford, Ireland, linon manufacturers i with liabilities estimated at LI, 000,000} Johnston, Furle, and Co, yarn merchants, Glasgow, Scotland, liabilities L8OO.OOO1 Gurhutt Calling, Darlington, liabilities LI 70,000. Tho Under Secretary tot tho Foreign Department announced, in the House of Commons, that a peremptory demand had been mado of the Peruvian Government fort lie relenso of theorew of tho Talisman, and peaceful relations between tho two countries will end if tho demand is not "^complied with. A tiro broke out to-day in the carpet manufacturing and woollen works at Ayr, belonging to Jan. Temploton, caused by the Motion of the maoliinorv. The fire ■prend to all parts of tho building. The operators were at work at the time, and it is believed that all tho men escaped, but a number of women rushed out, saying thero were others inside unable to escape. Soon afterwards tho roof foil in. and twenty four women wero burled in tho ruins and perished. One woman, who leaped from tho upper window, was so badly injured that she died soon after being tnken to tho Hospital. It is reported that an overloor, nnmed Burr, looked tho door of the room in wliioh the female operatives were working. Barr himself porished in the flames, and it is impossible to learn tho truth of the report ; but as the women had time to escape, it is otherwise inexplicable. The works are ontiroly destroyed. A despatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Gulwood, A villnge on tho Bombay and Baroda Railway. Of 200 inhabitants, 100 died in three days. The Spnnish Senate adopted the olauso of the constitution establishing religious toleration, by a vote of 43 to 40. Some dynamite stored in a joiner's shop In Burbank Road, Glasgow, exploded, killing six workmen, and wrecking several hou«08.