THE SUEZ MAIL AT ALBANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7917, 8 April 1887, Page 6

THE SUEZ MAIL AT ALBANY.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, March 4. A most serious riot occurred near New Ross, Ireland, on the night of the 26th ultimo. A band of young men created a disturbance outside the Town Hall. The police dispersed them, but they again assembled in large numbers, and stoned the police, who were compelled to summon reinforcements. When the latter arrived, they charged the crowd with fixed bayonets, and several rioters were Injured. Fresh orders have since been issued mtitling magistrates to disperse national .meetings at five minutes' notice. Regarding the foreign outlook, it may be laid that the true note of the situation was itruck by Count Kalnoky, who, in a speech In support of the extraordinary military credit before the Austrian Delegation, yesterday, said the general position in Europe, with its working and counterworkings between East and Weßt, have so strong a stamp of uncertainty that it behoved all the States to strengthen their power of defence. Austria continues massing her troops in Galicia, and Russia is about to effect an increase of her army. A Russian entrenched camp of 12,000 men is reported as being under construction at Jannodice, Podolia. Details of the rising in Bulgaria, as announced by cable, show that the outbreak in Silifitria was entirely the work of the commandant, who was killed by his own men on the arrival of the Government troops. The rising at Rustchuk was more serious than is generally known, It appears that the insurgent officers, after arresting he garrison and officers, appeared before the infantry barracks and summoned them to surrender. The latter refused, and shots were thereupon exchanged, and the military rose agaiust the mutineers, who, after a long and eanginary combat, were driven to the Danube, where they tried to escape in boats, but were stopped by a gunboat, and all the insurgents killed or drowned, and the wounded made prisoners. Although a great number of persons were billed by the recent earthquakes in the south of France tbe number now proves to be lees than was at first thought to be the case. Information which has been received shows the widespread destructive nature of the catastrophe. The panic has not yet ended, and in many towns the population are fearing to enter their houses, prefer camping in tents, railway carriages, and even bathing machines. The official Italian returns show that about 700 persons were killed, 400 injured, and 20,000 persons rendered homeless, The national loss amounts to £2,000,000. The earthquake was felt, though not so severely as in the Riviera, by seismoscopes at Rome, Geneva, Paris, Kew, and Washington. Sharp shocks, although without causing damage, were felt at Charlestown, Sunnyville, and also in Austria and Bulgaria. Shocks have occurred in the Riviera almost every day since the great catastrophe. ' The French Colonisation Society have decided to send 25 families to the New Hebrides to start settlement in those islands.