FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 605, 21 January 1879, Page 2

FOREIGN.

Sentence of death has been passed upon Moncasi, who recently attempted to assassinate King Alphonso of Spain. In the Antonelli lawsuit the Italian Court of Appeal has decided that in order to invalidate the baptismal register, the Countess Lambertini must give the name of her real mother. The King of Denmark has made a formal announcement, in the presence of the Court, of the betrothal of the Princess Thyra to the Duke of Cumber* land. M. Benazet, son of the proprietor of the gambling tables at Baden-Baden, has been elected as a Conservative member for the Indre, in the room of M. Clement Launier, defeating the Republican candidate, M. de Dombelle, by 7340 votes to 5613. News has reached Constantinople that the Mussulman inhabitants of Demotica are fleeing before the advancing Bui garians. The Russians are said to be establishing a second line of defence at Adrinople. The St Petersburg Gazette, speaking of the state of affairs in Asia, says : —" If the Chinese broach the restoration of Kuldja to China, they will have to evacuate the greater part of Kashgar, in consequence of the want of provisions now supplied from Russia." The Russian Imperial yacht Livadia has foundered on her passage from Odessa to Livadia. The Grand Duke I Sergius, who was on board, was saved, las well as the officers accompanying him and the crew. , The Russian Government is said to have abandoned for the present its project of raising money by a fresh loan, and General Greig, the Russian Minister, of Finance, returns straight to St. Petersburg. His negotiations with foreign bankers have led to no result. The marriage of Mdlle. Marie von Bismarck, the Chancellor's daughter, to Count Rantzau, has just been solemnised. According to German custom the " Polterabend" was held at Prince Bismarck's residence, and the Crown Prince was one of the guests. The death is announced of the Baroness Theresa von Barnim, once known as the celebrated dancer Theresa Elssler. She was created a baroness by the King of Prussia in 1850, on the occasion of her marriage with Prince Adalbert of Prussia. Her sister, Fanny Elssler, is still living in the United States. A telegram from Rome states that Monsignor Maccabe, auxiliary bishop to the late Cardinal Cullen, has been selected for the Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Dublin, and will probably shortly receive the purple. Prosper Hadancourt, a travelling photographer, has just been tried by the permanent court-martial in Paris on a charge of murdering an officer and attempting to murder another during the Communist outbreak in 1871. He was condemned to death. The death is announced of General Mieroslawski, who took a prominent part in the Polish insurrections of 1930 and 1863, in the Posen rising of 1848, ■ and in the Sicilian revolt of 1849. He was born in 1814.

There has been a violent storm at the mouth of the Tagus. Three vessels were lost in the river, and eighteen persons were drowned. The Town Council of Trieste has just been dissolved by an Imperial order, in consequence, it is believed, of the attitude of the majority of the members towards the Italian party. According to a Posen newspaper, Cardinal Ledochowski has just been condemned to a fine of 18,000 marks, or two years imprisonment, for having excommunicated a priest appointed by the State. It has become doubtful whether Prince Gortschakoff will return to St. Petersburg before spring. His doctors appear to have advised him to spend the winter in the south of Europe on account of his delicate health, and it is reported that he intends to follow this advice. A commission has been appointed to examine the question of illuminating Cronstadt harbor by electric lights for the purpose of preventing night attacks upon the forts. A municipal committee ia also considering the advisability of lighting . the streets of St. Petersburg with electricity. Orders have been transmitted by the Russian Government to America to push on with the utmost despatch in preparing the cruisers there for sea, in order that they may be able to proceed on active service during the course of the month, if so required by the Government of St. Petersburg. Prince Dondoukoff-Koraakoff, according to a Pesth telegram in the Times, has in his conversations expressed the conviction that the execution of the Treaty of Berlin is a sheer impossibility, as the Bulgarians will take up arms to oppose the separation of Eastern Roumelia from Bulgaria. It is therefore thought not unlikely that another Governor-General may be appointed. The Russian army has once more been placed upon a war footing. There are 30,000 men in the annexed provinces, and a force of 40,000 will pass the winter in large camps near Gumri and Erivan. Recruiting is going on incessantly. Some heavy guns are being mounted at Kara. This condition of things furnishes a strong contrast with the peaceful attitude of the Turks and the unarmed state of Erzeroum. The "Columbarium" in the new cemetery at Gotha has been completed. The town authorities have decided that the coffins for cremation are not to measure more than 2 '25 metres in length, 075 in width, and 0.72 in height. The urn to be placed in the Columbarium are not to be more than 0.80 metres in height and 0.40 in diameter. The expense of cremation of each body will amount to about 30 marks (£1 55.).