BRITISH AND FOREIGN MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7340, 6 April 1887, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN MAIL NEWS.

INTELLIGENCE, .TO MARCH 4. [reuter's copyright.] The following is a summary of news by the steamer Shannon, which arrived at Albany, on Tuesday last. London, March 4." — A most serious riot occurred near New lloss, Ireland, on the night of- 26th February. A baud 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 as well as the police. Fresh orders have since been issued entitling the Magistrates to disperse the Nationalist msetiags at five minutes notice. Regarding the foreign outlook it maybe said that the true note of tha situation was struck by Count Kalnoky, who, in a speech in support of an extraordinary military credit before the Austrian delegation, yesterday, said the general position of Europe, with the workings and counterworkings between the east and west, have so strongly a stamp ot uncertainty that it behoved all States to strengthen tho power of defence. Austria continues massing her troops in Gnlicia, and Russia is about to effect an increase of her army. A Russian entrenched camp of twelve thousand men is reported as being under construction at Jarmodice Jodalia (?) _ywroi) Details of tho rising in Bulgaria aro announced by cable, which show that the outbreak in Silistriu was entirely the wotk of the commandant, who was killed by his own men on the arrival of Government troops before the town. The rising at Rustchuk was more serious than is generally known. Ie appears that the insurgent oncers after arresting the garrison and oilioera appeared before the infantry bar rncke and summoned them to surrenderThe latter refused, and shots thereupon were exchanged, and the militury rose against the inuUneers, who after a longi

" Banguinaiy combat were driven to the Danube, where they tried to escape fn boats, but were stopped by a gunboat, and all the insurgents killed or drowned, and wounded or made prisoners. Although a gretit number of persons were Killed by the recent oarthquakos south oi France, the number now proves to be lees than .at first thought was the case. The information- which ha» been received showß tho widespread destructive nature of the catastrophe. In Genoese Riviera, the panic is not yet ended, and in many towns the population, fearing to enter their homes, prefer camping in touts, railwuy carriages, and even bathing machines. The official .Italian recurns 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 no£ so severely as in Riviera, over an enormous area, and vibrations were registered by scismoscopes at Rome, Geneva, Paris, Kew, and Washington. Sharp shocks, although without causing dninage,' were felt at Charleston, Sunnyville, and also in Austria and Bulgaria. Shocks have occurred in tbe Riviera almost every day since the great catastrophe. The French Colonisation Society has decided to send 25 families to the Nesv Hebrides to start a settlement on those islands.