The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10
Interesting from Europe.
We extract the following items from


the last European steamers:
THE ENGLISH REFORM MOVEMENT
Mr.. W. E. Foster has been address
ing his constituents, at Halifax, and
has laid down the tenets of the reform
movement. His speech has attracted
much attention throughout the coun-
try. The Daily Neacs says: He de-
serves the praise of having delivered,
not, perhaps, the most eloquent, but
certainly the most persuasive and
statesman-like speech on the reform
question, which has been heard during
the recess.
MANCHESTER MILLS ON SHORT TINE.
1t was stated that, owing to the hea-
viness in the Manchester goods mar
ket, in the face Of the advance in
Liverpool, many of the manufac-
turers of Manchester had resolved
upon placing their mills upon short
time, -four days a week. in order to
check the production.
AMERICAN GUNS. With regard to
the recent satisfactory trial of the
Rodman guns in America, the Lon
don Mechanics Magazine says: We
understand that Government has Or
dered one of the 15-inch Rodman
guns, with improved carriage, shot
aud powder, from the United States.
The gun will probably arrive in this
country In five or six weeks, when we
shall hope for settlement of the
question between British and Ameri-
can ordnance.
A ROYAL MARRIAGE.-It is stated
that the Prince of Wales, attended
by numerous suite, will leave Eng
land, for Russia, on the 9Th of No
vember, to be present at the marriage
of his sister-in-law, the Princess
Dagmar, with the Czarewitch.
The FAMINE IN INDA.-The Bonn
bay Times, OF the 22d of September,
thus speaks Of the deplorable famine
which has nearly depopulated the
best district of Orissa: The measures
of relief organized with such zeal in
Calcutta by the Bengal Famine Relief
Committee and the public, and so
effectively carried out blythe officers
of the municipality, have produced a
manifest improvement in the state of
the city during the past fortnight.
An eyewitness to the present state of
Orlssa, who has been acquainted with
that province for many years, is of
opinion that half Of the population
must have perished. Such being the
case, the condition of the survivors
must be truly frightful Balasore
seems, at present, to be one huge
charnel-house In Balasore alone. no
fewer than 396 died in two days, while
the survivors were in such a state that
it took three days to remove the
corpses, and the last statement we
have seen issued by the Secretary of
the Famine Fund at that place, shows
that, IN one week alone, more than
200, 600 persons. of whom 10000
were lncapacitated for work, obtained
relief. Famine and sickness even
reached the Europeans resident there,
and 1T was seriously considered by
the Government officials, whether
they should not send away their fami-
lies from Balasore, as well as the
other Europeans who were not ne
cessarily detained by duty.
FINANCIAL CRISIS ABRoAD.-There
are III Paris several agents of foreign
Governments, sent to contract for
open and temporary and unpublished
loans. The ,Semaine Financiere, of
the goth, is informed that the four or
five Governments thus seeking money
are offering from 12 to Is per cent.
for loans of short date. Italy, Tur-
key, Portugal, Greece, the Dauubian
Principalities, Saxony, and the Go
vernment of one or two other coun-
tries, are in want of funds imme-
diately. The Paris correspondent of
the Post says negotiations are pro-
ceeding between the foreign ENJOYS
and certain financial companies
banking-houses, which propose to
club together. If they can get the
security of State revenues, and OBJ
tain II or Is per cent, they may
think proper to borrow, on their: own
securities, at half that price, in Paris.
The loans sought are temporary, and
the banking-houses must find the
money.
MEETING IN ANDERSON. o pub