, 1874-09-26

OF an occupied OlSCrlCC WHO gave IuIoTuld~
ton to his own side should be shot as a
spy. The atrocious proposal was unani-
mously rejected, but it shows the
value of Russian love for humanity. It
is ruMoured that the Russian Gov
eminent is extremely annoyed by
it's failure, aud has refused to recog-
Mise the Spanish Government, as q sotats@1
to it's wounded dignity. It seems GER
tain that the Gar wearies of being led
by Bismarck, and that he has seized an OPP
portunity of announcing to the world, that
Russia has, on some points at least, q right
of independent action. The Spanish incl
dent is of small importance, except SO far as
it shows the imperfection of the new Holy
Alliance, which, as long as it exists, must
threaten more or less the independence OF
the West but the virtual detect OF the
Brussels plan has rescued Great Britain,
and all the minor States, from very serl-
Gus danger. Spain in particular would
under the proposed rules of war, have
been powerless to resist invasion either
from Germany or France.
The Times Famine Correspondent tele-
graphs august 24), ON the authority OF
a telegram from Sir Richard Temple, that
the rainfall F~'everywhere" has been Short
except in Orissa, and that in Tirhoot and
Burdwan it has been so small that the
harvest must be a failure. On the 9th
he states that nothing can now secure q
full crop in Tirhoot, Hooghly, Burdwan,
Nuddea, and M~oorshedabad, but does not
state to what extent it is expected to fail.
AoOo~Jirn %0 DavxAop Tho V1ncTf1OF1 ID GGHnn-
sidered critical" and will remain so till
September, when the latest rain usually
falls. The Famine arrangements will
therefore be kept up till the middle of
this month. We need not say that o
second year of drought in districts SO de-
nuded of grain will be a most terrible
calamity, but there is no evidence yet
that the failure will be complete, as the
September rain may do much to bring up
the average.
The raco-hatred that is growing so fierce
in the Southern States has broken out
again in q savage collision between
the whites and the negroes at Tren-
ton, in the State of Tennessee. The origin
ofthe trouble appears to have been very
similar to that of the conflict at Austin,
in the neighbouring State of Mississippi
recently suppressed ; and no doubt in I'll
the States along the great river the two
races are ready to fly at each others
threats. At Trenton the negroes are said
to have organised an armed force, and
"threatened to exterminate the whites"
but ia the actual conflict that occurred.
the latter seem to have obtained the upper
hand ; they made several Of the negroes
prisoners, and lynched sixteen of the ring
leaders. The kilograms do not tell US
whether or not the disturbance is ct an
end, but it may well be imagined that at
Memphis, which lies about midway be-
tween Austin and Trenton, there il not q
little alarm. A war of races is q danger
under the threat of which no community
can remain tranquil.
A correspondent of the Pail Nal Ga
zette, writing from Santander, states pQsi-
lively that the Carlist leader Sabalhi shot
1856 men Of the brigade under General
Nouyilas, which had surrendered to him.
he first ordered that all should be, shot,
and then that all the Custom House soldiers
should be, andlevery fifth officer aapd sol