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and expenditure.
The conflict ID the Herzegovina con-
tinues, the insurgents exhibiting great
activity aud perseverance. Austrian troops
are being collected, aud it is thought
probable that a joint interference Of the
three Northern Empires is NOT far distant.
Mr.. Disraeli, in a speech at the Lord
Mayors Banquet, referred TO the Herze-
govina iusurrection, and expressed o
belief that through the forbearance of the
Great Powers a satisfactory conclusion
would be arrived at.
The returns from the French Treasury
Department show that during the first 10
months of the year there has been an ex-
cess OF 112 millions of francs above the
estimates.
1t is stated that Prince Bismarck is
very i'll, at Varzin, and most anxious 10
retire from public life, but the Emperor,
while according him a heightened respite
from work, declines to sanction his
withdrawal from public life.
The Carlists in Aragon and Navarro are
becoming discouraged, and numerous
submissions have been made to the Gov
eminent Generals.
The Kh6dive of Egypt has requested
the British Government to select two
gentlemen to re-orgauize the financial
department at Cairo.
The death is announced, by the Times
Correspondent, of the New England editor,
Mr.. Uri Kanuth. He had lived from the
10Th of March to the gath of October with
a bullet in his brain, and during most Of
the time he was in apparently fair health.
His case was regarded by the medical
fraternity as on extraordinary one, and
a number Of prominent physicians visited
Vineland, where he died, aud made a
post norton examination.
The New York Papers have copious
and highly coloured reports Of the pro-
ceedings OF Moody and Sankey in Brooklyn.
They form the sensation OF the hour.
On the 8th November the Times pub
lished a long despatch which had been
seut from Bombay only a quarter before
1 ondhe afternoon of the previous day.
The instructions given to General Igna-
tief, the Russian Ambassador at Constan.
tinople, are identical with those sent to
Sir Henry Elliott, the British Ambassador.
The substance is that the badness of the
administration, the discomfort Of the people,
aud the state OF the finances urgently
demand reforms. No threats were urged
by either Ambassador.
The majority in favour Of the plan
of the French Government of voting by
reimbursement was %. This decision is
regarded as practically confirming the
Government in power until after the
new elections.
The Russian military commander in
Kholend has notified the annexation OF
the Car OF a further portion Of the ter
ritory adjoining Khokand.
The Times New York correspondent
writes The President is said to regard
the civil dissensions in Cuba, and especial
ly the sanguinary hostilities which have
prevailed there for the past seven years,
as producing effects in the United States
second in gravity only to those which they
produce in Spain. American political re-
lations with Cuba are in the meantime
altogether anomalous, there being no direct
means of redress in Cuba for any injury
done there to this Government or its citi-
zens. The only method of obtaining re-
dress is through slow and circuitous ac-
ton by way of Madrid. The President
believes that the ultimate issue of events
in Cuba will be its independence. however
that issue may be produced, whether by
negotiation or as the result OF Military