, 1875-08-07

""u mAoS, III TaCneT less tudu .
hours.
The annual gathering Of the Durham
miners comprised about $4,000 persons,
the men being in many cases accoinpan-
led by their families. Addresses were
delivered by Mr.. Macdonald, M. p, Mr..
Burt, NJ r, Mr.. Bradlaugh and others,
and household suffrage 10 the counties
was insisted upon as a necessary measure
of reform.
The material loss by the recent floods
in France is estimated at 10 millions
sterling.
The rumour of a contemplated marriage
between the Princess Girgenti, sister Of
the King of Spain, and Prince John Fred
erick of Hohenzollern gains credit in Paris,
and is regarded as q significant political
event.
The Turkish Budget shows a deficit
Of Al millions sterling.
An official circular has been sent by
the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs to
the diplomatic representatives contradict
ing the alarming reports recently current
respecting the Kings intention to leave
the country.
At q recent sitting of the House of Com
mons, Mr.. Baillie Cochrane referred to
the progress of Russia in Eastern Asia,
and in the course of the debate which
ensued Sir g. Campbell recommended
" mastery Inactivity as the true policy
ofthe British Government, and Mr.. Bourke,
also, was unfavourable to any active inter-
terence in the present course OF events In
North Eastern India. Mr.. Whalley's at
tempt to obtain a select committee to in
quire into the presence of Jeshits in Eng
land led to the House being counted out.
The Court Of Queens Bench held its
last meeting under that name on the 5th
ult., being in future merged in the High
Court of Justice. The Court of Kings
Bench dates from the time of Alfred, 10
centuries back. =
Mr.. Hogg, the editor of an agricultural
journal, states that the disease which has
attacked the potato crop is the "curI dis
ease" which was so destructive at the
commencement of the present century.
Some leading Ministers of the Congre-
gationaI body in England have congratulate
ed the Rev, Mr.. Beecher upon the result
Of the trial in New York, and an address
for general signature has been prepared.
Don Juan de Bourbon, father of the
Spanish Pretender, Don Carlos, was ar.
rested on the French frontier, but was re.
leased upon his promise to quit France.
The religious controversy continues to
rage in the Belgian papers, but the vio-
lent street scenes of last month have not
been renewed.
1t is again reported from Berlin that the
Emperor William will visit the King of
Italy in October next.
The sudden rise of the Danube swept
away one quarter of the town Of Buda-Pesth
The Russian Minister of Education has
directed his provincial subordinates to
repress the atheistic and socialistic agita-
ton which is going on in the universities
and upper schools.
In the House of Commons Mr.. Trevely-
ans household Franchise (Counties)
Bill was strongly supported, by Mr.. W.
E. Forster, aud opposed, as unreasonable,
by Lord Harrington. On the part of the
Government Lord Manners objected to
the Bill, as proposing an enormous change
In the franchise without any provision for
The due. regard of the various interests
affected, and, upon a division, the second
reading was defeated by 268 to 166.
The discussion, in the French Assem-
bly, on the Public Powers Bill was re.
stunned on the 9th July, when M. Buffet