The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-03

comparison with that of India, is the power
of Switzerland to that of Germany
1t is officially announced that the king
OF Durmsh has given a satisfactory explana-
ton Of his course OF action to Sir Douglas
Forsythe, the British envoy War is now con
sldered improbable. The king CT Burmah has
granted to Great Britain the tight to send
forces through his dominons to western
China. if requisite, for future expeditions.
Cable dispatches report that the Brit
ish government has declared against
Burmah. The report causes considerable ex-
element, especially in ell-informed business
circles where large interests would be mate
| rally affected by an Anglo Burmese war. The
same dispatch says: THE Chinese govern
ment is concentrating troops at Manwine in
consequence OF the Anglo-Burmese quarrel.
A formidable Chinese army is available for
| service at any moment on the frontier. This
| warlike movement has greatly depressed COM
| merce here"
Special kilograms to the London
Times say nine hundred persons persisted in
| the flood at Toulouse alone. There an out
break of epidemic is feared. 1t is believed
that 2, 600 houses have been swept away in the
town and it's environs. The damsge there is
estimated at from f12. 600 600 to Els, 900 900
The Daily News special says the lowest esti-
mate OF deaths in the flooded districts is two
thousand 1t is proposed to lombard and
destroy the st. Cypren quarters of Toulouse
to prevent danger from the crumbling walls of |
houses that yet remain. The Standard pub |
fishes reports of fearful inundations in Bo- |
hemia, Moravia, Corinthia and Bariat, with |
some loss of life and great des ruction of |
property Many bridges have been carried |
away, thousands of cattle drowned and crops |
in several districts totally ruined.
The loss of life by the flood at Tou-
louise is appalling. In st. Cyprien quarter 215
corpses have already been found. The violence
of the torrent frustrated the efforts to rescue
the unfortunate inmates of houses. Several
men were drowned in the attempt. Twenty
Thousand persons are deprived of subsistence
in Toulouse alone. Disasters elsewhere are of
almost equal magnitude. The lower part of
the city OF Morssac on the Tarn is under wa
ter. At Tremouet, in the department arriege,
five houses only remain standing out of 400
In the district of Folk, in the same department.
two villages completely submerged and
many dead bodies found. Crops of all kinds
throughout the inundated districts have been
destroyed The municipal council of Paris
has voted %, 600 for the relief of the sufferers
Eighty persons were drowned in the verdun.
Eight hundred houses have fallen in Tou-
louise. At Bordeaux the Garonne is much
swollen, but no serious catastrophe is re-
ported. 1t is said that altogether over LOCO
lives hsve been lost.
A letter from Maracaibo, of May 20,
gives an account of the earthquake at Cyrcut-
ia on the 18th. The first shock leveled every
wall in the city, burying in single instant ]
8 600 people out Of population of 10000
Several were not killed, but subsequently died
from tbs injuries, and many were murdered
by robbers who plundered in bands The
shocks continued, and the fires burned much '
property. Thoss saved fed to the neighbor-
ng country and escaped When the news
reached Maracaibo two steamers were Gent {
With food and clothing to the sufferers by the
American consul and people also a corps of {
physicians and committee to disbufse aid
The government sent soldiers to protect the
people. Reports from San Caye.tens, Santi- J..
lgo. Gramolate. Arboteda, Cucutella. and San !
Jristabel. all aggregatiDg population of 90 :
100. confirm the previous accounts of the de d.
'truction of life and property at those places. J
The shock was felt at Baerida and other
places, and in Maracaibo there have been light g
Iuakes every day since. ,