The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-03
FOREIGN.


In the house of commons Disraeli
moved a bill enabling the queen to take the
style and title of Empress of India"
Venezuela has demanded her differ
ences with Holland to be submitted to the
arbitrament of one of the great European
powers.
The chief police commissioner of Rot
terdam, states that active search is being
made there and elsewhere on the continent
for WinslOw, the Boston forger.
The Azore islands, between the months
of October and December last, exported 121,-
792 cases of oranges and 6,142 Pine-apples,
employing fourteen steamships and forty-two
sailing vessels.
The steamer Franconia ran into the
steamer Strath-Clyde, of Glasgow, of Dover
on the evening of the 18th. The boiler of
the Strath Clyde burst, and she sank imme-
diately. Fifty-two of her passengers were
drowned.
Extreme Encouragement prevails at
Havana on account of the fact that the rebel
lion cannot be suppressed, that the troops
have not been paid off for months, and that
crowded hospitals have been almost aban-
doned on account of penury and want.
A Washington dispatch states the Mis-
sissippi levee commission will report unani-
mously in favor of an appropriation of from
s., 100000 to $5,D0OOO in the shape of a
refund of a portion of the cotton tax ille-
gally collected from the states TO he directly
benefited by the construction of levees.
The London Times concludes its lead
ing article, "The Cuban Question, " by re
marking: "No country seeks to interfere
by force, with Spain's possession of Cuba
but if she cannot govern it, she would dc
well to consider how she could best prepare
it for the freedom which always follows a
colonial misrule."
A dispatch from London states that
the liberals have agreed to resist in parlia-
ment the ratification of the purchase of the
! Suez canal shares, believing that serious for
| eign complications will arise. Bradlaugh,
who has been consulted by Gladstone, is
| lecturing to country audiences, and securing
/ signatures to petition imploring resistance
/ to the ratification.
| Owing to the devastation and destruc-
]
Cuba by the Spaniards and rebels, the Diario
says that the sugar crop of the present year
will fall short thirty per cent. of that of 1875.
Dealers in this article, both in Europe and
/ America, can base their calculations upon
| Cuba's furnishing two hundred thousand tons
| less than last year.
Just before Alfonso's departure for the
north, Del CASTILLO read to the king dis
patch from the Spanish consul at Bayonne,
announcing that the Carlist junta intended
to hold a meeting at Villa France, to pro-
/ pose a conclusion of peace. The Carlists
are represented as panic-stricken. They lack
money and provisions. Many priests and
| Catholic families are quitting the country.
On the first instant party of Mexi-
cans went into store that was kept by an
old man named Carols, near Edinburg, Texas,
4 on the Rio Grande, and murdered him and
/ his wife, two grown daughters and several
/ Americans. The store was entirely emptied
/ of its contents. The next morning party OF
/ citizens went out in search of the murderers
and succeeded in capturing eight of them
and hanging them to the nearest tree.