Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-17
FOREIGN TELEGRAAIS.

Liverpool, March l6: The steamship
Siberia, from Boston, has arrived.
London, March Is: The stock mar
ket closed steadier, with generally bet
ter feeling.
Paris, March Is: Specie in the Bank
Of France has increased Il, ,932, coo francs
the past week.
Rome, March Is: The minister Of
public instruction ordered the universi-
ty styles and the Vatican university to
be closed, it being an illegal establish1
ment.
Madrid, March Is: The Spanish gov
eminent has demanded release CT the
prize crew OF the Guarda Costas, who
were taken to Gibraltar by the British
schooner.
Madrid, March Is: The CUSTOM
house authorities at Alguiras have de-
clared the English feluccs, captured
by the Spanish revenue cutter, to be 8
lawful prize.
London, March Is: Mark Fisher &
Sons, wooden cloth manufactures Of
HOdlesfield, Yorkshire, and Montreal,
have failed; liabilities fOrty-siX thousand
pounds sterling.
London, March Is: The Tinles's cor
respondent says the bridge at Austerlitz
has been closed. 1t is reported that the
bridge has partially given way under
pressure of the water.
London, March Is: The amount of
bullion gone into the Bank of England
on balance to-day is e1100; bullion in
the bank has increased e395, 900 the past
week; the proportion of reserve to lia-
biIity is AZ per cent.
London, March Is: One more failure
is announced at the stock exchange to-
day. The amount of liabilities has not
transpired. The market is fiat and there
is but little doing. Telegraph lines north
ward are still deranged, and dispatches
are more or less delayed.
Queenstown, March Is: The ship
Emericles, Captain Beard, from Port
Royal, South Carolina, to -Greenock,
capsized on the twelfth of March. The
second mate and seven of the crew have
arrived at this port. The remainder of
the crew and the captain, thirteen in all,
were drowned.
London, March 16: The Hour, refer
ring to Professor SilIiman's recent neg
atory letters, says that the professor is
wrong in stating that no such telegram
was ever sent, for the original telegram
is in the Emma mine Office, with
stamp showing lis receipt on the fifth of
April, 1872. The telegram begins thus:
every great improvement since last re-
ports"
London, March Is: A telegram from
| Alexandria states that in recent battle
| the Abyssinians numbered sixty thou
sand and the Egyptians twenty thou
sand men. In consequence of the kings
suing for peace, the khedive's yacht
Mahromesa left SueZ, on Tuesday, with
| dispatches addressed to Hasa and Rat
tile Pashs. 1t is generally considered
that the Abyssinian war is ended.
Liverpool, March Is: The ship Greta,
Captain Msccredy, from San Francisco
| November 25, 1875, arrived here to-day.
| She brings portion of the crew Of the
ship Great Britain, Captain Chilcate,
from DabOy January 22i, from this port,
which was abandoned at sea in sink
| ing condition. Eleven OF the crew of
the Great Britain were drowned and
| four died from exposure. The Great
| Britain encountered terrible weather,
and became waterlogged on the third of
March. The captains two SONS died Of
privation. The captain and thirteen
men took to the boat, and coon suffered
terribly from hunger. Three of the men
| died, and the survivors were forced to
eat portions Of the remains Of their COM
rades to keep from starving. On the
eleventh of March they were rescued, in
the last stage of emaciation.