The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN INTKLLIGENcE.

convention OF representatives OF American
and European Cotton Exchanges vas held in
Liverpool. Wednesday, Aug. 0, and action was
taken looking TO a uniformity Of regulations
affecting the cotton trade.
The Servians decline all offers az mediation
and declare that they will not treat for peace
until the Turks xre under thu walls Of Bel
grade.
At Borne, Switzerland, recently, an attempt
was made by female assassin to take the life
of NJ Gortschskoff, the Russian Minister to
Switzerland The would.b assassin is Rus
sian woman, and was promptly arrested. Po-
htical motivessre supposed to be at the bottom
Of the affair.
The French Government has granted the
right for a telegraph ceble between Paris and
New York, and subscriptions will soon be
opened.
In the british Parliament, the other day, a
dispatch from Lord Derby to the British Am
bassador az Oonstantinople was read, in which
tho latteris instructed "to urge strongly on
the Porte that it is absolutely necessary that
it's troops should be kept under control, that
the unsrmed populntion be spared, and that
repetition of the outrages in Bulgaria be avoid
ed. YOU will point out that renewal Of such
outrages would prove more disastrous to the
Porte than the locs of battle. The indigna-
ton of Europe would be uncomfortable, and
interference in sense hostile to Turkey would
inevitably follow"
The rumors that Austria is ready to prevent
the Turks from entering Belgrade is probably
true. 1t is represented that the Powers are re-
solved not to consent to the deposition Of
Prince Milan.
A Ragusa correspondent of the London
Times says the Porte has repealed pacifcstory
overtures, declaring it will risk everything
The Porte also persists in employing Circas-
slams and Bashi-Bszouks.
Disraeli has been elevated to the Peerage,
and will hereafter be known as the Earl OF Bea
consfeld.
A Havana dispatch states that sixty Cuban
insurgents attacked Fort Jaques, in the juris-
dictson of CienfueGos, and demanded its slrr-
render. The men inside the fort, numbering
fourteen, refused the demand and began fir
ing, when the insurgents set fire to the fort,
which was destroyed and besieged. All were
burned to death.
President MacMahon has liberated 161 per-
sons imprisoned for participation in the outrages
during the Commune troubles.
Richard Barres Oakley, manager and propri-
etor Of the Cooperative Credit Bank, London,
scheme started in 1874 which proved a fail
ure, adjudicatad bankrupt in January last
and committed for trial on charge of fraud was
found guilty and sentenced to FIVE years penal
servitude.
The weather in Spain this summer is the hot
test that has been experienced for seventy-six
years.
Lord Lytton, better known to the literary
world a. 'Owen Meredith, has resigned or
is about to resign, the Office Of Governor-Gen-
eral OF India considered the most lucrative
position in the gift of the English Government.
The cause is guessed at, but not positively
known.
A dispatch from Belgrade says: 1T is
quite possible that the constant rumors OF
Turkish advances and Servian retreats are ex-
aYyerated, but it cannot be denied that the
prospects of the Servlans are becoming more
gloomy Officials continue to assure the pub
lie of their ability to beat the Turks. Never
theless CONSERVATION prevails and must in-
crease as the number of runaways increases in
the streets