Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Acompetitive tIislofmilking machines
is to take place at Bristol, Englsna, next July.
The pope has intimated his desire that
pilgrims abstain from any special alluson TO
politics in their addresses to him.
The French artillery has resolved to
discard the bronze tield.pieces with which it
is armed, and. like Germany and Russia, to
odopt steel breechloaders instead, Herr
Krupp, however, will not gain any additional
customers by such step, for the French
war department is to make its own guns.
The Agence Russo says the conditions
of peace as published in London are mac
curate. Russia has never demanded the
expulsion OF the MussuIman population OF
Bulgaria. She has only demanded the recall
of Turkish officials and troops Russia does
not hand over Il portion of Bosnia to Seryie.
The question of the straits is reserved for
the consideration of Europe. The published
version contains other gross inaccuracies.
Mai, Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley, con-
tributor to the Nineteenth Century, gives an
article entitled "Eugland as a Military
Power" The following are his conclusions;
Az no ureyious period has England been so
strong, IN ~ IllIlbuIN oNhoVl 10 hVNf W. y
war declared tomorrow, about four hundred
thousand drilled men would fall into line, II
required, and supported by S73 held guns,
manned and horsed by royal artillery. Ihat
number would roughly be made up as fol-
lows: Standing army at home, 5000 men !;
army and militia reserve, 4O0O0i mllltia,
5000: volunteers, 100000; second class
army reserve, 10000; total, 4l4,OOO. In TINS
calculation have put the figures very low,
and have left out altogether the lQ,o0O yeo'
manry who would be available ior kome
service. | have not taken into consideration
the number of regular troops that would be
available for war when the Mediterranean
garrisons were furnished by the militia. 1t
will ot once be seen that we could at once
take the field with two fully equipped army
corns of more than 10000 soldiers each,
leaving a similar force OF regular troops at
home rs reserve. When | compare the
military strength Of England now with what
II was in 1854, / am as amazed at the con-
ditiops of military weakness and helpless
ness in which we were when We began the
Russian war of that year as ! am at the
;o,,oronce of those who are now croaklng
ayer our supposed want of strength and
olleced consequent inability to fight.
The steamship Oceanic brings the fol-
1or;nS ;ntelliqence from China; A terrible
disaster has occurred at Iientsln, A relugee &c
Snmse I" in which faminestricken refugees
from hT" the northern provinces had assembled,
took iire, and of nearly three thousang
mSnnI4 r"ON LII in the building, only one hundred
esc1pd The extremely so oo1 ,sct EfsthSF Sn da tSs
af,, n%5 ,ioos many of whom have frozen to death,
rg,Hs Tbile thousands arosulering from insufficient
y 2%a4%tsss % ties t5ns + %sft tnd tnd
demand Charles Ludd 5o OI has ' ,ecently Tt yS vis
itad R,lsStG tbe famine.strickeu province Of shens'
SS to supply food sds and asSsta1Cs ht ,Ss
nSg isbopesty ones of officials. Children are sold by
bnnSreds ,su1 by starving parents. In the large 8,
n1aS n;t;ns NJ, of Houcheng and Pucheng risingsS
Sl'Ie' Saye occurred &C. among the people, rendered