Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-04-24
Foreign News.

hONDON, ApIIl IL "A oCull-ouIOidl
dispatch from Calcutta says the Indian
government has received orders to send
troops to Malta, and the following regi-
ments are designated to leave: Ninth
Bengal Cavalry, First Bombay Light
Cavalry, Second Ghoorkas, Thirteenth
and Thirty-frst Bengal Infantry,
Twensy-ffth Madras Infantry, two
regiments of Bombay native infantry,
two Bombay field Batteries, two COM
panies of Bombay sappers and miners
and two companies of Madras sappers
and miners The native infantry will
be brigaded with the British at Maley
The assistant quartermaster and com.
missary general at Calcutta have gone
to Malta to arrange for the reception
of the troops.
LONDON, April 1.-THE Standards s
Berlin correspondent says that Eng.
land and Russia are as far as ever from
an understanding The Daily News
Berlin telegrams confirm this view,
and then another regards the situation
as extremely serious. He declares
thas the English cabinet stands alone,
utterly isolated j. A. MacGahan, the
correspondent of The Daily News at
San Stefano, telegraphs that the situa-
ton is strained to the utmost. The
Grand Duke Nicholas is depressed and
gloomy. The correspondent says:
''The first gun may be fired at any mo-
ment. The great powers are only too
surly drifting into war"
The Journal des Debats of Paris
says: ut is useless to indulge in any
illusions respecting the gravity of the
present state of affairs. We are, per
haps, on the eve of great war, and
amidst movement so violent that it
threatens to carry everything before it.
Germany is the only State sufficiently
powerful to arrest the headlong course
Of events, and magnanimous enough to
oblige. If it permits war, it will have
failed in the duty imposed upon it by
it's military and diplomatic powers"
LONDON, April l7.-Leading Tyne
shipping firms whose boats are now
waiting for cargoes in Indian ports,
were yesterday invited to make tenders
for the Immediate conveyance OF troops
to the Mediterranean.
LONDON, April 17.-Parliament
separates for the Easter recess under
the conviction that the emergency is
not greater than it was weeks ago.
The news from various centers of In
teresr is not reassuring
CoNsTANTINoPLE. April 1.-THE
contest in the Cabinet continues All
med Vefik Effendi, President of the
Council of Ministers, rendered his res
ignation Monday, but withdrew it
after long conference with the Sultan
and Safvet Pasha, President of Council
Of State, and the refusal of Reouf
Pasha and Mehemet Ruchbi Pasha to
accept the Premiership. Mehemet
Rachdi Pasha has been appointed a
Minister without portfolio.
LIVERPOOL, April l7.--Darbyshire
McKinnell & Co, merchants and ship
owners, have failed. Liabilities estim-
ated at 81 100000. They were engag-
ed chiefly in South American trade,
but had some connection with the
United States.
LONDON, April 1.-THE notices of
the reduction of wages of the cotton
operatives in Lancashire will expire to.
bay and tomorrow. The refusal of
the masters at Manchester to agree to
a S per cent reduction, and their resol-
ution that if a strike occurs at any of
the mills where notice has been given
of a ten per cent. reduction, tho re.
mainder Of the trade shall lock out g.
the earliest possible moment, leaves
little hope of averting the struggle,
which will involve the stoppage Of
5000 looms aud 100000 spindles