The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-22
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
England.
MORE RAIN AND FLOODS.

England.
MORE RAIN AND FLOODS.
LONDON. August 21.-The rains in Eng
land continue, and & renewal OF the over
fow OF rivers is reported this morning
from Somersetshire, Dcrbyshire, Warwick-t
shire. Worcestershire, and Staffordshire.
Earthquake Shocks In Canada.
ST.. GATHERINGS, ONT, August M.-A.
heavy earthquake shock was felt here 2:J8
O'Clock this morning.
| NIAGARA, n. Y, August 2I.-Tbere was
severe earthquake shock here at 8 O'Clock
| this morning.
| WAsH1SGToS, D. C., August 21.-Dis-
patches from Port Dulhonsie, Thorold,
Willard, AIlansburg, BearisviIle, and Port
Robinson, Canada. report severe shocks OF
earthquake about o'clock this morning.
Canadian Pacific Railway Extension.
| TORONTO, August 21.-A special cable.
gram from London to the GLOBE says the!
! Colonial Secretary has not found it advisa-,
BILE to recommend guarantee for the Ca
madam Pacific railway extension desired by
Sir John Mcdonald, but Imperial support
may be given to the proposed extension in
another form. A part of the scheme laid
| before Sir Michael d Hicks Beach suggest
ed an appointment OF an Imperial commits
sioner to act in conjunction with the Do
mion commission. to have charge OF the
lands hypothecated for the construction Of
the railway. The Canadian representatives
now here have impressed UPON the Govern
ment the importance OF having an Imperial
commission to cooperate with the Dominion
commission. ...
The amount of money required to COM
plete the line along the shore OF Lake Su-
perior to Thunder bay, and thence to Red
river, is estimated at S1s,000,00O. Without
Imperial guarantee new loan may be OBJ
tanned by the Canadian Government to COM
plete the line, but it would add strength to
the financial position il the Imperial COM
missioner should take part in the admins
tration OF lands or revenues upon which the
loan may be based. The enterprise has
been represented rs great emigration
scheme, in which the mother country is
chiefly interested. Under these circum-
stances the Canadian Ministers have asked
for the appointment OF an Imperial commits
sioner, whether the Government approve
or continue to refuse guarantee. ....
Greece.
ATHENS, August 21.-A royal decree has
been issued calling out 5000 men OF the
second of the territorial army, and the King
has postponed his intended autumn tour.
The South American War.
PANAMA, August 12.-Advices from Lima
to July 30th give the particulars OF the cap
ture OF the Gillian transport Rimac by the
Peruvian men.of-war HuScar and Ubon.
The Rimac was armed with four thirtv-two-
Founders, but when oycrtakcn she made
very little resistance, firing one or two shots
and then hosting Il white flag. 1t is re-
garded as very important capture. since
she had on board q cavalry regiment from
the crack Gillian army corps, 2l0 horses,
900 Colombian rifles, with a large store OF
ammunition, and coal, clothing, and NUM-
tons OF war. The Rimac was bought by
the Chllian Government only a few weeks
ago for 100000, and her cargo Is valued at
million Of soles. So
| The New French Cable. o..
LIVERPOOL, August 2I.-The London
correspondent of the Courier says the last
communication through the cable from the
steamer Faraday, engaged in laying the new
French cable, was received here on the 18th
OF August. The Faraday was then expert
encing heavy weather. The cable is sup.
posed TO have been cut, and, it is hoped,
buoyed. The North German Lloyd steamer
Weser, which arrived at Southampton on
the 10Th, reports that she spoke the steamer
Faraday on the 18th instant in latitude
49.19 north, longitude 1870 west, but that
the only words OF the signals deciphcrable
were 4" lifted 1,7O0 cable" ,- 81.
Death Of Il Noted Writer.
LONDON, August 21.-Joseph Octave De
La Plerc, the Belgian historian and anti
quarry, and the writer OF macaronic litera-
tnre, Is dead; aged Seventy.siN years. He
was formerly in the diplomatic service sof
Belgium. ..... So. T..
Nih1Iists Sentenced i'm Russia.
| ODESSA, August 21.-The Judgment Of
the military tribunal in the case OF the
NihiIists, whose trials terminated on the
| 18th instant, have been published. Five
men were sentenced to be hanged, one
woman sent in exile into Siberia, and TWEEN
ty-two other prisoners sentenced to ten
years. penal servitude. -----
| .-s- ForeFsn Items. -
LONDON, August 21.-A dispatch from
Vienna to the Daily Telegraph says: Rus:
sian and English commissioners bave Sc
riuusly differed relative to delimitatlon OF
| Russo-Turklsh frontier in Asia, each dis
putting the accuracy of the others maps.
Lord Dufferin, British ambassador at st.
Petersburg, has suspended for the moment
negotiations which were proceeding at st.
Petersburg on this subject.
A dispatch to the Daily Meas says: Some
persons put the number of cruisers for the
| construction Of which IN America Russia
is negotiating as high as twenty-five, but
five or less seems more probably the num-
her,, Il.
A correspondent Of the Times writes that
| John Baldwin Blackstone, the famous come
dian aud dramatic author, for many years
lessee, and manager OF the Haymarket The
atre, suffered second paralytic seizure a
few days ago, and is now probably on his
death-bed, and that he is tn destitute cir
cumstances. r. . 49, * .ss.s,k : : ,2a
The health OF Sir Rowland Hill, ex-see-
rotary TO General Post-Nfice and originator
l.oi the plan for3the universal penny. postage
Isystem,, has been failing for sof9e !. months.
East Dighty hiss ondtiien became erlpeal,