The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-05
VOLUME XII.

MornsGg aIar ano catholic vlssssngst
A4~ o2LxANs. SUNDAY, JANUARY 1s7s
TELEaRAPHIc SUMMARY.
ICondensed from Associated Press TelegramaI
FOREIGN
RoME.-Deo 80 The Organ of the Vatican
the Osse. ratore Romano, publishes letter from
the Hoy Father to the Archbishop of Cologne
The Pope Gays from the commencement of hii
pontifoste he hs 8 desired peace betGeen prin
ces, people and the church. He has turned hii
man nation, but God alone knows whether The
work is near success. He declares he will CON
tinue in the path hitherto pursued. He ap
peals to the German bishops to obey all laws
not contrary to their faith, and concludes
1--WE must pray God to lead the noble and
powerful Emperor Of Germany and his ad.
visers to show more disposition towards good
will" The letter 10 dated December "a
FRANCE "A special dispatch from Paris to
the London Times, saga: Though the coming
elections do not endapger the cstir~t. the
ministers have perceived that they ought to
ask kind of renstatemeub from the new ma
iority, which will be submitted at the opening
of the session, and which will insist that no
reform shal be adopted without full discus
sion.
The Paris and New York Telegraph Com
papy. of NJ, P,nyer Qaertier, has got three
Parisiau fiaapciaI insLrtutions to guarantee
the capital necessary. American and French
capitalists are also Interested, the latter pro-
baby rather from patriotic views than with q
ksRiew to profit The amount of capital re-
i9quired is 50 900 600 france OF which AZ 900 600
N irancs will be raised by the issue of "a 600
shares.
The reported drowning of forty eight child
rem, at Chapelle Mouche, by the breaking Of
ice upon which they were skating, is cannrd,
invented by Provincial newspaper.
RUssIA.-Tbe folio wing are the details of q
riot created by the students of the University
of Kitff ''Tbe students. in q meeting held out
l. ;1nl fokf at nj Irn nf
a body of them, well armed, accordingly
proceeded to the university and forced their
way in, aftsr disarming the town police. They
then fixed on the black board an energetic pro.
test against the arbitrary proceedings of the
authorities. Two companies of local militia
tried to disperse the students, who resisted,
and thereupon a collision ensued in which
eight persons we're killed and wounded on both
sides. At last force of cavalry succeeded in
clearing the square in front of the university.
Many students were arrested. Similar riots,
though on q smaller scale, are said to have
broken out in other university towns of Rus
eia.
claiming state of siege in Kieff and Kharkof
Orders have been sent to the police at the
frontier to redoudle their vigilance in order to
put stop to revolutionary pamphlets being
smuggled into the country, practice which
has been going on on q large SCALE and to pre-
vent the entrance of revolutionary emissaries
from Germany.
:
ton strike has terminated. At conference
between the employers and operatives COM
mittees yesterday, the latter uncoudtionally
accepted the proposed reduction. 1t is expect
ed work will bs fully resumed Monday.
Over one thousand dock lsborers have struck
work at Hull. Contrary to expectation, near
ly all the masous at Sheffield have struck
against the Ieduotiou which they were noti-
fed, on December "a, would take effect to-
day.
Great 7ex oitemeut has been produced in the
annS do hn ion 0f
the London Iron Traders Employers Aesocia-
tion TO increase the number of working hours.
The Employers Association viii meet Tut 8 ley
next, to arrange prelIuiD aries for resumption
of fifty seven and q half hours as a weekly
quota of labor. District meetings of operative
engineers have been arranged to pronounce
resistance. The AmalGamated Society of Eu-
4 gineers has, according to the last annual re.
port, q quarter OF a million of pounds sterling
on hand. 1t is recognized as q union which,
mercially and fnancially, leads the other
trade Mons of the Kingdom.
The number of business failures announced
in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
during the year 1873 was Is 059, of which 2643
were In financial and Wholesale and manufac-
turing branches of trade, 12,4l6 in retail
trades, professional pursuits, builders pub.
licans. working classes, ETC., against 2l72 and
and $3.50 under the respective headings in
1877, showing an increase of 4037 failures last
year over the preceding year.
+ THE AFGHAN WAR The opinion now seems
to be general that the flight of the Ameer from
Cabul was merely precautionary movement,
and that it does not necessarily imply that he
has given up the contest. On the contrary his
means of Resistance at HerAt will bs more for
midRble than at CRbui. Meanwhile the sGti-
tude Of YakOob Khan, the Ameer's son and
successor, 10 uncertain. The report that he had
made his sobmission to the English, at Jaiai.
abad lacks CONFIRMATION, while another report
obtairs cEetsuce 60 the effect that he will de.
lend Cspul 10 the last. Tne Vicerey of Jndin
lelegraphs that Gen. Stewart reports the COM
pletlon of good road, suitable for heavy
attillery, over tue GhoraEtn Pass. Advances
Eere commenced by both the GhOrszln and
Ih5Ciack Posses, Jsnupr1 Pad. with the inteu-