The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-13
Does BeacOnsfeld's Silence Mask His
Failure at StambOul?
"PETIT BONHOMME Wit ENCORE.
Strewing Alfonso's Bridal Path
with Flowers.
POPE LEO'S AURORA"
fpY CABLE TO THE HERALD

LONDON, Nov. 13, 1879.
General Garibaldl's divorce suit will come be-
fore the Court of Appeal on the 10Th inst
Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador to Russia,
has gone to Paris his way to st. Petersburg.
The Bank of Bengal has reduced its rate of
interest and discount from six per cent to five
per cent.
The report that an alliance has been formed
between the Balkan principalities is not be-
Geved here.
The wife Of Baron Won Manteuffel, Governor
General OF Alsace-Loraine, died yesterday at
Strasbourg.
The Tines correspondent at Paris says 600
the United States
The German Admiralty have decided to en-
large Dantzc harbor and convert it into an i'm
portant naval station.
Admiral Horribly has issued orders to the
Channel squadron at Malta to prepare to pro-
coed eastward in four days.
The resignation Of General Cialdini, the
Italian Minister at Paris, has been denitively ac-
copied. The Chevalier Nigra will succeed him.
The Times Vienna correspondent asserts that
the reported Balkan alliance may safely be
assumed as having been only plan, not fact.
The Standards Vienna correspondent reports
that the Car has postponed his visit to Cannes
because the Czarevna expects to remain there
until the spring.
The Spanish steamer Gurtnbay, Captain
Ansoleaga from Bilbao, October IA, for New
York, has been abandoned Her crew have
landed at Antwerp.
The Posfs Berlin correspondent telegraphs -
cit is stated here that Prince Bismarck and
Count Schouvaloff will meet before the latter
returns to st. Petersburg"
1t is understood that French Cabinet Coun-
Gil on Wednesday decided to transfer the con-
troll of the gendarmerie from the War Office to
the Ministry of the Interior.
The Standards Vienna correspondent denies
the existence of an increasing excitement in
Bosnia and II herzegovina, and says the number
of troops there is being reduced.
Intelligence from st. Petersburg is to the
effect that General Tomakine has been recalled
and Colonel Petrupevitch appointed to COM
mand the trans-Caspiun territory.
A Berlin despatch to the Standard states that
considerable alarm is felt in Belgium at the
Notifications which have been begun ut Dun
kirk, Lille Naubenge and valcncennes.
The Times despatch from Berlin says:-"An
evening Journal positively asserts that the next
imperial budget will contain estimates for
considerable Increase of the German army"
The Paris correspondent of the Standard re-
ports that a bundle of Bonapartist pamphlets,
entitled Napoleon Is Not Dead" has been
seized by the Custom House authorities ut Bou-
logne.
The first number Of the aurora, q daily
newspaper, planned and issued by the Vatican,
will appear on the LIST of January next as u
more authoritative exponent of the Pope's views
than the existing clerical newspaper.
The steamer Brazilian, Captain Worthington,
from Boston October 20 for Liverpool, where
she arrived November IL, was in collision with
the British ship Governor Tilley, Captain
Humphrey, from New York October 20 for
Liverpool. The Governor Tilley was damaged.
Vhe damage to the Brazilian, if any, is slight.
FRANCIS JosEpn's VISITORS.
A telegram has been received ut Vienna from
Gmunden, announcing that the King and Queen
Of Denmark and the Cxarcwtch and Czarevna
will leave there on the 18th inst for Vienna. on
the Emperor's invitation. They will remain in
Vienna until after the departure of the Arch
duchess Christine for Spain. The Czarewitcl
and wife will then 20 to st. Petersburg, via
Berlin.
TRANQUILITY AT sTAMBoUL
A despatch from Constantinople says 1.-THE
Porte has ordered the withdrawal of the greater
part of the troops stationed on the Turco-Greek
frontier. NJ. Fournier, the French Ambassador
to Turkey, will leave Constantinoplc in Jan,i-
ary next Oh several months leave Of absence.
Alcko Pacha Governor General of Roumelia,
was expected Mt the Turkish capital yesterday"
BEAcoNsFiELD CRITICISED ny RUSSIAN JOURNALS.
The semi-oflcial newspaper, Journal dc 81.
Pctersbou,y and the Goios consider that Lord
Beaconsheld's speech ut the Lord Mayors
banquet on the 10th inst. was more intended
to produce IN impression at home, in view of
the approach of the general election,
than abroad. The journal de ~ Pefersbourg
considers that Lord Beaconsfield's expressions
afford proof that the British public leans toward
peace. The GoIos says :-.Lord Bcaconsfieds
tone was 40 lowered that II almost amounted to
a remuneration of all that he and Lord Salisbury
had previously said" The Noroc Vrcmya
says:--"I.ord Beaconsfeld's silence ON East
crn affairs masks his failure ut Constantinoplc."
The Russian press generally remark upon Lorl
Bcaconsfcld's abstcntion from attacking Rus
sin and tho recent friendly remarks of some
English newspapers.
MINISTERIAL INVESTIGATIONS.
The Sheffield Daily Telegraph reports Hon.
edward Stanhopc, Under Secretary of State for
India, as saying, during speech Mt Tlorncastle,
that It was possible Parliament might last till
this time ncxt year, but thnt in all probability
it was very near its end, and he took the oppor-
tunity of advising his hearers to prepare for "a,
election at an early date.
cABUL GIVES UP IT'S ARMS. s..
Tho Times, in its second edition, publishes
despatch dated Cnbul, November z, which
says:--"Thc mutinous troops Of the Amcer In
1urkcstan have delivered up nearly five hum
bred stand OF arms, hundred camels and
sosuc camp cquipagc. Colonel Macpherson re-