The New York herald., 1879-12-04
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.

ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
In Western Australia new tariff has been pro-
claimed which. it is expected will yield f200 900 per
annum.
The attendance at the Sydney International Exhi-
bition its opening foots up 10000. The
admission has been fxed at q uniform charge Of one
shilling.
In Tasmania a Ministerial crisis has occurred, in
which the Ministry defeated and vote Of want
Of confidence was passed The Ministers advised
dissolution but the Governor refused sanction it.
Mr.. Giblin has formed new Ministry.
letter from Adelaide, New Zealand, says:-''Par-
lament prorogued on the 25th ult. The Cover
nors speech alluded to the hopeful prospects OF the
harvest. Commercial interests, he said,
couraging. He expressed confidence in the stability
of the resources OF the colony
The sydney Morning Herald of October reports
that the Strahleven designed the pos
sibility of conveying frozen meat from Australia, is
to leave Sydney for London about the middle of
November. She will take from Sydney COO carcases
of beef, 200 OF mutton and quantity OF wool, and
fill up similarly in Melbourne
The system Of Decentralization in Poland is. we
Russian government now than formerly NJ. La
poushtn. Curator of Education at Warsaw, has just
issued decree forbidding the students of the uni
versity, under penalties. TO the Polish
language, either in private or in public.
The receipts from the Suez Cunal have been
steadily decreasing for the last two years. The de-
in 1873 amounted to 1.6l6, ,000f., and during
the last nine months Of the present year there has
been u further decrease below the average. During
passed through the canal $50 bore the British hag
The value of land in Ireland is so deprecated at
this moment. says London Vanity Fair that in the
Landed Estates Court last week. Judge Flanagan
declined to allow the sale OF estate in Roscom-
than fourteen years purchase. There were no fewer
than estates for sale that day. November but
only four were sold. For two OF these there was
absolutely bidding. Is this the result Of Mr..
Gladstone's Irish Land act of the state Of the
country7 Whatever the caase it is most serious to
landowners and can hardly last.
thef aficnll lv eflo n
ilce the losses of the Austrian army have been
siderable The report the campaign has just been
issued, according to which there have been AZ
perior officers and 935 rank and file killed. To these
must be added ITO missing. and SO officers, 22S non
have been swept away by dsease-an absolute loss,
therefore. of 3443. To these must be added nearly
been nvalided The strength Of the army at present
in the field according to the humber of rations is
sued, is 19s, $50.
Another Northeast Arctic expedition is spoken Of
expresses his intention OF undertaking another voy-
age to the northern coast Of Asia circum-
stances permit. "After my RETURN" he says, 81
think of spending year on preparing account of
voyage Of the Vega. and it is my desire then to
continue the exploration of the icy ocean along the
of Siberia making the River Lena the point Of
departure and the New Siberian Isles the basis OF
operations. For the object have proposed to my
self-namely, the rendering Of the northern part
Asia completely accessible to commercial shipping
the prosecution OF these researches is Of
Importance"
In order to prove the superiority of . republican
form OF government o French liberal paper fur
nishes the following statistics the subject Of
sian deficit, it remarks amounts to 81 500, ,000f
fourteenth of the total budget; that of Austria to
~. 900 00Ur.. the thirty first part of the total
budget that Of Hungary to As 5.00O 000f. the thr
teenth part Of the budget; that OF Holland to
for the English floating debt. that has been in
creased by 23S 600 000f; and the theoretical equili
brium of the Italian and Russian budgets has only
been obtained by means which leave very largo
margin for the deficits Of the future. The state of
s,lrplus adds the writer will not be less than
100,u00.0of. this year-a fact which we are told
should inspire serious reflections among nsighbor-
ing nations.
Some new light may be expected to be thrown
upon contemporary history by the work on which
kossuth has been for some time past engaged.
Despite his advanced age Kossuth daily devotes ten
hours out OF every twentyfotir to the work of
position, compilation and arrangement. for the book
he IL about to give the world Will consist not only
of his memoirs but Of his political writings
and speeches. whose name is Legion. The first
volume Is announced for publication before the end
of the present year. 1t will be perused nowhere
with lively interest than within the family circle
OF the Emperor-king i'll the first year OF whose reign
the great Magyar patriot was condemned to death
as rebel and compelled to quit his country pro-
Rudolph is as enthusiastic admircr of the Hun
garian language and literature his august
parents and Kossuth's orations in that tongue,
rivalled Tor elegance OF STYLE are favorte reading
with the future Hungarian King. pleasant story
is told how. some short time ago. he learned by
mere accident that one OF the speeches In question
had been kept back from him by his tutor, on the
ground that It advocated the dethronement and ex-
pusion OF the Hapsburg dynasty. His Imperial
Highncss asked for the speech, but could obtain
1t from his attendants. whereupon he appealed to
the Emperor. aud Francis Joseph ut once gave
orders that it should be procured for his son. whose
desire to read IL met with his entire approval.
As polite concession to the vehement indiqna-
ton excited throughout Germany by the scandxlous
attack upon German women recently published in
tho Wiedoostt, of St. Petcrsbur the Russian police
authorities suspended for three months that jour-
nails privilege of street SALE It appears that tho
wrath aroused in Teutonic minds by tho article
tized the matrons and maidens of the Fatheriand
when Of lively disposition ''prancing
cows crowned with wrcaths," and
insolcntly asseverated that "they are not
altogether human beings at any time" has
brought down upon it's author u very deluge of
irate letters from all parts OF the German EN-
pire. One of these, wL'ch may serve az q speci-
men, been made public by its recipient as well
as the reply which IL elected from him :-'.Berlin,
Both OctoDer.1t s lucky for you Sir, that you re-
side in city far distant from Berlin, otherwise
! would punish you IN highly exemplary manner
| for your abominable article upon German women.
AS, however, the distance separating us prevents
me from 30 doing. consider yourself having been
! properly thrashed by me. B. Nochstetter, 132,
| Oranienstrasse." The Russian feuletonist how
ever deficient he may be in good taste IL certainly
very funny person, IS the following answer to the
above convincingly demonstrates: -''Petersburg,
4th November.-Honored Sir-At the very moment
in which you raised your cudgel to beabor me
succeeded in drawing revolver from my pocket
| and in shooting you dead the spot 1 therefore
request you to consider yourself shot. My address
| II No. IA Adllnirskaia."