The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-11
COG AND MAGOG.
Gear and Emperor Swear an
Eternal Friendship.
DACOITs OF THE DECCAN.
French Mummers and Maskers Troop to
the Relief of Murcia.
PRINCE GoRTcAAkoFF RETIREs.
icy CABLE TO THE HEnALD.l

(BY CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON, Nov H., 1879.
The royal stables at Florence have been
totally destroyed by fire.
The Soir announces that private letter from
Rome states that the Queen Of Italy is seriously
Ill with a fever.
The Libertd, of Rome, denies that the govern
ment is seeking to induce General Cialdini to
accept another diplomatic mission.
The Iagbtatfs Constantinople despatch re-
ports that Russian naval officer has arrived
there to purchase four Turkish iron-clads.
The Vedon,osi reports that General Dolgo-
roukoH who commanded the advance column
at the battle Of DengilTepe, has been recalled.
The departure for America of Mr.. Parnell,
which was originally fixed for the 10th inst,
has been postponed in consequence of the as
pect Of political affairs.
The Unirers and Gazette du Midi are to be
prosecuted for publishing false reports that the
government had taken military precautions in
view of coming troubles.
The Standards correspondent at Pesth re-
ports that the duel between Count Szapary and
Deputy Pazmandy will not take place, the mat
ter having been adjusted
says :-"Count Schouvaloff will start for st.
Petersburg in few days. His retirement from
the Russian embassy at London has long been
anticipated and will create no surprise.
A Berlin despatch to the Standard says the
attempt to divert the Anu Darya into the Cas-
pian Sea with native help having failed, COM
mission Of European engineers, appointed to
undertake the work, have just started for
Khiva
PRINCE GORTsCHAKOFF RETIREs.
The Daily 1elegraphs despatch from Vienna
says-'The oft-rumored resignation Of Prince
Gortschakof has become fact, and Gortscha-
koff is now about to retire. The Foreign Depart
ment will be conducted by NJ. de Giers until
successor to the Prince is appointed"
j, SENATOR vALENTIN's SUICIDE.
Special dispatches from Paris now place it
beyond doubt that M. Marie Edmond Valen-
tin, Senator from the Department of the
Rhone and a member of the Republican
Left, whose death was announced on the
I'd inst, shot himself in consequence of chagrin
ut having recommended unfortunate invest
ments. M. VALENTINES life was stormy and event
full. He served in the army for the first eight
years of his career, and was known among his
comrades as man whom it was dangerous to
offend He fought q duel with Comte Clary,
the faithful adherent of the Bonapartes, and
was wounded in the thigh. After the coup d'etat
Of December he arrested. imprisoned in o
fortress, and finally expelled from French
soil. He took refuge in England, and
was elected to the chair Of military
history at Woolwich. He was great
favorite with the cadets though rigid in his dis
cpline He returned to France after the decla-
ration of war In 1870. Appointed PrGfet of
Strasbourg, and hidden to occupy his post ut
all hazards, he swan across the river before the
besieged town under the enemy's hottest fire.
Of late years he has sat quietly in the Senate,
and the old wild spirit seemed to have died out
of him. But he was always II man. of the
strictest honor and the utmost courHge, and
l.. there was nothing in his life that made his end
improbable.1
PRUSSIA AND THE VATICAN.
despatch from Rome says :--"With a view
to the arrangement Of the question of filing up
the numerous vacant cures in Prussia, the Vati
can has requested and Prince Bismarck has
consented to delegate Privy Councillor Hausler
to continue the negotiations with the Papal
nunciOs ut Munich and Vienna
GERMANY AND RUSSIA
The Berlin correspondent Of the Ncrs hears
from well informed quarter in st. Petersburg
that during recent correspondence between
the Gear and Emperor William the latter as
surcd the Gear in special private letter that
neither he nor his son would ever make war
against Russia, and cordially invited the Car
10 visit Berlin on his way to Cannes. The Gar
replied that he could not come himself, but
that the Czarewitch would visit the Emperor.
BIsMARcKs CRITICAL STATE OF HEALTH.
The National Zcitssng, of Berlin, says that
Prince Bismarck is not only suffering from his
old neuralgia complaint, but symptoms of
constitutional malady have appeared, which his
robust constitution win probably overcome,
but which cause some apprehension.
PILLARS OF THE PORTE
Sir Austen Layard the British Ambassador,
has protested to the Porte against the appoint
ment, which is just announced OF Kiamtl Pacha
as Counsellor and Under Secretary Of
the Grand vizier, Said Pacha. Kiamtl
Pacha was recently dismissed from the
Governorshp Of Alcppo at the joint request of
the English aud French Ambassadors, because
Of his oppression of the Armenians at Zeitchun.
II is reported that Hafuz Pacha, who is ap-
pointed Minister Of Police, is the same whose
punishment, jointly with that of Chcvket
Pacha, was demanded in Lord Derby's celc-
bratcd despatch after the Bulgarian atrocities.
Prince Lobanof has Informed Sawas Pacha,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he does not
bear any proposals from the Russian govern
ment. Prince Lobanoif win again depart in the
course of a week on leave of absence Sawas
Pacha has declared to Sir Austen Lanyard that
the attacks of the Turkish press the policy
of England are wholly uninspired. Count
Itchy, the Austrian Ambassador, will have an
audience with the Sultan on tho 10th inst,
when he will present letters of recall He will
leave the city in three weeks.
ITALIAN MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES.
The President of the Council, Signor Carroll,
and his friends In tho Cabinet will not accept
4hn financial x,roa,..aifins,a ~ aia...4. n...if.