The New York herald., 1879-12-17
ENGLAND SENDS REINF ORGEM sNTS
Austria Declines to Mediate
with the Albanians.
LABOUCHERE INDICTED.
Waddington Scores a Point on the
Amnesty Question.
FAMINE In ARMENIA.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALp.l

[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON, Dec. II, 1879.
The United States ship Constellation has
sailed from Gibraltar for New York
The London Gazette announces that the
British Parliament will meet on the 9Th of Feb
ruary.
There is great distress among the poor classes
at Rome, and the Municipal Council met yes
terday to consider measures of relief.
The Daily Neps' Berlin correspondent an
nounces that railway accident occurred near
Breslau yesterday, causing several deaths.
Mrs. Georgna Weldon has been indicted at
the Old Bailey for libelling M. Riviere man
ager of the Covent Garden promenade concerts.
The Supreme Tribunal of the Duchy of Bruins
wick has cancelled the testament of the late
Duke Of Brunswick which left large sum to
the town of Geneva
The Standards Berlin despatch says that one
of the principal persons tried with Mirsky and
acquitted, but subsequently rearrested, has
been banished to Pultawa.
In the Spanish Senate yesterday the Minister
of the Colonies stated that all of the Ministers
had agreed to uphold the slavery Abolition bill,
which will be Immediately presented.
The Standards Constantinople correspondent
reports. that it is feared that the agitation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina will terminate in an
insurrecion against Austro-Hungary.
The German Federal Council has adopted BY
considerable majority the bill, fixing the legis-
lative period of the Rechstag at four years
and providing that budgets shall be presented
every two years.
A despatch to the Standard from Pesth
says:-"A riot has occurred at Biela Bosnia),
growing out of resistance to the collection of
taxes Nine companies of infantry have been
sent against the rioters"
The Greek members of the Frontier Commits
sion have sent note to the Porte proposing
new line of frontier more to the South. They
declare that if the Porte does not propose some
definite boundary further discussion is useless
The Armenian Patriarchate has been informed
that there is famine in the province of Van, Ar
menia. The Patriarch has opened subscrip-
lions for the relief Of the sufferers, and has re-
quested the Porte to distribute wheat among
them.
In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies yester-
day Senor Toreno. Minister of Foreign Affairs.
said he would seriously consider the project for
treaty of commerce with the United States;
and would ask for modification of the regula-
tions governing the sale of alcoholic liquors in
respect of customs duties levied in the United
States upon Spanish wines.
THE CLAIMANTS LATEST CLAIM.
, The Attorney General has granted a fiat for
q writ of error in the case of Arthur Orton--
otherwise known as the "Tichborne claimant
on the ground that matters have been put be-
fore him justifying the discussion of the point
whether Chief Justice Cockburn should not
have made the two sentences of seven years
penal servitude-one of which has just expired
concurrent instead Of successive
LABoUCuEREs TRDULATIoNs.
The Grand Jury of the Central Criminal
Court has found true bill of indictment
against Mr.. Henry Laboucehre in the Lawson
libel case. [Another of Mr.. Labouchere's trials
came before Justices Field and Manisty in the
Bail Court on the 9th inst. by way of an amend
ed demurrer to plea of the defendant
him by NJ. Demetri Lambri for o.
libel written by Mr. Labouchere, and
published in Truth on the 9th Of July,
1878, in which the prosecutor was charged with
being professional card sharper and of con-
spring with other persons to gain his living by
cheating at cards. The prosecutors counsel took
exception to several of the charges in the defend
antsplea not sufficiently specific. For instance,
he charged Lambri with cheating ut cards ut
''divers places" with conspiring with Belliard
and Guagni and "other confederates," and the
counsel demanded names and places. The plea
was altered, but the judges did not think that
the defendant could fairly be called upon to
mention the names Of the persons from whom
the prosecutor was alleged to have won money
by cheating in the Cavendish and County
Clubs.]
HOME RULE IN DONEGAL.
Mr. Thomas Lea, Of Kidderminster, liberal,
has been elected to the House of Commons for
the county of Donegal polling 2,313 votes,
against $50 for Mr. MacCorkcll, n conserva-
tive. The homerulcrs supported Mr.. Lea. The
vacancy was caused by the death Of Mr.. William
Wilson.
EXPLOSION IN A SALT NINE.
An accidental explosion of blasting material
has occurred in the Wilhclmsgiick salt mine ut
Schwabischhall Wurtemburg, by which twelve
minefs were killed and eight were injured, of
whom two only are expected to recover. The
disaster was increased by the miners in panic
endeavoring to open the door outward instead
Of inward, thus preventing aid from reaching
them before they had fallen unconscious from
the effects of the fumes.
czAR AND czAREwITcH.
The Poster Correspondents publishes in a letter
from St. Petersburg story about difficulties
between the Car and Czarcwitch, which is gen
orally believed to be rchash of stories circu-
lated on the Continent during the past six
months aud unworthy of notice. IA horrible
suspicion, says the PdH Mil Gazette, which has
long been whispered about in Russia, is now be-
ginning to take shape in more or less definite
hints in newspapers outside the control OF the Rus
sian police. Russian journals are strictly forbid
den to refer to the elaborate attempt to blow up
the imperial train near Moscow, and the whole
subject is surrounded with myStcry very dif.
ferent from the publicity attending the attack
of Solovicff. but elsewhere it has been noted
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