The New York herald., 1879-09-05
Italy Biding Her Time for Claim
ing the Lost Provinces.
CETYWAYO STILL DEFIES.
Burial of Sir Rowland Hill at
Westminster Abbey.
THE NEW FRENCH CABLE.
IBY CABLE TO THE HERALD

LONDON Sept 3, 1879.
TheSe is good reason to believe that Count
Won Moltke has visited the Czar Mt Warsaw
The Bishop OF Namur, Belgium, has resigned
his see on account of the new Educational law
The Sportsman says that pulling up after
q gallop at Newmarket yesterday Wheel of
Fortune was found to be lame.
The correspondent of the Times Mt Cleveland
says:-'The miners here are considering a
scheme for promoting emigration
Lurgan, Ireland, and several of the surround
ing districts have been declared to be under the
provisions of the Peace Preservation act.
A despatch to the Daily Nescs from Pesth re-
ports that the inhabitants of Novi-Bazar are
determined to resist Austrian occupation.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Charles Fletcher
who was the Military Secretary to Lord
Dufferin during his Canadian vice-royalty, is
dead
The Paris Republiquc Franeaise announces
that the Bishop of Grenoble has been sum-
moned before the Council of State for exceeding
his powers n
The Times Berlin correspondent says:-"A
well known architect here has laid before the
Emperor designs for the building for the Exhibi-
tion of 1885"
A Paris despatch to the Daily Ncws an
nounces that it has been finally decided that the
ex-Queen Isabella will be present at the we'd
ding of King Alfonso. r-
The Alexandria correspondent of the Stand
ard reports that the decree appointing Messrs.
Barring and DE BGgnieres comptrollers was
signed yesterday Thursday. q
A despatch to the Times from Bucharest says
the crops in Bulgaria having failed the govern
ment has forbidden the expectation Of cereals.
Important demolitions of Notifications around
Ruschuk have taken place.
The steamer Indus reports that she passed
the steamer Rheolay, Captain Horlor, from Car
diff August % for New York, OH the Goth of
August, with her mainmast gone. She signaled
that her damage was serious. a Fl
The special correspondents of the London
papers at Alexandrowo indicate that the pre-
cautionary measures of the police at the meet
ing of the Empcrors were absurdly rigid. The
two Emperors parted at noon yesterday. ~,
The lateness of the English harvest is demon
strated by the fact that during the first week of
the new season II, 200 quarters of homegrown
wheat were sold in the United Kingdom, against
$4,000 quarters during the same period in
1878 ta"a
The Standards Lisbon correspondent states
that the Oporto newspaper Commerce. do
Mimic is about to be prosecuted by the Portu-
guese government at tire request of the Spanish
Ambassador for using offensive language toward
King Alfonso. ll oa..sIIl f.ssla. +
A despatch from Madrid says:--"The govern
ment intends that the Cortes shall discuss the
projected reforms in Cuba after the royal mar
riagc. Ministerial bill on the subject will be
introduced in case none is brought forward by
the Committee on Cuban Questions"
The Paris correspondent of the Times reports
that the French crew of the ship Chsndernagor
quilted her at Flushing, she becoming
American property, and her disarming com
minced. The men on board were principally
Germans. They drilled daily, and had arms on
an American system, allowing seventeen shots
to be fired in succession.
The Times Geneva correspondent tele-
graphs:-"A Savoy newspaper states that NJ.
Chardon, Senator from the Department of
Haute Savoie has been informed by NJ Frey
cinet, French Minister of Public Works, that
the Enginecr-in-C Chief of the Department of
Public Works has been instructed to make q
preliminary study of q project for tunnclling
Mont Blanc."
AN INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATION.
The Times Berlin correspondent says an
Odessa newspaper, the Prarda accuses the
Porte of violating treaty obligations in allowing
an armed vessel, the United States steamer
Wyoming, to cruise in the Black Sea with the
American Ambassador to Turkey on board.
The American Consul at Odessa admits that tho
Porte at first refused permission, but yielded ON
the landing by the Wyoming of part of her
armament. t N.i
BURIAL OF SIR ROWLAND HILL
The body of the late Sir Rowland Hill was
buried in Westminster Abbey yesterday morn
ing The funeral procession, which merely con-
sisted of several carriages, was witnessed by
thousands of people. The United States Post
Office Department was represented at the
funeral by Mr.. Charles +. Macdonald, Supcrin-
tendent Of the Money Order Office Mt Washing
ton. He was present ut the invitation of the
British Post Office Department. Sir George
Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal, was one of
the pallbcarers. Lord Granville, the Duke of
Argyll and other notabilitics we're present ut the
ceremony.
KISSING THE QUEEN.
1t is stated in Dublin that the Lord Lieuten-
ant Of Ireland, the Duke of Marlborough, has
requested the police authorities of Limerick to
make special report Of the circumstances under
which Mr.. Charles Stewart Parncll, member of
the House Of Commons for Meath, at recent
banquet suffered the kissing which greeted the
toast "The Queen" TO pass unnoticed though
he is u magistrate and member of Parliament
THE NEW FRENCH CABLE.
The Fynancicr announces that the steamer
Faraday, which eight or ten days ago lost the
new French cable in 2,4OO fathorns of water
has just held direct communication with Messrs
Slemens Brothers, the cable constructors. The
substance Of the communicate merely was to
the effect that the steamer Germanic, which
sailed from Queenstown August 20 for New