The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25
The Rest of Europe Settling
Up Her Affairs.
STRUGGLING WITH THE PESTILENCE.



making primary education obligatory after jan
nary l. 1880. The Chamber of Deputies ad-
journed to Tuesday next. The motion in favor
Of amnesty will be presented next week. The resig
nation of NJ Teisserenc de Bort Minister Of Agricul
ture and Commerce. is denied and it is said that his
France discussed but that the post being other
wise filed. his resignation Is not contemplated
1t ia now said that President MacMahon told NJ.
Grevy President of the Chamber of Deputies that he
would resign should the Chamber Of Deputies i'm
peach the Dufaure Cabinet Paris despatch to the
Standard says youth has been arrested at Lille for
threatening to assassnate Gambetta The threat was
. mere foolish attempt to extort money The budget
for 1880 was presented to the Chamber of Depu-
ties yesterday. 1t estimates surplus of $3.50 900.
The manager Of the Paris Lante,ne (newspaper) has
been sentenced to three months Imprisonment and
to pay . fine of 2.O0Of for libelng government
officials. The Paris correspondent Of the Times
says NJ. Renan and Victor Lefranc mentioned
candidates for the vacant life Senatorship, and that
the latter has the best chance.
ENGLAND SUPREME IN AFaHANIsrAx.
The st. Petersburg Golos says :"Engand is dc facto
sovereign in Afghanistan and has every chance for
carrying through her plans in Asiatic Turkey" The
st. Petersburg Gdste says that Yakoob Khan has fed
from Afghanstan. According to trustworthy infor-
nation Shere Ali will not come to st. Petersburg but
will remain in Tashkend.
RUSSIA, TURKEY AND AUSTRIA
The ST. Petersburg Golos complains of the delay in
che signing of the denive treaty between Russia and
Turkey; advises the Russian government not to
hurry about the evacuation. and says that Russias
opponents are intriguing to delay tho settlement OF
the Eastern Roumelian questions until the departure
Of the Russian army. ut is therefore, advisable,
says the Gosos "that the troops should
remain at Adrianople until April. so that
the Porto may still feel the influence Of
their presence when the result of the election for
prince Of Bulgaria is declared" The Globe learns
from Cronstadt that 1000 workmen have been dis
charged from the Nicoaieff Dockyard. in pursuance
OF the economic policy now prevailing in most Of the
Russian naval establishments. Tho constitution for
Bulgaria has been ratified by the Car OF Russia and
has arrived at Tirnova. 1t will be translated
into the Bulgarian language and communicated
TO the foreign consuls and Bulgarian Assembly.
The time consumed in the translation of the
constitution will probably retard the meeting Of the
Assembly to the 9th or 10th of February, when it
will be opened by Prince Dondoukof Korsakoff.
the Russian Governor of Bulgaria special
despatch from Cettinje to the Vienna Iol,cdt Cor
respondemee says :-"Since the Turkish Commissioners
arrived at podgortza the prospects for pacific
der OF the territory cedcd to Montenegro have mater
ally improve pernicious fever is causing great
mortality amoag the inhabitants of the Rhodope dis
trict The bulgarian militia in the Balkan districts
have been rearmed. Negotiations have begun bs
tween the Porte and Austria tho question of the
occupation of Novi Bazaar. The French govern
u,en hnv cd IN he pDrta he
Of the early arrival of the Ottoman Commissioner at
Amino, the Porte has sent the required maps and in
Structions to Mukhtar Pacha. with orders to pro-
coed to Amino. the place finally appointed for the
meeting of the Greek Frontier Commission, as soon
o possible. The Standards Berlin despatch says it
IL reported that Austria has informed the Powers
that she will not forego the right to occupy Novi
Bazaar. but will not exceed the boundaries fixed by
the Berlin Congress.
frGHrrNo THE PLAGUE.
The Neu Freie fresse, of Vienna states that the
German and Austrian delegates have agreed to pro-
pose to the International Sanitary Commission
(which was to have met yesterday. the immediate
adoption Of the following measures The despatch
of doctors to the infected districts Russia study
the character. progress and local extension of the
plague; the complete prohibition of importation of
all merchandise from the infected regions, and
tain articles coming from any portion Of Russia;
and, finally quarantine of twenty days at all the
Eastern and Southeastern frontier stations upon all
persons coming from the infected districts The
Austrian government intends introducing q bill in
the Rechsrath for meeting the expenses of precau-
tonary measures against the plague. The Russian
representatives are expected to-day to attend the
nrst meeting of the Sanitary Commission. An OIL
cial messenger has reached ST. Petersburg from As
trachan, who states that there have been no
,f Mt Watt Ia tha
At the Conference of the International Sanitary Com
mission at Vienna yesterday, Mt which Germany,
Austria aud Hungary represented, the measures
TO prevent. the plague proposed by the German and
Austrian delegates were in substance adopted. The
regulations relative to imports from Russia are
slightly less stringent than the programme reported
provides but the commission resolved In the event
of the spread Of the epidemic to entirely close the
frontier.
VATICAN
II Is rumored in Paris that Mgr Roncett the apos-
tolic inter nuncio who lately rendered good service
at Rio Janeiro is in accord with the conciatory
views prevailing at the Vatican. and will shortly
place Mgr Meglia. tho apostolic nunco at Paris. 1t
In also limited that the Pope intends changing the
representatives of the Vatican at Vienna Lisbon and
Madrid
VERY BAD CASE
The owners of the ship Ralston, whose CAPTAIN ia
credited with the letter to the Admiralty. published
by Lioyds Thursday, reporting suspicious acts of
unknown steamer fifty miles west Of Fastnet light
announce their conviction that the affair is either
hoax q dolusion.
WEATHER.
Steamboat traffic on the Thames is again inter
rupted by floating ice. despatch from Bremen
says:'Thcrc Is considerable drift ice in the river
but communication between here and Bremenhayen
is not much troubled" Snow Is still falling in Paris
cABLRonAMs.
The striking operatives Of the Blackburn cotton