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tective tariff
1T is reported that King Alfonso, of
Spain, 10 to marry the Arch Duchess
Maria, daughter of Arch Duke Charles
OF Austria.
A CoNsrANTINoPE dispatch says the
inhabitants of Erzeroum are showing a
seditious spirit. They have refused to
pay their land tax except in paper.
The Bonapartists are much eated at
the almost certain triumph Of Bodel,
the Bonapartist candidate tor the
chamber Of deputies in the district of
the Champs Elysees on the second
ballot.
APRIL 9th was election day in Pari
Twenty-one members of the chambe
of deputies were voted for. A Bona
partist carried the district of Champs
Ulysses.
IT is declared in official English cir
Giles that Cetewayo's wish for peace is
said to be mere pretense to gain time
until the harvest is gathered. Only
unconditional surrender will be accept
ed.
A LONDON cablegram of April 9th
says: The steamer kangaroo, with
part of the cable to be laid between
Natal and Oden, will leave to-
morrow for Natal via the Suez canal.
The Natal and Zanzibar section
will be open for business in July. This
will place South Africa within a weeks
communication of London. The re-
mainder of the line will be completed
before the end of the present year.
A LETTER of the pope to the cardinal
vicar is published, in which the pope
announces that, as the success of the
movement for increasing and improv-
ing Catholic schools will greatly depend
upon pecuniary means, he proposes to
contribute annually as large an amount
of money as his private means will
permit and as conservation Of faith in
Rome is connected with incidents of
the Catholic world he will devote to the
Roman schools as much of Peters
pence as the needs of the church will
permit. The pope has contributed
"a, 900 to the Catholic school fund.
RUSSIAN Grand Duke Nicholas Con-
stantinowitch, in a work just published
recommending the construction of the
Orenburg aud Tashkend railway an
nounces that he is preparing an expedi-
ton to pursue study relative to rail
way matters beyond the boundaries of
Asiatic Russia across Anudaria, as far
as Defile Bemian in Afghanistan, and
in the direction of Cabul. 1t was an
hat hn
grand duke had been exiled for pub.
fishing the work in question, but his
views now seem to have found favor
and great preparations are making for
the expedition.
ADDITIONAL advices from Cape Town
about the disaster to the Brit
ish convoy on the lntombe
river, March II, report that besides the
British troops, it is thought that 40
wagon drivers and followers were
killed Twenty-Five Zulu corpses were
found on the field of battle 1t is be-
lieved that many more We're drowned.
The Zulus had ample time to get news
of the convoy, as it was delayed
at the ford three days by heavy rains.
The ford was only four miles from Lun-
neberg. 1t is thought there was great
carelessness in selecting the position OF
the camp, and III neglecting to send
larger force from Lunncberg TO meet
the convoy.
The latest dispatch from Cape Town,
South Africa, gives the following infor-
nation concerning the great slaughter
of English troops A convoy ofsupplies
proceeding from Derby to Lu Weburg,
escorted by 104 men of the 18th regi-
ment was attacked at day-break, March
18th, on the banks of intombe river,
by 1000 Zulus, under Umbelini. Owing
to previous alarm the British were I'M
der arms, but were overwhelmed by
the enormously superior force of the
enemy. Capt. Moriarity and forty
men killed, and twenty
missing. Fate of wagon drivers UNI
known. Lieut.. HARDWOOD, with 40 men,
succeeding in reaching Luzeburg, $50
men of the S0th regiment subsequently
proceeded to the scene of the fighting
and recovered quantity of racks and
ammunition and buried the dead.
Twenty wagons, containing supplies,
We're lost. A relief column for Ekowe
will start March Goth. A party of vol
unteers have visited the battle field OF
Isandula and found that the Zulus had
left 100 wagons there, but bad removed
the guns and ammunition.
WASHINGTON