The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-17
ENGLISH GUNS FOR MOROCCO.
American Remedies for British Ag-
ricultural Depression.
BURSTING OF THE PARIS BALLOON
Archbishop OF Posen Petitions to
Return to His Diocese.
END OF THE NAPOLEONIC FETE.
[pY CABLE TO THE nERALD.l

LONDON, August II, 1879.
A special despatch from Berlin to the Globe
denies that Archbishop Ledochowski has asked
permission to return to Posen.
The death of Mrs. Sartoris occurred on the 9Th
inst art Warsash House, Tichfeld, in Hamp-
shire. Her death was sudden.
Three million rounds of rifle ammunition and
a large stock of military clothing have been
presented to Bulgaria by Russia.
The Cronista and Correspondence of Madrid
agree in denying that the Spanish government
Intends to establish large military station in
Cuba. /4
The bishops of Belgium have declared that all
rhe teachers in the schools established by the
State under the new Education law are excom-
municated.
Berlin despatch to the Morning Post says
1t has been proposed to hold an international
congress in the month of May next to elaborate
uniform patent law for adoption by the ma
tons represented in the Congress-
The riot in Lurgan has subsidized and the
magistrates have fear of it's reaewal. The
police captain who ordered his meh ~ fire on
the people has not been arrested. Pubic y; in
ion blames the Orangemen for the disturbance.
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DIFFICULTY.
A despatch from Gibraltar says that six
twenty-ton Armstrong guns have been landed
there and are being towed in lighters to Tangicr,
Morocco, for new batteries This matter has
recently been bitterly commented upon in Span
ish newspapers
TURKEY AND THE GREEK FRONTIER.
The Porte sent u reply to-day to the foreign
Ambassadors communicating the appointment
of Safvet, Sawas and Ali Saib Pachas as Com
missiOners for the settlement Of the Greek from
tier question. Negotiations will commence im-
mediately. compromise is expected.
ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION.
The Manchester Guardians London CORE
spondent says:-"Mr Albert Pell, formerly
chairman of the Central Chamber of Agricul-
ture, and Mr.. Clare Sewell Read, president of
the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture and author
of important agricultural works--both Members
OF Parliament--who are going to America in
connection with the commission appointed to
inquire into the causes of the agricultural de-
preston in England, will start almost imme-
diately, in order to take cognizance of the
present harvest"
AUsTRrA's MINISTRY AND POLICY.
The Times despatch from Vienna says -
"Two portfolios in the new Austrian Cabinet
that OF Finance, the present occupancy of which
is only provisional, and that of Public Instruc-
tion-are reserved for the liberals. If the
liberals do not refuse to participate in the pres
ent Cabinet they will doubtless form majority
In that body. Herr Freiberg, editor of the
Vienna Presse, has been asked to join the Min
lstry. This has produced the best impression"
ADMIRAL BATscH PARDoNED.
The Krcus Zeitung states that Admiral Batsch,
who commanded the flagship Koenig Wilhelm
when she ran down the Grosser Kurfuerst, and
was sentenced by the Grosser Kurfuerst court
martial to six months imprisonment in the
fortress of Magdeburg, has been pardoned, aud
It is expected that he will shortly be appointed
Director of the Admiralty, replacing Admiral
Henk.
THE PARIS CAPTIVE BALLOON CoLLAPsEs.
The latest attraction of Paris is lost to the gay
capital The captive balloon in the Tuileres
Gardens burst ut four o'clock yesterday after
noon while stationary. II was empty, and only
one employs was injured. This captive
balloon, owned by Mr.. Clifford, had grown
to be one of the attractions of Paris 1t
was 100 feet in diameter, and required $4,000
cubic meters of gas to fill it. The rope which
held it was rather more than one thousand feet
long and the car was capable of holding fifty
people. 1t was only the other day that Victor
Hugo occupied it with small company of his
friends. The panoramic view afforded from the
car was of the finest in Europe, and the
tourist who visited Paris had no other means of
observing ut glance all the monuments of the
cip.l
NAPoLEoNIC FETEs DISCONTINUED.
The celebration of the Napolconic fete of the
10Th of August omitted yesterday for the
FIRST time in thirty years
On the 18th OF August. 1869. Napoleon l. was
born at Ajaccio In the island OF Corsica and that
the day chosen by Napoleon ILL., to be the great
national festival of France a he was
established In power. II the French Fourth
Of July. Provincials focked into the capital, and
tho hotels overfowed with foreigners. The fsie
would open with salvo OF cannon. aud the Emperor
would make IL his first act TO distribute aims and
provisions from his privy purse 're Deums were
performed In tho chapel tho Tuileries and
celebrated at Notre Dame before all the dgnitarcs
OF the Expire. Tho cspiansde Of the Invaides.
where the first Bonapare lies buried, was thr onged
during the day. In the Darrerc du Trone there
light ropcs CREASED poles and theatres in the open
Air. whore military pantomimes were performed
sunpowder exploded and the French soldiers repre-
scented ~ invincblo. The Emperor and Empress
would drive through the crowd In open caleche
Invariably without escort. and be received with &C.
clamation from the Arc-de- Triomphe TO the Fau-
bourg 81. Antoine. The festival took root deeply
In the heart OF the French people that after the
fall Of the Napoloonio dynasty IL was observed with
unabated enthusiasm.