The New York herald., 1879-09-13
YAKOOB STILL ALIVE.
British Residents at Mandalay Flee
ing from King Thebaw.
SCHOUVALOFF AND GORTSCHAKOFF.
Diplomatic and Ministerial Changes
at St Petersburg.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD

LONDON, Sept. 13, 1879.
The Reservoir Cotton Mills, near Manchester,
have been burned. The damage amounts to
from 415, 900 to 100000.
despatch from Constantinople announces
that the rebellious Kurds have been defeated
and dispersed with considerable loss.
An explosion has occurred in the Crewe Coal
and Iron Company, at Leycett. Five persons
are already known to have been killed.
despatch to the Standard dated Cape
town, via Madeira, reports TINT King CetywayO
was still at large. On the 10Th of August he
had only two followers.
A despatch to the Standard from Vienna says
the railway station at Woloczysk, Russia, was
burned by incendiaries on the 18th inst, caus-
ing loss Of 100000 rubles.
The Standa,d's Berlin correspondent reports
that the Russian advance along the northern
slopes of the Kopetdagh is failure. Its route
will be changed to the Valley of the Attrek
correspondent writes to the Times that King
Mtesa, ruling near Victoria Nyanza, Africa, has
abolished slavery throughout his dominions.
At least half million of slaves were to be lib
Grated on Saturday.
The FFemdenbLaH of Vienna publishes an Off
cial communication denying that the Austrian
government is in any way connected with the
publication Of Colonel Haymerle's recent PAM
phlet Italian Irredenta.
The Italian provisional estimates for 1880
show a decrease Of 2S,OOO, 900 lire in the re-
ceipts, without counting the reduction of the
grist tax. The War Office expenditure exceeds
that of 1879 by S,OOO,O 900 lire.
Reports are coming in from all parts of Ireland
as to the destruc,iveness of yesterdays storm.
The rainfall was so heavy in the vicinity Of
Charlesville that the Charlesville and Limerick
Railway was completely flooded in many places
causing the traffic to be interrupted.
All the directors Of the West Of England and
South Wales District Bank except one-Mr.
Payne-have been committed for trial for pub
fishing false balance sheets. The charge against
them relative to the establishment of fraudu-
lent company in connection with the insolvent
iron making firm of Booker g. Co. was dis
missed.
HOME RULERS CONVENTION.
A meeting Of the Home Rule League in Dub
lin yesterday, at which Messrs. Power, Parnell
and OLeary were present, appointed COM
mittee to arrange for calling popularity elected
convention of 800 menbers-the same number
as composed the former Irish Parliament-to
Of Parliament.
EGYPT AND ABYssINLA.
The Daily 1elegraphs Vienna correspondent
sends the following :-"Adviccs from Alexandria
represent that the King of Abyssinia claims the
whole of the strip of coast which was ceded to
Egypt in 1877, and also several towns and
the territory in which they are situated.
If his demands rejected war is appre-
hended. Gordon Pacha has been empowered
to offer the King the ports of Aith, Duroro
and Tschilloky, on the Red Sea, provided he re-
nounces all other claims and concludes a last
ing treaty of peace with Egypt. If the King
refuses General Gordon is to assume the
offensive.
PHYLLOxERA IN ITALY.
The NcUs correspondent ut Rome reports that
measures for the destruction of phylloxera are
being energetically prosecuted in the Como
and Milan districts. Phylloxerated vine
yards in the district of Lecco, near
Como, and the contiguous orchards and
mulberry plantations have been destroyed by
order of the Italian Minister Of Commerce.
Three infected vineyards in the district of
Monza have been inundated in order to extirpate
the pest. Similar measures have been taken in
the adjoining Swiss territory.
THE SPANISH NUPTIAs.
The Ministerial journals publish q telegram
from the Spanish Minister at Berne, stating
that Seiior Canovas del Castillo is willing to
proceed to Vienna to ask the hand of the Arch
duchess Marie in marriage to King Alfonso,
but he has decided to resign his seat us Deputy
if the mission be considered incompatible with
retaining it. 1t is believed in political circles
that the government is unwilling to lose the
services Of Senior Canovas in the Cortes, and
will send Spanish grandce to Vienna.