The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-01-01
Late Foreign News.

of Sydney, at noon on the soth ultimo, we
have news to the 2srd which includes i'm
portant cablegrams from Europe and inter
esting items from the Coast and States, all of
which are asfollows:
LoNeoS. December sls,.-Ths Viceroy Of India
telesraphs THAI NJ sjor Carssnari confirms the news
that tie Amer has hed froa CAbal 10 rurksstan.
Yakoob Khan was left a, cabal. The Ameer has
losI nearly all ,entrol, aud his soldiers desert
ing.
CoxsrASrIxoeLE. December 2lst.-Ths Sultan. in
receiving Carztheodori Pasha, the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs urged him to push forward all uego-
siations in eoGuecOn with the Treaty Of Berlin.
be deiermlssd to strictly observe all its stipdA
lions. He especially indicated the Bosnian and Nov
BAESar eonveotion.
BERLIN. december 2lss.-It is officially denied
that the Emperor on resumiug the Government
received lstters Of e0ngratalation from the Pope.
LONDON. Dsrenber 2lst.-The bullion gone into
the Bank Of England balance to-day is &l22. .QeQ,
LoSpoS. December 2lst.-Employers in the manu-
fActare Of isot trade in the North OF England claim
before the zrtitraors five per cent. reduction in
sequence Ot tie depression of business. The
claim that the price OF labor Is lower than it has been
IN the past twenty years. The newspapers continue
accounts OF dsiress throughout the country. which
the au,hortie. and private citizens endeavoring
to relieve.
LONDON, December ss.-A dispatch from Allaha-
bad says; 1t Is reported that Ameer Shere Ali aud
his family are Jourueying towards Baikh with the
retiring Russian Mission. Complete anarchy prevails
in the country between Jelaiabad and Cabul. The
Ameer's fght will probably end the fighting.
A dispatch dated kurum, December 18th. says
It is reported that the Afghan Waii Mohamed is
ShutAr Gardan Pass With eleven regiments OF ufan-
try and four of cavalry from Balkh. de will scarcely
venture to cross the pass this season.
1t is reported that Ssukkur hhels. in Khyber Val
lev escaped 10 the mountains before the arrival of
the British Their towers and dwellings will be de-
stroyei.
dispatch from Quettah says: The Governor of
Candahar offered no resistance. Generals Stewart
aud Biddulph have examined the positions of the
regiments on the Candahar side Of the khojuk Pass
A Berlin correspondent says be is informed on
trustworthy authority that Russia has been making
inquiries concerning losn in Berlin.
A Vienna dispatch says The Russian Govern
apprehends Nihilist demonstrations the 26th
of December. A number o! arrests were made last
week. II is rumoisd that the temporary closing of
the Universities is seriously contemplated. Teese
internal troubles are considered as one cause Of
Russia's eOneiliatory foreign policy.
The proposed reduction of l3t per cent in the
wages Of the cgier Of South Yorkshire and North
Derbyshre affects 100 900 men. A monster meeting
will be held during he holidays, when scheme for
striking en- masse the commencement of the year
will be discussed. This course Is favored because 1t
feared the masters endeayoring TO break down
resistance in detail Some pits have already re-
| eeived notice of the proposed reduction.
On rumOrs that letter had been received threat
ening the King Of Denmark with assassination
aud that box of Grsini bombs had been seized at
Hamburg, the garrison of Copenhagen were confined
TO their barracks on Saturday.
BERLIN. December 22.-Folowing is the petition
of ST. Petersburg Students the CEarovieh. which
/ the former attempted TO present December llth
] Your Imperial Highness: The Government be-
U fhA ug-ttur ns IL nsanh n "a ia
evil disposed persona, If Your Hshness will recall
TO mind the fact tha this agitation has been extend
ing for some years. aud has met with response from
all the educational Establishments of the country,
Your Highuess will iurely share this opinion. The
sources OF this agitation 10 be found IN the ntol
I srable position in which the youth of Russia are
1 placed. Students outside OF college walls are sub
jeeted to police supervision, while inside they
constantly more and more deprived of their rights
They have had taken from them their right Of meet
| ing consider their affairs and they have been
forbidden establish fund for mutual aid. In at
tempting anything of the bind threatened
with prosecutions Of the most odicus form by polict
administration. Whenever our rights are concerned
dispersion becomes law bat whenever there is
question of burdens To be borne We are looked upon
/ as having corporate existence. We deprived
OF the independence necessary TO adults, and some
treated like children The increasing obstacles
placed in the way q higher education will max,
education the privilege Of the rich These and simi
We know what awaits the students of Charkof, AnC
| the example of the Kief agitation is fresh in ou
| memory. Persons should not be punished when tn,
circumstances in which they placed at fault
On the strength Of the foregoiug tahe the liberty
Of requesting your Imperial Hghuess meditation OF
behalf of our Chsrkof feliow-sehoars, and your at
tenrion to the present condition of the students.
The funeral services of the late Bayard TayIo
took place at o'clock this afternoon the residence
of the deceased. An aid De camp, Count Scheudorf
represented the Emperor, Major Ton Pannurtz rep
resented the Crown Prince, aud Counts Won Buelov
and Phiipshorn the Foreign Once All the Ambas
sadOrs, including the Chinese aud Japanese, wer
present. The Austrian Enthusiastically being va
cant, Austria was represented By Prince Lchienste
military sttsche. Amongst others present wer
Statesman Depruek, Professors Gneist and Vol
Bun geu, authors Auerbaeh, Spielhagen, Lindau an
Rodenberg. and numbers of the higher officials ar
fists and scientists Herr Auerbach, speaking in tn
name Of the German writers, lamented the deceas
of one who was equally spplauded in the old an
new worlds who, born IN the country Of Franklin
had died in that of Goethe, but not foreign soil
Tor Germauy was his second fatherland; and, more
over, by making g 0sths's masterpiece accessible t
the American nation, he had formed fresh link be
tween Germany and America. The funeral prOess
sion was followed by six horse carriages belong
ing to the Emperor and the Empress, the carriage
of the Crown Prince and number of private carris
ges and many mourners- dense crowd of peOpl
lined the streets through which the procession passed
PARIS, December ga Moscow special says
The express train the Rostof and Vladikavka
Railway recently fell OF an embsnkment- Twent
persons were killed. including General HintEe an
several functionaries and officers of the Armv of th
Caucasus. Thirry-eght persons injured.
COPENHAGEN, December 22-The Duke of Gun
berlaud and the Princess Thyra were married wit
great pomp at the chapel of Christiansborg Castle
Saturday evening.
NEw YoRK, December PA Herald eablegral
says: It was reported last night in club and militar
circles that Count Sehouvlof had notified the Brits
Government that the Gar intends to propose th
Duke Of Edinburgh Prince of Bulgaria. Thi
proposal is intended a special sign of the frienC
ship Of Russia toward Englsnd.
The peace of Europe is again inperillei. The Ru
sian Press have assumed Esrlike tone, and unite
" defy Europe to eheek Russia in her mission
Reviewing the condition of affairs in Turkey the
urge the Government TO ignore the Berlin Treaty
aud revert to that drawn up at San Stefano, on ii
termination of the eampaign in Roumehs.
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