The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-17
NEWS OF The WEEK.
yoRxIaN NEWS.


The Mark Lane Express last week
" review of the British wheat market indicates
what substantial basis there is for the late ad-
vance in prices The state of the crop which
is being harvested is reported most discourag-
ing throughout the United Kingdom. The late
rains have had the effect TO sprout the grain,
and, so far as thrashed, the quality generally
has proved inferior. The product of France,
it is stated, has been rather underestimate,
but this is more than counterbalanced by the
uncertainty as to whether Russia can be relied
on for the supply reckoned upon.
AS precautionary measure against
anti-rent uprisings in Ireland, British cavalry
at Liverpool has been ordered to be ready to
proceed to the Green Isle.
The British Resident, with his clerks
and guards, has withdrawn from Burmah,
leaving the drunken and barbarous King The
baud to carry on his excuses unobserved by
any eyes save those of HE own servile subjects.
Gen. Roberts, in command of the
British army advancing on Cabul, gained an
important victory on the 7th of October, near
the Afghan capital The native position was
carried, twelve guns captured, and the enemy
pursued until nightfall. The loss Of the Anglo
Indian troops was eighty killed and wounded
The terrible Peruvian ram Huas-
car, which has been playing havoc with Chills
little navy for long time, has at last been
captured by the Chilians.
Spain will send 1000 troops to Cuba
this month.
The specie balance in the Bank of
France continues to diminish, indicating the
drainage of bullion from that nation.
Bismarck has majority of IT'S in the
Reichstag recently returned by the people of
Germany.
In the Afghan war a British force
sent to cut off the retreat of the enemy, on the
road between Bannian and Rohistan, captured
seventy-eight guns in Shalpur The guns
were found in an abandoned cantonment, aud
among them are seventeen Armstrong;
Two hundred and sixty-seven far
mers and their wives sailed recently from Liver
pool for New Orleans, on their way to Texas
They are for the most part well provided with
money, and hail from Durham, Yorkshire
Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Gloucester
shire.
A Slmla dispatch of the 18th says:
The public entry of Gen. Roberts into Cabul
took place yesterday. The number of guns
captured thus far is 40. The troops, during
their march on Cabul, worked splendidly, al
though they were obliged TO carry their rations
with them, and owing to the want Of transpor-
tation, they were several days without tents.
Roberts has issued proclamation to the peo-
pie Of Cabul warning them against resistance,
and promising punishment to the guilty only
The Ameer is strictly guarded.
The recent great trial of Nihilists at
St Petersburg has been completed Mirsk,
Gen. Drenteln's assailant will be hanged, and
Weimar, concerned with Solovief, who at
tempted the life Of the Gar, will be banished
to Siberia.
Count de st. Waller, French Ambas-
sador at Berlin, has been specially requested
Dy Washington, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, to tender his heartfelt thanks to Bis
marck for the kind and friendly way in which
he spoke of France during his late visit to
Vienna
1t is reported from London that a
feet Of Russian vessels are under sailing orders
to proceed to Japanese and Chinese waters,
bearing letters of marque and reprisal. The |
news is considered ominously suggestive to the
commercial interests of Great Britain.
1t is rumored that the Russian Gov |
eminent has demanded from Constantinople |
PREPARATION for insults to which the Russian
Consul General at Salonica was recently sub
jected by the populace of that city, threatening
TO send war-vessel to Salonica, if the demand
is not complied with. Other foreign Consuls at
Salonica have asked their Governments for in
structions.
Russia has sent a feet of privateers
into Chinese waters, and English merchants
are becoming excited in consequence.
Thirty persons have died lately in a
small town Of Southern Russia from eating
poisoned fish.
Gen. Roberts entered Cabul, on the
18th inst, accompanied by the Ameer and his
suite. British troops of all arms lined the
road, and the artillery fired salute when the
British standard was hoisted at the entrance to
the city.