The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

propagation Of the Chambers by the President
absur&ty and considers it certain MacMahon
will announce his resignation in message to-day
He adds: 1.-The Chambers assembled in congress on
the same evening will accept the resignation by
vote OF about $50 to ESQ and proclaim
b. Grevy President. who, as MacMahon's
resignation is not the result of intrigue,
will unhesitatingy accept. All the foreign rerresen
taives at Paris have notified their respective govern
ments of the probable resignation OF President Mac
Mahon and accession OF NJ. Grevy. Only one Ambas
sador has approved of MacMahon's conduct. Prince
Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador, is absent from
the city
GKRMANY's THE CRISIS.
The North German Gazette, in an article on the
French crisis. declares that radicalism is leading
France and the liberals only too speedily to their
fate.
FAMINE.
A despatch from Berlin says the proposals Of the
committee appointed to discus measures of precau-
ton against the plague have been adopted by the
Federal Council and submitted to the Emperor
William for his sanction The resolutions Of the
Council will DO promulgated Immediately. DR..
Bresiadecky. the leading physician of Galacia and
several Austrian physicians will start from Vienna
for Russia tomorrow. No dehnitive measures of
precauton against the plague will be adopted until
their report is received An official report pub
lishcd in St. Petersburg states that there have been
cases Of the plague in the government OF
Astrakhan the Goth Of January The precautions
against the coutagion confined to dsinfec-
ton and other sanitary measures by the police. The
Ageace Rtsse reports that committee OF Ministers,
which the leading medical authorities were pres
ent decided that the bodies of the dead throughout
Ala ofIt
executive authority should be concentrated in the
hands of Count Loris Melikon who should imnc-
diately proceed to Astrakhan as Commissioner Gen
era invested with the most extensive powers to deal
with the emergency and that the advice and assist
ance of all we'll known European physicians should
be readily accepted.
Accounts from Upper Egypt give heartrending de-
tails of the famine there
GERMAN AFFAIRS.
Tho lower House of the Prussian. Dict yesterday
discussed motion made by Herr windhorst. an ul-
tramontane. for restoring the three articles Of the
constitution concerning the relations Of Church and
State which annulled by the ecclesiastical laws.
A counter motion introduced by Professor
Aegdi, that the House should pass to the order Of
the day. and was adopted the ultramontaine. Polish
and old conservative deputies only opposing it.
THE PORTE AND THE POWERS.
The opening of the Bulgarian Assembly of Notables
at Tirnoya for the election Of Prince is now fixed
for the 22d Of February. Prince Dourdoukoff Korsa-
koff is on his way to Tirnova. Negotiations
continue between Sir Austin Henry Layard. British
Ambassador at Constantinope and the Porte relative
to the purchase of the State domains OF Cyprus.
France has counselled Greece to moderate her de-
mands relative tho central portion OF the frontier
not distinctly defined by the Berlin Congress.
ENGLAND's LABOR TROUBLES.
The notices of reduction of wages posted at most
Of the London engineering works call for average
reduction of and half per cent. The Echo
states that the employees Of the engineering firms
are generally disposed to submit to reduction Of
their wages but not to the extent proposed by the
masters
Four hundred "locked-out" agricultural laborers
left Kent for Australia yesterday.
SERIOUS QUARRY DISASTER IN PORTUGAL.
despatch from Lisbon says:-"A large quarry in
the suburbs of Oporto has cayed in burying several
houses. Many persons killed, and the ruins of
the demolished houses took ire.'
THE coNsrITuTIoN SALVAGE LIBEL DISMISSED.
In the Admiralty division Of the High Court of
Justice yesterday the motion to arrest the United
States frgate Constitution and her cargo was argued
The counsel for the ship under instructions by the
United States Minister, Mr. Welsh claimed that the
Constitution and her cargo not within the
letter Of instructions to the solicitors employed.
1.-The Constitution is national ship, and her
cargo was in charge of the United States government
for public purposes. Under the circumstances can
not recognize that the High Court Of Justice has
jurisdiction" The counsel for the Crown also op-
posed the notion and said that the granting of the
application might result in war between Great
Britain and the United States. Sir Robert Joseph
Pillimore said that in case had such an applica
ton as this been granted, and there circum
in this to take it out of the ordinary cate
CORY.
CABLE NOTES.
The navigation of the Suez Canal. which had been
blocked since Sunday by the grounding of steamer
in Bitter Lake, is now unobstrueted, tho steamer
having foated.
Kinks 4 Sons lamp works. at Birmingham. have
been destroyed by fire. An immense quantity of
goods was lost, and 500 workmen have been thrown
out of employment.
The creditors of the Cornish Bank at Truro, which
suspended the 4th inst. have accepted compost
ton of sixteen shillings in the pound
The winner of the $4,000 prize in the Paris Elk.
position Lottery is a journeyman currier. named
Aubrot the occupant of two rooms the fifth floor
OF house in the Rue Cardinal Lemoine. Tho win
ner the second prize of $4,000 is tobacco vender
in the Rue s.. Honore and the winner of the fourth
prize OF f2,0OO is clerk in an insurance Office.
The election in Cambridgeshre to fill the vacancy
in the House OF Commons caused by the death Of
Hon Eliot Constantine Yorke conservative has re-
suited in the return of Mr. E. Hicks. the conscrva-
tive candidate against whom there opposi-
ton.
IA letter from Lord Beaconsfeld is published, in
which he acknowledges the receipt OF address
from the st. Georges Union of North America.
pressing his thanks for the good will of large and
influential body of Englishmen.
The Seine is again rising il consequence Of the
melting snow.
THE DIRECT CABLE
HALIFAX. N. s., Jan. 49, 1879.
Latest reports from Torbay indicate that at