The New York herald., 1879-12-25
ApparitiOn Of Gambetta as the Santa
Claus Of France.
CUBA's sPRIG OF HOLLY.
Fall Of the Last Great Chieftain
of Zululand.
WcToRlAS PRESENT TO IRELAND.


LONDON, Dec. 25, 1879.
The Porte has granted A, ,OOO, 900 piastres for
the relief of destitute persons in ConstantinOple
during the winter.
The Emperor William stumbled on the stairs
of the theatre two days ago, hurting his knee,
but it is now well again and he drives out daily.
The Greek Boundary Commissioners have
sent note to the Porte demanding the resump-
tion OF the conferences regarding the frontier
question.
A despatch from Larnica, Cyprus, to the
Daily News says 1.-THE cattle plague is spread
ing, and no horned cattle are allowed to leave
or enter Larnica by sea or land"
"A Berlin despatch to the Mo,ming Post Says
'eThe Mohammedans and Christians Of Kuldja
are agitating against the restoration of terri
tory to China, and threaten armed resistance"
The Velom0si announces that Prince Dol
yorouki, Governor-G General of Moscow, intends
TO resign OH account Of ill health. General
Lgnatieff and Count Sehouvaloff are mentioned
~ possible candidates for the post
The Municipal Council Of Paris has rejected
three items of the city's obligatory expenses for
public worship, and the Project Of the Seine
has requested the Minister of the Interior to
officially inscribe these items in the municipal
budget
: WINTER QUARTERS FOR THE czARINA.
The Russian Major Domo and his secretary
have arrived ut Catania, Sicily, to select apart
ments for the Czarina. The latest bulletin
from Cannes, dated the 22d inst, says that the
condition of the Empress of Russia is unim-
psOved.
SOUTH AFRICAN CABLE.
1t 10 expected that telegraphic communication
between Alden, Zanzibar and the Cape of Good
Hope will be completed to-day. The cable
touches Zanzibar, Mozambique, Delagoa Bay
and Durham, and connects with the land lines
IN South Africa The rate will be So 15 per
word from London.
AUSTRIAN DIPLOMATIC CHANGES
The Daily Ne,rs' Pesth correspondent hears
from good authority that Count Ludolf, the
Austrian Minister at Madrid, will succeed Count
Nchy at Constantinople, and that Count Kali
noky, Austrian Ambassador ut Copenhagen,
will succeed Baron Langcnau ut st. Petersburg.
Both Of these appointments are said to have a
special significance.
RELIEF FOR THE IRISH
There is much dissatisfaction among the
Irish people because the government has not
0PpucQ buc surplus VI tue lIlSu OQurcu 1uQO
for the relief Of the popular distress, which they
are empowered to do by the terms Of the Discs
tablishment act. The directors and members of
the Society of st. Vincent de Paul pub
lish declaration that the eleemosynary
systems are q mockery and delusion,
II intended to adequately meet the deep and
dreadful famine now approaching. On the
other hand Archbishop MacCabe of Dublin
has issued circular to the clergy Of his diocese
asking them to appoint day for collection in
the churches and to urge their parishioners to
contribute.
MONTENEGRrNS AND ALBANIANs.
A despatch from Pera to the Daily Telegraph
says:-'The Montenegrin AmbsYadcr at Con-
vtantinople, who demanded his recall In consc-
luence of tho difficulty of his position in re-
gard to the Gusinjc question, will leave on Fri
day next. [The Daily 1eiegraph's Vienna cor
respondent announces that Prince Nikita
is resolved to take possession of PLAYA and
Gusinje by force of arms if those districts are
not surrendered by the Ottoman authorities at
once. The Prince, it il added, mistrusts tho
Porte and suspects that Mukhtar Pacha is not
instructed to satisfy Montenegro in the sense of
the Berlin Treaty. The accounts from Con-
stantinOple do not confirm this information.
Mukhtar Pacha, 1t is stated, will, If necessary,
compel the Albanians by force to submit to tho
transfer of PLAYA and Gusinje to Montenegro
The Governor General and tho military COM
mandcr of the villayet of Kossovo arc
reported to have arrived at Prisrend the
latter having with him proclamation to tho
inhabitants of tho districts ceded, urging the
- -
negro. 1t is even stated that the Albanian no
liabilities have sent delegate to Mukhtar
Pacha promising to abandon all idea of resist
ance. Meanwhile the second encounter between
the Montcnegrins and Albanians is confirmed.
The losses sustained by the Albanians ure csti
mated ut 800, and those OF the Montenegrins mt
about the same figure. The Albanians were
driven beyond the frontier after two days hard
aghting.l =
cRAR AND czAREwITcH.
The North German Gosetie publishes letter
nom st. Petersburg contradicting the recent re
ports of difficulties between the Gar and Czarc-
witch. 1t says that the latter goes TO the Winter
Palace daily and attends the conferences be-
tween tho Gar and his Ministers. [The Pan
Nall Gazette publishes the following -L"Much has
ocSih ruiut uhu tOO uuCn pcfllupS can
not be said, Of the unhappy position of
the Car. But the second parsonage in the
State is hardly less unhappily situated than its
head, While in one particular tho case of tho
Czarewitch possesses special claim TO COM
nliseration. lie In believed to be In sympathy
with tho party of reform in Russia, and in Do
litical disagreement with the Car as regards
the cxpedicncy of attempting to remodel the in-
stitutions of the Empire in n constitutional
sense. At the present moment, therefore, when
cause with which he is known to sympathixc il
being associated with and disgraccd by the crimes
of revolutionary conspiracy the positionlof 1.-THE
Cxarcwitch has of course become most paih-
ful one. Profound compassion must be felt for
d son who Is condemned to see the life of his
father again and again attempted by men whose
political demands he is supposed to favor and